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<DIV>In a message dated 9/24/2008 12:14:18 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
britbits@netzero.com writes:</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=093470504-24092008>To what point?...
</FONT></SPAN><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial
color=#000000 size=2><SPAN class=093470504-24092008>There are members on this
list who are die hard VTR members. There are folks on this list who
maybe are a bit... ambivalent about the VTR. At
best.</SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=093470504-24092008>So... as a former VTR
president.. what are you proposing? And what are the requirements, and
dues?</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=093470504-24092008>I rule nothing out
before looking at it.. Maybe I won't like what I see
though.</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>==AM==</DIV>
<DIV>I wasn't seriously proposing anything, just kinda tossing out the idea
since I understand there's been recent talk about expanding such affiliations in
VTR. Blake and other current members of the Board would be the ones to talk more
about it.</DIV>
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<DIV>Following "traditional" Chapter guidelines as per VTR's Constitution and
Bylaws, it would actually "require" little more than at least 10 members of the
group also being current VTR members. What would it gain FoT? Probably very
little, particularly since the most formal aspect of FoT is its informality. ;-)
But it might gain VTR more; I don't know....</DIV>
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<DIV>In another post, you wrote: "<SPAN class=140574622-24092008>I think it's in
the VTR interest to recognize the racing community, as it's one way to keep the
cars in front of the general public. I'm just waiting to see what form
that recognition will take."</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=140574622-24092008>That recognition has been there in VTR for
quite some time now. As you note, there are "prepared" categories in the
Concours at National Conventions as started in 1997. Our own Joe Alexander has
served as the "Racing" vehicle consultant for VTR, listed right there in the
magazine with all of us other Triumph model-specific "experts"! In recent years,
coverage of FoT-related events and cars has been quite good in _The Vintage
Triumph_ magazine. Maybe all that's more than enough, rather than make any FoT
members uncomfortable by, in any way, formalizing the organization by virtue of
a stronger and more official connection with a group such as VTR?</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=140574622-24092008>Heck, I'm getting to the point where I tend
to follow the philosophy of Groucho Marx regarding organizations, in that at
best I'm wary of joining most groups that might welcome me as a member! :-)
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