<VV>re: Corvair a should-be classic? - Milestone Car Society

[Mark Corbin]

Indeed, the CCCA is ALL about snobbishness. While they THINK they own the
word "classic", they certainly don't have the corner on the market for
snobbishness.

Personally, I think that anyone with a snobbish attitude isn't worthy of my
consideration. Like the song said, "So you've got a car. That don't mean
much to me."

-Mark


> [Original Message]
> From: <Borrrris at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: <VV>re:  Corvair a should-be classic?  -  Milestone Car
Society
>
> In a message dated 8/22/2007 2:37:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
> corvair65 at verizon.net writes:
>
> On  another note for those of us who subscribe to Hemmings Classic Car,
is  
> anyone besides me getting tired of reading David Schultz's column?   He
just 
> goes on and on about the CCCA considers a classic. until I'm sick  of
hearing 
> it.  It's as if nobody else is entitled to call their car  a classic,
because 
> it hasn't been mandated a classic by  CCCA.
> Yes; a magazine I tend to devour cover to cover, but find the  snobbism 
> inherent in this guy's attitude to be out of character with all the 
other articles 
> and features.
> I remember thinking that while I enjoy reading the articles about 
classes 
> and types of cars that I have no personal interest in ever owning in 
that 
> magazine - this guy makes it clear that he and the CCCA people  would
have no 
> interest in the "common" cars that fill the rest of the magazine.  Cars
that were 
> built to a price point. Guess what? My house wasn't  built using only the 
> finest materials and workmanship and  a money-is-no-object budget either;
but I 
> enjoy making it as nice as it can  be. And the fact that mansion dwellers
might 
> scoff at it doesn't make me  any less proud of it. Ditto my Corvair.
>   Matt from L.I. ('66 Monza Coupe  110/pg