save our cars

[Lloydpiestate]

hi guys,

there is an article in ccw regarding storage for classics, just what we have been talking about !!

mark smith has started a facebook page devoted to this and its gaining speed quickly, check it out

https://www.facebook.com/groups/367174270084899

upwards and onwards !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lloyd

[torque2me]

Kev,

It's all good ideas, but who is going to do them?

How did the SOC find a person to run their limited company spares operation?

We are struggling as we don't have enough volunteers to run the club with the posts we have vacant, without trying to do more, we just don't have the manpower.

This is all down to a smaller pool of vehicle ownership. The SOC has more members than the Register from a lower number of car availability. They have a higher ratio of vehicle surviveability simply due to the fact that you can re-panel a Stag after the Tooling Fund enabled projects. The Tooling Fund is a limited company. No house is involved. And by the way, they also have difficulty at times to fill a post.

As for limited company structure this was done to protect the members running the club. I love the register but was not prepared to take the risk of being sued for my house incase something went wrong, hence the need to be limited by guarantee as we are now.

It's disappointing that a comment made 20 years ago by someone has prevented you from supporting our club, I'm sure you'll find things have changed in the intervening years.

From the posts I read on this forum it appears nothing has changed. Chris Witor does all the spares and the club is uninterested in helping with anything in this area. Why, even your posting (which I am replying to) falls into the very category of what some of us are raising and that is "let's not do anything."

Perhaps you would like to put a proposal together for funding such an operation and then volunteer to come and run it for us, this is what we need.

Re-read or read the many posts on the subject of proposals. Such is the frustration of those who know we need to come up with action plans on certain aspects which are vitally important in ensuring more than a handful of saloons survive we get the "Let's not do anything now as all is rosey in the garden. One man will see to it all."

However, being as we are still at zero interest for a new regalia officer that we have advertised twice for, this will get an equal null reaction?

Sorry, not being negative bit realistic. As a club run by volunteers in their spare time and at usually great personal financial cost, I don't see how we could do such a thing.

It's a good job that the volunteers of the SOC and many other such clubs didn't behave in such a negative manner. Think of the parts we rely on from the TR Register. At the very least we should have done co-operative mechanical projects, though probably the unique panel supply would be down to one's own club.

As previously stated - no wonder break-away clubs are formed and no spares = no roadworthy cars = no members = no club needed.

Kev

[Alan Chatterton]

The question still stands, who is going to do this? Are you volunteering to join the running of the club and do this?

We don't have enough people to do all the current jobs that need doing to run the club, so how can we expand our brief and do more without more people to help.

[Lloydpiestate]

fuzzy started this idea and i simply jumped on board with it, because it is a great idea, and needs to be / should be done.

ive had loads of offers of cash donations along with members offers to house cars, we just need one or two members to get together to co ordinate things, yes it will be tricky at first, and a mine field of things to overcome and ensure all is done correctly, legal and above board.

surely there must be some of you out there willing to give this a go, it is in our best interest for the future and survival of the cars that we all love so much, i simply do not have the time or the legal know how to do this.

hopefully now the panels will be sorted, so thats get the cars in that need saving from the track or crusher, there was a mk1 estate that i know of that was raced only the other month !!!!!!!