khunjeng wrote:i would support a paying club and eventual CAMS affiliation however its not easy and agree most ppl here wouldn't use the benifits that would bring - they dont even turn up to crusies.
bringing real events and a club structure into play would certainly dictates how the club moves forward or not.
At this stage we are just a forum based club for chats about FTO and issues, my SAU club for example as KD knows, has a stack of organised events - i attend one every fortnight..Monthly general meetings and now plently of sponsership. they moved in a direction to encourage otehr cars into their club...and now we are closely tied with the WRX Club and many EVOs...sometimes more rex's and evos turn up than sbr's. This has given ppl like me even more events to choose from...for example I will go down to Phillip Island to race my car through a WRX event.
I'm not bagging this one, but in comparision to other clubs we are L platers. Which also effects the type of ppl who join to a certain extent. Serious ppl pay their money...otehr just talk sh*t on the forums...ppl who attend the events learn more...when u attend performance car events like track days its amazing how much you begin to relaise you know nothing about driving.
This is effects the topics and conversation within the forums..You will always get tossers and noobs aksing basic questions...once ppl start to get serious the quality of the convo lifts and the more everyone benifits. its a cycle.
my 2cents
Yes but I will not base the future direction of this club on that of another. There are thousands of soapboxes and rexes out there... so its a lot easier to group a bunch of like minded folk who want to flog their car round a track & be covered for it. There are less than 500 FTO's on aussie roads as we speak...scattered amongst the states.
The foundations here are already in place to go into a financial directly - including monthly meetings & club constitutions. It was done before either you or I found this website. With current number stats it works out to be about $140 a head per year to make it legit including cams fees, events, web hosting etc etc.... its not gonna happen that way.
Why do you keep coming back to this website when the FTO is your misses? Because we are a happy friendly family type environment. Thats what will keep us moving forward as group.
Dont get me wrong, Im certainly not against legitimizing the club as a registered business, but at this stage the cons out weight the pros. We could register without cams affiliation to start with - which would make sense in a fiduciary manner - but that then involves:
Purchasing a frame company - ie a legal bare shell in which to put our club ($1000 - $1500)
Setting up banking facilities on the new company
Legal documentation drawn up (legal personnel involved)
Establishing fee payment methods (web redevelopment involved)
Running quarterly BAS statements (accounting personnel involved)
This has been discussed at length before & Kaz, myself & the committee could manage it..... but what for? A 6 car cruise? See where Im coming from?
The best thing we can do with the clubs current guise is promote. This is why Im taking the trip down for Autosalon, this why we interact with other clubs (like in NSW we crusie with the EVO club, you guys cruise with SAU etc) this is why we throw fliers under peoples wipers. If you can organise a fast fours photographer on a cruise.. do it etc etc etc
If the exposure reaches a busy level, I'll take the next step.
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