Are y'all looking for a smashing progressive motorcar fellowship to taste your hobby along alongside other motorcar people? This soun...
Are y'all looking for a smashing progressive motorcar fellowship to taste your hobby along alongside other motorcar people?
This sounds like an piece of cake task alongside all the cars together with clubs unopen to your local area, wrong!
You receive got seen the cute names together with oftentimes times the "officers" of the fellowship are older people who receive got lost most of the "new motorcar smell" of the hobby.
Life was dissimilar when y'all started the fellowship inward 1975 together with non solely the cars moved into the future, but the agency nosotros communicate has changed past times leaps together with bounds.
Lets telephone band it AAAB together with apace behavior upon the club, yeah I WAS a member.
The President has been inward part since 1959 I believe, 50+ years(?) which is a lilliputian difficult to believe.
During my fourth dimension inward the club I tried to engage them inward other events together with each proffer was met alongside whining together with negativity.
It has move to a greater extent than of a seniors social fellowship where many run across ups produce non include the cars!
The president owns 2 erstwhile buildings total of cars inward no agency restored gems together with I of late asked if I could come upward past times together with produce a weblog characteristic on the club, President together with the collection together with was given a NO I don't demand that. As a past times fellow member together with local motorcar guy the denial was shocking, but truthful to cast for the President's narrow thinking. He would proudly declare "I don't hold the internet, no email, no jail cellular telephone phone". I merely checked together with at that topographic point is genuinely a website now, but it is solely embedded inward Hemmings, Maybe they just made i up. I am going to assay together with electronic mail them together with consider if it gets a response?
Guess what, no reply at all!
With all the years of existent footing motorcar sense a long standing president is a valuable asset, but if whatever forwards thinking or alter is going to live fought molar together with nail together with hence he needs to pace aside because i time the older fellowship members overstep on the fellowship volition belike choke off. Not solely my experiences I receive got heard fourth dimension together with fourth dimension again where fellowship officers produce non desire alter or entertain whatever novel ideas hence members merely fade away!
1965, huh?
The Long Island Street Rod Association is some other fellowship that although non every bit stale every bit the Brooklyn Antique Automotive Association is also inward a fourth dimension warp stall.
I never heard of the fellowship together with solely of late does it popular upward on whatever motorcar present events website.
How did I withdraw heed nigh the club?
H5N1 friend buys a 1969 Nova of late together with a present plaque is on the dash from 1986 and I merely assumed it was an extinct club!
I abide by a website that was created inward 2008 together with when y'all click on contact at that topographic point is no electronic mail address, but a hotline telephone publish which I called when their major autumn present was perchance rescheduled because of pelting together with the telephone merely rang.
You tin laissez passer on the sack bring together if y'all receive got whatever motorcar 1972 together with older, NYS says an antique motorcar is 25 years together with older which would topographic point that at nigh a 1990 together with older car, I know nosotros don't realize sometimes that 1990 cars are at i time erstwhile together with sparse!
I spent hours trying to abide by out if the present had been postponed together with finally realized the pelting was merely too steady to receive got the show.
More than 24 hours after the present would receive got taken house the website calendar was updated together with read Suffolk County Community College Eastern Campus which is inward Riverhead for the pelting date.
The present was inward Brentwood, the Western Campus!
The zip code said Selden which is some other Campus together with when y'all clicked on the map it went no place!
At i betoken the announcer at the present made it really clear this was the WESTERN CAMPUS together with I tin laissez passer on the sack solely assume somebody had driven to Riverhead for the present together with was a lilliputian angry?
Does it brand sense to tell people where the present is when y'all are already there?
Does it brand sense to tell people where the present is when y'all are already there?
I was going to tell at that topographic point were some smashing cars here, but together with hence I saw this Crosley!
All criticisms aside yes at that topographic point were some really prissy cars here!
There is a motorcar coral together with strange materials similar this HEMI powered 41 Chrysler projection commonly present up
There is a swap run across together with yeah that is a existent dog! And no he was non for sale!
Nice 39 Plymouth I must say- LOL!
H5N1 guy says howdy I receive got non seen a TVR inward a long time
He all the same has non because it is a Griffith i time the motorcar got the engine upgrade hence it was a fox question.
Click this link for a lilliputian history
Oddly the present said inward some places gates opened upward 6am together with some said 7am - although I arrived 8am y'all tin laissez passer on the sack consider how the depression early on AM Sun made it difficult to receive got photos
I mentioned the early on start because past times 10 AM cars had already started to leave!
Was it the rescheduled pelting date, the fact that at that topographic point were several other motorcar shows the same twenty-four hours or could it live that merely sitting unopen to inward a acre starts to larn a lilliputian tardily 4 hours later?
Marty Himes Long Island racing legend was hither together with promoting the museum
Unusual 39 Hudson!
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Maybe he is related to the tardily George Barris?
Love that pigment checker board effect on the hood sides, but did person pocket the running boards?
Sorry I would receive got had to hold back until 3pm to larn a improve shot when the Sun moved around, but the motorcar would receive got been long gone anyway!
Jeep FC150- retrieve the Forward Control blog?
Nice MOPAR powered 34 Plymouth
This oddly turned into a subject together with the side past times side present is the Classic Car Club of America CCCA
Hey I know this motorcar every bit featured inward a weblog when bought
Never assume because, good y'all know!
Nice Mercury Pb sled huh?
NOPE
This custom started every bit a 1950 Dodge Wayfarer? No signage together with the possessor popped back, jumped inward together with left!
Nosed. Decked, Channeled, Chopped, Shaken, but non stirred!
This smashing custom was merely i of many cars hither at the Classic Car Club of America autumn run across together with honestly non seen at the mutual run of the factory Long Island shows!
Odd, but dissimilar form of reminds me of a few famous cars!
Need a convertible, I justice merely cutting the roof off?
The truthful classics merely produce non come upward out for the regular shows produce they?
Every Packard is a move of art!
H5N1 Chrysler powered oddity
H5N1 beautiful Cadillac
I merely dearest stock cars similar this unmolested 318 lxx Challenger
Could it live three Triumph TR-3's?
Try together with abide by some other stock survivor lxx Mustang
It is a Marquette, an early on GM spinoff born from Buick
Nailhead V6
My friend Ray Guarino happened to live merely unopen to the corner doing the Motormouth radio present hence nosotros coaxed him to halt by, nosotros genuinely called into the present live- merely past times luck he had his 1965 Pontiac GTO with him! Wingman Joe D braved the current of air for a few minutes!!
http://www.motormouthradio.com/
Ray bought the motorcar inward 1975 for $75!
This has been long dearest matter every bit the motorcar is nearing it's pigment together with concluding touches!
There is a link on the website
http://www.motormouthradio.com/RaysPage.htm
http://www.restore-an-old-car.com/1965-gto-project.html
Ray bought the motorcar inward 1975 for $75!
This has been long dearest matter every bit the motorcar is nearing it's pigment together with concluding touches!
There is a link on the website
http://www.motormouthradio.com/RaysPage.htm
http://www.restore-an-old-car.com/1965-gto-project.html
If y'all receive got gone this far together with all the same READING it is fourth dimension to total it all upward together with explain!
The Antique Automobile Association of Brooklyn is pretty much a lost elbow grease because it seems it never volition expand or motion into the future- wake upward the futurity is hither now!
Frozen inward Time?
The Long Island Street Rod Association is fellowship alongside some smashing cars together with members, but they demand to live a lilliputian to a greater extent than wide minded together with larn some immature blood to live to a greater extent than progressive nigh promoting the shows together with attract novel members. The tidings page is over a twelvemonth erstwhile no webmaster or electronic mail contact form of leaves a thud! The finally newsletter online is Oct. 2013, but I merely establish an electronic mail address together with telephone publish to advertise inward the journal/newsletter! If y'all receive got fourth dimension to await at major shows unopen to the the world y'all tin laissez passer on the sack consider a marked divergence inward some cars sitting inward a grass acre together with organized venues!
It is difficult for me to live too critical every bit I produce non know TOO much nigh the fellowship structure, but was involved inward a conversion alongside a fellowship fellow member together with the subject was rather narrow minded.
I know street fair type shows tin laissez passer on the sack receive got challenges, but create greater menses of people because at that topographic point are other thing to produce also walk inward a field.
I am trying to encourage clubs to mean value exterior the box- yeah an extreme representative is the Goodguys events, but these started small-scale also!
The Classic Car Club America is a smashing organization, a national organization.
The present finally weekend was an lawsuit of the local part Long Island Sound Region CCCA.
On the national site at that topographic point is contact data for the LI region, but no website link together with to a greater extent than of import no listing of that upcoming lawsuit on the national nor regional spider web page.
The regional Long Island spider web page is listed 2008-2016 at the bottom together with this is the electrical flow events listing every bit of 10/24/2016
The finally fourth dimension anything was updated was 2012, over 4 years ago!
Meeting | Tuesday 7/10/2012 | 8:00pm | |
Meeting | Tuesday 8/07/2012 | 8:00pm | |
Meeting | Tuesday 9/11/2012 | 8:00pm | |
Meeting | Tuesday 10/09/2012 | 8:00pm |
The present was genuinely small, but i of the nicest I receive got been to locally, the cars were top notch together with the people together with setting was really nice!
It was at the Cradle of Aviation museum which gives the visitors a gamble to taste something also the cars!
I am hoping some ideas together with improvements could live made past times taking some advice?
It was almost a stroke of luck finding the CCCA present past times many, I receive got to contribute the older to a greater extent than seasoned members lack of endeavour together with ascendence of novel communication methods.
To complete this weblog off I must repeat if y'all desire the fellowship to endure together with grow the current "officers" demand to mean value differently together with maybe motion some novel blood into primal roles.
The Long Island Street Rod present tin laissez passer on the sack live hence much more, The Long Island Sound Region of CCCA should live flourishing together with that recent present should receive got filled the parking lot much more, but the Antique Automobile Association of Brooklyn may non receive got a gamble to improve until the President stops making all the decisions!
Now hence no i says topographic point your coin where your oral fissure is!
Although the National site together with regional site has no listing I receive got listed the inward a higher house present for the LISR of the CCCA because I enjoyed the present finally week.
Careful LISRA is non the LISR read carefully!
I was told this present had a depression turnout finally year, no doubt!
I am linking 2 very comprehensive websites that produce an splendid chore of listing motorcar shows for us locally merely below!
Hats off to both these sites for keeping us informed at i time receive got a Pb hither together with exercise some resources to spread the give-and-take of your clubs upcoming events hence the fellowship tin laissez passer on the sack grow together with survive!
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