Originally Posted by
treebound
In the car collector field there is a subset of people known by me as the concourse people. These people will lay down terrycloth toweles as they carefully and slowly wheel their concourse level cars off the trailers and over the grass to their assigned spot in the event so as not to get so much as a single particle of a blade of grass stuck to the tire treads. I can't do that and tend to just let the grass fly all over the place if I'm unloading a car. Been a long time since I've played with cars, and I've never gone to a concourse level event. .
Yeah, I hear you... esp. being an owner of a car that could have been 'concourse level' (one of the first 10 of its kind made and the only one of those documentedly rolling around today.) I still drive it when there is no salt on the road (but I baby it like hey...) and/but I still let my kids eat ice cream cones in the back seat. 'Cause that's what matters to me. An object is an object. And, yes, one can make some serious deneiros out of an object. But the satisfaction of using a somewhat desirable thing/object every day is very hard to beat, but it should not restrict one's priorities. Yeah, I am a member of a (particular) car club and, yeah, I have been (consciously) driving the same car make for 20 years and, yeah, I am kinda disheartened by the fact that my car maker has become a 'status' symbol. Very translatable to bikes...