Last year was run totally different, the option of having cars outside the circuit was not there. Personally, I think this year it was a mistake to put cars outside. I think our club was much better positioned last year than this year, though it did allow us to watch the races a little this year. I don't think Toranas were thin on the ground, especially since the XU1 club ran it's Nationals. I can sort of see where you are coming from with whats a muscle car and whats not, it's a fine line, and a factory 308 SL hatch is a rare car if it's genuine. However I'm sure the organisers had already allocated where they were parking clubs prior to the event, hense the reason I was only given 30 spots, and clubs like the HDT club had to borrow spots from other clubs ( i had a few guys who are not members who had L34's and A9X's join with our club too) as they had something like 52 cars turn up. You mentioned you had an SLR5000(as an example only), but it was a member of your club which had been allocated spots near the grandstand. The p76 thing, well as lame as we may think they are, that is that factories performance model, so it's entitled to go, and I'm sure organisers would have liked to have had a wide range of different makes represented. The HDT 05 79 replica you mentioned was actually displayed with our club last year, purely because some official parked it with us. In the end we let him stay under the covers because some of our members were late and it looked like they had pulled out due to the rain.
I had my own issues this year. My label blew off the windscrean on the way, and they tried to first charge me entry, then said I couldn't go in the circuit because I had no label, despite the fact I had my letter, and my label backing in the car!! There were certainly some issues that need to be addressed before next year. On combining the clubs, that may or may not work. As I said, clubs wre allocated a number of spots. If that happens next year, and all the Torana clubs go under one banner, they may only get 30 spots, so some people are going to miss out and have to park outside again if they run it that way. If that happens, how do you say who gets to go in, and who doesn't? All these things are just issues that always happen at shows, someone is alway unhappy with how things go. Remember the shitfight with people at the Torana show at Bathurst in 2004? Lots of people were unhappy, but in a lot of cases, it was out of the organisers hands, but he copped a flogging over it never the less. See if you have a copy of the letter you were sent, if it only offers you the parking in the coral, then everyone should have known what was going on, if they offered you skidpan parking, then maybe your club rep did not take up that option, or it could have of course been a complete stuff up.
Edited by REDA9X, 21 September 2006 - 02:23 PM.
