The Allpar organization
Allpar is currently not really organized; it’s not a one man show by any means, but any collaboration is ad hoc and informal. Jim (Stratuscaster) handles 98% of the forum maintenance, thank Heaven, and a large number of people make regular contributions, but what we’re lacking now is:
- Local meets
- Well organized national meets
- Club sponsored discounts and special deals
- An established group to take over the web site when the time comes
The idea of having meets has been brought up many times, going back to the early ptcruizer.com days, but I’ve never had the time or the skill to pull it off. When it comes down to it, I’m an organizational change guy who did a lot of editing and writing over the years; half writer and half business professional. I’m not a mechanic and I have little experience in volunteer groups outside of student governments and newspapers (though I’m sure learning about volunteer soup kitchens now). I’d personally love to see us having meets. We have a fairly unique spectrum of people; the closest group I can think of might be the Plymouth Owners Club.
Of course there are clubs we have interacted with quite a lot, including the Plymouth Owners Club and the Walter P. Chrysler Restorers Club, and they are great to be in, but I think we can cover some of the same ground without competing with them. I don’t want to take anything away from them. Ideally we’d work with them as well as with groups like Mopars Unlimited of Arizona, the Connecticut Mopar group (whose name will elude me until I get another newsletter from them, but I am a paid member!), and the Slant Six Club of NY/NJ. But I think we can also cover new ground, geographically and ideologically.
On behalf of Allpar, I will kick in on-line resources, publicity, and, yes, money. Google will happily if unknowingly sponsor these efforts (I don’t mean to imply anything illegal, just that they bring in most of the money that gives me the time to work on the site). We’ll have to figure out a lot of things, including how the organization will work, where it will be legally based, who will lead it (hint: not me), and how to integrate it into allpar without driving me crazy. But I think we can pull this off.
We’ll be kicking off the first organizational meeting in person at Carlisle. If you can’t make it, or even if you can, please provide your ideas in a reply to this blog. Thanks.
I would want to know how the legal organization is set up presently, like a “board of directors.
Sole proprietor LLC, the idea being to limit liability (but I udnerstand NJ activist judges have rendered the LLC law moot anyway).
So it goes with corporate law as well in S-types. Easy to pierce the corporate veil and go directly after the owners or the board of directors on a personal basis.
Yes. Kind of sad that I can be sued out of my house but Bob Eaton can’t… well, money buys law…
Can’t help but agree there. The Golden rule applies….. those with the gold make the rules.
We sponsered a car show in North Jersey in early June. 1 Allparian attended, Turbo Pacifica. He did win a trophy for his Daytona. We are thinking of doing another show this fall. If you would like to have Allpar attend as a club please let me know and I can arrange this.
Yes, that would be great, and I’m sorry for spacig out for so long!
Our New Milford, NJ show is set for 9/30/06 with a rain date of 10/21. Let me know if you would like to do something as Allpar as a club.
Soitenly! Will have to!