Have a "Survivor?" Corvette guys say otherwise. (TM ) Read !

Seems the gold-chainers over at Bloomington Gold have trademarked the word "Survivor" as it applies to old cars. To be called a "Survivor," Blooming Gold MUST certify it as such.
I could go on, but I'll let their words speak for themselves.

http//www.bloomingtongold.com/index.php?link=survivor2

I don't know how to add a link that automatically takes you there, but there's the addy.

I clicked on the "Contact us" tab at the top of the page, and it pops up an index of people, including CEO of BG.
I sent him a pretty pointed letter explaining why this was stupid, including the fact that Corvette enthusiasts are already viewed as gold-chainer elitists by the rest of the hobby, and this move on their part won't help matters. Also that writers aren't going to enjoy getting "Cease and Desist" letters or writing that stupid little "TM" after the word Survivor all the time.
Went on to suggest maybe they'd want to consider copywriting "Original Unrestored", "Original," and even "Restored" to really screw the rest of us.

Write them a nasty-gram like I did. Let's see if we can crash the CEO's mailbox!
Reason number 135436 to hate Corvette enthusiasts.
-brad

 

Geez, I think I'm going to "tm" the term "car" and wait a few years... then file a cl***-action and cash in!

Thanks for the idea...

 

In 79 my best buddy bought the car of his dreams, a 62 vette. We really got into the nuances and how to spot damaged repair and all. Then when out driving around one Saturday and ****ing up a 6 pack of Michalob (yeah we used to do that), we get invited to a Corvette club meeting. Geez, what a bunch of pud whackers. They were all into how they had one of a kind cars beacause they had the only puke green one with no cigarette lighter that year or other such stupid nonsense. We left there laughing our ***es off and never went back.
There is something about driving one that just makes guys look like a flaming ****heels and the newer the vette the older and more impotent the drivers seem to be.

 

The difference between a porcupine and a corvette??? The porcupine has the *****s on the outside.

 

What a bunch of beeyotches! I must admit that I am more than a bit tired of hearing the term Survivor every three seconds, anywhere cars are discussed but that pretty much makes the point that they are not en***led to use it exclusively.

Shame about all that Corvette nonsense. Great car, mostly retards for owners. It's like seeing a nice dog get beaten by a dumb master.

 

"It's like seeing a nice dog get beaten by a dumb master."
Couldn't be said better. What a bunch of brain farts with shorts and tennis shoes.

 

I also wrote them a letter, we all should. I also noticed they have SURVIVOR in all caps, that must be thier trademark. So you can still have a survivor, just not a SURVIVOR.

 

Its a shame, twerps like that is why I used to love to drive my buddies 62 vette with the tubbed rear, roll cage, and the 502 under the hood. They'd just shake their heads.

 

This is really fairly pittiful.

If they ever took action against them all you have to do is show prior use in the same vein. And you can always go back to the early '70 Model A and Model T club newsletters where they call any running barn find a survivor.

I think their REAL intention is to TM it for use as a judging standard, a cl*** of car in their concours and prevent other Corvette concours from using the name "Survivor" as a cl***.

Still lame, but that's the sort of BS it takes to prevent someone from buying a ticket, copying everything you do, and hosting another show right across the road.

 

What a bunch of ****s....

Saw these 2 at a show earlier in the year, there were a couple of goldchainers *****ing to each other about how the owners had 'totally destroyed' 2 rare old cars....



Personally, I loved em!!



Dave

 

This is one more reason I'm glad those ***holes left my town. Bunch of self-righteous no good *****s...I feel for you guys up north that have to deal with them now.
Bill

 

Here's my little letter to them...

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SURVIVOR (R)... You're joking right??? You people take this **** way too seriously.

I love my cars, but fer chrissakes, it's still just a car!!!

I guess it's another one for the "Only In America" pile...

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Wonder if they'll send me a reply trying to explain it all to me.

Like someone said, looks like you can't call your car a SURVIVOR(R), but if you've got yourself one of them thar gen-yoo-wine survivors, then you should be just dandy.

Where's that Rolling Eyes smiley...

 

Will they open all their meetings with EYE OF THE TIGER now??

 

thats so sick!

what *****s, and how the fffffff could they get away with that?

 

Those guys are nuts.

They take extreme measures in order to have overspray and orange peel. (How hard is that to do?)

They'll praise a car for reproduction greasepen marks. (How could you replicate those?)

They'll look down their nose at you if your window gl*** isn't correctly date-coded. (But you can purchase the correct date-coded windows by mail order.)

And I reaally hate them because they've made 61-62 Vettes too damn expensive.

--Matt

 

My buddy has a 59 vette that has been a drag car since day one. He is currently redoing it to be licenced on the street for the first time. He took it to a Bloomington gold show several years back. "I ain't ever going back around those sons a *****es" he said. "I got my *** chewed all weekend." Another buddy of his was going to take his tubbed out 63 a few years later, He warned him not to, but the guy went anyway. He got his *** chewed too and an "I told you so" from my buddy.

*****s.

 

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Not so sure about 'totally destroying' a couple of rare old cars.
Many a Corvette took part in the drag racing wars.
Built, blown and slick'd Vettes are a part of their history.

I wonder what these guys would think if John Mazmanian brought his Candy Red drag racing Vette to one of their little shindigs?
Most know, but fwiw - Mazmanian ran a Vette (very successfully) before he ran the Willy's coupe.
It was an awesome car and something else to see when it ran.

Vette's were always one of my favorites at the strip.
Some guys could row the 4-speed so well that it made the later on Hydro's ashamed in the shift speed dept.

From what I remember about the 57-58 Vettes (my favorites) most of them were modified in small ways and some of them were modified a whole lot.
Vette owners back in the day fit right into the traditional (even if we didn't know it was traditional) hot rod scene very well.
We admired the cars and had no problems with them coming into the Frosty Shop or Merles Drive In and hanging out with the typical crowd of built Fords and Chevys of the era.
The era being the late 50's and early 60's.

I don't know where the matching numbers bit came from, collectors I suppose.
Seems to me the Vette is a car you should drive and not worry about it.

Different strokes for different folks I guess, but it sure seems some don't have a handle on it....

 

Here's a coule of pics of some race Corvettes for you guys including Mazmanian's.

 

Another

 

Last one for now, the others are too big and I'm not in the mood to resize right now.

 

i think i would have sacrificed a set of rear tires on your buddys tubbed 63!!!! i would go to the show and cruise the isles with the line lock on and the tires on fire, hummin empties at them.. hahahahahahah

 

This is just one instance, but I'll relate it anyway:

I was recently at a small car show that you could enter pretty much any car into.

There were a lot of 50's cars and even some 30s-40s and then there were a bunch of corvettes from 1975-2004.

At the end of the show, they were giving awards away to people and EVERY single time a corvette guy got an award (it seemed like they all got an award) some tall, fat, on the verge of death from either obesity or a life of chain smoking would waddle up to accept his prize, wiping the sweat off his brow as he struggled to heft his frame up to the prize table.

Anyway, I got to thinking of how much of a loser I'd feel like if I was winning an award because I went out and purchased a new vette. I mean these cars were all bone stock, and some of them weren't even clean. I just sat there in a moment of thought and thought "Luke, if you EVER get that pathetic, save your fifty grand and hire a hitman to randomly take you out when you least expect it... Because you've LOST at that point..."

I mean, honestly, I couldn't walk up in front of a crowd of 200+ people and accept an award for going out and buying a new car.

 

i own a 64 corvette and always hear **** about how i destroyed a rare car.It is just a car!!! corvette guys think they are the highest on the car food chain.


this is my 1964 radio delete fullie cut to ribbons

 

this really kills them

 

History always has a way of repeating itself.I think is was sometime in the 1960's that the Cl***ic Car Club of America got a trademark on CL***IC. Really bent then out of shape when Cl***ic Chevrolets started filling up the pages of Hemmings. Words mean a lot of different things to different people, I never let it bother me much.I thought "SURVIVOR" was a TV show.

 

I had a full fendered all steel 32 3-w at a show. Thought it was a nice car. Black with gold stripes and Americans. Had a 65 FI moter in it. A corvette guy comes up and says that the moter was the only thing worth anything there. The rest was c**p. I am still mad.

 

luketrash.... great description, and agree 100%

i dont think many people on this board are at risk of becoming gay like that.

 

sorry to bring another vw topic into this, but a few years back, volkswagen of america, hired a company to go out cease and desist any business using vw, slug bug, bug, buggy, bug shop, etc...
apparently they had trademarked all those words, and were now enforcing the laws. you could pay 5000.00 in fines, or they could take any merchandise with those words right off your shelves.
it really caused a riff a**** vw owners who had old vw's and new vw's.


i personally think it's rediculous that you can even trademark a word.
i think i'll trandemark the word,.. "and"... i'll be rich in no time!!

 

these corvette guys are a nationwide phenomenon(sp). How they hell could they trademark something the publishing companies use every month.
I was at a Super Chevy years ago in Indy - Corevette guy got pissed it was raining and put his car back in the trailer. They judged in the rain and he tried to get them to go into his trailer to judge his. He didn't get judged.
Then I was at a show and a group of judges were discussing how the phillips heads in the door latches were not turned the correct way - WTF? it's in the door jamb.
We really pissed some of these guys off when we cut up a corvette to put the suspension in my dad's delivery

Best corvettes in the world are blown big blocks that break the independent rears.

 

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I was at a show and a group of judges were discussing how the phillips heads in the door latches were not turned the correct way - WTF? it's in the door jamb.
We really pissed some of these guys off when we cut up a corvette to put the suspension in my dad's delivery

Best corvettes in the world are blown big blocks that break the independent rears.

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LOL, I think trademarking Survivor is just stupid.....