[TR] Charles Macartney Daily Driver Award question

[John Macartney]

Blake

*Very* important sematics here that I need to clarify to avoid carefully
veiled mutterings and whispered criticisms of 'jumping on bandwagons.' You
wrote:

Jonmac's post on the Triumph forum about entering his 10,000-mile Stag in the
CMDDA competition got me to thinking...

I'm sure that was an unintended oversight - but the record must be put
straight without further delay.
The Stag is not, has not been and will not be *my* car, I'll only be driving
it.
Merely in order to comply with Federal and State laws, "uncle jack" (in memory
of Jack Drews) is/will be titled in Joe Pawlak's name because we can't title
it jointly in the names of all those fabulous people who pledged over $6500 to
buy it!
Neither can we title it to additionally include all the others at Illinois
Sports Owners Assoc (under Joe Pawlak's watchful eye), who gave up valuable
driving time last summer to work on it. Furthermore, it intrinsically belongs
(in lots of small pieces) to all the people who contributed to its initial
puirchase and rebuild and later financing. I'm sure you'll understand that I
feel obligated to make this perhaps rather semantic declaration but if it
wasn't for so many people being so generous and supportive in so many ways,
this whole event just wouldn't have happened at all.
For my part, I'll have the time of my life undertaking this forthcoming Drive
of a Lifetime - but I'm also very mindful of the heavy responsibility on my
shoulders of getting it there in one piece for others to (hopefully) admire.
The thought of entering it for the CMDDA was merely to acknowledge all that
support and for absolutely no other motive that could even remotely be billed
as self-gratification on my part.

Cheers, Jonmac