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yeah I've been pondering the idea too. I think we need to make a list of things that we want from the club so that we know what to aim from.

I want a club with:

CAMS Affiliation.

Enough members to make hiring the track out feasible (25+)

A club house with a work shop with hoist and enough room to store at least 6 cars.

One Cruise every two months

One track day every two months (alternating)

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I looked into this a few years ago. I think we need to separate wants from needs

Needs:

Members 50+

Scrutineers

Officials (flaggies, timing...etc)

People that have time, and know how to run a business

CAMS affiliation

Motorsports Tas affiliation

SAU Affiliation

Tassie is a small place, and getting numbers to run an event is always a problem. To get people on board we need to identify what other clubs don't do well. Cause we are going to need to 'steal' members from other clubs, and people will only change if there is a benifit for them (mainly membership price/benifits...eg I'm a Light Car Club of Tas member cause it's cheap, and the Motorsports Tas affiliation gives me cheap private hire of the tracks, their trackdays are run well....but they takes aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaages to start (noon usually).

I think Tassie needs a club for younger people and import owners. But it needs to be better organised that the stickers, for a start as a buisness you can't go stealing logos (even if your excuse is you assumed they were all the same), and it needs to be voted on properly not just one person picking somthing out, granted they wouldn't have ever got made if that didn't happen. It might sound harsh, but things like that can effect affiliation chances. Most of the clubs decisions will be done via voting.

I personally think Tassie needs more hillclimbs. There is other clubs running plenty of trackdays already, probably only need 3 extra during the year.

This is not somting to rush into, it needs to be planned out properly. If it is done properly it will be a great thing.

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I looked into this a few years ago. I think we need to separate wants from needs

This is not somting to rush into, it needs to be planned out properly. If it is done properly it will be a great thing.

This and This.

What does everyone else want from a club?

Once we get the wants down we can filter some out and get the Needs visible.

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I looked into this a few years ago. I think we need to separate wants from needs

Needs:

Members 50+

Scrutineers

Officials (flaggies, timing...etc)

People that have time, and know how to run a business

CAMS affiliation

Motorsports Tas affiliation

SAU Affiliation

Tassie is a small place, and getting numbers to run an event is always a problem. To get people on board we need to identify what other clubs don't do well. Cause we are going to need to 'steal' members from other clubs, and people will only change if there is a benifit for them (mainly membership price/benifits...eg I'm a Light Car Club of Tas member cause it's cheap, and the Motorsports Tas affiliation gives me cheap private hire of the tracks, their trackdays are run well....but they takes aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaages to start (noon usually).

I think Tassie needs a club for younger people and import owners. But it needs to be better organised that the stickers, for a start as a buisness you can't go stealing logos (even if your excuse is you assumed they were all the same), and it needs to be voted on properly not just one person picking somthing out, granted they wouldn't have ever got made if that didn't happen. It might sound harsh, but things like that can effect affiliation chances. Most of the clubs decisions will be done via voting.

I personally think Tassie needs more hillclimbs. There is other clubs running plenty of trackdays already, probably only need 3 extra during the year.

This is not somting to rush into, it needs to be planned out properly. If it is done properly it will be a great thing.

Yup , exactly! , with such a small state it's going to be very hard to get anything off the ground pinch.gif . But worth a try :)

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Any chance of maybe making pamphlets that we can throw under wipers of skylines that don't have Sau stickers that we see about or something. Whether it be giving them heads up on forums or letting them know we want to start a club with details? Boost Tas member numbers? Just an idea :closedeyes:

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Any chance of maybe making pamphlets that we can throw under wipers of skylines that don't have Sau stickers that we see about or something. Whether it be giving them heads up on forums or letting them know we want to start a club with details? Boost Tas member numbers? Just an idea :closedeyes:

That is a good idea, we did it with eREXion and it was mildly successful.

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What does everyone else want from a club?

Once we get the wants down we can filter some out and get the Needs visible.

I'd be keen, it would be great to organise a few social meet up as well as track days. The other main thing for me would be that it is not too Hobart-centric and has state-wide stuff happening.

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If it's gunna make it off the ground guys we're gunna hafta start small and work our way from the bottom . perhaps starting with cruises from all ends of the state and track days/hill climb or whatever under the banner of another cams affiliated club untill things start to get off the ground , maybe even the odd drag day for the fun of it? i think it would be wise to discuss a direction of the club idea and what people are expecting of it :)

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Definately interested too especially when my cars finished I was only talking to Jack(Mr.Untouchable) the other night about the lack of any form of car scene these days. It's sad to think that there are so many skyline/car enthusiasts out there that rarely if ever get to hang around like minded people and talk cars. We've all got a few select friends that we talk shop with but sometimes it's nice to get other peoples ideas and input other than just on here lol. I know the police presence and cracking down on organized cruises and meetups is mostly to blame but hopefully with an affiliated club we may avoid some of the harsher attention. I think that the track days zoidbergmerc has started organizing are a great start I wasnt able to make the 2nd one but I went to the first and it seems like a few more turned up yesterday? Maybe a meetup somewhere between north and south to gauge the kind of support/ numbers would also be a good start with plenty of notice so as many people as possible can make it.

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