Must be a club thing, the Coleman Collectors club is going through a similar
thing. The younger folks (like me) want to camp and actually use the stuff. The
older folks like it sit around and TALK about lanterns and stoves, maybe polish
them but lighting them is crazy talk...
I made major waves when I hosted the 2017 convention and focused it around a
campground. The club tried really hard to make me fail, I refused.
-Curt
On Sunday, August 11, 2019, 8:15:20 PM EDT, clay via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
Today was the local section MBCA Show and Shine. Nice selection of cars on
the field. We had a large number (eight) from Canadia come down to show their
rides. The funny thing was the tuner types who I had not seen before.
It seems there is a shadow Benz Club in town. Mostly younger people with newer
tuner cars from 2005+. I got to talking with a fellow and he tells me they are
organized online, like with Fakebuuk or other online dating site, and the
oldest guy in their group of seven hundred members is almost 40. I am
astounded. For some reason our leadership is not reaching out to these people
to enlarge and strengthen the club. I was sure these people were a stealth
tribe, so I introduce the fellow and his gal to the club President. He knew
about the group and there were six or seven others of that clan in attendance.
All in hopped up AMG livery.
For the few decades I have been a member of the local section, I have thought
we need many more younger members so that the club would remain viable. The
bulk of our members are closing in on, if not many years or decades into
retirement. Their cars are of the Collectible sort with trust funds to keep
them running. The number of W113 and R107s there I would guess to have been at
least twenty, if not more. There was nary a scruffy car on the field. Maybe
the worst was the sole 450SLC that had the rear seating area under
construction. Not a Kaleb car to be had.
The post 2005 cars were, as always, soulless. There were a few SECs and one
W140 coupe. The w129s were out in force. Most of the 1985-2004 bunch wore AMG
badges, when that meant something.
At least the rain held off. Now I feel like I should head to the store and get
a few bottles of Geritol.
clay
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