Ulix Goettsch wrote:
>
> On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Kai Radicke wrote:
> > > But the part about being ignored by other British Car enthusiasts... or
> > >older British car enthusiasts... I owe that, really, for the most part to
> > >the shirt you are wearing. I have done this as an experiment: I wore a
> > >plain t-shirt, and was ignored. I wore a "MGB" shirt, and was treated
>like I
> > >was a new guy who needed to be told what "MG" stands for. When I wear my
> > >"Unipart" shirt or my "1989 Original British Car Show" shirt I have been
> > >treated like I was one of the gang... The best I can assume is that you
> > >just aren't dressing the part.
>
> I have made a somewhat opposite observation. I wore a selfmade shirt
> that features a copy of the exploded view of the front suspension straight
> out of my Brooklands manual, complete with my (photocopied) greasy
> fingerprints, to an MG club event, and nobody even got it. There were
> mainly older couples who did not want to talk about cars at all, but would
> have probably gladly shown me pictures of their grandkids (ok, my tongue
> is easing towards my cheek here).
> But come to think about it, this was a driving event, not a car show, a
> CB radio was gracing everyone's dash and a good time was probably had by
> _them_ all.
>
> My point here is that I (28) have nothing in common with the crowd in my
> MG club and this might have something to do with the lack of younger
> people in the scene.
> In short: not all old farts can be as cool as the ones on this list.
>
> Ulix __/__,__
> .......................................................... (_o____o_).....
> '67 Sprite
I must say that my encounters with other MGers have been most
enjoyable. I am 22 and do not even have an MG yet, but at the two shows
that I have been to and the local MG club meeting that I attended I was
treated like one of the group. Many thanks to all of you who welcome
the new guys, and gals, to the marque.
Mike Hartley
mganut@accucomm.net
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