Alright, so i'm really freaking bored here on campus, and i'm starting to think about starting a car club here in Charleston Illinois, and i'm wondering if any of you have started a car club, what you needed to do it, things to think about or any advice in general
im in a car club...many many teams come and go, if your really serious about starting and keeping one you need organization, thats key to a successful team. and as qveon stated you need members. What do you want in your car club? just to hang out...to show..that plays a big key into how your club will run and what members you will have. if you just want to have fun with a "family" or group of import car enthusiast then basically any member is welcome IMO, which is what many teams start off as. if you want to have a "show" team and whatnot then you have to take a step more. quality is key..youve got to set your standards (i.e. exterior(clean-mild-wild)/interior/engine/audio etc...) if you dont then you'll end up with a group of mediocre cars and a couple top cars and representation of your team wont be at its best. team meets once a month at least are good. we have them every sunday or every other just to keep up to date of upcoming shows and whats new and its also bonding time. you've also go to have a set of rules...like no drama within the club, and dont degrade the name of the team and what not...seriously a car club is like a second family or a fraternity. what you want is a handfull of OG members or the co-founders this way there is order and its less likey to die within a 6 month period simply because you have a strong base of dedicated members. on another note dedication is also key...ill put some more stuff later ive got to get back to work btu yeah sorry if it sounds liek im rambling..im just typing what comes off the top of my head
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apparently im a junior member although ive been here since december 2000...ehh go figure
my friend and I started a prelude club. We started out with 3 cars and a web address. It was www.tulsapreludes.com within a year we had about 15 members online, and about 12 wich showed up to different meets. It went really good, until the guy that was running the website, got shipped to iraq, I havnt heard from him since .
Me and another guy off here started www.teamelude.com it's a prelude club for Colorado. We started it in October 02 and now have almost 150 members. Of course not a lot are active but we try to meet once a month. We started out just me and him. We put together a website with forums (forums are key) then we went out to all the local car sites and posted about it, searched out prelude owners and e-mailed them. Then we put flyers on cars we saw. Now it just spreads mainly by word of mouth. Hint for meets car guys love driving their cars and getting car pics taken.
Good advice ... i've been thinking about the following ... as i feel that us bay aryan luders are bit ... disorganized and definately under motivated. but who am i
My best friend and I started Team Daybreak here in SoCal about 8 months ago with the initial intent on getting a bunch of peeps together that love cars. We got our friends together, started stocking the garage, and laid out a plan for the team.
In the begining we didn't really set standards for membership and later on we realized we should have when we ended up with a few members that we really didn't want. Not that we are stuck up or anything, it's just that we didn't fully define what it was that we wanted in a Team in the beginning, and when we finally did, they didn't fit.
We also learned quickly that everyone has a different opinion on what cars should be, say, or represent, and to echo what Siklude said, "you've also got to have a set of rules...like no drama within the club, and dont degrade the name of the team and what not...seriously a car club is like a second family". Every car represents something about your Team so you have to all be on the same sheet as much as possible and still give people creative freedom. Unfortunaty we also found out that there are a lot more ricers out there than people that actually know their own cars, work on them themselves, and aren't into it because it's a fad. Because of that, we select our members a lot more carefully now. Maybe that's why we're down to five.
All in all though, it's going well. We've built up a respectable shop, can pull off almost any work, and have built up a family that spends every weekend together. You just need to define what it is you want with a few other founders and run from there.
Good luck!
BTW, we're always looking for new members. Drop me a line if your interested.
well unfortunetly DBR i'm half a continent away from you here in Illinois, i guess i was just looking to find some car enthusiasts such as myself down here on campus, but as i ask around and talk to the people who professed intrest in it, i've realized that your correct, there are a lot more ricers than there are enthusiasts. I was telling one kid that i was going to fix my antenna and he asked which shop was going to do the work, i mean, come on, it's not hard to replace an antenna, but some of these guys are the vtech not v-te c, kind, if ya get my drift, anyway, i guess i'll wait till i have more done to my vehicle and am closer to people who actually know what they are doing to their vehicle
seven, not interested in chicagoland prelude club, or just looking for something different and not solely based on preludes?
I started great lakes prelude org. with a couple other guys. I hadn't really thought too much about it besides having spoken about it a few times for less than a minute with some local prelude owners. After going to NPM though, and seeing MD Prelude Club get the trophy for best club participation lol, I realized that it'd be cool to have something like that (not just the trophy lol). So when we got back home things developed from there, and Aaron from hpoa helped us with hosting a site. I do most all of the work hehe, but it's nice to know you got something together, regardless of how paltry it may seem at times. My only advice at the moment is, if you get a website together, back it up, OFTEN!
it's not that i'm not intrested, it's just that while i'm at school, i'm four and a half hours away from chi-town, i was just looking for a general purpose car club down here, something to eat up the hours and hours i have here, maybe this summer, i'll go and meet you guys, as long as you don't expect anything terribly special from my car, i haven't had the time or the money to do anything terribly cool to my car, im me sometime Vash0831 and we'll talk a little more
^^ I'm actually in MI, but I was looking at your location and wondered if you'd knew about clpc or not. Do you know a few people who share your interest? It always helps to have at least a few people to start with, getting the word out is easier that way.
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