CORSA 2012: More report

[Michael Kovacs]

Come to think of it, I've let spectators even sit in the car at a car show. They 
show an interest, so what are they gonna do? Poop on the seats?

 MIKE KOVACS




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From: michel paroz <mparoz1 at gmail.com>
To: Vairtec Corporation <vairtec at comcast.net>
Cc: conv-2012 at corvair.org
Sent: Sat, July 30, 2011 10:06:56 AM
Subject: Re: CORSA 2012: More report

Finger prints, Horor and damnation! what are we? little pink pricesses made
of melting candy?
Like I said, I volonteer my beatifullCorvair convertible for foto op,
children that the parents want o take picture of a kid in a Corvair and just
all the people that want just to sit and reminise that first car my father
gave me or the one that my mother in law had!
Michel (Mike) Paroz

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Vairtec Corporation <vairtec at comcast.net>wrote:

> Jason wrote:
>
> > I would like to clarify one comment that Ken just made however. CORSA
> does not want
> > to keep the public away.
>
> I respond:
>
> Intentions may be one thing, but in practice CORSA has been highly
> resistant to making events and activities more "open."  For example:
>
>
> Jason continued:
> > That being said we DO want to keep the public away from CONCOURS cars. It
> would be very easy to have someone wander in and become so enthralled with
> these prestigious cars that he or she could touch one and leave fingerprints
> on the car.
>
> And I continue:
>
> That statement is exactly what I mean by "highly resistant."  Someone
> might touch a car!  The horror!  The general public is not a bunch of
> savages.  These are cars, not sacred artifacts.  Instead of thinking
> about ways by which we can mitigate any perceived problems and show off
> our best of the best, we think about ways to "keep the public away from
> concours cars."
>
> Why not consider such things as
>
> - placing numerous "please do not touch" signs
>
> - Making p.a. announcements reminding people to be respectful of the cars
>
> - instructing the judges to ignore fresh fingerprints
>
> I am perfectly willing to consider such things as putting the concours
> car behind ropes, as in a museum, so that the public can still get close
> enough to see and appreciate them, while being beyond fingerprint
> range.  But sequestering the entire concours field from public access?
> No way.  The object should be to stop hiding the concours cars and to
> include them as part of a big, big public car show.
>
> --Bob
>
>
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