I read this article http://news.drive.com.au/drive/motor-news/politics-and-petrol-20120518-1yu53.html in the Sydney Morning Herald on Saturday – an interesting take on car club life. Thought it might be of interest……

An interesting article. To be fair most of the problems it mentions are not specific to car clubs, they can happen in any group. For instance, the AGM of The Society of Genealogists a decade ago was a blood bath!

~iw

About 40 years ago my brother built a Norvin. To get some of the bits and generally out of interest he became a member of the Vincent Owners' Club. When it was finished he took it along to a meeting. All they did was to pick holes in it telling him it was vandalism to put that engine in that frame. The strange thing was that he was the only one to have turned up on a bike, they were all in cars. He never went again.

Interesting read, thank you

Hits close to home these days. Groups rarely push the cream to the top.

Sounds like TM Not strictly a club but certainly a group of like-minded enthusiasts.

I have experienced the political type club and now avoid it like the plague.

Interesting, a long time ago I went to my then local mog meeting, firstly I was looked down upon because I only had a modern 4/4 and secondly it was unbelievably cliquey.

Second meeting was the same so I never went back and have now moved away in any case!

So I guess it can happen anywhere and in any club

A good few years ago an acquaintance was congratulating me on a recent promotion when he said (with a wide grin) "it's no surprise to me, scum always floats to the top"

A lot of them are specific to classic car and bike clubs - its the differences between the rivet counters / concourse types and those who just like old cars.

Dont get these issues in my sailing clubs because they arent focussed around just one specific make in the same way that many car clubs are. Instead just the usual clashes between people of different social and educational backgrounds that you get in any organisation.