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For me, there are a couple of the "guys" on here that I always respected but have now lost a lot of respect for them because of some of the comments they have made.
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(I am only using your quote James as a leader into this and by no means an attack on you)
That is one of the saddest things about this whole affair. Not whether this car is real or not but the fact that something such as this has driven many friends apart and given many a bad taste in their mouths about being in this hobby for years and having NO connection with the car or it’s owner. As it is, many of us attending a car show will not be known for what car we have, what automotive expertise we have, what we have offered to the hobby or how nice a person we may be but instead being noted as "he or she's one of them". People will be "labeled" by which "camp" they frequent. I personally feel like I cannot read or post on other sites as well as this one sometimes due to the “guilty by association.” Some shows are even advertised that you cannot display if you are a member of XXXXXXX site. Try that same tactic and not allow Hispanics or African Americans to display and see how far you get.
I have seen several friendships starting to be taxed on here and other sites due in part to this thread. Many of these people were friends from the beginning and are now being pushed apart because of differences in opinions. Some friendships that could possibly have been made will now likely not happed due to that same "guilty by association". Even possibly taking on a restoration from a member of another site has caused me and some others to think things through even though the two have absolutely nothing to do with each other, that is TRULY a shame. Some of the people I speak with every day have refused to post on
any of the car sites because they don’t want to partake in or be a part of this crap. Because of that, we miss a universe worth of talent and information that these people could have been bringing to the sites.
This has been one topic that I have refused to take a side on and believe it should have been handled off site and maybe then only if a sale were pending to protect a buyer if in fact (any) car was being passed off as something it is not but who am I to say. This as well as other similar threads on many sites are nothing more then witch hunts (sorry Annie) and are used to try and derail one site as a way of competition or betterment. This hobby is quickly becoming something that I am not proud to bring my child up into. And speaking of my child, even at 10 years old she was more mature then some of us are when I look over this and other sites and how we treat each other and work out our differences. Nuff said, now hang me!
Rick Nelson