Fall Tour & DeLoreans Magazine

["Marc A. Levy" <malevy@xxxx>]

This year at the Fall Foliage Tour something happened that I was not comfortable with.

The magazine for DMCH was distributed at the event even though there are some people there that objected, myself included. From what I understand, James sent a box of magazines to one of our members with instructions to distribute it. I have no issue with the member who did this because at the time, it seemed like no big deal.

DMCH has never supported or attended one of our events while others like Rob and Deb Grady of P.J. Grady and Ken and Chris Koncelik of the DeLorean Car Show come and physically support what we are doing. Their presence is enough and they always support us any way that they can.

With no support for DeLorean Midatlantic or any of the local events in thisarea, DMCH made use of our event to promote their magazine, and in turn their business. 

In the same disrespect for us, DeLoreans magazine printed on page 24 of theSummer 2002 issue a DeLorean paper toy. Their claim is "we never pass up on the strange little tidbits of DeLorean oddities we come across." They do admit it is not their original work but, yet they do not credit the DML for supplying them with the source of this material (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/message/25770) or, the source themselves (http://papertoys.com/delorean.htm). I will assume that the publisher of DeLoreans did get proper permission to reprint this drawing, so I will make no judgments aboutcopyright (heck, I don't even know if papertoys holds the copyright!). However, it is in bad taste to not give credit to the originator (was it papertoys.com, or someplace else?) of the drawing and to further modify it to remove the "plug" for the source

I admit, I may be looking to see the next issue. I am curious as to Stephen's discussion on "the players and pretenders in the DeLorean hobby". I did not know he was the authority on the subject.

Is it really necessary to turn the DeLorean hobby in to something so commercial? I'm greedy too, but DMCH is taking it TOO far... and taking the fun out of it.

How do the DeLorean Owners feel about this???