[Fot] CAR RACING & DEATH, VINTAGE RACING, DRIVERS, 8/10s- LINK

Thu Sep 25 03:33:41 MDT 2008

Here is a link to an old article by Burt Levy on this very subject.
I've posted it before, maybe it's time to re-visit it.
HTH
Glen
link to full text, kinda long-
http://www.englishautosports.com/PureBS.html

-----Original Message-----
From: RACER BUD <budscars at comcast.net>
To: Bill Babcock <Billb at bnj.com>; John Macartney 
<standardtriumph at btinternet.com>
Cc: fot at autox.team.net; bdischer at blakedischer.com
Sent: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 9:10 pm
Subject: [Fot] CAR RACING & DEATH

Hi Gang....Here It Is.......Straight Out....CAR
RACING AND DEATH....I've kept  kinda' Quiet about the subject
..Regarding  Deaths in Vintage Racing...and have Layed Back and
contemplated things as I've read the numerous emails......
The Essence of Race Driving is to go as fast as we
can to win!
Some of us will die doing that.....That's just the
way it is....That's REALLY the way it is.!.....

Vintage...Who the heck knows who's driving over
their heads or not?...No Way To Tell.....
Racer Bud's Conclusion..I.f the  word DANGER
creeps into your mind very often..DO NOT RACE.......

Racer Bud..Spitfire #21

  ----- Original Message -----
  From:
  Bill Babcock
  To: John Macartney
  Cc: fot at autox.team.net ; bdischer at blakedischer.com
  Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 5:10
  PM
  Subject: Re: [Fot] VTR & FoT

You wrote the email I thought of writing but decided not to.
   Personally, the only clubs I really want to belo
ng to are the ones 
that have a
   bar, a restaurant (good one), a pool table and a library (in my case 
that's
  the Arlington Club, a truly great establishment here in Portland),
   and the ones like the FOT, where no twinkie with a claptrap P.O.S. 
excuse for
  a LBC gets up at every meeting and rants
  about parliamentary procedure and whether or not they have a quorum
  to decide on tuna fish sandwiches for the picnic. 

  I always thought the VTR existed to document the provenance (however
   modest) of cars. The rest seems kind of ancillary. It's not the cars 
that are
   diminishing, it's the members--if nothing else they are kicking the 
bucket. No
  disrespect meant for those that love their clubs, but   unless these
  clubs get a lot more interesting, and figure out ways to get the
   self-important twinkies to shut up, there won't be critical mass of 
people
  younger than 60 taking part. 

  FOT part of VTR (or any other "real" organization)--perish the
  thought. 

  On Sep 24, 2008, at 12:40 PM, John Macartney wrote:

    Andy Mace wrote:
    This does raise
     an interesting possibility, were FoT members so inclined: perhaps 
we could
    become some sort of "Special Chapter" or "Affiliate" of VTR?

    I take a very 'broad church view' on issues like this,

    essentially summarised as follows:

    1. It doesn't really matter how you use your Triumph (or
     Standard) and because of that, there should be room in your local 
or
    national club to accommodate your usage preference.
    2. The vehicle parc is getting smaller each year and
     current owners are getting older. This largely explains the 
diminution of
    club memberships
    3. A surprisingly large number of cars will outlive their
    enthusiast custodians and will need to have 'a home'
    4. Clubs (national or local) need to recognise this - and
    its my perception in the UK that clubs don't adequately do this
    5. There will come a time when the vehicle parc and
     custodian base is so small that clubs as they currently stand will 
probably
    not be viable as heretofore. This begs the question
    6. What plans are national clubs making to address that
    inevitable eventuality?
    7. No-one can confidently expect to substantially 'grow
     club membership.' The vast majority of cars that will survive are 
already
    known. Barn-Finds will become ever more infrequent

    With regard to point 6, my perception of the evidence as
    it relates to the UK (and probably elsewhere too?) is "nothing at
     all." Additionally, for as long as clubs and others continue to

provide
     'free' technical information on "How to .....?" projects via the 
internet,
    clubs will continue to diminish in size.

    Rant off

    Jonmac

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