Originally Posted by jaffi

Are there any clubs near san diego? I am buying my second Z ('91 TT to join my '92 N/A) and thought it might be a good idea to join a club. Thanks for any input.

Originally Posted by RodMoyes

The reason my friends and I decided to start our own Z club here in San Diego was mainly because after running into a few SDZC'ers we were a little put off. There was a very "Trekkie" vibe coming off of some of those folks. Don't get me wrong though, I think it's a great club. It just has a typically much "older" member base and they focus all of their meets and events down south. San Diego county as you know is a huge place with 3 million people spread out over a massive geographical area. For those of us in North County, it just isn't practical to be part of SDZC. we wanted to be a little "younger" and "Hipper" than those guys too. I'm not knocking them, but we have a very different approach. For what their membership costs, they don't do much. Their website is pretty weak and their newsletter is awful and poorly written. We haven't gotten far enough to start charging people to join. Once we get a little more organized and can put together some cool events though, I'm sure there will be some slight membership fee. I'm also planning on putting together a good newsletter and making the website a cool Z related place to go with info and tech tips and a user gallery. It should have lots of good stuff once I get a little time devoted to it. In the meantime, we're just hanging out and having fun. I plan on having a pretty strong SDNCZ presence at the MSA show this year. It will be our official "kick off" event and will really get the ball rolling on the whole club thing. I also hope to attract some new members at the show. Though we focus on the North County area, anyone is welcome to join if they don't mind the drive. For a while, some of my friends and I were going to the "Empire Z" meets all the way up in Ontario. That's a long way to go to hang out in Denny's parking lot for a couple of hours. That is mainly a Z32 group also and I can say that they didn't exactly "welcome" the S30, S130 and Z31 guys. There are a couple non Z32's but not many. We just wanted to be different and more inclusive and less snotty. I don't care if your Z is a raging POS, if you love it, it counts. I have run into far too many guys from other clubs that thought they were the hot **** and didn't want to give you the time of day if you didn't have what they had or didn't bow down to worship their car. I don't have time for that crap and I don't want MY club to come across that way............................................... .................................................. ...........................Rod.