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Originally Posted by road pilot
I am a old geezer. I have been around cars all my life. I have always
had fast cars, I have raced them, shown them, and always enjoyed them.
The truth is there are alot of cool cars out in the world, corvettes are
just one of the many cool cars to be enjoyed.
Well some where along the line I decided to join a Corvette Club. I
thought that the club would have alot of gear heads just like me. In
the early 70's I belong to a corvette club and it was great --a whole
bunch of gear heads. My illusion of corvette clubs was shattered.
The folks and mostly old folks that are members of my present club
are interested in eating and driving----mostly eating.
They know nothing of the automotive history and other cars much less
vettes. Mechanic's? They can drive and that's it. Speed and how you
get there, I get blank looks. They kind of know what a stock vette is
their own but I get stares if I talk about anything other than a C-6.
So here is my problem.
Should I just give up on these non-gear heads, or try to educate
them??
So far within the club they are not gearheads so we talk about the
stock market or politics. There are alot of gearheads that are informed.
The only folks that I can talk to are outside the club, and I know they
don't want to start a club.
Have other forum members experienced this?
One other thing I have noticed that the youngsters are more interested
in computers than cars. OK, there are acceptions but in my neck of
the woods there are not many kids with cool cars.
Thanks for helping me---- Corvette Clubs ....................oh boy..............
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Yep. I have. But not since I have been with the Tampa Bay Posse. This is the only so called club that I belong to now but we are a very loose group with no dues, president or meetings. We have a great group of people. We just get together to ride out.
The Posse embodies one word-Diversity.
Some of us like myself do our own work but others are just as knowledgeable about Vettes and other muscle cars and have experiences with them. And um, oh yea, we drive damn hard too.
Stu (Stuzvette) from over in your area is joining up with us and may make a ride to Perry, FL for a parade there we are in October 24th. If you are interested shoot me a PM with your number and we can talk.
As far as trying to educate Vette club members, ha good luck on that. Been there done that, in my opinion most of these so called club members are 1) sadly misinformed and 2) believe every thing they read on the internet. I find it better to let people believe what they want to believe and keep quiet. Less headaches that way.
Good luck finding what you are after.
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