Re: Dedicated Grievance/Complaint Thread

Posted by BH On 2008/7/13 9:33:49

Keith -

I had joined PAC in 1981, looking to learn more about the cars and get an inside track on sources for parts and technical information. However, except for trading copies of some STB's with one member (and that was nearly two decades ago), I didn't get much more for my dues than a subscription to a couple of magazines.

I actually made most of my Packard acquisitions thanks to magazines like Cars & Parts and Hemmings Motor News, but most of all by walking the aisles at various swap meets. Sure, I've shopped at Perrysburg (only since 1990) and a couple of PAC Nationals held in OH (both over a decade ago), but that was nothing that any non-member couldn't have done.

The growing number of informal groups online tell me that the Internet has made some clubs a lot less significant - some even a lot less attractive. In fact, there was a group dedicated to GM's H-body cars of the 1970s that, several years ago, actually put it to a vote and decided that it would be better NOT to establish a formal club. Stale old clubs that are populated by too many snobs and control freaks are gonna fall by the wayside.