Vette Club
John Frank
then drive from one tavern to the next or one eating place to another.
Also, I'd like to find a club that is free of snobbery. You know what I
mean. The owners of the big block cars look down on the owners of the
small block cars. The convertible owners look down on the coupes. The
rich guys with their trophy wives look down on the working class guys who
can't afford cosmetic surgery for the old lady. The people with
"investment" cars can't understand why anyone would use a Vette as a daily
driver. It's not a Vette thing, it's a societal thing. The same
snobbery exists in Harley clubs and ham radio clubs.
"My bike is faster than your bike". "My radio sounds better than your
radio".
I know I'm going to be flamed for my observations, but that's just what
they are. Observations. I haven't made any of this up.
Drive what you want to drive, but check out a club before you pay your
dues.
Tinker
I like everything you said except the driving from drinking est. to
drinking est. I kinda like that part. If you would give in on that,
I'd say let's start our own club, and we won't let any of the snobs in,
like ZR1 owners, and guys with 99's that have HUD, or for that matter
anyone who makes enough money to own more than one vette or wife. Or
Harley (especially big twins). Or airplane. I qualify, because I only
have one of each, and I'm no snob. And my Harley and Vette are slower
than molasses, and I have the second slowest RV6 in the world. Whattaya
say? You in my neighboorhood? Portland?
Have a shot of Crown Royal on me. Then we'll drive down the street and
I'll buy ya another. heh heh
jim
'90 Roadster 6 spd. slug
'98 Sporty 1200 snail
'91 RV6 turtle (homebuilt airplane - only cruises at 185)
sola...@webtv.net
around here, Long Island, NY Nicky 82 charcoal
how sweet it is
mrvette
Club of America NCCC#1 located in Garithersburg Md.
they have an active dealer sponsor, which includes use of the dealer
facilities, meaning LIFTS, BAYS once a month on I think the last Tuesday of
the month......
and ONCE a year the dealer clears out the showroom and the CCA sponsors/holds a
vette only show, as in
IN THE SHOWROOM>>>>>> with cars NOT FOR SALE>>>>>> the NEW ones ring the
outer windows......on the lot....
the gate is set up to charge a very nominal fee.....
T shirts and other goodies for participating,working (and it IS work)
members......
and the show has the entire roofed and lot of the dealership for the show....as
many as 80 vettes on premisis in the show...about 60 inside,....
in the service lanes, showroom, service bays, body shop, etc....
Quite an impresive showing.....
We used to called it shop nite, the once a month last tuesday evening
ting......
followed by a trip to the local pizza place for the ususal fare....
Now is/was only part of it.....they rented a special day at a local drag strip
for Vetes and Vipers......ONLY....
as in NO other cars allowed, unless by a club member....it was an open invite
for 20 bucks or so for the whole day to run your vette or viper.....as many
times asyou wanted.....:-)))
as in NO LINES at the staging area?????
and other spectacular events...that made the club the premier club of the whole
Washington D.C. area.....
Now down here in Jax Fl. where I currently reside....we have about 3-4
vetteclubs....and NO dealer participation at all......no parts deals, no
support.....no use of anything, no shows.....
and the clubs languish by comparison, and the dealers are missing a 'golden'
opportunity.....
It was a rare show up there that the dealer did NOT sell 2 vettes and a bunch
of other merchandise during a vette show.....
and a nice clean showing of his surgically clean service facility helped his
service side also.....
and the dealer kicked in some bucks to the club for the advertizing /manpower
help also.....
just spreading some ideas of what CAN be done with a vette club, with some
numbers and interest....
GENE
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Douglas E. Logan
I must be a fortunate person.The Vette club I belong to has about 53
members now; with almost all Vette models represented.I haven't run
into any snobbery so far.At our slaloms we get about 70%
participation.Even the guys running big power don't look down at
'lowly' C3 drivers ( of which I'm one).We all seem to have a good
time.It may be the age group of a club that decides it's
direction.Most of our members are ( gulp) middle aged.We also always
incorporate some kind of fund raising for a charity that we support.In
fact whenever we have an event the fund raising seems to be a fairly
hot topic as in how we'll solict donations.Our next rally in 2 weeks
will be a minimal entry fee with all proceeds going to this charity.In
way it kind of adds direction ( if that's the right word) to our
activities.It also helps to solicit prizes for the competitors from
local businesses and , I beleive , puts us in a good light with our
community.We're not just a bunch of stuck up Vette jockeys.
Since I'm on about our club ( VCC , Victoria Corvett Club) .We have
a member who has a 1984 HIGHLY MODIFED Vette. How modified??? This
fella runs PROPANE !!!! No Sh*t!!!! It 's the fastest car in our
group.I've never heard a motor rev so quick.It almost puts to shame
our club prez' 1986 with a highly modified 355.Hell it even looks
shabby but it goes like stink, although I've never seen him hit the
HAHA gas !!!! When he's not slaloming it he's dragging it !!!
On 16 Jun 1999 22:54:21 GMT, "John Frank" <jfr...@mailbag.com> wrote:
>I'd like to find a club that doesn't meet in a tavern or eating place and
>then drive from one tavern to the next or one eating place to another.
>Also, I'd like to find a club that is free of snobbery. You know what I
>mean. The owners of the big block cars look down on the owners of the
>small block cars. The convertible owners look down on the coupes. The
>rich guys with their trophy wives look down on the working class guys who
>can't afford cosmetic surgery for the old lady. The people with
>"investment" cars can't understand why anyone would use a Vette as a daily
>driver. It's not a Vette thing, it's a societal thing. The same
>snobbery exists in Harley clubs and ham radio clubs.
>"My bike is faster than your bike". "My radio sounds better than your
>radio".
>I know I'm going to be flamed for my observations, but that's just what
>they are. Observations. I haven't made any of this up.
>Drive what you want to drive, but check out a club before you pay your
>dues.
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joseph rees
know exactly what you mean.I have never understood why
everyone wants to meet at eating or drinking establishments. Just an
observation. ohn Frank <jfr...@mailbag.com> wrote in
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Jim Strathearn
up in jeans or other casual affair so it's not so apparent where the money
is. (No snobs...) The club is equally active in racing, Concours and
community affairs, with no one "click" getting any better treatment than the
other.
Got nearly 300 members and I bet at least 100 show up for the monthly
meetings.
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'71 Coupe
'85 Coupe
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