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Originally Posted by mikez
Ferrari just requires hairy chests and gold chains, right?  |
MY mind was changed at the Pebble Beach Fcar concours. They have a real sense of community. It is different as the cars and owners reflect the Italian heritage (open shirts more common on Italians or Ital-Americans) and the much much higher prices (shops do the work for patrones). But I got a good "vibe" at the event.
Seemed like a lot of the owners were Italian-Americans who had made it big and wanted to preserve some of their heritage. Growing up near New Orleans, I am "all over" that...
Pano sucks. I also let my PCA membership lapse, not exactly because (as pwd72S has noted there are too many wine & cheese people -- I am a wino and a cheese-o-holic (when not scarfing down beer & brots) but because the driving force behind that is reflected in car choice. i.e. people who bought newer Pcars for some psychological reason related to their small sense of self.
HOWEVER: as Grady put it once: PCA is what you make it. One can either choose to stay in and change the organization, or to bail. I have a lot of other fights to fight that are much more important than reforming PCA so I bailed. But be my guest in changing it....