In my humble opinion (and I stress that this is an opinion), we really don't
need another Sunbeam Club. I would have been much happier to see a "Rootes
Owners Group" or something like that. I then would have suggested
incorporating "The Brotherhood of the Three Spires" into it along with the
"North American Singer Owners Club". Then eventually absorbing the "Rapier
Registry" and then the bigger Sunbeam Tiger/Alpine clubs. I believe that a
club needs "critical mass", a large enough size to have many local shows that
are big even if only 10% of the membership turns out! These large meets then
turn out even more people to the next meet and the whole thing grows on
itself.
We are simply splintering ourselves to death.
My 2 cents!
Jan Eyerman
Editor, "Melodies"
Brotherhood of the Three Spires
(free one year's membership to anyone who can figure out the name!)
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