[BaadAssGremlins] Re: Car Show And Cruise Night Participation

["Eddie Stakes" <eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It is exteremely difficult to start...and maintain....a AMC club, period. 
You will have a few core people who enthusiatically do 90% of the work, then 
get burned out while others are content to pay dues, sit back and talk about 
whatever like kids, sports teams and so forth. Even more difficult is 
putting together a successful Regional or National. Been there done that 12X 
times and no more.

You see clubs come and go all the time sadly. But the enthusiasm level is 
tough to keep up high. And the larger the city/town the harder to get people 
to come out, simply because there is too much shit to do, like here in 
Houston which never sleeps.

Seems like i just had this same conversation with AJ Grimaldi, who used to 
one of the forces behind the Albany, NY meet with now deseased Tim Tracy. 
These guys were workhorses and usually underwriting the costs of everything 
involved with the show!

While not for everyone, a file on my site called 'amc assholes'
http://www.planethoustonamx.com/stuff/amc_assholes.htm
shows how successful meets can be destroyed by a few. A bigger example would 
be Mitchell's old AMC squirrel Clubs now defunct, 1500+ members, successfule 
meets but he threw it all away.
http://www.planethoustonamx.com/stuff/good_riddance_amcwc.htm

The big key is to simply get involved and volunteer. You are correct about 
the 'big meet' in Kenosha, WI. I can easily tell you of ultra low mile or 
museum quality AMC cars, get this, a THREE IRON from Kennedy Park where most 
of the huge meets were held, and the owners didn't bring them to the meet. 
It is their loss, but mine, and everyone's to not see a example like that 
with 7000 original miles in 35+ years on it. To me, this is a example that 
other cars shuold be judged against.

One more thing. The AMC highway is littered with good ideas and intentions. 
How many of you remember:
Charity AMX(was supposed to be finished last century)
AMC Magazine (with color photos)
AMC Unity Club
AMC Forum.net
AMC Council of Clubs
I could keep going with a shitload of meets and other ideas. Many of them 
start out on internet and everyone goes "wow this is best thing since 
country gravy!" however actually seeing it come to fruition or 
work........shit happens, and never hear from again.

So you have tons of enthusiasm, but when it is time to sing up people to 
volunteer for judging, picking up trash, parking cars, selling sodas to 
benefit club, ect, people run off like they just saw Casper the Friendly 
Ghost.

So support your national clubs, hell, if you want a free application for 
AMO, NAMDRA or AIM click on my "links" section then simply print one there. 
Go to meets, cruise nights, big or small. Even when AMC was STILL in 
business I would find myself the lone r/w/b AMC fan at many cruise nights. 
Who gives a rat's ass, I had fun! And FUN is what it should be all about no?
Eddie Stakes'
Planet Houston AMX
713.464.8825
eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Call if important*
www.planethoustonamx.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <AMC74HORNET@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2006 5:21 AM
Subject: [BaadAssGremlins] Was Gremlin- animal Now Car Show And Cruise Night 
Participation


> All of this is easier said than done. Me and my friend tried to start an
> AMC car club and it was advertized in the local automotive paper that
> advertizes shows and cruise night's and we did not get one call. There
> is no AMO chapter in N.Y. I used to belong to the CT club that was an
> AMO member but that is to far for me to travel with my poor health now.
> There are 9 other AMC owners in and around my town not counting me and
> my friend but you never see any of them with there cars out. We used
> used to have a sunday breakfast with 3 other AMC guys but one gave up
> his cars and moved  Florida, another moved way upstate and the other is
> very ill. Only one of the 9 showed up for the show last sunday but him
> and his mother always show up. They are a real died in the wool AMC
> family, his father worked as a mechanic at a local AMC dealer and his
> mother worked at the AMC zone office.
> "Doc"
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