Hi all
I organise the Isle of Wight Area for a local area of the Triumph Dolomite
Club (national) and also The Isle of Wight Triumph Club, this is intended to
be for all models (yes including the Acclaim I have my reasons long story
etc). The Island is diamond shaped and 13 miles the short way and 24 the
long way and folks over here think the county town (roughly in the middle)
is a long way away and raising enthusiasm can be hard work, how you folks
with more miles than our long way to your neighbours cope is beyond me Keep
Up the Good Work. We don't have a building these things belong to the HQ's
of the bigger clubs!!
Graham.
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From: Bob Lang <LANG@ISIS.MIT.EDU>
To: michael l. cook <mlcooknj@bellatlantic.net>
Cc: Triumphs List <triumphs@autox.team.net>; Friends of Triumph
<fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 2:58 PM
Subject: Re: How many are we?
>
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, michael l. cook wrote:
>
> > Even more interesting, car clubs in other countries maintain club
> > premises and even own their own buildings. Some have pubs! Does anyone
> > know of a US car club that meets in its own building?
>
> I don't know of one in my area, but this would be kool. I'd opt for an
> asymmetrical hydraulic lift way before I'd belong to one that had a pub,
> but that's just my personal preference. If a club happened to have both,
> well, I could lower my standards... pun intended.
>
> > Most of the ones I belong to turn out enough people at meetings to
> > comfortable fill somebody's living rom and that's about it. It's a
> > different world.
>
> It sure is a different world, but can be summed up in one word:
> geography. Britain is a heck of alot smaller than the US. And some of the
> clubs in the US cover relatively large geographical areas... Triumphs of
> the Carolinas, for example, must cover more land area than all of the UK.
> I know New England Triumphs covers a pretty big area, I've tried hosting
> events all over it to get folks to come out with thier cars... but let's
> not go there right now.
>
> As for folks in the UK being joiners, I must have got that gene from my
> ancestors... I belong to quite a few clubs, probably 7 or 8, some local
> and some "national". I might even join an international one someday. So,
> the joiners thing is not limited to the UK proper.
>
> > Mike Cook
>
> regards,
> rml
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