It's The People - ZCON 2010

Robert_Nash

I have registered and gone to Z events when I didn't own a Z...it isn't about the $30.

It's about keeping promises.

Generational and stock/modified issues aside, if you are going to have a People's Choice car show and charge people for it then the people you charge have a right to expect to know the results...otherwise they should have simply let people park/display their cars on the lawn and charged them nothing for it and no voting needed.

If you are going to have a "Closing Banquet and Awards Ceremony" then you had darn well better have the results tallied and some awards to hand out at the award's banquet.

Were there some reasonable explanation for the results not being known by the time of the awards banquet this would be a much more minor issue but there simply isn't one...they say the ran out of time...I just don't buy it. Counting ballots simply isn't that difficult.

I know of at least six people from the Middle Tennessee Z Club and the Smoky Mountain Z Club who had volunteered to help with events; were at the car show...asked multiple times what they could to help and were never given an assignment...if they needed help counting ballots why didn't they ask people who had already volunteered? There were lot's of bodies there who could have pitched in and helped.

By the way, having a "new" Z doesn't mean all you do is run through a car wash...I have an '2010 Roadster...I spent at least 24 hours in prep time for the show as I do most shows I enter and I also drive it as often as I can (meaning it's not a garage queen)...yes it is easier to make a new car look good than one that's 40 years old but don't think for a moment that people who enter People's Choice shows aren't "adamant" or care any less about their vehicles or the competition.

I registered in February and had a registration number under 60...I could have easily been in the judged show but I didn't want to take up one of only 125 spots when there was a People's Choice show that I assumed would be taken seriously - had I known the People's Choice was going to be handled so poorly I would have done something different.

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Robert
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