I think youre misunderstanding what Im trying to say. Im sure that this will be a great documentary but again, its only half the story. As far as people "not being here", as far as I know, most of them are still alive, they've just either A) moved on or B) gotten too old to be involved in this stuff anymore. You have to remember that most people that blazed the trail back in the beginning were in their 40s and 50s then. That was 25 years ago. I was just fortunate enough to be able to own one of these cars when I was young and have a desire to tinker. As far as what I know.. no one asked. If they had of, I would have come forward. I believe people like Scott Keller, Ken Mosher, Conrad Jones, Jim Haas, Jim D'Allesandro, Fred Vetter, Vic Guilmino, Pete Barton, Lawrence Conley and everyone else from that era (and I only named a very few) deserves some accolades and should have been mentioned in this thing. Ken is still around.. Scott is too I believe but I havent spoken to any of the others in years. But they were the guys on the forefront of this stuff and the reason you have a lot of the cool technology you have now. Theyre the ones this documentary should be worried about, not Car and Driver. What the hell did C&D ever do for Buicks? Run a couple of stories? How is that any different than anything else they do. C&D is the very last person I would want talking about the Grand National.. well, maybe Hot Rod or Car Craft would be worse.
Also, in case you havent noticed, Im trying really hard here not to name names and turn this into a mudslinging event but depending on who you ask about this stuff, you're going to get a completely different answer as far as who did what and most of it for self serving reasons.
Finally, as far as being jaded, invest your time in stuff and have people steal it right out from under you or do everything they can to undermine you and see how great you think this community is. Try to help someone else out and get thrown in the middle of a felony theft investigation someone created over a personal vendetta and see how you like it. I cant make you understand how things are in the underbelly of the Buick world because if you havent experienced it, you just cant know. The farther in you get, the worse it is and truthfully, these days its like Romper Room compared to what it used to be. When one person is trying to rule the Buick world by any means necessary, things can get.... interesting. The Internet changed all that to a certain extent. But yea, Im very much "what you see is what you get" but as Shane will attest, Ill give anyone the shirt off my back but I have a low tolerance for BS and Ive put up with a lot of it.
How many stupid postcards have you gotten?