Quote Originally Posted by Alien DNA View Post
I'm liking "regardless of whether they own a Sandman, however the club focus being on HQ -WB vans and utes (and HBD)'" bit. Guess it sounds better worded differently. Can't be so restrictive.

Good ideas. Must admit, quality merch would be cool.

Family, individual & Junior memberships?? Just an idea

How often are the ASRF newsletters? Drawing comps for the kids (and adults) is a very cool idea. Family vibe gets the thumbs up from me!!
I reckon the ASRF newsletters are quarterly - but they are pretty full on being more like a little booklet. But it's more than a club they have their own Headquarters (Burleigh Qld from memory). They have raffles for Hotrods and crap loads of members - I want to say 20,000 but could be wrong? they have no restrictions on memberships nor club permit vehicles other than complying with state regs. Guessing that it's a big business with significant infrastructure, turnover, overheads and paid employees.

I reckon got to start small, perhaps newsletters could be electronic - a bit of a feature on Sandman tech info, a featured vehicle, upcoming events, dawning comp for the juniors.

Focus on what the club is about - Sandman's (or is that 'Sandmen') with a bit of flexibility. With the vehicles, I'm more referring to those that would be recognised as membership vehicles and qualify for club permits. But if the club attended a car show, do you have other body shapes? Again it would be good to see what the GT and Monaro club/s deal with this. You know I'm not so sure about the Sandman wagon, or the tonner with decals? Got to draw a guideline there somewhere and I reckon the body shape might be it? There could always be a section or recognition for Sandman members 'other vehicles' but club permit and event displays, yeah I don't know?

Once there is a little bit of framework around what I 'could' look like, perhaps we could do post a survey about what interested forum users would want it to look like? Tricky, because those who have another type of vintage vehicle will want to qualify for club permit through the Sandman club - is that in the interests of th club, or their personal interests? I have a HK Brougham, would I want Sandman Club authorized club permit - probably, but is that right and what the Sandman club is about - probably not...

Anyhow, all these things will need to be explored. Let's keep up the input - I'm liking it