I have been setting here reading all the posts so far about this and I am furious.
I was not aware that their copyrite of the term "Bloomington Gold Survivor" entitled them to the exclusive right to the generic term "Survivor" when applied to any collector car.
That term has been used freely in the hobby almost as long as muscle cars have been collected.
A "Survivor Car" should be a phrase that can be used by anyone that wants to use it. Screw Bloomington if they sue someone over the use of this I hope everybody in the "Collector car hobby" all sign up to testify against them. That term was coined long ago. It was first used more by those in the NCRS and Bloomington was just one stop on their show circut. I will be one that will be the first to sign up against them.
I also hope that everyone in the hobby will boycott the bastards if they think they own the entire english language.
I for one will boycott them when the day that my my Motion vettes and especially my "day 2 Survior" 60,000 mi '65 Vette is finally restored and I start to show it. If they want to control the hobby like that I predict that it could backfire on them.
I think they are oversteping themselves. Since 1990 they have not vigorsly defended their copyrite of the term so they should be limited to only the exclusive use of "Bloomington Survivor" or "Bloomington Gold Survivor" period. They are oversteping their right to the term "Surivor car" and they could be in danger of loosing it.
In fact I predict that they would loose in a court battle over the use of the term. I hate to see the auction company backing down as that just gives Mechams lawyers encouragment to go after everyone in the industry. I hope that this forum will not be the ones that have to suffer because of this.
Dammm I am really pissed.... It is a good thing that I don't have a dog or I might take out my anger over this on him.
(climing down off soapbox)
Thanks all,
Pantera
Perhaps this forum should copyrite the term "day 2 survivor" before they try to stop us from using it too.