Are you a club member or just a forum visitor?

[H48HPE]

Just wondering how many regulars on the forum are club members?

I am by the way

Its a very friendly club with plenty of advice and a wide verity of members. Ive been a member since about February 2003, and a regular visitor to the forum/website since late 2001. Many times Ive received help and constructive comments from other members of the forum, becoming a club member brought other benefits such as the chance to purchase now NLA parts from the spares section.


Andy

[tony]

i am a member too
:) and very happy with the committee,:)

[Beaker]

Originally posted by H48HPE
Justt wondering how many regulars on the forum ar club members?

I am by the way

Andy

Just to make clear, that it doesn't matter. All non-club members are welcome on the forum for advice as much as anyone else.Hopefully the forum will persuade you all to join up :D

[Maria]

Carry on....

[Austin-Rover]

I viewed the 'old' forums for quite some months before joining and starting to post there regularly, and its gone from there...join the club and let it swallow a large proportion of your life if you are truly enthusiastic!

:laugh:

[Beaker]

I read the forums for about 6 months, then felt brave enough to start posting.

Now I look after all your memberships :D, so any of you forum members who are considering joining the club it is well worth it. Monstro is especially well worth the read :)

[SubCat001]

I've been considiring joining. Though My monty isnt in a position to turn up at meets:o

[Mat_C]

Although I'm not the most frequent poster on the forum ;) I'm a member.

[MGTurbo]

Hmmmm let me see. Been viewing the website and then the forum since 1998. Was a member back in 1999, didn't bother renewing my membership in 2000 for my own reasons.

[E_T_V]

Originally posted by SubCat001
I've been considiring joining. Though My monty isnt in a position to turn up at meets:o

don't worry if it is a bit ratty round the edges, George (the one in my avatar) turned up at BL last year complete with rust all over and a rather unusual shaped door and a rather fetching set of roof bars!. He isn't any better this year (more rusty) but I will still take him out unless I manage to get one of my others on the road first!

As for me, I lurked on the old forums for a while (6 months) then posted lots, then as we moved over to the new forums I became a member, then at the last AGM in a fit of insanity I took over job of monstro editor. In the space of a year we went from owning 1 maestro to owning 4.

[Alan the Vanner]

Originally posted by SubCat001
I've been considiring joining. Though My monty isnt in a position to turn up at meets:o
This is the same situation with me. Just consider me as one of those on the sidelines working on getting their car (or van!) back on the road, and then joining up when they go to one of the shows.;)

[Maria]

Condition is not important at all for turning up to meets. You'll find everyone's interested in your car whatever the state. If you don't want to bring it though, at least bring yourself and put some faces to names :)

[SimonR]

Very satisfied member for the past 2 (or 3?) years, during which time my white Maestro has been joined by a much older blue one with nicer paintwork.

'Tis great to meet as many people as possible at least once a year and put yet more names/avatars to faces.

[Rich]

I've been a member of the club for a few years now, not sure when exactly I joined, but it was when I first got H902, offered to help out with regalia as was wanting a sticker of all things for the car to promote the club, and am still doing it now.....:rolleyes:

Rich

[Dave]

perhaps for people who dont know H902, Rich could post a photo of his rather heavily 'stickered' rear screen!

[beetroot]

i browsed the forums before joining, i found them helpful and interesting. i haven't been to any meets yet but am hoping to at some point. i always thought everyone elses maestros were more immaculate than mine, but i now realise that it aint always the case! i find that occasionally i maybe out of my depth on some forum topics and that i cant really add anything of use therefore i just browse and input when i can. i love my car but i dont have the time or money to spend on my car as i would like to. either way i like the website and its useful to anyone with a maestro as they can find stuff out that they cant really ask a rover garage ...member or non member... it aint important to any maestro lover.:)

[MaestroMatt]

I was a lurker then a poster for some time before I joined. I took out the bargain two-year membership deal to encourage me to make sure A82 stays ont he road for at least that long... ;-)

[Ed]

I've been a proud card carrying member since August last year, although I didn't really start browsing the forums until recently. I am totally hooked on it now though and have recieved some very useful tips from all you guys. Haven't really ever been to any shows except MG M but hope to get out and about abit more this year. My two Montys are like my kids (expensive, constant attention but at the end of the day, don't you just love them to bits) and neither are up to the standard I'd like yet. If I don't manage to get one on the road this year, I'll certainly be getting around in the other! Long live our Montys and Maestys!

[Rich]

Originally posted by Dave
perhaps for people who dont know H902, Rich could post a photo of his rather heavily 'stickered' rear screen!

Erm, well it was like that, quite the advertising mobile! However on fitting the new tailgate, I lost a majority of them, which I havent replaced. It was quite a history thing there too, as all the sample ones went in there for approval and never came out! The "Now wer're Motoring" one was the first sample one, I remember I had come home late, and was in the dark at about half eleven sticking it into the window! Very exiting (well I thought it was)!!:laugh:

Rich

[talkingcars]

I am not a member of the club as my main interest is the MG versions, I am a member of the MGM club and a local modified car club, SMCC (http://www.sussexcarz.com) which is enough for me.

I do find the forum a good rea (most of the time) though.

James

[onza100]

I'm a member joined up after reading the old forums in the hope that one day my car will be finished and at the show!

[E_T_V]

Well you don't have to wait for it to be finished to come and meet some of us at the shows. And all states of car are welcome so long as we can fit them on the stand :D

[threelitre]

Hi there!

Although reading and writing posts here and owning 4 Maestros at current, I am not considering membership of the club. But who knows what the future will bring...?

Indeed it is very good that the Maestro has it's own owner's club - and from what I have seen it is a very fine one. So why am I not a member then? It would probably be one too much. The car collecting part of the family has memberships of 5 car club's already (4 in the UK), and me the driving force behind it...

Without trying to persuade anybody, just a bit of food for thought: If you are very enthousiastic about an old car (or any car after all), why do you need the clubs? Tips and tricks are freely available on different places of the net, as are contacts to other people with similar interests or sources of spares. It is even possible to organize meetings through chatgroups etc... But how would the classic-car hobby be without the big shows? Without the big auto-jumbles? Who would be the driving power to organize these if not clubs with a certain membership number (organizing events can be expensive!) and at least a few people who volunteer to do the work. And who is doing the lobby-work when legislative is regarded if not the clubs or their organizations (like the FIVA on European level)?

So I do really recommend being a member of a club, may it be a local classic car club not caring for a particular make - or a specialized club like the MMOC is. I certainly know that not anybody has the possibilities to volunteer for things like club magazine editor, which is very time consuming, but any member should ask him-/herself if there isn't a small thing left to do. Over here in Germany the classic car clubs have falling membership numbers since not many 'young' people are joining in. May this be due to the internet or the clubs simply not being attractive for them to join in. But if numbers fall too much it may happen that well loved events may get lost or representation of our interests in front of local, national or EC governments will get weaker as it already is...

Ok, rant over....

Regards,

Alexander

[SubCat001]

Originally posted by Maria
Condition is not important at all for turning up to meets. You'll find everyone's interested in your car whatever the state. If you don't want to bring it though, at least bring yourself and put some faces to names :)

Well its not just the state...Dont think its particularly road worthy lol. Though I may considir turning up and meeting you all...Providing you accept my Rover??:)

[onza100]

I'll have to come in my citroen ax then!

[tony]

and why not ,on our last meet i brought a shogun:(

[E_T_V]

Perhaps I should just point out it was a christmas fancy dress competition. :D

[SubCat001]

I thought it was one of those Jap Imports??? With the sparkly extras

[MARKHEDGES04]

I am a new member,joined when I bought L713.Now im hooked.Also member of Range Rover register,Glass,Chippenham Land Rover club.Nice to have like minded people to chat to.Have'nt been to meets yet,will when I get the chance(wife insists I work so I can keep the cars).

[TurboMG]

Im not a memeber.

[matthewsemple]

I am a member and was very pleased with the credit card membership card that I was issued with when i renewed this year. Monstro is great and two years' membership is very good value at £20.

[zebedeeit]

I am not a member yet, but as soon as I find another decent Montego estate (it will be my third), preferably a diesel, I will join.
Like most people, I watched the forum for a while before registering.
Having checked out a number of clubs, MMOC is by far the best on-line that I have seen especially on Rover or British Leyland.
Well done all concerned. :)

[TheBaldMonk]

I'm not a member (yet). I've had my Monty DLX for about 2 months now and am beavering away, tarting it up, coming here for advice. Need to find out how the payments thingy works, Would be bringing Jo (better half) and Chloe (newest member of the clan) to the meets so need to find out if I should take out membership on all three of us.

Also on the prowl for either a DT estate for me so I can give Jo the saloon OR a Maestro for her to potter around in when I'm at work. So could be a two Austin family soon and I can be rid of the Pug 405 estate, Then onto the other project, a Fiat 126!!!!


As you can tell, I'm slowly going car mad....

[MG Stew]

Hmmmmm none of those options really apply to me :)

I visit the forum and post, but if i had the option i would become a member (apart from one little thing ive got a Rover 100)..

[MGTurbo]

I do think its time for the MMOC to become the MMMOC, the cars are all related after all, and many people that have Monty's and Maestro's also have a Metro somewhere... We will soon have another Metro to add to our Rover Metro Si in the family, and they are great fun to drive!

Gareth

[MG Stew]

We will soon have another Metro to add to our Rover Metro Si in the family, and they are great fun to drive!

He He the best fun SI are the auto ones with an auto box they are just a go kart :laugh:

Dont worry i dont intend to invade the club, its just this forum is more interesting than the Performance Metro clubs Forum where all they talk about is "where is the best place to get some limo tints and how loud is my stereo".

Cheers

Stew

[MGTurbo]

He He the best fun SI are the auto ones with an auto box they are just a go kart :laugh:

Dont worry i dont intend to invade the club, its just this forum is more interesting than the Performance Metro clubs Forum where all they talk about is "where is the best place to get some limo tints and how loud is my stereo".

Cheers

Stew


Don't get on with the PMC format. Same old stuff too as you quite rightly said. Bit Nova'ish'. Our Si isnt an auto, it beats Xr3i's with ease :laugh:

[Beaker]

I do think its time for the MMOC to become the MMMOC, the cars are all related after all, and many people that have Monty's and Maestro's also have a Metro somewhere... We will soon have another Metro to add to our Rover Metro Si in the family, and they are great fun to drive!

Gareth

Funny that, I was thinking aong those same lines the other day, and pondering over the idea. (Hmm maybe I shouldn't be thinking these things, more members means more work for me :worried: )

[MGTurbo]

Funny that, I was thinking aong those same lines the other day, and pondering over the idea. (Hmm maybe I shouldn't be thinking these things, more members means more work for me :worried:)


What you (you mean the commitee) needs is more members ON the commitee!

I'll be joining the MG FWD commitee end of the month, later in the year it's looking likely that i could also be on the MG M commitee also.

I'm pretty dedicated to keep our cars preserved, even more so as time progress.

Gareth

[Jonathan]

We did consider the Metro option a few years ago, in fact Lindsey took over looking after memberships from Tom Morley who's pampered Metro Knightsbridge often graced our stand at the shows because other than in one make parking there was no other way he could show it.

From what I can remember we concluded at the time that adding the massive range of Metros would severely dilute the focus of the club. Keeping it to Maestros and Montegos at least gave us the luxury of being able to specialise - and these two models are enough of a handfull to deal with as it is!

And they've got hydragas :horror:

A well raised point though, because the options do need considering by someone soon.

[MG Stew]

Hey nothing wrong with hydrogas :) apart from when well informed kids that think its funny to see a rather low metro :laugh:. Got to admit though i did enjoy meeting members of the club. More interesting than talking to the usual metro owners, but we wont go into that :p .

[Whitevanman]

Hi I'm a new member of this forum.
I own a red Maestro Clubman 2.0L Turbo Diesel. L984MNN

I am not a meber of the owners club yet.

[AnthonyG]

not a member - don't own Maestro/Montego but have fond memories of them - well some of them anyway!
good to see people saving some for posterity!

[secubis3]

I am a member, but I do admit to being a bit of a lurker!!! I read the forum and posts on a regular basis, but with the knowledge and enthusiastic feeling abound I do feel a bit of a wally not knowing or being as informed as the people on line. Thats not to say that people look down on me - far from it I have had no end of help and advice from all concerned - MMMMM, I wonder if there is a local night class in 'O' level Maestro.

Cheers

[E_T_V]

If you scour the site hard enough I believe there was a test on maestro knowledge a while back. Would that count?! Besides if you lurk long enough you'll learn enough to pass any maestro exam :D

[passionwagon]

I have been on the forums since I bought the passion wagon about 2.5 weeks ago,how do u join & get 2 become a member?? I am a member of passion ford ,The rsoc and esortpower .I am selling my rst now and consentrating on the passionwagon,when my engine went Bang in the rs I needed a car 2 get around in so my mate offered me a h reg dslx monty td estate 1months t&t for £50 I was a bit reluctant at first because of the reputation but I bought it was light brown 112000 miles rust everywhere big oil leak knackered arches boot hydrolics and it had never been cleaned inside it took me 6 hours 2 clean the interior and 1 bald tyre and 1 with 2 BIG GOLF BALLS i drove it everywhere and put everything in it including a kitchen sink 4 a mate and it never let me down I was sad 2 see it go but the bodywork was REALLY bad i could of got it through with alot of work as I work in a car performance and spare parts /dealership but the insurance was over a £100 more than my rs turbo (the rs was £660)so I scrapped her.I needed 2 sell my rs for something cheaper 2 run so I bought a porsche 924 I said that if anything went wrong then I would buy another monty td estate which I have and am having fun.. I still have my rs which is heavily modified and am selling if anybody is interested let me know. I think this site is good & all people are friendly and helpful well done good site guys.

[weasel2400]

Im not as yet as I am allways either at my computer, under cars or walking about in a world of my own trying not to get run over, I would like to join one day when I have more time on my hands.

[Beaker]

Not to worry Weasel, the club makes it easy as you can join online ;). See the link here http://www.maestro.org.uk/club/join.html for details of how to join, also take time to explore the website on the benefits of joining.

[6r4Nut]

Not a member yet! Only found the website/forum last week.

[darren115]

I,m one of your christmas babies.

I,m not currently a member but it is something I will be doing this year(maybe next)not long left of this one.

I Currently own an MG montego bought to replace the one that I put to rest a couple of years ago,they're part of me now, not suprising the amount of work I put into my first one.

Anyway I've got some reading of threads to do first then hopefully my name and avatar will be more of a common site on here.

;) Darren

P.S my first MG was bought some 10 years ago now and proud of it.

[Beaker]

Hi Darren,

Welcome to the forums, nice to see you have a MG Montego, don't get to see many of them around nowadays, and the turbo variety of the monty is becoming even rarer. If you have pictures I am sure everyone would be interested to see.

I hope you enjoy catching up on all the threads you read, and hopefully we can make you feel welcome.

From your profile I see your from Oop North, we have quite a Northern group going up here at the moment. A few of us are based around the Rotherham/Sheffield area and the others are from around Manchester.

[MG MAL]

Hi Darren,
is that the gold car that was at MGSD a few years back? nice car that one.

welcome !

PaulR, Just a quick hello and welcome!


All though i'm not yet a member, i may well be soon(as well as MGM).



Mal.

[tony]

hi darren is that your car in the avatar, ? any pic of car , btw , wellcome :cool:

[darren115]

Just getting my head around the site I have got to sort out my photos this weekend onto disc so I can get them onto here the only pic available is to view the following link.

Not very computer bright,just enough to get by and at times thats not enough all this modern technology :laugh:

http://www.mgcars.org.uk/mgm/mgm99/mgm9908.jpg

;) Darren