I hope you don't mind me asking, but who requested that you not record the seminars to get a few more guys to show up at the Gathering? If the issue is attendance, you could embargo the video for a while, (a few months, a year), or just have it accessible on the members section of this site. That might even help sell a few memberships here.
The NCM itself should be recording every historically significant seminar about the Corvette for posterity. Isn't this obvious?
I really don't mean to sound critical, but don't you think that this is an amazingly short sighted approach to Corvette history? These guys have the most detailed, first hand, knowledge of the development of this car, and they're not going to be available forever. Surely you would want to save what they have to offer. I doubt if there would be any proprietary company secrets revealed, or anything that should not be recorded.
You are aware that there are a lot of us that can't come to the Gathering because of family commitments and responsibilities, or simple logistics like living a long distance from Bowling Green... Europe, Hawaii. This thread is full of r.s.v.p's from guys that can't come for good reason.
I've made the decision not to come because of the weather. We are having a big storm front passing through Florida right now, and my whole 900mi. route to the Museum is forecast to be wet and rainy for the rest of the week. With the slick Autocross tires I have on the ZR-1, it's very problematic to make the trip in the rain.
If this policy is the Museum's decision, it's a real shame. Think of the value of having video of the original developers tell the story about the making of this car. Don't you wish we had more of a film record of interviews with Zora and Bill Mitchell, John Lingenfelter, Larry Shinoda, etc., all gone now, that you could access on the web. Either at the NCM website, or on YouTube. What a wealth of knowledge and background on the car. There are a few clips of these guys, but not as much as we'd like.
I've done a couple of ZR-1 specific clips in the past at the Gathering, and put them on YouTube. Like the interview with Lane Goldstein explaining the details of his full race 1/4 mi. car, and the only "in car" video of it racing. And I would sure like to get the inside story of the "Black Widow" project to save for ZR-1 history. But myself, and hundreds, maybe thousands, of others will never get to see it.
If this policy changes I would volunteer to show up at the next Gathering to record whatever seminars are available. Not to do it is a shame.
