General chat that fellow COM'ers may be interested in.
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breakaway500
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by breakaway500 » Sat Mar 22, 2008 9:56 pm
I was reading the clubs history.Quite enlightening. I liked this passage;
"COM President Peter Consiglio wins the SCCA A Production national title at the Runoffs, held at Riverside, CA. He won driving a 427 Cobra which miffed Chevrolet sufficiently that COM was dropped from their list of official Corvette clubs."
hehehe...

Good reading.
Why does the history date line stop at 2001?
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Don P
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by Don P » Sun Mar 23, 2008 7:17 am
I retired from writing at that point...thanks for the complement..
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breakaway500
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by breakaway500 » Sun Mar 23, 2008 9:34 am
It's a shame to leave such a gap in the clubs history.
Happy 50th birthday,COMSCC!
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by rajito » Sun Mar 23, 2008 10:52 pm
breakaway500 wrote:Why does the history date line stop at 2001?
The Subarus invaded in 2002 and pissed everyone off.
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grovefromnh
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by grovefromnh » Mon Mar 24, 2008 3:35 am
The club got boring.
30+ yr member
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breakaway500
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by breakaway500 » Mon Mar 24, 2008 7:24 am
The Subarus invaded and it got boring?
I remember when a Subie was lucky to make it to 80k without self destructing.(the wonderful 70's)
I had a thing for XT coupes,and have owned hundreds of cars but never a Subaru.
Usually competition makes one try harder and dig deeper(into ones pockets)
They are amazingly fast cars,but I just can't seem to lust for one.
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by offcamber09 » Mon Mar 24, 2008 8:41 am
grovefromnh wrote:The club got boring.
Lets see of the roughly 158 track records for all COM classes- 135 have been set since 2001- when the club got boring.

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breakaway500
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by breakaway500 » Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:07 am
I wouldn't care if every car in COM was a Subie as long as they let me out on the track with them

(<---me pointing by)
Granted,I'm a newcomer,but it seems to me the foundation of this club is about getting out on a real race track with your whatever car and testing ones own skills.
I sure wish I had learned about the existence of clubs like this years ago.
Well, never too late I always say

I'm looking foreward to this year!
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by StephanAlfa » Mon Mar 24, 2008 10:40 am
COM now is for all kinds of cars:
Cubaru
Calfas
Cnissan
Corsche
Cbeamers
Cormulas
Clotus
Catoms
Cobras
Chevrolet
Cords
Cerrari
Caserati
Cercedez
Cazdas
Chondas
you know....those kind of cars

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conehunter
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by conehunter » Mon Mar 24, 2008 7:02 pm
You forgot colkswagens
That pesky beetle owner.
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WillM
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by WillM » Mon Mar 24, 2008 7:14 pm
breakaway500 wrote:Granted,I'm a newcomer,but it seems to me the foundation of this club is about getting out on a real race track with your whatever car and testing ones own skills.
I sure wish I had learned about the existence of clubs like this years ago.
Well, never too late I always say

I'm looking foreward to this year!
Yes.
Me too! COM is still a "hidden secret" of sorts.
Heck yeah!
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ctkag
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by ctkag » Tue Mar 25, 2008 1:06 pm
grovefromnh wrote:The club got boring.
That's also about the time all the Miata's showed up!
To tie in Will's comment as well - I wish I had known about such things before as well. When I talk to people about COM, most of them are like 'WOW - I can drive my car on a race track?!' Seems there needs to be a better way to get the word out - and that may involve some flexibility around the rules for the 1st day driving school (regarding car classification/level of safety equipment).
This has all been talked about before.....
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by Stynger » Tue Mar 25, 2008 2:50 pm
ctkag wrote:grovefromnh wrote:The club got boring.
That's also about the time all the Miata's showed up!
To tie in Will's comment as well - I wish I had known about such things before as well. When I talk to people about COM, most of them are like 'WOW - I can drive my car on a race track?!' Seems there needs to be a better way to get the word out - and that may involve some flexibility around the rules for the 1st day driving school (regarding car classification/level of safety equipment).
This has all been talked about before.....
The BOD has been discussing it.
Les.
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by WillM » Tue Mar 25, 2008 3:58 pm
Yup, "flexibility" with students/first timers is an active discussion at meetings.
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by Shawn624 » Wed Mar 26, 2008 2:27 pm
StephanAlfa wrote:COM now is for all kinds of cars:
Cubaru
Calfas
Cnissan
Corsche
Cbeamers
Cormulas
Clotus
Catoms
Cobras
Chevrolet
Cords
Cerrari
Caserati
Cercedez
Cazdas
Chondas
you know....those kind of cars

Don't forget Corvettes
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