Re: Members Numbers
Our mission statement "dedicated to the restoration, preservation, history and enjoyment of Corvettes" is a wide spectrum to say the least. To take this to the limit there are trailered cars that are mobile museums and drivers. There is a huge difference between the two which in my opinion our judging scheme does not take into account.
Yes, I bought a $350 battery which was junk and lasted 13 months, replaced it with a modern battery that works and is reliable. As you can tell I have a driver that mechanically would matchup well to any trailered car. However I have the curse of a non-original exterior color that prevents me from receiving top flight. There is a deduction for the wrong color and then for paint condition. To correct this approximately $12k, not going to happen.
So I have restored as much as possible and financially reasonable. I have preserved a car that originally received honorable mention, in layterms thanks for coming and now a very solid second flight. If had had the correct paint easy top flight. I have learned the history of my particular year and model and enjoyed the experience and people along the way.
However, now I am at the end of this journey with my car and scratch my head to where I go now. Maybe this is why we have 50,000 plus members and only 15,000 active members. If you perfomed a demographic study of the active members the results would be interesting. Are they a dying breed, percentage of trailered versus drivers, etc.
For any organization or business to survive they must grow, if not they are dying. A very simple mission statement is "Obtain new members/customers and retain existing members/customers".
So how do you do this, within lies the mystery. But doing the same thing over and over again will get you the same results at best or diminishing results.
Just my $3.40 worth, in today's economy a gallon of gas here in Texas, regular of course.
Our mission statement "dedicated to the restoration, preservation, history and enjoyment of Corvettes" is a wide spectrum to say the least. To take this to the limit there are trailered cars that are mobile museums and drivers. There is a huge difference between the two which in my opinion our judging scheme does not take into account.
Yes, I bought a $350 battery which was junk and lasted 13 months, replaced it with a modern battery that works and is reliable. As you can tell I have a driver that mechanically would matchup well to any trailered car. However I have the curse of a non-original exterior color that prevents me from receiving top flight. There is a deduction for the wrong color and then for paint condition. To correct this approximately $12k, not going to happen.
So I have restored as much as possible and financially reasonable. I have preserved a car that originally received honorable mention, in layterms thanks for coming and now a very solid second flight. If had had the correct paint easy top flight. I have learned the history of my particular year and model and enjoyed the experience and people along the way.
However, now I am at the end of this journey with my car and scratch my head to where I go now. Maybe this is why we have 50,000 plus members and only 15,000 active members. If you perfomed a demographic study of the active members the results would be interesting. Are they a dying breed, percentage of trailered versus drivers, etc.
For any organization or business to survive they must grow, if not they are dying. A very simple mission statement is "Obtain new members/customers and retain existing members/customers".
So how do you do this, within lies the mystery. But doing the same thing over and over again will get you the same results at best or diminishing results.
Just my $3.40 worth, in today's economy a gallon of gas here in Texas, regular of course.
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