Graham,
You just proved my earlier point. The Isle of Wight has a club
dedicated to a single model of Triumph! While the entire area of Tucson
and southern Arizona doesn't even have a Club dedicated to all
triumphs!
Too diluted, (Or is that Deluded) in many parts of the US!
Joe
Graham Stretch wrote:
>
> Hi all
> I organise the Isle of Wight Area for a local area of the Triumph Dolomite
> Club (national) and also The Isle of Wight Triumph Club, this is intended to
> be for all models (yes including the Acclaim I have my reasons long story
> etc). The Island is diamond shaped and 13 miles the short way and 24 the
> long way and folks over here think the county town (roughly in the middle)
> is a long way away and raising enthusiasm can be hard work, how you folks
> with more miles than our long way to your neighbours cope is beyond me Keep
> Up the Good Work. We don't have a building these things belong to the HQ's
> of the bigger clubs!!
>
> Graham.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bob Lang <LANG@ISIS.MIT.EDU>
> To: michael l. cook <mlcooknj@bellatlantic.net>
> Cc: Triumphs List <triumphs@autox.team.net>; Friends of Triumph
> <fot@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 2:58 PM
> Subject: Re: How many are we?
>
> >
> > On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, michael l. cook wrote:
> >
> > > Even more interesting, car clubs in other countries maintain club
> > > premises and even own their own buildings. Some have pubs! Does anyone
> > > know of a US car club that meets in its own building?
> >
> > I don't know of one in my area, but this would be kool. I'd opt for an
> > asymmetrical hydraulic lift way before I'd belong to one that had a pub,
> > but that's just my personal preference. If a club happened to have both,
> > well, I could lower my standards... pun intended.
> >
> > > Most of the ones I belong to turn out enough people at meetings to
> > > comfortable fill somebody's living rom and that's about it. It's a
> > > different world.
> >
> > It sure is a different world, but can be summed up in one word:
> > geography. Britain is a heck of alot smaller than the US. And some of the
> > clubs in the US cover relatively large geographical areas... Triumphs of
> > the Carolinas, for example, must cover more land area than all of the UK.
> > I know New England Triumphs covers a pretty big area, I've tried hosting
> > events all over it to get folks to come out with thier cars... but let's
> > not go there right now.
> >
> > As for folks in the UK being joiners, I must have got that gene from my
> > ancestors... I belong to quite a few clubs, probably 7 or 8, some local
> > and some "national". I might even join an international one someday. So,
> > the joiners thing is not limited to the UK proper.
> >
> > > Mike Cook
> >
> > regards,
> > rml
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