Escort Clubs what do You want

[GAZ W]

It does seem that the SOSE club is one of the very few "breakaway" groups that does seem to be going from strength to strength .

[RS2000CUSTOM]

Sorry Dave but this is my opinion.

No need to be sorry

I think Banishit started this thread so people can express their opinion

You are obviously feeling like a valued member of the SOSE and quite rightly you feel thay have your support

This is exactly what The RSOC is lacking - Respect for its members from the representitives of the club !!

You better appear at the Old Skool Tour 2007 or I will ban your account on this BB !

[Craig m]

Will have to come to Cumbria, if only to meet the infamous Rabc

[Dave1800BDA]

This is exactly what The RSOC is lacking - Respect for its members from the representitives of the club !!

oi cheers for that

[GAZ W]

Will have to come to Cumbria, if only to meet the infamous Rabc

Its deffo a pleasure worth waiting for

[taffr]

off to my first oxford meet next week , i'm sure i'll get free drinks and snacks all night and first choice of all the local ladies , it'l be a great night , more than likely get a lift home (40miles) in a cossie too, looking forward to it taffr

[Tim]

off to my first oxford meet next week , i'm sure i'll get free drinks and snacks all night and first choice of all the local ladies , it'l be a great night , more than likely get a lift home (40miles) in a cossie too, looking forward to it taffr

for free drink say billiam sent u

be good to meet u next week mate,am hopin 2 have a few more mk1/2 escort ower there aswell

[taffr]

for free drink say billiam sent u

be good to meet u next week mate,am hopin 2 have a few more mk1/2 escort ower there aswell

but i do get first dibbs on the ladies , yeah?

[Tim]

but i do get first dibbs on the ladies , yeah?

yea go 4 it,u just got 2 find them first lol

[RS2000&MEXICO]

does it matter...?...NO....as the ppl that run the RSOC will not change the way the club is run.....if you think about the mk1 and mk2 members and how many there is it don't add up to the cossie owners out there
so thats the numbers they will look after not us.. ..

a good club needs a good head of ppl and none of this shit like the RSOC do....it's all to upper class i think it needs to tone down the way it makes it's self look get more of the members doing more with there cars
and look after the man that drives his RS not just the ppl with a car they keep in the garage..eg SHOW AND SHINE we need to know our cars are wanted by the RSOC and not just to make the numbers up

get it sorted

as for the parts. i don't see why the capri club can remake as much as they do...?????????....i'm sure most of the parts can be used on a mk2 aswell
if not then someone with the know how needs to sort some small parts out for the club members
the avo club do it fine.........HOW....??????....we need to look at this a copy them on how they run there club



i think we need a BB like this
a club the size of the RSOC
and the parts like the avo club

and good ppl to run it that don't want to make out there some MD of a big PLC....but just a nice RS club and a club for the members

you can have a 3 stage membership

1/ standard membership........................................ .........£15

2/ half membership with a mag........................................£20

3/ full member ship where you get a discount at the shows...£25

4/ vip members with all the trimmings................................£40

then you can have the choise if you want a crap MAG in your letter box each month

or if you do


i have just spent 10 mins thinking of what a club needs to be like but i know that what is above now no one will thinks it's any good

but thats what i think.................this post will NOT be edited

[Nipper]

It is very hard to devote your time to 2 different clubs.

I was amember of the RSOC in the mid 80's when mk1 & 2 were the prominent type of vehicle seen at the shows. We have to accept that unfortunately we are now in the minority. This should not make any difference whatsoever but generally clubs will try to please the masses. Although if you take into account all those mk 2's that are tucked away in garages that you will never or are unlikely to see you might not think so, particularly on wet days!

Will we actually see 100+ cars? I for 1 sincerely hope so! I wanted to @ ND 06 and regrettably parked on that depressing wet road.. Has the chairman still got the mk2, if so where was it?

Having been away in the wilderness for some 18 years I automatically re joined the RSOC and local group, the same one as 18yrs ago, at the beginning of this year as I thought this was my only option, (Sorry I had no idea you lovely people were here). Like Craig M, I too am quite shy but I was very fotunate that my local group, B B & O, was run by a guy with an X pack. There is also still a considerable following for old skool within our group and we regularly still see the likes of Steve Rockingham for a beer. This made it very easy for me to talk to like minded people with a love for mk2's. We of course have really nice "younger" members that talk about their newer cars and lose me technically! I dont think it would have been as easy if the local groupb had no old skool following in it and thats possibly one reason why people are on here!

I have made some really good friends through the RSOC and hope too from here when I get to meet some of you and this is where 1 problem arises.
If I take my mk2 away and encourage others to from our small club stand we would be left with a very small display.
I will be splitting my time ( if allowed) between the both but would argue that this should NOT be necessary and that the National club should not be forgetting the roots and heritage of the older cars, particularly in the mk2 30th anniversary year.
I will remain a member of RSOC but will continue to spend most of my time looking on here because it caters for what I want.
Its my choice. Life is all about choices.
I was at the RS Local Group Seminar and they were encouraging groups to submit at least 2 articles per year. Lets bombard them with Old skool, we love it and so do a lot of others. (That is of course if u r a member).
I have found the RSOC a little disapointing this year and do believe some changes need to be made. It does very little for me except give me a good parking space at shows! But maybe because I dont put enough in!

I'm a lemming..I would like the big club with all the benefits, the social side and remaufactured spares run as a business within the club with the profits fed back into it for the members to ultimately benfit from. I like Paul's idea of tiered membership. The more you pay the more you get!
But as this a democatic world I would still like the choice of coming on here and enjoying the craic.

God, Im boring. You wait till you meet me

[graham John]

some good suggestions / debate there,

cheeRS

[kev14]

I have said many times on various threads that i think the best way to change the club is from within, take cars to shows, write articles for rallye news, go to the agm on mass and vote. I have never had any complaints and i would say that most problems in a club can come about more from issues between the members rather than from anything the club may have done, just my opinion.

Graig M mentioned that his local group the c&e of scotland groups regional day is too far away as it is on the border at Berwick however i would say that it is no further for a lot of people than going to Kames where we had our show last year, and it is closer for a lot of you southerners so why not come along, camping on site as well, and if anyone has any suggestions as to what you would like at our regional day post them up and i will pass them on, sorry if the last bit turned into a bit of an advert

[RS2000&MEXICO]

but the AGM as the call it is no good !!!!!!....it need to be done on a letter vote
so all members that live miles away and have kids get to have there say without having to do 100's of miles

a letter vote will get out all the bad ppl in the club and put ppl i that are voted in by all the members and not by a bunch of m8's turning up to over power the other ppl and thats what is going on in the RSOC club

i don't think i have ever had a point from the RSOC to say i'm happy being a member.
i had my membership for a 3 year turn and it runs out in 2008

if the club don't make the changes and get the ppl out that do nout for the club then i will NOT renew mine as i don't like the way the club is run

there has been loads of ppl talking about club's on here and the RSOC and nothing has been done about the way it's run....WHY....??????

all the top bods in the RSOC need to read these ppl's comments and do what we the members are asking them to do...if you carn't then you need to move on from the club and just be a member like us

just one more thing

why is it that the ST is making it's way into the RSOC....?????

this is the RSOC not the RSSTOC.!

[RS2000CUSTOM]

why is it that the ST is making it's way into the RSOC....?????

This idea got kicked out at the 2006 AGM

I think the RSOC was looking at ways of increasing membership at a time when Ford havnt made or likely to make an RS model now or in the future.

My own thoughts would be to encourage ex-members to rejoin and retain current members Old or New Skool