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Hate to say it but I love you all, but this is where the rant starts!!!

Researching my old MG "pre war" and I really really need to buy a rubber bumber B (no disrepect) to get some attention.

The vehicle was registered with a local club in the past 20 yrs and I have proof, but all of there lazy ar can ask is for a donation and registration.

Please sorry, but I saw a wedge for sale with my name on it, sorry guys, but this is why I do not go to shows or do the club scene.

I love you all, we share a passion, but please get off of the chair and give me some historical info an MMM registered with you????

Sorry,
Pat

PS have factory data from 70+ yrs ago in detail, pls but the local, look, give a d???? Omm think I need to right a check hehehe

Edit: I have all the records that one can concieve from across the pond, but the clubs here to which I have documented registration to, only ask for membership dues. hmmm. I had some IM and just wanted to make it clear.

Suport what?
Pat
 
Pat, you're just asking the wrong person. Approach one of the board members (i.e., phone; email, in person) and ask. politely. If the club has a website, the names of board members and owners are probably there.

Also, you might ask another club member who owns a similar car. I'm sure such members would know something about your car.

And, brace yourself: they may ask you to join, but all they're doing is supporting the club by doing so.

Be patient, grasshopper, you'll get help from the club. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/angel.gif
 
GB

Sounds like you are not as interested in being a part of the club as just wanting help from them. I do not know the situation here, and maybe should butt out, but I think you should support it to see if it will help you as well. If a one year membership proves to be worthless, don't rejoin the next year. I find it good to support an organization that I think helps preserve a hobby, just like supporting BCF, or the National Trust for Historic Preservation, or even a slot car group I support in San Francisco, and probably will never even get to visit the Katz-Spa-Ring slot car track.
I guess I just think your rant is targeted at one club or one individual, and not the whole idea of local clubs. Now I am signing off of this subject, so you can argue with me all you want.
 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]I couldn't quite make out what that was all about. ?? [/QUOTE]
WHEW!! Thanks, Don...for a moment I thought I'd dialed up a Martian forum on their cars!!
 
Hey look out here comes a thread highjack...sort of...
Dave...there's a slot car club??? GOD I miss slot cars from growing up......never anything like that around the Nebrasla front....use to build my own with altered model car bodies.....just what I need another costly hobby!!

GREAT..so I do a HO track location search and find there is one located in Millard, NE...just south part of Omaha...way to go Dave...looks like I'll now have to at least drop in and check it out!!
 
Can't see how you're hijacking much Bibber - we're still trying to figure it out!
 
Tony, it was just a rant, and the local club did get back to me. They gave me some information that may help.

I already belong to the MMM registry, as well as other clubs for the post war vehicles.

Sorry if I confused you, but I had to let it out.

Pat
 
Hey, Pat, if it made you feel better, so be it...heck, caused several of us to think real hard & use our brains!
 
I thought it was my medication messing with my mind. Glad to hear things worked out.

If you are going to get a B' Pat, I would suggest a CB version, they are cooler /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif Just kidding RB guys. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif
 
so anyway...this slot car club thing......<chuckle>
 
Tony - sometimes that is a good thing (hehehe), must be the Italian side of me that get so PO'd, sorry, but I should have beached in Italian (hehehe).

Guys - take it away on the slot cars or start another post, I had them as a kid and love emm.

Pat
 
I found a Sterling Moss kit in the attic. Still has a split Window vette in mint shape.
 
The slot car scene is alive and well. There is a large 1/32 scale group, and Monogram, Carrera, Ninco and others are making lots of cool new cars . Although I really have no track for any of them, I do have a few of the new offerings.
I have stayed with the HO scale which is larger than true HO, but still leaves a lot of room for more track and scenery. There is still plastic track, as well as custom routed tracks. There are companies making new products, and tons of vintage stuff still there on eBay and at slot car and toy shows. There is are two or three national races each year where people travel cross country for individual and team races. Local groups have their own point series races as well. And my favorite is the HO LeMans. This is an actual 24 hour long race with teams of drivers taking turns. The track is a custom-routed scale replica of the French track and the drivers have to stand atop a platform to see the entire course. The US team has won a few times in their travels to Derbyshire for the race.
If anyone is interested in info on this stuff, or links to some of the better sites, please get in touch with me. If you want to know if there are clubs in your area, I may have contacts for that as well. And check out my slot car track and collection. If you are every passing through the Lehigh Valley of PA, please get in touch, and a few nostalgic laps can be run on Brooklands Speedway.
I may be a couple of days in responding as we have house guests for a few days, and will be out sight seeing a good bit of the time.
 
Dave - just spent some time rummaging around in your track web site - you need a lttle train running around it!
 
Dave..WOW...I had no idea...funny how you get away from things as you age and priorities change..I just assumed with the age of wireless/remotes..slots were a thing of the past....its' GREAT to be able to have a second childhood that maybe some of us can afford this time around!!
 
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