[DeTomaso] Right coast

[MikeLDrew at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/2/12 20 20 27, michaelsavga at gmail.com writes:


> It isn't now nor has it been in my 7 years of
> Pantera ownership, as Rob pointed out, those of us to the right of the
> Mississippi river have no involvement opportunities at all.
> 

>>>For 20 years I've heard this, and find it SO tiresome.   Both editors 
crave inputs from everywhere--there is no discrimination against 
right-coasters.   In fact, the club has gone out of its way to try to be inclusive, even 
once taking the rather dubious step of using club funds to fly two officers 
to the Pocono event to attempt to represent POCA (I was there also--on my 
own dime!)

The simple fact is that there are more people and more cars on the west 
coast, and a better local infrastructure.   Attempts to create a similar 
infrastructure in the eastern half of the country have had varying degrees of 
success, at least partially due to greater geographical separation between 
owners which makes it less conducive for regular get-togethers etc.

The greatest irony, though, is hearing people complain that they never read 
anything about their events in the POCA publications.   This, of course, is 
because nobody bothered to contribute anything.   If you hold an event and 
don't tell anybody about it, how are you then expected to read about it 
afterwards?

Mike