National Kit Car Show 2024 - will the Stratos Enthusiasts Club be there?

[Iowstratos]

Hi
Do we have a club parking and display area at the show.
Ian

[ProtoTipo]

Hi
Do we have a club parking and display area at the show.
Ian

No club stand Ian.

There won't be any club presence at the show,

[STR_Strat]

I'm planning to be there Sunday assuming it stays relatively dry

Dave

[Longtimefan]

At the kit car show today, Ian Gear (Alitalia) will be there tomorrow as well. Pride of place, parked by the main entrance !!! First day out this year for my car, and first drive of it for me since the trauma. Chatted briefly with Gerry and Guy M.

Horseing around with Grandchildren tomorrow.

Robin.

[Normb666]

Well done chaps, good to see you went along and showed all the others what a proper car looks like!

Tim, thanks for the thumbs-up and compliments - I appreciate it. Not sure I can be any help with your back end though. I can't say I've paid it any attention when we've chanced to meet, but doubtless there are others far more qualified than me who are fully knowledgeable of back end "ins and outs" who'd be only too happy to assist. Er, as it were

Special call out to Robin (Longtimefan) - well done on getting out in the car after your trials and tribulations! Will you be taking the car to the Yorks run in a fortnight? Although that seems like a major stretch at this stage. Anyway, be good to see You and 'Er no matter what you're driving.

[ProtoTipo]

Horseing around with Grandchildren tomorrow. Robin.

Don't wear them out!

'Like the Safari spare on the top of Ian's car.
'Tyre looks a bit green?

[Darkspeed]

Well actually, you've only made half a choice - you've decided not to contribute to the club, but you're still here using it, so you must think there's some sort of benefit to you. Now come on, instead of getting all offended and posting meaningless statements, do the right thing, pay your subs and become a full member.

Anybody else reading this - it's not just me who feels this way. I've been asked quite a few times over the last few years about people getting the benefits of the club, without putting anything in. It may be time to investigate putting some sort of time limit on how long you can be a "free user"....

So far off the mark - Offended, nope. If the belief is that my visiting and posting on this board provides no benefit - delete me - makes no odds. Why would I wish to join a club where the chairman deliberately sets out to offend and then continues to do so? Uh?

[hollytree]

So far off the mark - Offended, nope. If the belief is that my visiting and posting on this board provides no benefit - delete me - makes no odds. Why would I wish to join a club where the chairman deliberately sets out to offend and then continues to do so? Uh?

Can we stop this please, it is a bit Trump/Biden.
I do agree with Norm though about membership helping pay for the Forum site etc

[Normb666]

You're right, Steve, it all gets a bit boring. But I'll be having words next time we meet about comparing me to Trump or Biden....

Sadly though, my role as Chairman is to manage the club, and the main part of that is keeping it going. It's quite a specialised subject and so we don't have many members, meaning we don't have a ginormous amount of money to throw around. We hope that people who come and join up as free users will find us helpful, friendly and fun, and so progress to being full members by paying yearly subscriptions, which help us to keep the place going, etc, etc.
Now actually, I don't mind having free users who only pop up now and then, because they might have something to say/offer that could be helpful to others. But now and then it doesn't hurt to chivvy those users along to maybe do the decent thing after using the facilities for years, and take out a subscription to help the club they've had enjoyment(??) from. Seems reasonable to me, yeah?
What does get my goat is one of those free users popping up and telling me to button it, when all he had to do was have the grace to blush slightly in embarrassment and keep quiet. But no, he chose to castigate me and even admit he's made a deliberate decision not to be a full member, and will continue to use the site for nowt. I've tried to be reasonable but it doesn't seem to have made any difference....
I'll try one more time to be nice. Mr Darkspeed, you don't seem to particularly like being here, but you still hang around - so please do the decent thing and either join or delete yourself. I'd not be asking you if you'd not stuck your head above the parapet and started sniping.
Oh, and by the way, make your mind up - you say you're not offended, but then say I keep offending you. As you so eloquently put it, "Uh??"

[renmure]

For what it’s worth, which is less than nothing, I’m with Norm on this.

I know folk are a bit more fragile than they used to be these days but if you can be offended or ill
at ease by being asked to financially contribute to something you are making use of which requires financial contributions to exist then you are going to spend a lot of your life in a state of perpetual discomfort.

All IMHO. Other opinions are available.