I'm in a small club,maybe a dozen members. Laid back....don't think all of us have been in the same place ever! haha! Only about a hand full get together occasionally. But,I enjoy being a MoFo. NO drama,NO bullshit,just a bunch of goof-offs,LOL....
Being the prez of a club, it seems shitty to post that you quit one. One the hamb of all places. Does it really matter all that much? Was it that bad of an experience?
No it wasn't that bad ,Im still friends with all of them ,The reason I posted ,I felt bad .....The 2 clubs that I was born into are The Philadelphia Modifiers and The Modtiques ....Friends with both clubs ....My dad was a Modifier and He and a good friend started the Modtiques in the 70's ,,Its just not the same clubs anymore ....But we are still friends ,,,,,,
Are we now monitoring content on the HAMB? If I don't like a post then I don't read it. There's no need to berate him over it. I realize there's good clubs out there, but I don't think you realize there are some that aren't.
I quit a club and now I belong to what we call the jacket club, no meetings, no dues, no shows to put on, just about 75 guys that we see each other at different show through the season and we hang out and drink some bears on Friday nights in the winter at different members garages and help each other build cars.
It sounds like to me that most of the lonewolfers out there dont know what a real club is like. To me its a group of friends that will do anything, anytime to help each other out. Been in a club or two. Last one was 5 of us being retards, working on cars and getting drunk. We were friends and had each others backs, we decided to print some shirts, and roll to shows together. We've all moved away and now i guess you could consider me a lone wolf, but id do it all over again with the right group of assjacks.
There is a "non car club car club" here in the Kingman area. The Car Nutz. Cool bunch, lots of friends, even have gatherings. Other then that, they arent a club.
When asked if he wanted to join the Corvette Club, my buddy responded: "Clubs are for people who don't have any friends!"
We had a pretty cool small club started when some drama started (unavoidable) and a couple members quit. We were in limbo for awhile but it looks like it is over unless something unforseen happens. Another guy that was involved still really wants to do a club and I am not against it just it takes more than 2 of us to be a club. I would not mind joining an existing club if we were on the same page. Then I think it would be great.
I have belonged to clubs for many years. MSRA in Minnesota in the 70s and when I moved to New Hampshire in '81 I became charter member of Kustom Kings. We were active, did the nostalgia drags at NED for three years, lot of car shows, etc. Then I retired, moved up north and stopped going to meetings. Went back to a club meeting this month, lots of guys have passed on, but still some of the old bunch and some new guys too. But the big change was the fact that everyone was talking about depressing stuff. Did you know so and so's wife died? Hey his wife is in remission. I have to have this opertion and so forth. Hell nobody was talking about cars. I was really struck by the fact that old age had taken its tool on everything including the car club. Life is a real funny old bitch, isn't it.
I prefer to answer to myself and go to what shows when I want too and drink whatever and whenever I want, Club international is my favorite....great centerfolds.!!! JOKER JASON.
I quit a club I founded.... Too many assholes with their own agenda. The core group was great....for a while. Agendas, politics, and the me me me shit took all the fun away.
Not in a club myself, but I do belong to the MSRA, Minnesota Street Rod Association. They have a newsletter that KICKS ASS, worth the $20 per year alone. It's got want ads and a show schedule, car-specific yellow pages, lots of good stuff. It's got all the silly "Car of the Year" and board of directors crap if you're into that...it's a good thing for car nuts, and has members from as far out as Oregon and Canada, too! There's around 20,000 members from all over. I like it, but it's not like a club.
im outta mine, it seems like we cant do anything that isnt 5 miles away. they are more of a socal club than a car club, it even seems like the president was afraid to drive his car. oh well.
Clubs are great if you have a good core group that will work together for the common good of all. Once you get away from that I would rather just walk away and stay friends. I respect where others may be coming from - it's just not for me.
well I am part of the largest club in the nation, we have meetings every saturday morning in a big a/c warehouse, we sample free food and buy paper towels in bulk and dont have any issues cept the yearly dues but SAM runs one helluva CLUB
I happened to be passing thru the O.C. one night a number of years ago and stopped for the night and was bar hopping that night and stopped in one place where the MoFos were hanging out, I kept to myself but hearing and seeing them having a great time they seemed like a really good group of peeps
What's the point in wasting band width on a stupid subject? Groucho Marx had it right when he was asked to join the Riviera Country Club and said, "I wouldn't want to join a club that would accept me as a member" or words to that effect.
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