Having been a member of the CC for about 15 years, I feel that unfortunately as our activity becomes more popular, so we are seeing a new breed of `vanners that regard size and age as status symbols.
I have a new car(company) and an old van, which is pristine inside and out, is equipped with everything we require, and whose interior is cosier and built with far higher quality materials than is the norm for most `new` vans. I keep this van out of choice, not because I can`t afford a new (or newer) van.
Similarly I would have no problem using my wifes older car to pull the van (only then I would have to buy the fuel).
My gripe is with some of the comments made by other site users, not particularly about our outfit but other even older units, who regard people with less than new equipment as second-class citizens.
I realise this is unfortunately indicative of society in general, but still not something necessary or desirable in our activity.
Remember when there was respect for each other? Perhaps the level to which this has diminished can be illustrated by the conversation overheard by my wife in the showers at the CC site ay Trewethett Farm. A little girl having showered with her mum was heard to ask her mum if she was going to mop the shower cubicle as requested on the sign."No dear" came the reply, "that the job of the slaves, thats what they`re paid to do"!!!
If this is the direction we are going in, I may end up going in a different one.
I have a new car(company) and an old van, which is pristine inside and out, is equipped with everything we require, and whose interior is cosier and built with far higher quality materials than is the norm for most `new` vans. I keep this van out of choice, not because I can`t afford a new (or newer) van.
Similarly I would have no problem using my wifes older car to pull the van (only then I would have to buy the fuel).
My gripe is with some of the comments made by other site users, not particularly about our outfit but other even older units, who regard people with less than new equipment as second-class citizens.
I realise this is unfortunately indicative of society in general, but still not something necessary or desirable in our activity.
Remember when there was respect for each other? Perhaps the level to which this has diminished can be illustrated by the conversation overheard by my wife in the showers at the CC site ay Trewethett Farm. A little girl having showered with her mum was heard to ask her mum if she was going to mop the shower cubicle as requested on the sign."No dear" came the reply, "that the job of the slaves, thats what they`re paid to do"!!!
If this is the direction we are going in, I may end up going in a different one.