Dear Mark, Jim, Dan, and mid-60s Buick fans,
I think it will eventually benefit both groups, but at the moment the BPG faithful are having a hard time swallowing the change given from the responses on the V-8 Buick thread. It bothered me enough that I posted a defense to the BPG move on the thread that Sean started. I'm not going to have time to look at how that was received until tomorrow sometime.
Admittedly there is something of a culture clash. Honestly, I disapprove of both groups at one level: their role in promoting competition between Buick owners. Racing pits Buick owner against another in some sort of "speed measurement." (although the rules associated with this don't exactly leave it to speed as a physicist would recognize it.) The BCA has a major role in another kind of competition: the judging of cars for originality. While radically different, the sense of competition is nonetheless the same. I suspect the culture clash in this case comes from these two radically different but nonetheless fierce sorts of competition.
Honestly, I think we really need to appreciate our cars and ourselves for what they are and stop trying to pigeon hole either. Our world is filled with way too much competition. Any car that has managed to survive 50 years of the human rat race truly deserves to be exempt from this sort of competition.
Edouard
