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Fabulous event! Thank you!

My contact info for Bruce Conklin is out of date. Can anyone send me a message with his new info?  Thanks!

Randy has an extra 3 day and drivers dinner  ticket if anyone wants to buy them

I'll be there. See you!

Congrats on a tough decision.

April 11 to 13.  Both clubs should have access to purchase SRT insider tickets.

See you there!

If you want to see how low the renewal rate is at the VCA, go to their site, click on any old thread and see how high the percentage is of enthusiasts, rather than members. They won't let you know the real numbers, but today it shows up on their site. Go to the VOA site and see the percentage of members.

As I get a "Comments closed" message come up if I try to add to the existing thread, I'll have to start a new one. Someone appears to have excluded me from that thread.

I have been a VCA member for at least 8 years, and loved the events with Chrysler and met some wonderful people.

The potential pitfalls I see with VOA is they have no guaranteed relationship with SRT and no guaranteed VOI or equivalent.

They have 1200 members already, and volume may win out

I've joined them hoping that they will gain that relationship, based on Maurice's history and Ralph joining.

VCA has problems with their SRT relationship based on their letters to and from. They may have too few to support their overhead, needed raffle and a VOI.

It has been explained to me that they promised 2 more issue of the mag than delivered in 2013(has anyone got those?) and that may fall under mail fraud. It may exhaust their treasury getting those out.

There may be residual issues with the old raffle, as it appears not to have been legal, and they still won't disclose most information about it, like where it was held.

I just want a Viper club to do cool stuff with SRT Chrysler. I hope SoCal chooses VOA, as it may have the fewer problems of the two, and seems to be more transparent.

I've joined the VOA. I know and trust Maurice and Janni. All 17 of the original VCA founders are now VOA.

I hope the SoCal club joins VOA. I know Randy B. is sick of all the club bickering and is joining neither. I will work on him to join.

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20131215/AUTO0101/312150029/U-S-closes-Dodge-Viper-investigation

It appears that if you slam into something, it breaks.

VCA has lost the relationship with Chrysler. The BOD has attacked Ralph in writing, and has conflicts of interest with VPA with the Marshalls. The coolest events have involved access to Chrysler facilities, people and cars. Hopefully a new club can restart that.

The sad part is great people like Lance and Maurice have to consider leaving a group they have given massive amounts of work and care.

The Socal club is filled with good people and good cars, and will be an asset any national  Viper organization.

Lee Stubberfield has resigned, making Dan Everts president. There is still a ton of problems with it.

It's a good time to go to the VCA website and see the changes in the club. Maurice and others have been terminated. Some regions have left. If it gets moderated away, Viper Alley will have the info.

Spectacular driving by Mike Malone to come 3rd on Sun in his supercharged Gen 1 in TTU, on a course with no big straights! Randy Begin did a great job in his stock Gen 1 running a 2:06 on my 3 1/2 year old, well used street tires, ahead of many Gen 4 ACRs!

They took home 5 trophies.

I would like to go but I'll probably go Sunday when the real racing is going on.  Is the group only going on Saturday?

http://www.fleetweeksandiego.org/pdf/2010%20schedule%20of%20events.pdf