FU

And do you enjoy it ?

Come on boys click here for the thread :

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c6-c...ette-club.html

VetBoyZR1

The poll sucks. No option for "Yes, I belong, but it's not what I hoped for". People need more in common than owning the same car.

bb62

I kinda agree with this. I belong to the NCRS, but that really isn't a "club" so much as an organization. The closest thing to a club that I attend regularly is the Saturday morning Autozone get togethers here in Michigan - and Corvettes are just a small part of the equation.

Here's a smattering of the types of cars that show up there:

littlesk8cracker

i belong to one. now, im 19 and everyone else is 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s... 70s? so i kind of dont fit in and usually dont have anyone to talk to. the meetings are kind of boring as they just update us as to whats going on at with the club. however, the shows and events we all get together for are a blast and its even better going to a show when you have 50+ guys you know there with you. id say worth the 25 i pay a year for it. hell, the first show i went to with them i got in for free instead of paying the regular 15 dollars

Zrxmax

Just go and ask those old guys about their cars... they will talk your ears off...

Boring meetings ? Bring a couple of your hot smoking 18 year old lady friends with you and that should liven things up a bit...

Z51JEFF

No and I never will.I wouldn't join NCRS if it were free.Ive found some of the rudest Corvette owners are those in clubs.

FU

I'll stick with my LT5 Registry brothers.

Vette Daddy

NCRS, Solid Axle Corvette Club (SACC)

Will be joining the ZR1 Net Registry soon.

rickyrj1

I attend events held by the WAZOO but I can never become a made man because I'm from Jerzy and not a blue blood. Great bunch of guys none the less. These guys actually drive, race and repair their cars.

tomtom72

The closest thing to a "car club" that I'm involved with is just a group of people that own corvettes that I hang out with from the North East events section. We just go cruising & to charity shows and cruise nights and just generally drive & waste gas in our vettes. It's funny when people see us together on a cruise and ask if we are a club, and you tell them No, we all just belong to the same forum.

AtsZR1

Ncrs & LT5 Registry....not a real club kinda guy. Started to invite friends over that had Corvettes about 15 years ago...last spring our Dust Off had 50 cars and 100 people. We gather a few times a year and attend some events together. Very loosely organized, no dues, no meetings, no badges, just guys who like cars and enjoy each others company. I am the Chief GearHead.

LT5corsa

cv67

My idea of that is getting a dozen guys together, caravaning up to the track and tearing it up for hours, stopping in at a diner at 1am for some greasy food and some fun on the trip home. Yep.


Sitting in a lawnchair in front of an IHOP all morning, no drives...big topic of the club meeting being talking about how expensive preparation H has gotten.....

4DSZR1

LMFAO

rhipsher

I've belonged to one for three years now. With most of the members it's just a status symbol. Look at me! I can afford an 75k Z06 and I trade it in on a new one every year. They are not real car people. I almost didn't renew my membership this year but for some reason I got voted to director of racing. And when I schedule an event at the drag strip or TWS guess who shows up. "ZERO". They love to show off there pretty shinny cars and that's it. You can't talk tech with them because they don't know anything. Hell when your car is still under warranty whats there to talk about. P.S some of the biggest heavy hitters in the ZR-1 community come from Texas. I've hung out with Will Barrett and been to his house. Hung out with Sanjay many times/USAFPILOT/LT5Lee/Rob93ZR1 and a few others and we've been to each others houses. I've never been to any ones house in the club not once. The Z community gets together all of the time to help each other work on there Z's. Corvette clubs are just not like that.

YorkL8apex

I have belonged to two NCCC clubs, one "social" club and one serious AutoCross/Track Day Club and the ZR-1 Net Registry over the last 8 or so years. AX club finally shut down this year.

I've met some GREAT Corvette folks in all of the Clubs/Organizations as well as the Forums. I have seen the clubs become much more C6 dominated and a lot more retired folks are in the clubs that really just need direction to the service department when it comes to knowing anything about the cars.

I tend to get a lot more out of the Forums these days but still participate in the club events I like or will put on events like Road Rallies, Cruises, and other driving events.

vettehardt

My whole family belongs to one of the oldest Corvette clubs in the country, the Michiana Corvette Club founded in 1957. It is an NCCC club but most of the people in it are not competition people. They help put on our speed events every year (but they keep wanting to shorten the weekend so we are down to one day with 7 events). The major reason I belong to the club is for the racing it allows me to do. I LOVE autocrossing and have been doing so since I turned 16. I am now 30 and I am a lifetime Member of NCCC. It has come down to a few votes as to wether we will even hold the events as a club. It passes barely, but it does alway pass. The club is more of a social club. They love taking road trips to Michigan to look at the light houses, out to Maine for the fall foliage, or places like that.

I will say, alot of our members are not the "point me to the dealer service department" type. We have a couple of people who have done their own restorations and one guy who is a wiz at rebuilding Q-jet carbs. We have a Shop Talk meeting evey month that is nothing but talking about what you have done/ are doing/ plan to do to your car.

So the main reason I belong to a club is for the NCCC autocrossing it allows me to do. I can't see paying so much more for dues to SCCA to go out for a day and get only 4 runs on a track. With NCCC we go out to 14 event weekends and get 28 runs. It is so much better in my opinon.

88BlackZ-51

Kinda funny. Reminds me of BG, but guys are standing, and staring.

cv67

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FU

When the bar closes it's a very sad thing. Those guys are just standing & staring because if they moved , they would fall down.