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Both my daughters are pushing late 30's but still remain gear heads, thanks to growing up with me and going to car shows most weekends or cruise-ins week nights. Never had a problem with either one I think (in a large part) due to the quality time we spent together all those years - I can remember like it was yesterday the two of them jumping in the back of my split window and fighting over which side of the window they wanted. The only problem now is they both became mothers and would not think of the children riding in a car without safety seats and what's even worse is that they both have multiple children so a two seater is out. When someone runs into that one and only 4 seater Corvette in a barn somewhere please give me a call. I won't mention what make it is, but my youngest girl already bought a sharp 1965 yellow convertable with a 4 on the floor and we try to get to as many cruise nights together as we can each summer. It's great to start the cycle over again with my grandchildren and I feel as long as we get our children involved many of them will keep the market for Corvettes alive.
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The publication that I am considering placing in print, would include all generations of Corvettes. That way, the younger buyers who have daily drivers would have interest in the publication as well as the collectors. It would not be monthly however.Comment
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Clem and Joe. ARMO, the restoration market side of SEMA published some info addressing that issue. Basically it said we lost a whole generation of car enthusiasts, but the generation coming up today are car enthusiasts. It is up to the marque's to cultivate them.
If it were not for people like Frank Abrahamson and the other 13 founding members of AACA, I wonder where the whole collector car hobby would be today. We, as members of the Corvette hobbly, forget there are other collectors, be it steam cars, early electric cars, the "fat fenders", the '50's, etc. The hobby is alive and well, but suffering in the economic times like all the rest of us are.
NCRS has weathered this downturn better that most clubs. The membership has remained stable, maybe gained a few members.
As long as there is fuel to run them on there will be collectors of all types of cars.Dick WhittingtonComment
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Peter G. I don't see that anyone here lamenting the demise of CE Mag bit on your hook so to speak relative to starting a new publication.
Maybe you need to start a new thread. Sounds like there are contributing writers here. as some level of interest. Given that there are probably 200 people active on this board out of _?_ number of paid NCRS members???
Now to a couple of points made earlier, cost, FORD, and bringing up the younger generation.
Cost - yes if you look at what has happened these last 30 years, it is called the decimation of American middle class, the worst sounds like it starts in 2011 with the latest game of tax increases. What that has done has taken Made in U.S.A. on EVERY part that goes into one of these C1 C3 or C3 cars and now - there isn't a single thing made in the home land. Look at all those plants GM Ford and others closed. What happened to that manufacturing base? Who is getting all those paychecks? Not here - Asia. There is a domino effect and it has taken 30 years to manifest itself.
Look at Lansing, Flint and Pontiac these days. Rotted ghettos, no longer thriving manufacturing bases with a full spectrum of prosperity and it wasn't just the UAW that got us in this mess, the same mental model by the senior management - GREED, fattening their own bank accounts was also a key part of this. Move this to Asia, kick the worker to the street, close a US plant - pay me a mill and move on mantra, repeated over an over. Capitalism is great, works wonderfully as long as the entire ex-work force is not on a street corner or greeting you at the wal-m. Go look at all the socialist examples we have just very near south of our borders, they got that way for a reason, though they never benefit those that put them in power/place.
So yes, no surprise there are fewer people with extra $$ for the hobby. WE are targets of the current wealth equalization plan.
Comments on the FORD's...I repeat FORD, lets just say it in simple English...FORD did not get a loan from you last year - did they??? What was that GM loan in reality? It is another tax increase you-all haven't seen yet. Or was it in a sense the administrations way of finishing what they have tried to do to GM since the 60's and 70's???
My boys like the Mustang's - simple innocent reasons - fast & fast looking, affordable (accessible), and they seat four! And for the record they both can fit in one seat belt when we do get out in the Corvette. They are a little young to be changing the oil or wrenching, they just ask for me to squeak the tires
and this weekend we obliged, after-all what good were those nibs anyway?
And that brought us to bringing up the younger crowd, it is upon all of us in some small way to help, teach, share. NCRS has a special niche factory originality (most of the time) and in a instant world has been able to survive thus far. You cannot keep every car factory perfect and in a museum "trailer" there has to be a decent percentage of drivers or the interest fades.
Money talks and money walks, don't like what they did? You-all should call today and cancel.
Then,
Take Pete up on making a new mag that does not compete with the restorer, consider the on-line searchable aspect of today's world because I don't read mags either, and the Restorer/ Driveline is the only set I look at, I'd rather be out squeaking those tires - OO-ya the smell of burnt rubber!Comment
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That's a shame. Corvette Enthusiast has been my favorite for a long, long time.
Just got the "new and improved" issue of Vette. Yawn. SOS. Nothing really new; no improvement.
I am convinced JohnZ and Martyn Schorr are the last remaining folks who can actually write.
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I used to get just about all of them: Corvette Fever, Vette, Corvette Magazine, Vette Vues, Keepin Track, Corvette Quarterly and Cars and Parts Corvette/Corvette Enthusiast. CE was the only one I stayed with. Some went out of business. Others seemed to gravitate to the C5 & C6 models and modifieds. As a C1 enthusiast, there was less to interest me. OK, maybe I am one of the older of us but I miss the good articles of previous years. I'm glad NCRS is still supporting the early Corvettes.Comment
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After agreeing with all of the above positive comments on CE, there is only one suggestion left. They should publish a last article recommending that the "old" Corvette enthusiasts join NCRS and get the Corvette Restorer in the future for genuine restoration information.Chuck Lyman
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"Corvette Restorer" What' that?
I just joined in May. Got the then current issue of "Driveline"
As of last week still hadn't received current "Driveline" or "Restorer" so I sent a note to help desk. Looks like me and a lot of others are out of luck. They have no more???(Would love to hear that explaination)
So I guess all the mags have their issues. Some are able to survive, some aren't
Any one got a "Restorer" they don't plan to keep. If so, PM me.
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