Highrollers Van Club

[Merlin]

Count me in .Dont let him near a bedford with a welder he'll turn it into an F100 hahaha

[obsession]

well hers a few things to think about -------
how do you keep club runs seperate from buga runs
in what form do you want the club to take


I personaly would always want guys to turn up to a run and would welcome both , youd never really be able to stop them and if you did it would be to the clubs detrement.
so how do you encorage memberships without discrimnating against those who pay to be members

Pay? yea thers stuff like club t shirts newsletters , ect so come on throw down those ideas.

[The Griff]

I say everyone's welcome but members can humilate non-members any way they see fit.

So, yeah, count me in.

[MaTTe]

I think the idea of members only is great incentive to join up, but maybe a single use pass for each buga member to attend a high rollers cruise and evaluate how much they think they need to be a member...

So this AGM is for currnet board members, or all potential members?
I'm keen depending on commitments at the time...

[John Abbott]

Well i have been thinking about this post for a little while....And this is what i think...I have been a member of a car club now for pretty much 30 years (Morris Car Club of W.A) . I havnt been as active in the club as i used to be, but i still roll up to about 2-3 events a year,mainly to catch up with some old friends that are still in the club.I no longer own a Morry but still enjoy seeing them on the road, and it brings back very fond memories of my younger days. When i bought my beddie truck, i became a member of the
"Old Holden.com" forum /club. I even went along to a couple of meets and runs around perth, but because i was the only beddie in the group i felt a bit on the outer. I found the members that i met very friendly and VERY knowlegble on a whole range of things. But it wasnt until i found this site and got to meet a few of the members that i found that i had a club/enthusiasts that really catered for me and my love for beddies. It is the fact that we enjoy our bedfords that this site is here in the first place.!! Unfortunately i wasnt active in any van clubs in my early years, but i was around to see the huge popularity of panel vans in the 70-80s. Would i roll up to a van club run with my Beddie van? Bloody oath i would ,and if there were other big vans there, all the better.But i can still appreciate the work that go into the holdens,fords,valiants, ect. Whatever type of van it is, its the people that really make a club a success. This BUGA club/forum will still be around to cater for our specific type of vehicle, but like the other vans ,we are getting a bit thin on the ground .Be it a buga run or highroller run,everyone should feel welcome. cheers....Johnno

[MaTTe]

John, i think you're right in many ways.
I also feel that having an 'exclusivity' to the high rollers club validates it, as well as giving some purpose to the buga members to organise buga specific runs...

If we start the high rollers runs on regular occasion, pretty soon it will become a case that every run is a high rollers run to get the name out there, and then it'll be 'sponsored/endorsed' by buga, rather than being two seperate entities.....

The other advantage is that the buga runs can cater towards the bedfords more exclusively, as the high rollers could very well be dominated by sandmans and the like.

Maybe a compramise is that anyone can come to the meet point, then all attendees have to continue forth in high roller member vans. This way you still have the ability to catch up with old friend and foe.

I have no idea of the cost of membership, but i would expect that it is reasonable or atleast manageable. If anyone wants to go on high rollers cruises on a regular basis the memberships shouldn't be out of the question for them...

For non members a free single use pass per year would enable old members the ability to catch up spontaneously as you have in the past.....

And for those that find all this too stressful, if the cruises are of the layout where we cruise thru the streets and eventuate at a park or similar to put the vans on display and potentially have a bbq or the like, non members should be more than welcome to attend the park and have a look at the vans as any member of the general public would, they just wouldn't be entitled to having the van on the cruise or display....

Just a few thoughts. doesn't really worry me either way

[Jeff]

Clearly I am not involved from NZ, but my thoughts on the matter are:
This is very much a minority interest, and if vans get turned away for whatever reason, then it can only diminish the chances of building up the numbers, which needs to happen to make the club viable.
You could let anyone with a suitable van participate fully as a guest, but not as a member.
If the event is enjoyable then they would want to join up anyway, but if they don't do that then nothing is lost, and those people have contributed to the critical mass that makes the club interesting and attractive to other potential members.

[Bedfordcrazy]

Hey Matte, i hope you guys in perth get the High Rollers up and running again. Q. As we all know the bugger site is for anyone with a beddy or love of beddys. And when there is a run we see the good, bad and if you can call a beddy ugly, well the abused, lol Back in its day the high rollers was mainly custom and show vans, is that going to be the case with it's resarection. My point being if it is, then you would want members with the same thought, cruising in a convoy of high end show vans, you could then hold cruises through the year for non members or guys with less then show quality vans. As a non WA resident, was the original rollers a van club for all show vans, HQs so on or was it just beddy's and transits and big vans. Here in qld we have sunstate panelvan club. I guess the big Q. is can you get enough members with the cash to have a full on show van, as i'm finding, i wanted my van on the road this year, now its next year, and the set back in the last few weeks, has me wondering when now. But i will. Hey just my 1cents worth. lol.
george.

[John Abbott]

Interesting topic this.  I can only use my experience through my  previous club to mention a few things i have noticed. Everyone was welcome to a morry club run didnt matter if you had one or not. There were many many times that a beautiful car would roll up from out of nowhere to join us on the run then never seen again. We have finacial members that we dont see at any event, so they must be happy to get their club magazine and thats it. We have members that have spent in excess of $20.000 or in one case $40.000 on restoreing their cars to showroom condition. These members that have the means to do that are very lucky, but a member who drives an old "bunky" everyday may not have the razzle and dazzle car ,but has been a committed and active member in the comittee and helps with organizing events ect. These people should NEVER  be discrimminated  for what they drive, after all they are there at the meetings and runs come rain or shine.

[obsession]

i love it when i get to take the lid off a can of worms 

waiting to here the opioion of the" GRAND POOBAR OF POLITCAL CLUB POSTS"

(PICKMEUP)