BEGOT

At times I visit car clubs and attend their meetings, as the last post indicates I went to very large meeting of many clubs and had perfectly good time. It astounded me how so many clubs were offshoots or spin-offs of just a handful of clubs or possibly one or two.

So today we will check some of the lineage of a couple of these clubs and see if we can determine who came from what. Now it might get a little dicey because I don't want to name names, so bear with me.

First we will start with club "SR" they started out with just certain type of car and soon had some dissension as to what years and some members left and formed a new club, "SRA". Then later on another group left because of other reasons and formed "SRB". Then yet another group left because rules and regulation pissed them off and they formed "SRC". Now we could probably trace out more of the SR lineage but these are the ones that remain active and alive. So as you can see 1 club begot 3. For a total of 4

Now lets get on with another slice of heaven and check the lineage of another club, but this has a few more twists to it.

I call this one "ACC". They too started out with a certain type of car or age group but then expanded into other types and ages. This club got so big that it was over 200 members and growing in leaps and bounds. Then once the membership wised up to the fact that the club treasury was a mess as far as accounting and they had no say in how the club was run they organized a power play. So after a revolt in which the core of power decided it was time to leave and form a new club of enthusiasts,"ACC1".

"ACC" was still way to big and some of it's members from a geographical area were feeling a little neglected and started yet another club,"ACC2". "ACC2" got real big real fast and the founding members said whoa and formed another club we will call "ACC2.1". In the mean time "ACC" had stabilized itself by cutting down it's membership, thanks in a large part to "ACC2".

Now heres a twist, some of the members that left "ACC" to form "ACC1" had come back to "ACC", some from "ACC2" joined with "ACC2.1" and then left again after learning that you can only belong to "ACC2.1"

Meanwhile back at the ranch, "ACC" was giving birth to yet another brood of cubs and in 2 years time 3 more clubs came to be. First it was "ACC3" with a little belligerence and lot of attitude, then came"ACC4", an older crew with good things in mind. Then came a red headed step child that is all about fun and cars, "ACC5". 1 begot 6 for a total of 7. We also hear tell of a small club that could be the bastard of any of the above.

Hard to believe that just 2 clubs formed in their own way, for their own purpose and through clashes in ideology, politics and personalities ended up with 11 clubs.

How boring shit would be if all of us got along.