<VV> Iowa Convention Schedule

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So what's the problem with concours being the first major event? Please
explain......

-Mark

> [Original Message]
> Subject: Re: <VV> Iowa  Convention Schedule
>
> Mark and Harry - And those are good reasons. But I think the Tone of Bob's
> post was is it reasonable to put that above all the other convention
> goers?
>
> When the concours can come first common sense says that should be
> accommodated UNLESS it causes major problems elsewhere. That's where the
> trouble comes in.
>
> Lon
>
> > The reason the concours was moved to being the first event of the
> > convention schedule was because of the number of Cole Award competitors.
> > They didn't want the tough job of having to clean up the undersides of
> > their cars after the moving events added to their labors. They felt that
> > this would unfairly burden them, unlike those concours participants who
> > weren't Cole competitors. Those people's cars could arrive at the
concours
> > with undersides that had been cleaned up sometimes well in advance of
the
> > convention and trailered in.
> >
> > -Mark
> >
> >> [Original Message]
> >> Subject: Re: <VV> Iowa  Convention Schedule
> >>
> >> Harry Jensen, wrote:
> >>
> >> > Concours has to be the first event
> >>
> >> It does?  I guess I missed that in civics class.
> >>
> >> Why does one event dictate the schedule?
> >>
> >> Should not the best interests of the membership AS A WHOLE drive the
> >> schedule?
> >>
> >> There is precedent for the concours being held after moving events.  It
> >> has been done before, and the sun still rose in the east and the earth
> >> still spun on its axis.
> >>
> >> --Bob Marlow
>