I guess this is a timely thread. When I lived in Buffalo we belonged to a club. We had meetings and went to shows/cruises together etc. Then we held one large show and the end of the season on Labor Day evey year. Proceeds went to the Buffalo Ronald McDonald House. Very worthy and just an awesome charity to be part of.

Then, two years ago when we moved here to FL we joined a local club. Here is why this is so timely. The club members had become familiar with my vision issue. A friend in the club made it possible for us to buy a conversion van and then sold me his enclosed trailer as well (knowing we wanted to travel this summer and make as many shows as possible). Well, after getting the conversion van and trailer we then realized with the loss of income etc. due to my vision loss we were not going to be able to do the travel we had hoped.

Well, unknown to me until last night at our monthly down town cruise, our car club had been selling raffle tickets at the weekly cruise night on Fridays, had a special raffle within our car club and have been working with local businesses etc. to help sponsor our trip to the Ames Performance show and then to the Woodward show.

They presented some of the collected funds to us last night along with a profesionally created collage which they then framed (see pic below) and presented to me as well.

Needless to say for the first time in my life I was speechless. I am forever grateful to my friends for pulling all of this together. We plan to take plenty of pics and videos along the way. I will be sure to post many pics when we get back.

After several years of being the car hobby and being in car clubs, up to this point I have never been on the receiving end of fund raisers etc. Although I would much prefer to be on the other side of it, I am grateful for what everyone has done for us. So as you can see, car clubs can in fact offer more than what you might expect.

Personally, I recommend joining a local club that meets regularlly and maybe hosts a show and or cruise night. As far as the parts pool, I wouldn't count on that happening, this site is your best resource for that. I have seen people swap, buy and give each other parts on this site often. I have also done so myself. This site is about as good as it gets for anyone who owns a FGF!!