Re: Authenticity vs. Modification

Posted by portlandon On 2009/4/11 20:55:22

I would like to make a public apology to Owen. Upon receiving a private message from him, and a good afternoon of working in the shop I have come to the realization that I was both a Jerk, and VERY rude. While this is no excuse, I would like to explain my raw nerves on the subject.

I have spent the last week trying to convince 2 members of our local club to remain In the club. They are both really nice guys that I recruited at a car show last year. They are both under 25, with young families and day jobs. They each have rather simple cars, and have done many mods to them to get them running and roadworthy. They look mostly stock. They started to come less & less to meetings, and less to car shows. After I proded one of the fellas as to why, (as they used to be very active) he said he felt pretty bad about his car. I told him that the club would help him do whatever we could to help him out with it. He said that afew of the older gents with really nice cars had nit picked his car to pieces. My response was maybe they wanted to help him make it better. "Nah, they didn't know why I didn't just buy a rice rocket and do a car I could afford". I hit the roof! I asked the other guy if this had happened to him. He confirmed it.


While this is not Owens problem, or anybody elses here, I took it out on this list and for that I apologize to all.

Except to Asparagus. You just rub me the wrong way fella.