I think it's potentially a good idea. The National AutoSport Association
just bagged its standalone newsletter, and cut some deal with Grassroots
Motorsports to include its newsletter in the magazine. So now when I pay my
$50 NASA annual membership, I get a subscription to GRM. Cool. Does more
for me with my membership, and saves NASA money. If for my annual $$ for my
TE/AE membership I got a newsletter that included Tech Tips, etc., from all
the other clubs, it would enhance my membership. Could save each of the
clubs money, too.
So are you stepping up to the plate to head this up? ;-)
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Waybright" <gswaybright@yahoo.com>
To: <tigers@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 11:47 AM
Subject: Speaking of Tigers United
> I was just sitting here stewing about missing out on
> Tigers United this past weekend, especially
> considering that my car is freshly restored and this
> years special guests were Carroll Shelby and George
> Boskoff. I look forward to hearing about how great it
> all was. In the meantime, I was thinking about how
> great the Tigers United concept is, and not just the
> event itself. Steve Laifmans Tigers United website
> is my #1 favorite Tiger internet site. Hes got great
> content and links into all the regional Tiger/Sunbeam
> activities. It really has the polished look and feel
> of a National Tiger Club web site.
>
> I was also considering what a great job Michael Marcus
> has done in making CATs Tiger Tales newsletter look
> like a real mainstream car magazine and thought how
> incredible it would be to have a Tigers United
> magazine (same look and feel as the web site) with
> coverage/contributions from each of the regional clubs
> and distributed to members of all participating clubs,
> in place of having separate newsletters. I think I
> currently get 4 different Sunbeam/Tiger newsletters
> each month. There has to be some economies of scale to
> make this idea worthwhile, both in
> production/distribution costs to the clubs, as well as
> in pulling together sufficient meaningful content for
> the publication itself.
>
> Perhaps two or more of the various Tiger/Sunbeam club
> editors can start by collaborating on an annual
> Tigers United issue, and then see if they can move
> to semi-annual, quarterly and eventually full year
> replacement for the separate newsletters.
>
> Of course its easy for me to toss this out from
> Houston, the middle of nowhere in Tigerland, and I
> expect that there may be some club politics that get
> in the way, but nothing worthwhile is ever easy, so
> Im willing to do what I can to help. Anyone else
> think this is a worthy cause?
>
> My 2 cents,
> Stephen Waybright
>
>
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