COM... Corvettes of Massachusetts..never would have guessed

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COM... Corvettes of Massachusetts..never would have guessed

Post 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... :wink: Good reading.

Why does the history date line stop at 2001?

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Post 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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Post by breakaway500 » Sun Mar 23, 2008 9:34 am

It's a shame to leave such a gap in the clubs history.


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Re: COM... Corvettes of Massachusetts..never would have gues

Post 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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Post by grovefromnh » Mon Mar 24, 2008 3:35 am

The club got boring.
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Post 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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Post 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. :roll:
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Post 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 :wave: (<---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 :wink: I'm looking foreward to this year!

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Post 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 8)
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Post by conehunter » Mon Mar 24, 2008 7:02 pm

You forgot colkswagens
That pesky beetle owner.

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Post 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 :wink: I'm looking foreward to this year!
Yes.

Me too! COM is still a "hidden secret" of sorts.

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Post 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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Post 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.
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Post 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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Post 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 8)
Don't forget Corvettes
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