That sounds kinda wierd.
The big club near me requires that you be sponsored by a
current member to even join. Then there are attendance
requirements during a probationary period .... no thanks.
I guess it gives the opportunity to reject a total yahooo.

IMO: Clubs are good to go on some cruises together and meet
new friends with air conditioning and cup holders.

 

What a load of crap...voted in

 

Sounds like that club is getting a bit exclusive. I can see both sides.

One side is that some people join the biggest and the best just so they are associated with them. They really don't contribute, but they want others to know they belong to "The Best Corvette Club". Like a groupie.

People do that with lots of organizations - churches, schools, etc. More for prestige than any real desire to be part.

And the club should have the right to control who is in and who isn't.

The other side is that you really want to join, and want to participate, but you can't get somone to sponsor you or let you in. Not quite fair. You may be the next Zora and they just don't realize it, so they mess up.

But joining clubs, I am very much in favor of, because online groups like Corvette Forum, NCRS Technical Discussion Board, VetteNet, and others may have lots of answers, but they are short on hands usually. When you are pulling that engine or installing that transmission, it is usually more helpful to have an extra set of hands in your garage than 20 pieces of paper telling you how to do it.

Still, you need to check out a club before joining. Many are too social, and not enough Corvette. Some are, well, I don't know what they are. I was at a car show that a guy said I needed to join their Corvette club. He told me all about how great the guys were and then pointed to 4 guys right next to me, saying they were in it.

Not one bothered to say hi. One of them was the president of the club. I guess he was too busy holding his lawn chair to say hi.

 

Our club process, fill out the form, give us $35, you're in. Do they wear funny little hats and at the end hold hands and sing cumbia?

 

as i see it its the the process thats in question.....for example your bylaws could say before your application will be considered you must attend 4 meetings (so people can get to know you) after the 4th meeting you may submit an application for membership and at the next meeting a vote will be taken on your application and you will be advised....or it could be truly open group and welcome anyone that wants to join....

 

I'd want my $20 back.

 

sounds like a bunch of snobs. out club welcomes everyone until they give us sound reason not to welcome them!

 

Our club has over 700 members and our procedure is
you apply in writing,
The application is presented at the committee meeting, not the general meeting,

The committee accepts or denies the application based on merits. Since usually none of the committee have any reason to deny the application all new members are accepted.

The applicant is notified in writing of his/her acceptance with their new member pack.

Our membership is from all over the state/country/world so having to attending meetings is not practical.
When I was on committee I always wanted to black ball a new member application for the hell of it! Never did though.

 

I have yet to find a club that is not full of waxers and Vette wannabees. I know I sound like a snob kind of the other way but I like to do more than sit and wax and talk about wax, or have the wives run the club. A local club stopped doing a Fun and Run (Drag race) due to the wives not having anything to do while the racing is going on. I supported this every year and even promoted this for them to others. I have not been to one of their events since.

 

Yes, but the original poster is saying you have to pay $20 to apply even before they vote on you. I thought the BACC rules made more sense. Attend some meeting/functions, then get voted in. No fee unless youre in.

Unless I read his post wrong...

 

A little history here....Rick has been a member of this club off and on since 2002. This is his third time rejoining. The club make up of cars has more C3s and C4s than C5s and only two C6s. I own one as I also own a C3.

Rick forgot to mention that he also is the owner of a C5 Z06.

I do agree with him about the voting issue though. At the same time I agree with others about keeping undesirables out. Yes there are rifraft that own Corvettes of all vintages.

Having said all of this...Rick joined and is now a member of our club.

 

Amen to that...

 

The "secret vote" is common among business network groups. I belong to several, and all members are professionals (CPA's, lawyers, insurance broker's, etc.). I was voted in the same way...(leave the room and we'll think about it).

Hey, it could be worse...you might join a club and have to get "jumped in"!

 

Same way in Fraturnities. Only there one blackball in the ballot and your out permanently!

 

Well, that's the way the corvetteforum works. New members submit their application and the elite members vote on them.................

 

Groucho Marx said much the same thing in the 40's, when he was banned from several Hollywood clubs for being Jewish. A country club offered him membership, to which he replied,

"I resign. I wouldn't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member."

As for the club doing that, well, I can understand why they do it, but I'd be spitting out the quote of Groucho Marx if they pulled that with me.

 

I would not join a club that would have me as a member.

 

And maybe some of those people are ALREADY members of the club and YOU aren't aware of what you might be getting yourself into
There are good and not so good people in everything you do, so you join a club and you will naturally gravitate toward folks that you get along with. Some not-so-good people will leave a club on their own because no one will associate with them and it's not a good feeling being alone in a crowd. I may have had a bad experience of some sort with a person but that doesn't mean that he/she is necessarily a bad person or that you won't like them.
As far as the membership process stated by Rick, sure you can weed out undesirables BUT you also leave the door open to discrimination of all sorts

 

Wasn't that hump on the other side??

Any seconds???????

 

I belong to the St Louis C3 Sharks but I certainly agree with having some sort of acceptance policy. I also belong to the Original Corvette Club of St. Louis and this is a PRIME example. At some dealers, when a new vette is purchased they are automatically a part of the club. The OCC has just about turned into a C5-C6 club, that is why we started the Sharks.
I also am a Shriner , amoung other things, and had to be voted in, and I believe that if you cant take a little scutinizing, you dont need to belong. Sorry if some folks think this is childish, but members of an organization ought to have the right to at least vote on whom they will be "rubbing noses" with. .......LT