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[Martin N.]

Just curious. I'm member #047651. Who's / who are member's #1 thru #10? Are there records for such things? I see people with #'s in the 100's and beyond, BUT who's our Fore Father's? Just young and inquisitive at 56 years young....

Marty

[Dennis C.]

Newbie - Oldie

Martin...
Check with NCRS Store in Cincinnati. The 25th Aniversary Edition of The Restorer Magazine listed the first 100 members of NCRS. I believe they may be able to supply a copy of that issue. But, who knows, I've been wrong before... Well, almost...
Best, Dennis

[Rob M.]

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The membership database holds records of all the members since day 1 so all this information is available at the Cincinnati office and the current database administrators (John and myself).

Supplying this information is another story (it would need approval from the board for myself to supply this to a third party)...

[Stuart F.]

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It seems the member numbers are well up in the 40 some thousand range, but we know there are no where near that many active members. So how does that happen? If a member doesn't renew their membership, does his or her number become retired, i.e. not reused for a particular amount of time or never?

When does a newbie become an oldie? I'm 28060, so in which catagory am I?

Something to ponder on a rainy day from the "Who Cares" book of trivia, I guess.

Stu Fox

[Rob M.]

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It seems the member numbers are well up in the 40 some thousand range, but we know there are no where near that many active members. So how does that happen?

Members which don't renew their dues in time are flagged expired.

If a member doesn't renew their membership, does his or her number become retired, i.e. not reused for a particular amount of time or never?

Numbers are not recycled, when a former member returns he has the possibility to get his former number assigned to him/her.

When does a newbie become an oldie?

Good question, I advice to ask the board, via your regional representative, for a statement on this!

I'm 28060, so in which catagory am I?

You declared from now onwards a loyal, highly appreciated and very dedicated member!!!

regards,
Rob.

[John W.]

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Martin,

Good question and worth creating a page for. I will look at creating a page here on the website, probably accessable from the home page of the history of NCRS and it's Founders.

I have all of the information at home in one form or another. I will make a note on my to do list to put that together.

[Martin N.]

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JOHN-

Much appreciated, I look forward to seeing what you come up with.
Thank-you STU, some good points you brought up.

Marty

[Ridge K.]

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Martin,

Good question and worth creating a page for. I will look at creating a page here on the website, probably accessable from the home page of the history of NCRS and it's Founders.

I have all of the information at home in one form or another. I will make a note on my to do list to put that together.

John, that would be a very good idea. I hope you can do this. I think the early history fo the club would be extremely interesting for later members. Thanks in advance.

[Oliver B.]

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Cool: as Stu (#28060) already qualified as a "loyal, highly appreciated and very dedicated member", then so do I with my joining in early 1992 and #20605!

But it is an interesting fact, that with this member number I am already amongst the "older" half of the bunch... (Never really realized that.)

So, seeing all this discussion, this kind of information seems to have quite an importance to some of us, right? True at least for myself.

NCRS is just MY way of seeing the Corvette-hobby! Too bad, that in Germany this "dedication to originality" is not very wide-spread (still chrome and cleanliness rule, originality is more regarded a "nice to have, but inferior mark of excellence")... Accordingly, I would rather quit my German car club-membership than no longer being a proud NCRS member!

[Rob M.]

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Hi Olivier,

Wouldn't it be a nice challange to start a German chapter? I'm pretty sure there are enough people in a country with the population of Germany to justify your own chapter. Although correctness isn't such a big thing in Europe I strongly believe also in Germany there are enough people around who do appreciat untempered Corvettes...

If you feel Germany doesn't have enough potential you might want to consider a chapter for the German speaking area of Europe to widen the geographical area that way...

regards,
Rob

[Oliver B.]

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Yeah, good point!
Sure there are some (several) German NCRS-members as well. And starting a German Chapter sure would be QUITE an effort... Just - maybe - a little too much for myself, considering my current job-involvement.
But admittedly, I have been thinking about that already - just like thinking about (as a first step) joining the UK or Dutch Chapter.

What always is kind of a "step" between US/UK-Chapters and non-so is the languages. How do you cope with that? Sure you talk Dutch on meetings (as long as there are no "English-spoken" fellows around) but all other correspondence with Chapters or Main Office is English, right?

Taking language and geography into account (being picky about my Vette - maybe a bit too much - I hardly do "overnight-trips" with it; so this somewhat limits my "mobility"), I would prefer joining some "Danish Chapter", I guess...

Regards
Oliver

[Rob M.]

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What always is kind of a "step" between US/UK-Chapters and non-so is the languages. How do you cope with that? Sure you talk Dutch on meetings (as long as there are no "English-spoken" fellows around) but all other correspondence with Chapters or Main Office is English, right?

Indeed on most chapter meeting we speak Dutch unless international guest are present, then we do our formal presentations in English. Correspondence to the States and other international chapters is done in English (like correspondence on this forum). So far this works out fine although it is more challanging for some of us then others...

PS if you do decide to start a German chapter consider me as member #1 and I'm more then happy to help you starting up. First step is gather some more local enthausistic people to devide the workload. Preferrably get some people with different skills involved...

regards,
Rob.

[Oliver B.]

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Good idea - will start a thread generating / asking for interest...

[John W.]

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There is now a new page on the website about the founding of NCRS. It is at https://www.ncrs.org/history.htm

Thanks for the inspiration to put this together. The page is mostly derived from an article written for the 25th Anniversary Restorer by Dennis Clark and or Vinnie Peters. Vinnie supplied the original text and provided the photos of the founders as well.

One photo is missing. Dick Campbell is not pictured. No picture was found of him for the 25th Anniversary issue. If anyone has a photo of him let me know.

[Martin N.]

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THANKS John for putting that together, great job. A shout out of THANKS to Dennis and Vinnie also for a great written article!

Marty