I want to bring up a subject that will be touchy for the club administrators, but which has been on my mind for a long while. So rather than beat around the bush, I'll just come right out and ask...

What are the benefits of joining the Copperstate Mustang Club?

I haven't renewed my membership in two years because of several reasons. 1) No more newsletters. 2) No discount for members at car shows. 3) Difficult to find out when/where events are taking place. 4) Too expensive.

Call me cheap if you want, but I'm not retired like some, and have 12 hours of work to squeeze into every 8 hour day, and have 4 kids. The show events have an exclusionary feel to them. It's not an open environment. But maybe that's okay? Maybe you have plenty of club members, plenty of volunteers, so it's working out great? These are just my thoughts.

What does the $30 club membership get me if I can just show up to events and pay a couple bucks more to participate on show day? Wait...what does the $30 get me in the first place?

Maybe a lot of people feel the same way, and don't bother to join, or maybe it's just me.

I'll tell you what I and a lot of people I know do every Saturday evening... We go up to the car show at Safeway just N of 83rd & Union Hills. Now THAT is a freaking awesome get-together, at no cost, and you don't need to "know someone" in that club because it's same time, same place every week. Maybe CMC should do something like that... Or maybe folks out here on the west side could get together up there every Saturday with CMC signs on their cars and park together.