<VV> why i joined corsa

[Mark Corbin]

Congratulations, Ned. You've just made the case for disolving CORSA. Let's
just throw it all away and go totally cyber-electronic.

Fortunately, I'm not convinced. I don't believe the internet is any
substitute for those intangibles that you get from a REAL live car club
like CORSA, and I have to look no further than my experience with that
"other" marque. Those guys, mostly tech-savy young pups, don't know what
they're missing. Neither, BTW, do those who are CORSA naysayers and
non-joiners.

-Mark

> [Original Message]
> From: <AeroNed at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: <VV> why i joined corsa
>
> First let me say, I agree with Mark on this point, but I'm gonna play the

> devil's advocate because I just like arguing with Mark...
>  
> Without joining CORSA I can still join VV and any of the other great  
> Corvair forums on the Internet. I can them make the same great contacts.
I can  
> also Google to find many of the Corvair part and service vendors. I can
also  
> find the local club, either through VV and the forums or a chapter web 
> site. I  can also attend virtually any local, regional or national event
with 
> out joining  CORSA. The only restriction would be participating in CORSA 
> convention  events.
>  
> If you really believe this can't and doesn't happen then you are the one  
> dreaming.
>  
> Ned
>  
> In a message dated 9/8/2010 3:46:58 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
> airvair at earthlink.net writes:
>
> I think  that anyone who has a collector car is a fool if they DON'T
belong
> to that  marque's national club. Everyone can tout all the advantages they
> want (and  there are MANY advantages in being a member of CORSA), but I
> think the most  important one I've found are the contacts. I know I
wouldn't
> have half the  Corvair "stuff" that I do, nor have had anywhere near the
> fun, enjoyment,  and network of Corvair friends without having been a
member
> of the national  club. I am also a "fan" of another automotive marque,
which
> is an '80's  car, that doesn't have a national marque club (long story on
> that one), and  the differences between the two are leagues apart. Those
> guys "think" they  can do it all over the internet. Yea, right. Dream
on...
>
> It's the  unseen, difficult to describe, impossible to appraise advantages
> like  "contacts" that one gets by being a member of a marque's national
> club.  Problem is, people who are't "joiners" are simply oblivious to
that,
> and  sadly always will be, no matter how hard you try to educate them 
about
> it.
>
> -Mark
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From:  <Vairdad at aol.com>
> > Subject: <VV> why i joined corsa, not  100% menbership
> >
> > after buying my first corvair, i was very  excited to find a national   
> > group who loved corvairs as  much as i did. i joined just as soon as i
> could find 
> >  an  adress. i would have joined if the dues were $100..i would have
> joined  
> > if  there was a 100% requirment or not , i joined because of my  love
of 
> > corvairs.  without corsa there would probably not be a  clarks corvair
> parts, 
> > corvair ranch,  corvair underground,  etc. you get my point we would not
> have a 
> > way to find all   these parts vendors so not many corvairs.. i would bet
> that 
> > not  one person  joined corsa because they wanted all local chapters to 
> be  
> > 100% i know i did not  join for that. AND I SURE WILL NOT QUIT  BECAUSE
> NOT 
> > 100% membership
> >  
> > love corsa and  my corvairs
> > Garland
> >  
>