Don't have a hobby...

[bodyhard]

Working out for me (as I am sure for most on here it is as well) is not a hobby but a lifestyle, as such I don't really have a fun hobby. I once joined a pool league and that was fun but I found myself drinking at every meet and drinking is not my thing so I quit.

Anyway this past Saturday I went to my boys Dennis (the one who was let out of prison) gender reveal party at orchard beach and while I was there, there was a car club. They liked my car and asked me if I wanted to join their club which I did.

They have 3 locations, NY, NJ and Boston and this weekend I am meeting up with them in NJ for my first meet. I have to have at least 3 meets then they will give me their decal. They featured my car yesterday on their IG Page and its getting a lot of likes up to 587 and counting.

I am hoping this will be a fun hobby for me as honestly I am bored out of my mind...

Here is a screenshot of the pic they used on their site.

[Mark1T]

Awesome, Johnny. That is a great pic. Sounds like a good group of people. I would enjoy that, too.

[mtpockets]

Right on, That's a great shot. Sharp looking.

[x-trainer ben]

Car clubs are fun, and modifying a stock car is even more addictive.
You have been warned.

[bodyhard]

Awesome, Johnny. That is a great pic. Sounds like a good group of people. I would enjoy that, too.

I am really looking forward to this, like I said I hope I fit in..

Right on, That's a great shot. Sharp looking.

Thanks man

Car clubs are fun, and modifying a stock car is even more addictive.
You have been warned.

We will see right now I love my car just the way it is, not really into modding.

[bodyhard]

Any one else belong to a car club, pointers on what I should expect?

[x-trainer ben]

Any one else belong to a car club, pointers on what I should expect?

I used to be in one, here are a few examples:
1. meet ups at bars restaurants and parks
2. phone calls with people that you get along with best, talking all things cars
3. National meet ups for things like the 2020 corvette club of America(just a hypothetical name)

[mtpockets]

Any one else belong to a car club, pointers on what I should expect?

Hard to say with this social distancing thing.

[mtpockets]

[LWW]

Working out for me (as I am sure for most on here it is as well) is not a hobby but a lifestyle, as such I don't really have a fun hobby.

The old-time strongman groups have dinners and cookouts, everyone performs strength feats (gets in a workout), eat and drink, it can be a blast. Some entertaining too, seeing a piss drunk guy trying to bend a heavy horseshoe.

Haven't been able to make them in a long time.

[MajorTendonitis]

Reps for having such a beautiful car . I’ve always been a First and 2nd gen TransAm Camaro guy, but that’s partially because I could never afford a Corvette.

[Corbi]

Any one else belong to a car club, pointers on what I should expect?

Depends on the group and how cliquey they are, a few are pretty decent but other ones you show up & no matter how hard you may try they pretty much shun you because you are not in their little circle. Have had a decent time with some of the motorcycle clubs I have been involved with but the car ones have been meh.

[ElrondHubbard]

That brought a guffaw!

[Brackneyc]

I belong to a Mustang and Camaro club.

Lots of weekend cruises, some fund raisers, poker runs, coffee gatherings, car shows, etc.

Lots of clubs like you to attend and work their events as part of their membership.

Clubs tend to gather and park together at car shows, flying their club banners.

Most true clubs have monthly meetings, with a Defined leadership structure (president, treasurer, etc).

The corvette club in my area is pretty active. They do not however like modded cars. Very particular about keeping them stock.

[bodyhard]

I used to be in one, here are a few examples:
1. meet ups at bars restaurants and parks
2. phone calls with people that you get along with best, talking all things cars
3. National meet ups for things like the 2020 corvette club of America(just a hypothetical name)

I guess with the Covid some of the above will change, but we will see, thanks for the feedback

A lot of boring small talk.

I used to be quite active in a car club and now I go to only a single meet each year and usually don't last much longer than an hour or so.

I am assuming it will be canceled this year anyway.

Boring? LOL, it's kind a new to me so maybe it will be fun learning new things.

Hard to say with this social distancing thing.

Yeah bummer

The old-time strongman groups have dinners and cookouts, everyone performs strength feats (gets in a workout), eat and drink, it can be a blast. Some entertaining too, seeing a piss drunk guy trying to bend a heavy horseshoe.

Haven't been able to make them in a long time.

Yeah I am definitely not into strongman stuff.

Reps for having such a beautiful car . I’ve always been a First and 2nd gen TransAm Camaro guy, but that’s partially because I could never afford a Corvette.

Same here, but everything comes in time, never too late. If I had it my way I would have purchased one a long time ago.

Depends on the group and how cliquey they are, a few are pretty decent but other ones you show up & no matter how hard you may try they pretty much shun you because you are not in their little circle. Have had a decent time with some of the motorcycle clubs I have been involved with but the car ones have been meh.

Yeah I can see that happening I guess I will see how/where I fit it, people tend to get along with me very easily.

I belong to a Mustang and Camaro club.

Lots of weekend cruises, some fund raisers, poker runs, coffee gatherings, car shows, etc.

Lots of clubs like you to attend and work their events as part of their membership.

Clubs tend to gather and park together at car shows, flying their club banners.

Most true clubs have monthly meetings, with a Defined leadership structure (president, treasurer, etc).

The corvette club in my area is pretty active. They do not however like modded cars. Very particular about keeping them stock.

Yeah so far I met (via the internet) the president, vice president and an admin they all seem pretty kool.

[eomrat]

Any one else belong to a car club, pointers on what I should expect?

Great folks. Really friendly.

[Bando]

Reps for having such a beautiful car . I’ve always been a First and 2nd gen TransAm Camaro guy, but that’s partially because I could never afford a Corvette.

A lot of those Camaros had Corvette engines IIRC. I don't know anything about Pontiacs but the 3rd Gen Formula with the hood scoops was a mean looking ride.

Probably get negged but honestly the late 3rd Gens for all the GM F Body models is my favorite look. It's like the designers watched a lot of Magnum PI and melded their design with Ferrari. They're workhorses also, run on conventional oil, hard to kill and somewhat easy to fix.

[Corbi]

The corvette club in my area is pretty active. They do not however like modded cars. Very particular about keeping them stock.

Sounds boring as fuk, last thing I want to see is a bunch of stock cars. Drives me nuts when I attend a show and see mustangs, vettes, etc by the dozens and they are all bone stock. I could just wander around a dealership lot and see that.

[Corbi]

The majority of my out of house entertainment these days revolves around my car groups. It took me awhile to find a crew that I actually enjoyed cruising with, meeting up for lunches/dinners, going to shows/meets with, etc. We do charity events for kids, make a wish, hospitals, and the like. We do impromptu lunch meets, rallies, you name it. I've gone to plenty of meets/shows in the past where they rehash the same conversations every month, and got bored. Just depends on the people, their backgrounds, their level of automotive enthusiasm, so on and so forth.

All of that said, I have never been into the structure car club scene, where they have their cliques, drama, ranking structure. Most of the time those folks are more interested in their club politics than they are in enjoying their cars.




Agreed, I want to see some creativity. Then again, I'm the type that could never lease, because I want to personalize all of my vehicles, and I love modding/tinkering.

I hadn't even left the dealership after buying the Caddy and was ordering parts for it. Owned it a month and have added a splitter, rear spoiler, clear marker lights, wheel spacers, custom floor and trunk mats, etc. Have drilled rotors coming on Tuesday to compliment the Brembo brakes as well. I never leave anything stock, not in my DNA to do so.

[x-trainer ben]

Borla?
"Oh do you want it quieter?"

Omg that is hillarious!

[ChazWood]

Old Geezers join car clubs. Just sayin'.

You want a hobby with some action, BH. Like being a bodyguard/driver for a stripper.

[wesleysh21]

LOL

I know that feeling, and it takes a while for them to get it.

When I bought my first Charger I told her I wanted a Borla exhaust for it. She said "Oh do you want it quieter?"

And when I got my SRT 392 and the day I got it home I started pulling off all the badges and **** off the trunk lid and she was freaking out. "you just bought a $63k car and you're tearing it up?" LOL.

By the time I got the Vette and swapping out parts she was just like "oh, that's nice dear."

My wife has a hard time understanding the appeal of loud cars, but she loves loud motorcycles. So I've been slowly working to get her to mesh the two concepts to understand it. Its been especially interesting trying to bring her around to the idea of a loud Mercedes, because she grew up with her grandparents having an S-Class and I want the AMG GT.

I know that feeling all too well. Nearly gave my wife a heart attack the first week I had the GTS. She comes home to the car on jack stands, the front bumper off, and the interior torn apart. Needed to add some powder coated aluminum mesh to better protect the intercoolers from rocks, and wired in front and rear dash cams. First words out of her mouth after getting out of the car; "How did you do that, and is it possible to put it back together?"

Spoiler!

LOL nice

[Redfish225]

We will see right now I love my car just the way it is, not really into modding.

You in the near future



It’s like I can’t stop now. I’ve rebuilt this engine probably 5 times.

[Brackneyc]

Sounds boring as fuk, last thing I want to see is a bunch of stock cars. Drives me nuts when I attend a show and see mustangs, vettes, etc by the dozens and they are all bone stock. I could just wander around a dealership lot and see that.

Definitely not for me either. OTOH, I don’t care for overdone, restomodded classics much either.

Survivors cars are my favorites.

[Brackneyc]

Old Geezers join car clubs. Just sayin'.

You want a hobby with some action, BH. Like being a bodyguard/driver for a stripper.

Around here, the youngsters do have clubs. They show up to participant voted car shows, and take most of the trophies voting for each other’s pos cars.

Other car clubs do it too, not just the kids. Only difference, most of the other clubs have cars they didn’t just drive over after their shift at McDonalds.

[Corbi]

My wife has a hard time understanding the appeal of loud cars, but she loves loud motorcycles. So I've been slowly working to get her to mesh the two concepts to understand it. Its been especially interesting trying to bring her around to the idea of a loud Mercedes, because she grew up with her grandparents having an S-Class and I want the AMG GT.



LOL nice

My wife has drag pipes on her Harley & I reworked the baffles in my R1 as well as swapped the exhaust on the Mustang but I cannot bring myself to mod the Caddy exhaust because my brain is telling me it's a luxury car and shouldn't sound like a frat boys Honda.

[Bando]

I don’t care for overdone, restomodded classics much either.

Survivors cars are my favorites.

I like them both, but with a caveat. Say you got a late 60's Camaro and someone did an early 80's mod with fender flares, wide Micky Thompson rears and set it up looking basically like a drag car, that's sexy. Now if you took the same chassis and did blue lights underneath, shaved the handles, did gulwing doors, added a bunch of fiberglass etc, nah, that's not sexy.

To each their own.

And when I got my SRT 392 and the day I got it home I started pulling off all the badges and **** off the trunk lid and she was freaking out. "you just bought a $63k car and you're tearing it up?"

Thinking I was in the back seat of that running late once on the way to a PL meat, sounded pretty damn good from where I was sitting.

[bodyhard]

Update: The meet was canceled so......

Great folks. Really friendly.

This is what I am hoping for.

Well you've already said you have no intentions of modifying your Vette so what are you hoping to learn?

Maybe stuff about cars, I honestly don't know jack sh!t about cars, so maybe this could be a hobby I pick up?

Old Geezers join car clubs. Just sayin'.

You want a hobby with some action, BH. Like being a bodyguard/driver for a stripper.

Truth is I am concern that I will be the oldest guy there and not fit in

Also, Chaz honestly my life has been pretty wild and I just want some calm "normalcy" if you will I know that sounds cliche, but it is what it is.

You in the near future



It’s like I can’t stop now. I’ve rebuilt this engine probably 5 times.

LMFAO!!! I don't even know how to change the oil on a car. I NEVER worked on any of my cars in my whole life just paid to get them fixed/worked on.

[x-trainer ben]

Well BH the modifying addiction creeps up on you slowly. You go to a meet up and some random member asks what you plan to do to it; which turns into you considering it after seeing live examples. It usually starts with an air filter, then moves to small interior changes or wheels and extends to an ecu or chip. Then you hear a cool exhaust and want that for acceleration and highway tunnels because it sounds so dam good.

[NorwichGrad]

Good deal, John.

Hobbies are important for mental health. Especially nowadays.

My hobbies are goats, guns and bonsai. The problem is I can't ever allow my goats to come near my bonsai cuz the goats will eat 'em, and I'd be pissed and take my guns and shoot 'em (then cook 'em).

The struggle is real.