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| | | Need help in selecting a van club | Joined: Mar 2012 Posts: 50 journeyman | OP journeyman Joined: Mar 2012 Posts: 50 | We (wife and myself) have been on this site for two years now, have spent most of my time rebuilding the van. She's (the van, lol)is at the point where we can use it a lot more. We went to the freeze out this February and had a great time. We also travel to St, Pete Fl several times a year, and found a neat cruise in spot at a local Biff Burger.
We would like to join a local (MD,PA,VA)van club, but want to join one that we would be comfortable with, with people at least similar to us. We have visited several club sites, and haven't seen one yet that gives a flavor of the club. (OK maybe were dense) Don't take that the wrong way, we kinda see ourselves as part of the 2% that is touted here. Were both 60, but act more like 20. Were Pagans (not the motorcycle gang) and free spirited children of the 60/70,s (no were not druggies). So a group with a lot of evangelical Christians is not what we are looking for. Right now were leaning toward the "Performance Vans" out of PA, but I'm not sure that even a "club".
Any suggestions or help would be appreciated. Thanks Aule | | | Re: Need help in selecting a van club | Joined: Aug 2009 Posts: 318 enthusiast | enthusiast Joined: Aug 2009 Posts: 318 | good luck finding a club there are a bunch around there.someone on here will help you find a great club. nice looking van
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| | | Re: Need help in selecting a van club | Joined: Sep 2013 Posts: 161 member | member Joined: Sep 2013 Posts: 161 | I met Catfish, president of the SEVC (Southeast Van Club), and him and his wife Penny are two of the coolest most generous people you can meet. I have only met them once and could tell right away. You could also form your own club with 3 members. Goodluck
2001 E-350 Hightop | | | Re: Need help in selecting a van club | Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 18,536 Likes: 136 Supreme Master | Supreme Master Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 18,536 Likes: 136 | You will know when you find the "right" club or just start your own. Arianrhod:2003 Chevy Astro Black Magic: 1985 Dodge B-250 Serenity:1985 Chevy G-20 The Outcast:1983 Ford club wagon Luna 1974 VW bay window transporter Freedom:1990 Ford E-150(parts van) Outcast Vanners van club Support your local 2% | | | Re: Need help in selecting a van club | Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 5,263 Likes: 1 Blendor Of Fine Schnapps | Blendor Of Fine Schnapps Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 5,263 Likes: 1 | performance is van club and have bunch of great people in it
starwars tom wyckoff interstellar space truckers I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. Groucho Marx | | | Re: Need help in selecting a van club | Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 12,898 Vanner | Vanner Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 12,898 |
I don't need to be honoured by Vanning, I am honoured to be Vanning ! Supporting Vanning, by going Vanning In A Van ! I hate it, when real life interferes with Vanning ! Van Clan Plus One, Vanning since 1977 ! Ontario Federation Of Truckers (Vanner's) Ottawa Valley Vans I.B.O.B. Founder,Mixed Bag Truckers | | | Re: Need help in selecting a van club | Joined: Jul 2011 Posts: 1,719 veteran | veteran Joined: Jul 2011 Posts: 1,719 | Clubs vary a lot. Some have members that are geographically close and meet every month while others are wide spread and don't get together as often. Some have more rules/regulations than others. Just keep going to van runs and meet other vanners. As mentioned above, you'll find the right group to become part of.
PS: I was checking out your van @ Freeze Out.. I dig the right side doors!
Chuck
1988 Dodge B250 "Bloody Mary"
Shenandoah Valley Vans
| | | Re: Need help in selecting a van club | Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 18,213 Likes: 2 Supreme Master | Supreme Master Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 18,213 Likes: 2 | Clubs vary a lot. Some have members that are geographically close and meet every month while others are wide spread and don't get together as often. Some have more rules/regulations than others. Just keep going to van runs and meet other vanners. As mentioned above, you'll find the right group to become part of. PS: I was checking out your van @ Freeze Out.. I dig the right side doors!
Everyday above ground is a Good Day!!! Never Stop Vannin'
Member of Break Away Vanners Host of Spring Break At Shenandoah Acres Family Campground
Owner & Creator of Wizard's Van-In Videos Member of Riding High Truckers from 1982 to 1996 2nd Member of The Toopa Sinner Tribe Member of Free Bird Vanners 1996 to Present Member of Cape Atlantic Truckers South Jersey Host Club of Freeze Out Certified Nats Judge Member of Shenandoah Valley Vans | | | Re: Need help in selecting a van club | Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 9,855 Likes: 234 carpal tunnel | carpal tunnel Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 9,855 Likes: 234 | What Mutt said. Doug, all clubs and groups are different and some have differing groups within. Some states have more vanners and multiple clubs/councils. Some, like the SEVC, are small but are spread from Virginia to Louisiana. Clubs or councils that have members who live close enough to meet regularly can work together more closely to put on truckins, attend car shows and do other fun stuff as a group. Here at Peach State Vans we don't have officers. We're all retired and so laid back that we adjourn the few meetings we have with "Let's eat!" Attend a bunch of truck-ins and then decide. It really depends on what you want. (btw thanks Jason, we were trying to be as nice as our hosts, the FVC.)
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| | | Re: Need help in selecting a van club | Joined: Mar 2012 Posts: 50 journeyman | OP journeyman Joined: Mar 2012 Posts: 50 | I'm still here tracking all the comments. Received several PM and I'm not ignoring them just don't know what were doing yet. Will check them all out may join more than one!
Quoting Mutt: "PS: I was checking out your van @ Freeze Out.. I dig the right side doors!"
That was the courtesy of a John Deer tractor that decided to try and take my wife into a corn field with him. He crushed the passenger door and the front side door. Those were the only replacements I could find. If he would have asked nicely she probably would have joined him without a fuss...LOL. | | | Re: Need help in selecting a van club | Joined: Jun 2011 Posts: 490 addict | addict Joined: Jun 2011 Posts: 490 | We also travel to St, Pete Fl several times a year, and found a neat cruise in spot at a local Biff Burger.
Hello Aule, if this is the Biff Burger with the BelAir on the roof, than it's good to hear, that they are still alive I found them in 1993 during my first visit to Florida, as I read the newspaper in the morning. Their was a nice article, and so I searched and found the Burger. I was their at the evening, when the local Hot Rod Club meets, and had a nice chat with the president (at that time), since he knew about the streetrules in Germnay (was stationed over here for some time). In 2006, I was again their and had also a great time. | | | Re: Need help in selecting a van club | Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 3,233 pooh-bah | pooh-bah Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 3,233 | There is this van club I know of that's looking for new members. The only thing is he is into world domination. | | | Re: Need help in selecting a van club | Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 6,266 Vanner Extraordinaire | Vanner Extraordinaire Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 6,266 | Van clubs are like the vans themselves. You will find one that fits your wants and needs. Oftentimes they find you. You go to a run, park, grab a drink, and wander around. The people at the next site or across the road have a bunch of food on the grill, or chips and snacks, or a blender. Maybe they also own a Dodge similar to yours. Introductions, sharing, conversations, and an invite to a meeting follow.
You may or may not go to that meeting, but you see them again at another run. Recognition, more conversation, agree to meet and camp together at a future run. A friendship is formed, and you join their club.
Or, as in my case, a club found me. My ex and I went to a huge car show, saw a bunch of vans and a bunch of vanners having a lot of fun. We thought a van would be a cool way to travel and camp, so we bought one a couple months later. The next month, a guy walks into my work wearing a club jacket. We talked, he invited me to a meeting, I went, and the rest as they say, is history. That meeting was in Feb. 1974, and I have been a member of Midwest Vans Ltd. ever since.
You will find great people, make lifelong friends, and deal with some buttheads. That's life, so enjoy the ride. Welcome to vanning, and hope to meet you at a run soon! The Nationals are right up the road this year!
Howard "Nickels and Dymes" Midwest Vans Ltd. Vanfest Staff Ontario Federation of Vanners Rep since 1978 National Truck-In Board since 1986 First van event-a hall party...March, 1974...ain't been right since!!!!!
| | | Re: Need help in selecting a van club | Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 12,898 Vanner | Vanner Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 12,898 | We have had more people join our club and became Vanners...we are a non smoking, illicit drug free club that drinks a lot on weekends....
As On The Road ( Howard ) says, go to an eVANT and look for a 2% fit...
I don't need to be honoured by Vanning, I am honoured to be Vanning ! Supporting Vanning, by going Vanning In A Van ! I hate it, when real life interferes with Vanning ! Van Clan Plus One, Vanning since 1977 ! Ontario Federation Of Truckers (Vanner's) Ottawa Valley Vans I.B.O.B. Founder,Mixed Bag Truckers | | | Re: Need help in selecting a van club | Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 374 Likes: 5 enthusiast | enthusiast Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 374 Likes: 5 | DOC HOW CAN YOUR CLUB BE A NON SMOKING CLUB ?? EVERY TIME I SEE YOU YOUR BLOWING SMOKE UP MY ASS ??? Dix,,, LOL, JUST KIDDING YOU DOC... | | | Re: Need help in selecting a van club | Joined: Mar 2012 Posts: 50 journeyman | OP journeyman Joined: Mar 2012 Posts: 50 | To Goose, I don't think the BelAir is on the roof any more but I think its the same place. http://www.biffburgers.com/ | | | Re: Need help in selecting a van club | Joined: Jun 2011 Posts: 490 addict | addict Joined: Jun 2011 Posts: 490 | I think so too. Sad that the BelAir is gone (was a 57), but a nice place anyway. | | | Re: Need help in selecting a van club | Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 793 old hand | old hand Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 793 | You could be like Wizard who's signature shows he's been a member of just about every van club east of the Mississippi ;)
Pittsburgh PA Vanner 75 VansAJammin' & 76 Jive Turkey 89 A-Team Van | | | Re: Need help in selecting a van club | Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 2,184 Likes: 1 veteran | veteran Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 2,184 Likes: 1 | I would not want to join a club that would have me as a member.
2014 and no more Econolines made... market blunder. The last new 2014 econoline to go to a vanner - DEADLAST How many mid ford vans can 1 man own? Don't ask stupid questions... My chopped mid ford will be painted black till they make a darker color. Grind to Grind... Hot metal will abound the land... IceAge II 'The MeltDown' My 3D printer will produce a life size 1969 mid ford in 2031... Wait and see...
| | | Re: Need help in selecting a van club | Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 18,213 Likes: 2 Supreme Master | Supreme Master Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 18,213 Likes: 2 | You could be like Wizard who's signature shows he's been a member of just about every van club east of the Mississippi ;)
and still am
Everyday above ground is a Good Day!!! Never Stop Vannin'
Member of Break Away Vanners Host of Spring Break At Shenandoah Acres Family Campground
Owner & Creator of Wizard's Van-In Videos Member of Riding High Truckers from 1982 to 1996 2nd Member of The Toopa Sinner Tribe Member of Free Bird Vanners 1996 to Present Member of Cape Atlantic Truckers South Jersey Host Club of Freeze Out Certified Nats Judge Member of Shenandoah Valley Vans | | | Re: Need help in selecting a van club | Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 6,261 Bad Girls from New York, Bad Western Inn in IN. | Bad Girls from New York, Bad Western Inn in IN. Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 6,261 | Here is what I always to the newer people.... get out to some eVANts (they are mostly all listed on here) and meet the people. Spend some time with a bunch of different clubs for a while and see who you fit in with the best. That is truly the only way to find a group you would be happy with.
Each club has a different make up and personality. Some have rules and meetings with dues, some have none of that. Until you meet the people within the group, really no way of knowing. Some have rules about new members, others don't...all different.
There is nothing wrong with coming to an eVANt or a few as an independent Vanner and learning about us. And, it would be better to have some freedom while looking for a club fit that suits you. It also saves a lot of grief from joining up with the wrong group right away.
Performance is a wonderful group..I call them mine, they call me theirs, but I don't get to vote or pay dues...we are family. There are many good groups out there to choose from and you are in a great area to do so!
Good luck to you and hope to meet you soon in person!
Cherish your friends! HUGGS to all! Suzie
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