Car clubs

[aled]

i have been a member of the imp club for a number of years and it really is a cracking club to be a part of.the cars vary from really nice show going minters to the rough and ready ragged around the streets (like mine) and the circit racers and the ones that have had engine transplants(k series,v8with nitro,bike engine, scrote 1.6 turbo,saab turbo,mgf1.8supercharged,and many more)also most of us do like a tipple into the early hours of the morning at our national.

[M'coli]

I totally understand with what you are saying and my point once again is why talk to the owner of said vehicle like they're an arsehole? They're showing enthusiasm that could with the right attitude end up with them buying an old classic Mini....or at least it would if they weren't spoken to like they were dirt.They might be mis-guided but they have enthusiasm and that is something every club needs to survive and prosper and if in this example MINI owners end up buying classic Minis then the classic Mini scene has benefited but some individuals are too short sighted to understand this.

Agreed, but they do this because it's easier to treat them this way than not. It takes patience and interpersonal skills - things often found to be lacking in car clubs, myself included! - to deal with people who do not have exactly the same values as yourself - they are effectively "outsiders" to their "tribe" - so it is easier to shun them than to try to talk them round.

[Des]

LADIES, PLEASE!

 

All this argumental bollocks is a good reason why, even if I ever had the slightest desire to join a club, I wouldn't.

[M'coli]

No need, I wasn't disagreeing with shite_meister! I was just trying to explain tings as how I see it - everyone's got a diffeent viewpoint.

[Richard]

If somebody repeatedly attends a club that clearly isn't for them you have to be a bit rude to them.What would happen if fans of Robbie Williams or Westlife started playing their cover versions at a Frank Sinatra fans' event? Or vice-versa?

[Cavcraft]

I like the idea of the bigwigs of a car club being treated as revered and respected, that's the most bonkers idea of all.

LOL - bit like that on BXC where for a while people thought I was important and knew things ( Im not, and I dont, unless its about how cocaine and alcohol metabolise to form cocaethaline or how to make a weapon out of a bog brush). Then it got a bit cliquy, then some shit went on in my personal life that made me realise that getting too het up about it and whether one member was being "ungentlemanly" by rescuing cars, polishing them and selling them on, was just silly in the grand scheme of things. Its a fine forum for technical support but a bit too serious for me now. I tend to gravitate to BXP where people call you cnuts but in a nice way and spend time getting pissed and occasionally fixing old French cars and buses.....But obviously what suits one person wont suit another and all that. I suppose at the end of the day if there wasnt these "clubs" there would be fewer of certain marques of car about as people would struggle to keep them running.

Ah yes, the 'keyboard wars' days were a bit mad, weren't they? Quite a few personality clashes and the some bloody nutcase moderator (not you FT) who just made things worse.BXP is fantastic: no airs or graces, no snobs and everyone seems to be one the same level plus, as you said, the fun and banter are legendary.Do others on here use different forums for different reasons? Some I use to gain and impart technical knowledge, some I go on for the banter and some I go on just to have a pop at the keyboard conans.Going to sound like snivelling (though not intended) but AutoShite is one of the best forums on the web because there's a wide variety of motors and people and 99.9% of the time everyone gets on.I might not agree with everything I read but it's rare I feel the need to go wading in because the users of this place are just down to earth people with a common love of pretty much awful cars.

[whitevanman]

There was a situation in the nineties before the internet took off where there were so many Ford Granada clubs the classic car press even wrote about how ridiculous it was becoming.

If I recall correctly, there was both a Cortina Mark 11 owners club, and a Mark 11 Cortina owners club. Two clubs, same name, words juxtapositioned."Are you the people's front of Judea....?"

and the 1600E owners club........

[Cavcraft]

Can eveyone stop having bloody arguments please?!

 

Jeezus.

 

I can see where RR got their 'you can't say anything even slightly negative about anyhing ever' policy from.

 

Don't let this one go the same way please.

 

Ta.

Best message on this entire thread. Don't get me wrong, I love RR but at times there does seem to be a minority who will probably have to be booked in at their local hospital to have their tongues surgically removed from the moderators arses.

One or two take sycophancy to a whole new level over the most trivial of things and being honest it puts me off visiting RR sometimes.

 

God forbid AS ever ends up like that.

[j-j]

AS is the one forum I have been on constantly whereas some of the other classic ones and marque clubs have been deleted from the bookmarks list before (tho I do sometimes return Eg. Citroen club which isn't too bad to be honest) There's a Scottish Classic club forum I'm on but noone ever seems to post?I've never had any major ills with any users on anything so far but on my third posting on the XMClub I managed to offend someone and on trying to explain it was not intentional the rest of the members stuck the knife in! I suppose living with one or more XM probably makes you quite uptight!Autoshite is great long may it stay this way. I always miss the guy 'Triang' who used to be on here years ago - some of his comments had me knotting myself.

[Guest]

Those Charmants are a proper disgrace, they're not even a proper Daihatsu, they're just a rebadged Toyota! If one of them turned up at an OJC event I would tell the owner to leave and if they didn't I would proper kick ten bells out of them and burn their car down.

[Cavcraft]

Hey Father Ted, remember the cyclists debate on BXC?I shouldn't really laugh I suppose as 'O' is a top fella, but that went right off the Richter after some throw away comments were made about 'spandex wearing gobshites', or something like that

[garethj]

I've been a member of the Tatra club since it started, it's a very small club but the people are friendly and they want to help get these strange Czech cars on the road.The club is too small to have more than 1 event per year, other gatherings are on the back of general events like Croxley Green or the Uxbridge show. Perhaps because the club is small there's not much in the way of issues, and you've got to have a certain mindset to spend thousands on an odd car that most people don't like anyway.Years ago I had a Suzuki Cappuccino so I joined their owners club and went to a meeting there. It was faintly disturbing and a bit full of saddos.

[Pete-M]

I've been a member of the Tatra club since it started, it's a very small club but the people are friendly and they want to help get these strange Czech cars on the road.

The chap who's restoring my Escort has a huge involvement with Tatras. Mainly the trucks and military stuff, but he knows his way around a 603/613 better than most, and he's got all the workshop equipment as his garage was once a Tatra specialists.When I eventually go to get the Escort, I might have space for a few Tatra or Skoda odds and sods if anyone needs any weird bits bringing back from Czech if that's any use to you.Alternatively, I could well be living there in the near future, which would mean not coming back.. but I'd be able to source anything you lot might need. Wartburgs, Trabbies, Tatras, Skodas and any other bits of Eastern European tat. In fact, if any of you lot want something bringing back from there and I'm out there, I'll be glad to bring stuff over from CZ or Germany for cost - plus a few quid for my troubles.

[garethj]

When I eventually go to get the Escort, I might have space for a few Tatra or Skoda odds and sods if anyone needs any weird bits bringing back from Czech if that's any use to you.Alternatively, I could well be living there in the near future, which would mean not coming back.. but I'd be able to source anything you lot might need. Wartburgs, Trabbies, Tatras, Skodas and any other bits of Eastern European tat. In fact, if any of you lot want something bringing back from there and I'm out there, I'll be glad to bring stuff over from CZ or Germany for cost - plus a few quid for my troubles.

It's a very kind offer but as my secure parking is normal garage sized, I can't fit a Tatra in at the moment Hactually, running a 603 now is easier than when I had one 15 years ago, although in that time parts for the (newer!) 613 have become harder.They're still ace though