<VV> Enforced CORSA membership

[Bill Hubbell]

Look, folks, this should be simple.  If a chapter wants to be a chartered
CORSA chapter, their members should all be CORSA members.  If your club
doesn't like forcing 100% CORSA membership then feel free to drop your
club's affiliation with CORSA and strike out on your own.  Of course, you
can still belong to CORSA as an independent member - no reason you have to
join a local chapter.

As for the issue of dues being too expensive for the "kids" to afford,
please, give me a break!  Kids these days spend that much money on a night
out at the movies with their date.  You easily spend that much money on a
tank of gas.  If the kid does not see at least $38 dollars worth of value in
joining CORSA then they aren't likely to see much value in joining a club at
all.

For the record, I joined CORSA when I was 19 years old, in college, broke
and borrowing money.  Sure, the dues were a lot lower in 1979, but so was
everything else (do you remember gas at 33 cents per gallon), so it was
relatively still a good chunk of change.

Bill Hubbell
SCG President


-----Original Message-----
From: virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org
[mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of Kinzelman, Andy
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 11:53 AM
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject: <VV> Enforced CORSA membership

Guys,
I have been a member of CORSA for a long time; as well as a member of three
local & 1 nongeographic chapter.
Although there are certainly benefits to mandating national club membership
- this may well be discouraging to the newbies we are trying to attract.
Although most of us don't consider the cost of membership onerous - some
young kid (teens to 30) interested in our old cars may see this as cost
prohibitive.
We understand you have to 'pay to play'; but given that the Corvair is still
the most economical collector car around - I would rather see some young
people buying & using these cars; as opposed to the membership that thinks
the cars are too good or important to be used (unless they are fully
restored, garaged, & trailered).
Yes, I am approaching fifty, driving a semibeater Corvair every day.  I am
proud of that fact.  Although I have another car or two that have potential
to be really nice; it is cost/time constraints that keep me from making
significant progress on them.
Just my two cents worth,
Andy K.