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General Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Mark Ascher on February 24, 2016, 07:52:33 PM
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Saw this over on V8Buick.com. the BPG is now the Performance Division of the BCA.
I would say great news.
Mark
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Seems like a good idea. Like stated by others in a different thread; if we don't all stick together we may get legislated out of existence.
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Saw this over on V8Buick.com. the BPG is now the Performance Division of the BCA.
I would say great news.
Mark
The official BCA release.
http://www.buickclub.org/the-buick-performance-group-is-now-officially-the-performance-division-of-the-BCA (http://www.buickclub.org/the-buick-performance-group-is-now-officially-the-performance-division-of-the-BCA)
Dan
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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
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Here is a link to the discussion going on at v8 Buick.
http://www.v8buick.com/showthread.php?306972-BPG-joins-the-BCA. (http://www.v8buick.com/showthread.php?306972-BPG-joins-the-BCA.)
Take a look at the discussion and maybe even enter into it.
I think this should be good for both the BCA and BPG and hope it works to everyone's advantage and enjoyment.
There are a lot of different sides of the automotive hobby; racing, modifying, restoring, customizing or somewhere in between. Whatever your interest, we need to stick together to keep it going.
Loren
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All
Thanks guy's for bringing this to our attention.
This sure should add diversity of interest to the BCA and stability to the BPG.
I don't remember the BCA being involved in racing in the last 35 years I have been involved with them.
There is a link to the BPG from the BCA site for members who would like to get to know each other and vice versa.
I also found it very interesting to check the BPG Car Show results for the last few years.
A special congratulations goes out to the success of the 65GS.COM members who carried our banner.
You will definitely recognize the names.
Thanks again to 65GS.COM for bringing this update to our attention and being the leaders that they are.
We have managed to keep our site free of a lot of the adversity experienced by some of the other sites and I sure hope we can continue that stance.
Milton (MDKD)