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Subject: A National Club?
From: STUART_BRENNAN@HP-Andover-om3.om.hp.com
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 14:06:56 -0400
     If it were only true.  One national umbrella Rootes club management 
     structure to take care of all of the heavy 
     administrative/finance/publishing chores, and then the regions could 
     just have fun.  Some clubs already  work that way.  A friend was in 
     the BMW club, and they have chapters of the same club all over the 
     place.  Doesn't the Shelby club do the same thing?
     
     Correct me if I am wrong, but didn't they start as one club, then 
     break up into regional chapters to better serve the local members?  
     Think for a second.  What's the chance of the reverse happening?  All 
     of our clubs forming up under one set of officers?  Not bloody likely, 
     if you ask me.
     
     Or, what about forming an entirely new club?  The American Sunbeam 
     Register or something like that.  Might work, but a lot of folks don't 
     join every club that comes along.  You might need two conventions a 
     year, east and west, but that's not impossible if you have enough 
     members.  This would be something to think about.
     
     There are two main reasons for forming these clubs.  Activities and 
     information.  Used to be that both of these needs could be served well 
     by the same outfit, but with the internet, these functions could be 
     better served separately.
     
     In case no one has noticed there is a club that serves one of these 
     needs nationwide, even worldwide.  Membership requirements are quite 
     simple, and dues are minimal.  And their newsletter comes out 
     frequently, a dozen times a DAY, or more.  What club is that?  It's 
     US.  The internet permits more, and better, communication than any 
     individual club ever could in the past.
     
     I think the role of the present clubs will evolve away from the 
     National scene, and become more regionalized.  These will still be the 
     outfits that organize the Uniteds,  and the one day regional 
     gatherings.  As more people get on the web, the information flow will 
     move there.  
     
     So that's it.  The new National club is already forming.  Combine our 
     network with that of our Alpine cousins, mix in links to a few of the 
     good local club and advertising web pages, and there you have it.  
     Tech tips and real time consultants, history, parts for sale, photo 
     archives, links to regional activities, the works, all at your 
     fingertips.  It would only take a little more organization of what we 
     have now to produce something really powerful.  Imagine if all of our 
     ramblings on this network could be cataloged by topic.  Imagine one 
     nationwide calendar of Sunbeam or Rootes or British car events.    
     Going to be in St. Louis next weekend?  What's up? 
     
     Comments?
     
     Stu Brennan
     


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