Sandman Car Club Thread

[Big Rob]

Thanks for the research Jeza. All this info will help us make whatever decisions that need to be made a lot easier.

My take on the club permit discussion is that if a member has a van on a club permit, and wants to get a permit for other cars that they own which may not be vans, then it seems crazy that they should have to join separate clubs for each make or style of car.

I, for example, have my Van, 3x Toranas, a HJ Ute, a Valiant wagon, and a couple of others in the pipeline. The Valiant is currently on historic rego in NSW with my local Historic Car Club. The Van would be no problem to put on historic rego as would one of my Toranas, but the other 2 Toranas and the Ute would be looked at by the club as "Street Machines" because they differ from standard. So to get permits for them I would have to join a Torana club and one that caters for Utes. The club has a lot of elderly members that think mag wheels are a major modification! My Wife and I are both over 50 and are still among the youngest club members. We don't have very much in common with most of the other members and rarely go to meetings or runs. We are in the club because we need the club rego, not because we want to hang out with a bunch of blokes with Morgans, Simcas, Jaguars, MGs, etc....... We would love to be in a club with members with the same interests as us, not several clubs just to get club rego.

I see no problem with genuine Van enthusiast members that have other cars also having those cars on rego in the one club.

I've been involved in a lot of clubs (sporting, golf, car, van...) in my life and have found that the good, successful clubs are the ones that focus on the members, NOT the object. People are what makes a club, NOT the car. The car (van) is just the thing in common.

[HX8WM70]

Got to agree with Rob, I haven't found much in common with most people in the various car clubs I have been in. Met a few mates though over the years and we've ended up setting up our own club to deal with rego and be able to use our cars together legally outside of our various other clubs runs. Its a little administration but easy enough and cheap and no hosers or the politics including who to give letters to which I have seen in other clubs, theres no easy answer and it needs to be consistent as the clubs need to be administrated appropriately. Good luck.

The main thing is to have opportunities to use the cars the way I see it.