I think the biggest issue with car groups (in my area) is the sheer amount of immature people involved. People are constantly going back and forth on IG over who is low and who isn’t, who has “clout” and who doesn’t, bags vs static, etc. I go to a car meet maybe once a month that’s usually full of the older generation. No one there gives a damn what you drive as long as you like it
Car clubs are just drama and the last car club I went into was filled of guys over 30 years old. I went in thinking I would be with mature people but I ended up being around cocky old people who thought they were the shit. They would call any other car a basic POS but the main guy did a basic carbon fiber set up that's been done for years 😂 (carbon fenders, hood, trunk, shit dude did carbon doors)
Whats a car meet without drama🤷. I guess you've never been to night racing and seen the drama with losing bets and sht. Old poeple are boring as fck and I'm 30 but I've just been in that crazy world for years now
I only got into cars because of a local car club. Everyone had clean budget builds, including a 600+ hp fox body, a 340 hp Tiburon on a body kit, a vortec sc 350Z, two VR4 3k GTs and many Mustangs. I joined it and bought my first Mustang a year after. We did cruise-in for a cause which was a car show where people brought toys to the show and we personally drove them to a children's hospital every year. We had a club shop and life was great. Things just kinda fell apart between people having kids and just having the wrong people join just because of what they drove. Went from feeling like a family to a group of peeps with interesting cars... Really miss the hours of driving with 20+ people all with the same club banner on their cars :/ I do have a WCEC sticker on my ST even though I'm not really involved, gotta rep Wisconsin though!!🧀
I feel ya. I got into cars to learn the technical aspect, especially as a science geek - going for the most powerful and reliable car. And then it got to a point where it was all about the clout, the sideshows, and other BS. Through it all, it is how you make of it. A car should be about what you want. And from there you’ll find the right community.
@@-meat- I hear ya on that one. I haven't seen one since his. It was lowered on a paint matched body kit, navy blue paint. I only went on two joy rides with him but it was a blast!! He sold it to buy a Genesis. I almost bought it myself but I wanted my own car, not one already built.
Nah it’s the Scat Pack guys getting mad at me cuz I gap them in my Infiniti then scream at me because apparently the Q60 3.0 doesn’t come factory with twin turbos💀
Facebook killed car clubs, the introduction of social media and FB pages became the platform instead of Forums. Forums could create private events that only members knew about. Once social media came along, private events were took over like strangers coming to a house party. Then the other side of it, website hosts want money for forums and therefore clubs, social media is free, good bye forums and good bye clubs.
No not really. Social media can actually help with car clubs. It’s just simpler. You just have too many guys who wanna lead something but don’t know how to lead. You can do all the shit that forums can do from social media.
you can make private facebook groups. thats how my local 86 club works. you need to be invited to know about the monthly meetup. and you need to attend 3 meets to be invited into the private group and get your decal
I run and created my local car club “Alliance Auto Club” in 2016, we have 1000 members for a smaller area in my province (Canada). What your saying is absolutely true, we have a merch line, and I sell group stickers. I keep decent control over stupid behaviour (which I think is what drives a lot of the older people away) and my group seems to have a very diverse age, youngest being 16/17 just getting their license, all the way up to late 60s, it’s a pretty cool feeling to have a group the way it is. I think the older folk have a big impact on the younger gens in our group. Great video, you checked alot of boxes that needed to be checked, and in general pretty much made a good example of how the 21st century car clubs begin to die early on.
This is rad! We need more of this and less of the "internet Police". I hate the rating of cars etc. I have love for anyone who is working on their car to enjoy it. I'd rather roll with a crew of 100 shit boxes that guys just love and work on as they can afford than 2 "sick builds" with some IG stars. They are the reason people slap cheap shit on their car rather than save for the quality parts from good manufacturers as finances allow. Cheers to you!
i grew up around car clubs, i can tell you exactly what happened to car clubs. 1. Politics. showing up to car club meets felt like going to family court. mfs mad at others over whos in charge and whos in control. mfs campaigning for favortism and when you show up you feel like you have to pick sides so car club meetings felt more like a jerry springer show. and 2. Dues and fees. why the hell do you need to pay to hang out with friends doing what you like you better hace $30 every tuesday for them and if you broke a rule or missed a meeting you suddenly owe fees and fines. this was bullshit especially when we all knew the club president was paying his rent and building his car and buying his beer with our money. lastly 3. Rules. if im going to build my car without your help or you paying for any of it why am i going to listen to you tell me what to do with the car especially if i can and am doing more with my car than the rest of the club. want a car club to work and be enjoyable? No one is in control its just all your friends hanging out meeting up and going to shows together, NO DUES OR FEES, no rules or obligations. if you are a dumbass and do dumb shit while wearing the club logo youre out its that simple but youre screened for a while before you can join anyways
Old guy here. 46. I can tell you that you are very right. I am the President of The Eastern Oklahoma Section of Mercedes Benz Club of America and I am the youngest member. Most of the membership is 65 and older. My goal is to change that by bringing in younger Mercedes Benz owners to breath new life into the club before the club becomes extinct. I believe that if we help the younger ones become adults it will help them in leading future clubs and to be better men and women for their future families.
How is it working out? I’m in the same situation. I’m the youngest guy in our British car club (I’m in my 50s) and was just named President. My focus will be on recruiting new members. What has worked for you?
I'm part of my local Subaru club. The admins are all in their thirties, and we're regarded as the most chill car club in our area. We get lots of respect from local store owners that know of us.
I’m glad you touched upon the cool jackets that these groups wore back then, I feel like a lot of the style of modern groups is gone. Everyone just wears hoodies now and it’s kinda lame.
Real talk that's such an underrated part of the experience. Back when I was on a college rocketry team (not quite a car club but a club nonetheless) we had custom flight jackets made for members and it was always a huge recruitment tool and helped everyone feel that Camaraderie that I feel like a lot of new clubs just don't do.
That’s true there’s something about wearing a leather jacket, bomber jacket, or varsity/leather man jacket with your car clubs name on the back of it is cool asf
My local car scene has literally been decimated by 18 year olds with stock Subarus that started so much drama all of the admins either quit hosting meets or went private and died out. There used to be 4 groups with 200+ members and now its a bunch of cliques of 10 or so friends that go on cruises to get coffee
I think that drama will always be here and always has been here. Sometimes only 10 people are all you need. I could never understand how one person or a few people can keep up with hundreds of people.
@@regalcatnetwork8068 like he said, no commitment with smaller groups. If i go to a meet i want to see new unique stuff not the same 10 clapped out cars every time. People get bored and stop going
Clout chasing zoomers fck everything up. I don't care if I get called a gatekeeper, but they need to be kept out of groups. All they do is cause drama, which leads to every group they're in splitting up eventually. They're literally the embodiment of "This is why we can't have nice things"
@@plottwist1733 just got to stand by your rules man and they can’t ruin shit. That’s what a club is supposed to do. If it’s a racing club your car Has to be modified for that purpose, if it’s a show car club it’s got to be a show car, if it’s an early 2000s ricer club then the car has to be built like it was built in the early 2000s. Most of these random clubs want everybody to be in their club so they have no rules or a standard in which they carry themselves.
The issues with car clubs are well some of the obvious. Immaturity and lack of respect, the undeniable hatred toward anything and everyone else's build, lack of actual growth within the club and the over growth. I mean I been in the game a long time and through some spectacular 600 plus car shows. Not 1 glitch why because the Immaturity was able to exist throughout my event. Owning a car and building one isn't the same. The as we call car passion is an expensive drug that constantly needs to be fed and I don't think people take that into account. So for me 400hp is alot for let's 75% of the people on the road. Having the same exact car build is not in anymore. Creativity and being completely different is the way to go. Except for stamped ass cars riding sideways on their rims nah can't even get with that lol
The only true to stay type of car clubs are the low rider clubs, those dudes are like family bond . I swear every type of clubs I seen dint hold a candle to a low ride club
The best clubs are small ones where everyone knows eachother by name and actually hang out to do things other than being hard parked in a parking lot. They do track days together, cruise together, do non-car related stuff together. There might be less than 10 of them, but they respect one another enough to not F sh-t up for everyone else.
Car Clubs are great till they start going bad, because it falls apart pretty fast. Car teams who preach about family are all fake. just hangout with whoever you like, park with whoever you like and chill with everyone
A year and a half ago I started the Columbus Ohio Veloster Enthusiasts Car Club. Only requirements are that you own a Hyundai Veloster. It doesn't matter if you are NA, Turbo, Or N. Lowered or not. Clapped out or riced out. It doesn't matter. We have about 100 members right now. And while we don't always have the greatest turnout for various events, knowing that someone in the group knows how to do this or that, how to solve this issue or that one, or knowing where to find aftermarket parts, tunes, mods etc, is a valuable resource.
What happend to clubs? *ego..* *narcissism..* *selfishness..* *jealousy..* *social media..* all things that conflict with forming functional groups or clubs.
I think this video touched a big issue with the car scene today and why the meets aren’t as good as they could be. When the car clubs were a huge part around here, I’m talking pre WCEC. Clubs like Positive Force, Lowered Images and Import Dynamics younger car enthusiasts would act better at meets. Most guys wanted to eventually be or build something to be in one of those clubs. Well with wanting to join you needed to show up to events and conduct yourself in a manner for them to let you in. When the clubs went away there was no social hierarchy to rein in this behavior. Now you have a situation where most guys over the ages of 30-35 have left the social part of the scene because of this. They don’t want their rare and/or expensive cars around a kid that might try a burnout and hit their car or kick up rocks at it. Now those older more mature enthusiasts are only found at Road America or the cars and coffee meets around the state. The other meets and shows in WI should be so much better with the rich history of Motorsports here but until the scene calms down there will continue to be issues getting the older crowd out and about.
Police hassle car clubs. They all get grouped into the category of "up to no good" even if they're not. And it only takes a few times of getting screwed with before it becomes a deterrent. If not the other things that become a deterrent, like group politics, and internal conflict. Not to mention, life gets in the way.. priorities change even if interest remains.
Here in Missouri, traditional car clubs are still a thing. But since it's the lower Midwest, it's mainly old dudes in classic or newer muscle cars who hate anything less than 8 cylinders. So people like me, with turbo cars, are pretty much looked down on. So I'm forced to do solo fun runs on back roads and hope the cops don't catch me. Lol
Car Clubs today are generally either people that really love cars and have skill or their punks that only like getting involved in drama or trying to clout chase I tried once only once. After that I'd meet up with lots of individual clubs and ask what it is they actually do. If they can't answer those questions I move on. At that point you answer my question right there. I go out to take pictures they keep me in the loop.
@@hundredlives3910 are you kidding me? Do you not have this thing called a social life? If you have a social life and your a car person how in the hell have you never at least heard of 1 car club near you??? Please stop ✌🏿 They're all over my area but I live in Philadelphia so not a hard find they literally post their club sticker on the windshield.
Any club is walking dead in this day where the bar is set at tapping “Join” with your thumb. Ease is and will always be a greater detriment to progress than hardship ever could be. People don’t even know what “connection” is anymore unless it’s a numeric value on a web page.
i just got what i would consider to be my first enthusiast car. and the only club in my area for cars has stopped meeting due to covid.. its just me n my 95 3000gt. i saw a mr2 the other day, he popped his headlights at me..
97' 3000gt owner here, its sad theres no one to drive windy roads or wrench on your car with around here. I def get respect from some other sports car drivers in the area but theres no type of organization at all.
I’d say about half the posts in all the car meet up groups where I live are people roasting other people or talking crap. I’m in a Veloster N group thats pretty tight knit but unfortunately many of the other Ns don’t come to events. I do sorta wish the cost to entry was more than hitting join and verifying your make a model on a Facebook group.
creating more barrier to entry definitely makes being in a club feel more worthwhile. make a private fb page, make your events private so new people can only really find out by word of mouth. and make it so new people have to show up to 3 meets in order to get invited to the private group and get their decal
I’m from Chicago where every car club here is just stealing the same banners and slightly changing their club names lol 😂 And the mopar boys think they’re better than everyone else 🤡
I was looking at joining a local Subaru club at one point. I joined the facebook group to check out the ride or meetup dates but at the time I joined, they were changing out leadership. Supposedly the new change was so drastic to the members that tons of people were threatening to leave. The massive drama on facebook and the insane drop of membership numbers discouraged me from ever joining them. I never even made it to a single meet but all that shit told me everything i needed to know about them.
I’m in a larger local car club and we commonly associate with C3 Car Club: Lawton Chapter. C3 is a huge car club that probably has a chapter in your area too.
Back in the late 90's was in a club. You had to have work done but as the yrs went on they just let anyone in cause they knew a member. So the meets looked like a used car lot.
I like the idea of car clubs where it takes responsibility to show up, participate in events, and overall have a good time and make good friendships along the way, I feel like it would help ppl fulfill there sense of longing to something bigger than themselves, it just sounds nice
There are a couple of car meets here in LA hopefully car clubs can spring back to life in the digital age even with the government cracking down on car registration
There’s less maturity and respect for the public or even the scene for that matter. There’s less of a push to build cars no matter the goal may be for that person. But with the bad there’s still alot of good there’s a handful of quality meets with a chill vibe and tastefully built cars
I think it would be great to have a group of friends with same make or model cars to help each other out and get stoked about their builds. I've only ever seen one car club in Iowa. Some dudes with subarus. They have a sticker of the subi stars inside the state boarder.
I think it's not just car clubs, but clubs in general. The new generations, younger millenials and gen-y have become way more individualistic, and therefor less social. Not only do they struggle to work in groups, they also have a hard time working as a team. Add that to going out less and spending more time at home (gaming or on media) and you have a whole generation that can no longer connect to one another. Try to get a club going anywhere and let me know how it works out.
Car clubs are still around, they're just more inclusive these days... A lot of the car scene in Massachusetts (Boston/South Shore) is basically by invitation only. If you don't know someone, you aren't getting in. A ton of meets are held in parking garages/lots with gates to keep out the riff raff.
I've only been in two car clubs and am still with them despite one being a honda fit club which I don't have one anymore. The other was/is for integras and we definitely were like a family. We may not talk as much but we are definitely there for each other.
in person activities and clubs are better than just posting online in my opinion because people who love to talk trash are protected by the fact that its all behind screens and therefore are more likely going to talk trash since there are no consequences
I feel like having the community so open has definitely affected the culture that is a Car Club Everything’s so open and accessible if you don’t like something you leave and then join another There’s no importance to a lot of clubs now and when people find a club that values it’s members and it’s members value the club they (the people wanting to join) don’t want to deal with the commitment or pay/give to keep the club alive. What people want is a fancy looking sticker to keep up for a few months and then change.
Don’t get me wrong I’m definitely among those people that don’t have the time to go out to mandatory meetings or events I only go out when I want to so a club isn’t for me but I do miss the companionship of a club and the feeling when you all roll out together and cruise
The fancy sticker part is very true. Personally, i view car clubs as mostly a "sense of belonging" type thing these days. And with that the "us vs. them" mentality might follow suit, given enough idiots in one car club or another, which doesn't exactly create a foundation for a healthy, non-troublesome community.
I've found that any newer modern performance car groups are toxic af. When I got first got my Skyline, the community was welcoming and nice af. Then I got a '15 WRX....one of the most toxic groups I've been in so far....that's my reason for sticking with import groups
I think WCEC has lost a lot of it’s touch over the years. The head crew has remained the same but like you said it has gotten huge with no restrictions on entering and has become a lot of people bashing other people’s builds and internet trolls. I just started my own Wisconsin MR2 club back in April, it is a pretty awesome group of guys that are all willing to help out with any questions, some of us have even met up for dinner one night just because. I think the smaller groups like that are going to be the new clubs, but then there are a lot of people that don’t have an official club, but more so a group of friends that just roll together regardless and that is the new car club scene, more unofficial and the small community of your close friends
Car clubs are definitly going through growing pains. I think people that are just getting into cars are introduced by this instant gratification car club stuff that facebook has been feeding us and they dont know how good it can b in a proper car club. The group I am working with currently, Cruising Addicts, that my friends and I founded out of me just hosting cruises down to WCEC events for the past 4 years is something that I want to push into that gap that between internet car clubs and old school car clubs. I feel if we can make a proper hybrid of the two I really think we could make something really awesome!
@@ElPinche97 I never heard of any car clubs in my area therefore I cannot speak from my own experience but it just seemed too specific and unrelated for you to point that out of the blue, now if this video was about attention whores, it would make sense
im 30 and can agree, i also rode bikes for 10 years and MCs still require that registration/prospect/family/financial/lifestyle commitment you dont see with cars wheres every 16 yo with a civic prints a custom sticker from redbubble and now chris and jeff who bought chrome bits from auto zone are a car club... lol i lived thru that shift in my teens an twenties. its not as sacred...
MNCEC puts on big events and rallies, Drive Cartel puts on monthly shows/meets and some larger shows, MNIllest has weekly meets where you can drive whatever and just come hang out with like minded people. All three have FB pages, but I think there is a combined two events left for the season since it is starting to get colder. There's some other groups, but they are more exclusive with their meets so you probably won't be able to just drive in.
Anything someone has pride in is respectable. If taken care of whether built, bought, show, or go. I built my 98 volvo t5 from ground up. Rn swap, turbos, fuel delivery, turboback, poly everything, chassis n strut bars n braces, ported manifolds, even a bc coilover kit from fitment industries! Its body is super clean but its 1 previous owner got hit in pass door and never repaired it. So i have a vt license plate covering the damage green car green plate. Some love it some hate it...
That's because Liberty Media tried and succeeded on softening the image of F1, going from a premium Monaco luxury type thing to a more "hey look at these quirky drivers" type thing. Oh and socials. Lots of socials.
Alex thank you for another righteous video!! I’m 6 months in at UTI college because of you! Almost half way done. Watch out as I make a name for myself. I’ll be in fitment payroll soon enough dammit!
I’m in the process of starting my own car club: JDM KDM USDM And Euro And I have rules to go along with it. Arrive and leave meets and shows peaceful ly , respect other people and enthusiasts, help each other out and never support illegal activity
I’ve been trying to start up my own little club that I named Insomnia, but my first and really only rule is that you have to believe anyone can be an enthusiast. Members of insomnia essentially have to be leftists in order to pass the vibe check
agreed.. single type nation car club, they even seperated from their gen 2 gen3 lol you bought sticker and you are a member, 3-4yrs then move on to next car+club i used to have attend every event for months before given sticker, thats the only way for 20yrs
I recently joined a car club and it's fun we have our own discord server where we can shit talk eachother's rides and peer pressure each other into finishing our projects so we can race them to see if any of us even stand a chance VS. the club owners 600hp ZR1
Here in the Twin Cities, MN there’s lots of different car groups to join but what I think makes it hard to stay involved is how hard it can be to fit in and that if your car isn’t good enough or you don’t know the right people you’re just irrelevant
I always hated the "car clubs" because people claim top be car lovers but hate fords or hate chevys. I love all cars and find all builds interesting. I also find a lot of the newer cars amazing. I never thought I would love the way a Kia looked until I saw the stinger LOL
Car clubs at my place are still in A-OK kinda state though. No gang-related or crazy shit happens. Just natural low profile tuner community doing low profile meets and cruises. The cops still okay about it as long as there are no dumb shit happening like people blocking the intersection while cars making donuts in the middle that later become killing machine that caused sideswiping people nearby and crashing into random cars Or a bunch of cars drive fast like an idiot in a tight 1 way lane thinking they're in Wangan Midnight which ended up crashing into random cars in the opposite lane which caused major damage and even worse, death of innocent people (yeah there are a bunch of idiots in my place driving like that and it's still happening.)
These days I find a lot of groups/clubs are toxic. Most of the time even when I do mods to my mk7 golf on the owners club they laugh at it or say I should of bought an R or GTI. It's always follow the heard. And people in one club fall out and start making their own club and then I get invites to a new club every 2 or so weeks 😂
Stanced kids in every scene ruined it. But the real answer is because it's super expensive now. New car prices, used cars (have you seen 240sx, S2000, WRX prices now), import engines going up. You could have 10 different well-funded hobbies and be better off than a car enthusiast right now.
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I think the biggest issue with car groups (in my area) is the sheer amount of immature people involved. People are constantly going back and forth on IG over who is low and who isn’t, who has “clout” and who doesn’t, bags vs static, etc. I go to a car meet maybe once a month that’s usually full of the older generation. No one there gives a damn what you drive as long as you like it
I eat Ferraris but there is always a nissin sentra ready to do 85.🤭
Car clubs are just drama and the last car club I went into was filled of guys over 30 years old. I went in thinking I would be with mature people but I ended up being around cocky old people who thought they were the shit. They would call any other car a basic POS but the main guy did a basic carbon fiber set up that's been done for years 😂 (carbon fenders, hood, trunk, shit dude did carbon doors)
Whats a car meet without drama🤷. I guess you've never been to night racing and seen the drama with losing bets and sht. Old poeple are boring as fck and I'm 30 but I've just been in that crazy world for years now
Social media isn’t real
True
I only got into cars because of a local car club. Everyone had clean budget builds, including a 600+ hp fox body, a 340 hp Tiburon on a body kit, a vortec sc 350Z, two VR4 3k GTs and many Mustangs. I joined it and bought my first Mustang a year after. We did cruise-in for a cause which was a car show where people brought toys to the show and we personally drove them to a children's hospital every year. We had a club shop and life was great. Things just kinda fell apart between people having kids and just having the wrong people join just because of what they drove. Went from feeling like a family to a group of peeps with interesting cars... Really miss the hours of driving with 20+ people all with the same club banner on their cars :/ I do have a WCEC sticker on my ST even though I'm not really involved, gotta rep Wisconsin though!!🧀
I feel ya. I got into cars to learn the technical aspect, especially as a science geek - going for the most powerful and reliable car. And then it got to a point where it was all about the clout, the sideshows, and other BS. Through it all, it is how you make of it. A car should be about what you want. And from there you’ll find the right community.
You really don't see many tiburon builds, that's what makes them kinda cool
@@-meat- I hear ya on that one. I haven't seen one since his. It was lowered on a paint matched body kit, navy blue paint. I only went on two joy rides with him but it was a blast!! He sold it to buy a Genesis. I almost bought it myself but I wanted my own car, not one already built.
Electric car clubs are coming lmfao.... show your go kart lol.....
@@-meat- I want to drop a boosted k20 in a Saturn sc2 for my unique build lmao
8 second sc2 world's fastest baby
Lets be honest the person driving the OEM 700hp muscle cars are the ones being the most toxic. Mopar clubs are the worst. NOT all but most.
The actual hellcat guys arent near as bad as the 5.7 and 3.6 guys who talk about but muh 707
They're the ones I see the most in groups driving like a bunch of assholes.
My Mazda loves "Dodges" so much mmmmmm.
Yeah I agree. Some of the most aggressive drivers too.
Nah it’s the Scat Pack guys getting mad at me cuz I gap them in my Infiniti then scream at me because apparently the Q60 3.0 doesn’t come factory with twin turbos💀
Facebook killed car clubs, the introduction of social media and FB pages became the platform instead of Forums. Forums could create private events that only members knew about. Once social media came along, private events were took over like strangers coming to a house party.
Then the other side of it, website hosts want money for forums and therefore clubs, social media is free, good bye forums and good bye clubs.
No not really. Social media can actually help with car clubs. It’s just simpler. You just have too many guys who wanna lead something but don’t know how to lead. You can do all the shit that forums can do from social media.
you can make private facebook groups. thats how my local 86 club works. you need to be invited to know about the monthly meetup. and you need to attend 3 meets to be invited into the private group and get your decal
Gatekeeper
Ignorant pissant Kids these days killed car clubs and the scene.
I swear bro! There are "clubs" pooping out every fucking day! In my area there is a crew called: F*ck your crew. 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
I run and created my local car club “Alliance Auto Club” in 2016, we have 1000 members for a smaller area in my province (Canada). What your saying is absolutely true, we have a merch line, and I sell group stickers. I keep decent control over stupid behaviour (which I think is what drives a lot of the older people away) and my group seems to have a very diverse age, youngest being 16/17 just getting their license, all the way up to late 60s, it’s a pretty cool feeling to have a group the way it is. I think the older folk have a big impact on the younger gens in our group.
Great video, you checked alot of boxes that needed to be checked, and in general pretty much made a good example of how the 21st century car clubs begin to die early on.
This is rad! We need more of this and less of the "internet Police". I hate the rating of cars etc. I have love for anyone who is working on their car to enjoy it. I'd rather roll with a crew of 100 shit boxes that guys just love and work on as they can afford than 2 "sick builds" with some IG stars. They are the reason people slap cheap shit on their car rather than save for the quality parts from good manufacturers as finances allow. Cheers to you!
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@@mrzellama5585 Ontario
Why are Canadians always so awesome
i grew up around car clubs, i can tell you exactly what happened to car clubs. 1. Politics. showing up to car club meets felt like going to family court. mfs mad at others over whos in charge and whos in control. mfs campaigning for favortism and when you show up you feel like you have to pick sides so car club meetings felt more like a jerry springer show. and 2. Dues and fees. why the hell do you need to pay to hang out with friends doing what you like you better hace $30 every tuesday for them and if you broke a rule or missed a meeting you suddenly owe fees and fines. this was bullshit especially when we all knew the club president was paying his rent and building his car and buying his beer with our money. lastly 3. Rules. if im going to build my car without your help or you paying for any of it why am i going to listen to you tell me what to do with the car especially if i can and am doing more with my car than the rest of the club.
want a car club to work and be enjoyable? No one is in control its just all your friends hanging out meeting up and going to shows together, NO DUES OR FEES, no rules or obligations. if you are a dumbass and do dumb shit while wearing the club logo youre out its that simple but youre screened for a while before you can join anyways
Well said
Thanks for spitting FACTs bro! I own 4 vehicles and I am my own car club…lol
i miss my old crew......we went everywhere together. about 20 cars just to go eat. everyone drove their own cars
What else would you drive? Your neighbors.....
Prob means instead of people giving each other rides everyone went as a group in their own personally customized cars
Old guy here. 46. I can tell you that you are very right. I am the President of The Eastern Oklahoma Section of Mercedes Benz Club of America and I am the youngest member. Most of the membership is 65 and older. My goal is to change that by bringing in younger Mercedes Benz owners to breath new life into the club before the club becomes extinct. I believe that if we help the younger ones become adults it will help them in leading future clubs and to be better men and women for their future families.
How is it working out? I’m in the same situation. I’m the youngest guy in our British car club (I’m in my 50s) and was just named President. My focus will be on recruiting new members. What has worked for you?
@@jg769 I am no longer president but what I found is to host events that everyone can enjoy. Its tough right now.
I'm part of my local Subaru club. The admins are all in their thirties, and we're regarded as the most chill car club in our area. We get lots of respect from local store owners that know of us.
Same. Wrxatlanta
Fozzie life
I’m glad you touched upon the cool jackets that these groups wore back then, I feel like a lot of the style of modern groups is gone. Everyone just wears hoodies now and it’s kinda lame.
Real talk that's such an underrated part of the experience. Back when I was on a college rocketry team (not quite a car club but a club nonetheless) we had custom flight jackets made for members and it was always a huge recruitment tool and helped everyone feel that Camaraderie that I feel like a lot of new clubs just don't do.
That’s true there’s something about wearing a leather jacket, bomber jacket, or varsity/leather man jacket with your car clubs name on the back of it is cool asf
My local car scene has literally been decimated by 18 year olds with stock Subarus that started so much drama all of the admins either quit hosting meets or went private and died out. There used to be 4 groups with 200+ members and now its a bunch of cliques of 10 or so friends that go on cruises to get coffee
I think that drama will always be here and always has been here. Sometimes only 10 people are all you need. I could never understand how one person or a few people can keep up with hundreds of people.
@@regalcatnetwork8068 like he said, no commitment with smaller groups. If i go to a meet i want to see new unique stuff not the same 10 clapped out cars every time. People get bored and stop going
Clout chasing zoomers fck everything up. I don't care if I get called a gatekeeper, but they need to be kept out of groups. All they do is cause drama, which leads to every group they're in splitting up eventually. They're literally the embodiment of "This is why we can't have nice things"
@@plottwist1733 just got to stand by your rules man and they can’t ruin shit. That’s what a club is supposed to do. If it’s a racing club your car Has to be modified for that purpose, if it’s a show car club it’s got to be a show car, if it’s an early 2000s ricer club then the car has to be built like it was built in the early 2000s. Most of these random clubs want everybody to be in their club so they have no rules or a standard in which they carry themselves.
TLDR: Alex explains how fuq-bois in fb groups ruin all the fun by posting memes.
The issues with car clubs are well some of the obvious. Immaturity and lack of respect, the undeniable hatred toward anything and everyone else's build, lack of actual growth within the club and the over growth. I mean I been in the game a long time and through some spectacular 600 plus car shows. Not 1 glitch why because the Immaturity was able to exist throughout my event. Owning a car and building one isn't the same. The as we call car passion is an expensive drug that constantly needs to be fed and I don't think people take that into account. So for me 400hp is alot for let's 75% of the people on the road. Having the same exact car build is not in anymore. Creativity and being completely different is the way to go. Except for stamped ass cars riding sideways on their rims nah can't even get with that lol
The only true to stay type of car clubs are the low rider clubs, those dudes are like family bond . I swear every type of clubs I seen dint hold a candle to a low ride club
The best clubs are small ones where everyone knows eachother by name and actually hang out to do things other than being hard parked in a parking lot. They do track days together, cruise together, do non-car related stuff together. There might be less than 10 of them, but they respect one another enough to not F sh-t up for everyone else.
Car Clubs are great till they start going bad, because it falls apart pretty fast. Car teams who preach about family are all fake. just hangout with whoever you like, park with whoever you like and chill with everyone
Family is everything - ViN Diesel
A year and a half ago I started the Columbus Ohio Veloster Enthusiasts Car Club. Only requirements are that you own a Hyundai Veloster. It doesn't matter if you are NA, Turbo, Or N. Lowered or not. Clapped out or riced out. It doesn't matter. We have about 100 members right now. And while we don't always have the greatest turnout for various events, knowing that someone in the group knows how to do this or that, how to solve this issue or that one, or knowing where to find aftermarket parts, tunes, mods etc, is a valuable resource.
What happend to clubs?
*ego..*
*narcissism..*
*selfishness..*
*jealousy..*
*social media..*
all things that conflict with forming functional groups or clubs.
When you’re hood makes it to the video! The low rider community looks cool, they have really really nice cars.
I lost my marbles when Alex said "Peter Parker that sh*t!" 🤣🤣🤣
I think this video touched a big issue with the car scene today and why the meets aren’t as good as they could be. When the car clubs were a huge part around here, I’m talking pre WCEC. Clubs like Positive Force, Lowered Images and Import Dynamics younger car enthusiasts would act better at meets. Most guys wanted to eventually be or build something to be in one of those clubs. Well with wanting to join you needed to show up to events and conduct yourself in a manner for them to let you in. When the clubs went away there was no social hierarchy to rein in this behavior. Now you have a situation where most guys over the ages of 30-35 have left the social part of the scene because of this. They don’t want their rare and/or expensive cars around a kid that might try a burnout and hit their car or kick up rocks at it. Now those older more mature enthusiasts are only found at Road America or the cars and coffee meets around the state. The other meets and shows in WI should be so much better with the rich history of Motorsports here but until the scene calms down there will continue to be issues getting the older crowd out and about.
Police hassle car clubs. They all get grouped into the category of "up to no good" even if they're not. And it only takes a few times of getting screwed with before it becomes a deterrent. If not the other things that become a deterrent, like group politics, and internal conflict. Not to mention, life gets in the way.. priorities change even if interest remains.
You nailed all of the reasons why I am no longer in car clubs.
Or the one guy who does a burnout in the business approved lot. Or 2 steps it repeatedly making ppl unnerved. That ruins is for everyone else.
@@ogfromutube9649 Which is why cops get called.
Here in Missouri, traditional car clubs are still a thing. But since it's the lower Midwest, it's mainly old dudes in classic or newer muscle cars who hate anything less than 8 cylinders. So people like me, with turbo cars, are pretty much looked down on. So I'm forced to do solo fun runs on back roads and hope the cops don't catch me. Lol
What part of Missouri are you from? I'm in springfield
@@gopro2027 I'm in O'Fallon. Like 25 minutes outside St. Louis
@@sutton3199 yea I know where that's at lol I grew up there. Moved to springfield for college. I went to fort zumwalt north
@@gopro2027 Wait, what year did you graduate? That's where I went. Lol
@@sutton3199 2017
Dustin Williams has his VIP group. It's not a car club but its like a car club. Almost all of us have modified JDM cars and we meet up often.
I want to hear about your and Dakota motorcycle days in a future episode
Car Clubs today are generally either people that really love cars and have skill or their punks that only like getting involved in drama or trying to clout chase I tried once only once. After that I'd meet up with lots of individual clubs and ask what it is they actually do. If they can't answer those questions I move on. At that point you answer my question right there. I go out to take pictures they keep me in the loop.
how the hell do you find car clubs?
@@hundredlives3910 are you kidding me? Do you not have this thing called a social life? If you have a social life and your a car person how in the hell have you never at least heard of 1 car club near you??? Please stop ✌🏿
They're all over my area but I live in Philadelphia so not a hard find they literally post their club sticker on the windshield.
I haven’t been to a car meet yet lol
My ducking turbo saab isn’t even registered yet for gods sake
@@iam_kaution chill dude
All of Alex's videos feels like he spends days researching information, then delivers it flawlessly
Any club is walking dead in this day where the bar is set at tapping “Join” with your thumb.
Ease is and will always be a greater detriment to progress than hardship ever could be.
People don’t even know what “connection” is anymore unless it’s a numeric value on a web page.
i just got what i would consider to be my first enthusiast car. and the only club in my area for cars has stopped meeting due to covid.. its just me n my 95 3000gt. i saw a mr2 the other day, he popped his headlights at me..
97' 3000gt owner here, its sad theres no one to drive windy roads or wrench on your car with around here. I def get respect from some other sports car drivers in the area but theres no type of organization at all.
I’d say about half the posts in all the car meet up groups where I live are people roasting other people or talking crap. I’m in a Veloster N group thats pretty tight knit but unfortunately many of the other Ns don’t come to events. I do sorta wish the cost to entry was more than hitting join and verifying your make a model on a Facebook group.
creating more barrier to entry definitely makes being in a club feel more worthwhile. make a private fb page, make your events private so new people can only really find out by word of mouth. and make it so new people have to show up to 3 meets in order to get invited to the private group and get their decal
I’m from Chicago where every car club here is just stealing the same banners and slightly changing their club names lol 😂 And the mopar boys think they’re better than everyone else 🤡
I was looking at joining a local Subaru club at one point. I joined the facebook group to check out the ride or meetup dates but at the time I joined, they were changing out leadership. Supposedly the new change was so drastic to the members that tons of people were threatening to leave. The massive drama on facebook and the insane drop of membership numbers discouraged me from ever joining them. I never even made it to a single meet but all that shit told me everything i needed to know about them.
7:02 So basically, older car clubs were like clone troopers and the new ones are like stormtroopers.
the current lowrider car clubs still have the involvement and responsibilities that you are talking about and on top of that have strict requirements
I’m in a larger local car club and we commonly associate with C3 Car Club: Lawton Chapter. C3 is a huge car club that probably has a chapter in your area too.
Back in the late 90's was in a club. You had to have work done but as the yrs went on they just let anyone in cause they knew a member. So the meets looked like a used car lot.
I like the idea of car clubs where it takes responsibility to show up, participate in events, and overall have a good time and make good friendships along the way, I feel like it would help ppl fulfill there sense of longing to something bigger than themselves, it just sounds nice
That's part of our mission for the club I m in
There are a couple of car meets here in LA hopefully car clubs can spring back to life in the digital age even with the government cracking down on car registration
My last 3 cars have been 90s Volvos and I will say the Volvo owners are so damn welcoming.
FI's video ads are such a vibe that I don't even skip them haha
My rules for cars, 1. No squatted trucks 2. No overly sized wheels on your v6 muscle car 3. Take your splitter guards off your mopar, that’s it
I’m too anti social to be in an actual club, just going to meets here and there Is just my what I like to do 🤷♀️
As a whole we must put an end to supra/skyline>literally anything else comparisons
There’s less maturity and respect for the public or even the scene for that matter. There’s less of a push to build cars no matter the goal may be for that person. But with the bad there’s still alot of good there’s a handful of quality meets with a chill vibe and tastefully built cars
I think it would be great to have a group of friends with same make or model cars to help each other out and get stoked about their builds. I've only ever seen one car club in Iowa. Some dudes with subarus. They have a sticker of the subi stars inside the state boarder.
Never joins a club just me & my friend would ride out to local meets and try to set up races!
The days of staying out all night long !
day 9 of asking for “Driver To Driver” with the Genesis Coupe
Isnt that the pedi car that can go 200mph if you have a kid inside?
im hoping its after I buy mine in January I don’t need the prices going up
I think it's not just car clubs, but clubs in general. The new generations, younger millenials and gen-y have become way more individualistic, and therefor less social.
Not only do they struggle to work in groups, they also have a hard time working as a team. Add that to going out less and spending more time at home (gaming or on media) and you have a whole generation that can no longer connect to one another.
Try to get a club going anywhere and let me know how it works out.
Chaos? Car club? I’m here for it
Car clubs are still around, they're just more inclusive these days... A lot of the car scene in Massachusetts (Boston/South Shore) is basically by invitation only. If you don't know someone, you aren't getting in. A ton of meets are held in parking garages/lots with gates to keep out the riff raff.
I've only been in two car clubs and am still with them despite one being a honda fit club which I don't have one anymore. The other was/is for integras and we definitely were like a family. We may not talk as much but we are definitely there for each other.
The car club I’m part of kicks ass. Alliance auto club. Love you boys, see you soon.
in person activities and clubs are better than just posting online in my opinion because people who love to talk trash are protected by the fact that its all behind screens and therefore are more likely going to talk trash since there are no consequences
I think the worst of them are the ones who take their challengers and Silverados and do sideshows in intersections.
“Will this car be in a car club” was an insurance question when buying my new car 0_o
Really? What kind of car did you buy?
I feel like having the community so open has definitely affected the culture that is a Car Club
Everything’s so open and accessible if you don’t like something you leave and then join another
There’s no importance to a lot of clubs now and when people find a club that values it’s members and it’s members value the club they (the people wanting to join) don’t want to deal with the commitment or pay/give to keep the club alive.
What people want is a fancy looking sticker to keep up for a few months and then change.
Don’t get me wrong I’m definitely among those people that don’t have the time to go out to mandatory meetings or events
I only go out when I want to so a club isn’t for me but I do miss the companionship of a club and the feeling when you all roll out together and cruise
The fancy sticker part is very true. Personally, i view car clubs as mostly a "sense of belonging" type thing these days. And with that the "us vs. them" mentality might follow suit, given enough idiots in one car club or another, which doesn't exactly create a foundation for a healthy, non-troublesome community.
GS Kingz 👑 checking in!!!
I've found that any newer modern performance car groups are toxic af. When I got first got my Skyline, the community was welcoming and nice af. Then I got a '15 WRX....one of the most toxic groups I've been in so far....that's my reason for sticking with import groups
I think WCEC has lost a lot of it’s touch over the years. The head crew has remained the same but like you said it has gotten huge with no restrictions on entering and has become a lot of people bashing other people’s builds and internet trolls. I just started my own Wisconsin MR2 club back in April, it is a pretty awesome group of guys that are all willing to help out with any questions, some of us have even met up for dinner one night just because. I think the smaller groups like that are going to be the new clubs, but then there are a lot of people that don’t have an official club, but more so a group of friends that just roll together regardless and that is the new car club scene, more unofficial and the small community of your close friends
Mid Night Club still cancelled soz
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Car clubs are definitly going through growing pains. I think people that are just getting into cars are introduced by this instant gratification car club stuff that facebook has been feeding us and they dont know how good it can b in a proper car club. The group I am working with currently, Cruising Addicts, that my friends and I founded out of me just hosting cruises down to WCEC events for the past 4 years is something that I want to push into that gap that between internet car clubs and old school car clubs. I feel if we can make a proper hybrid of the two I really think we could make something really awesome!
I'm a part of a little local club and in my opinion it's the best way to make car friends in your area
This is the car channel that got me into the car scene! My only mistake is buying a 1990 735i as my first project car
“We’re more than a club. We’re family” and then the only girl in the club has slept with every guy in the club 👀
We can only assume that you’re the only one who didn’t get a turn with her
@@danii8168 aha quite the assumption , but this is almost always the case with every club in my area lol
@@ElPinche97 I never heard of any car clubs in my area therefore I cannot speak from my own experience but it just seemed too specific and unrelated for you to point that out of the blue, now if this video was about attention whores, it would make sense
@@danii8168 it’s a joke aha gotta not take things so seriously man I’ve even seen memes about this
im 30 and can agree, i also rode bikes for 10 years and MCs still require that registration/prospect/family/financial/lifestyle commitment you dont see with cars wheres every 16 yo with a civic prints a custom sticker from redbubble and now chris and jeff who bought chrome bits from auto zone are a car club... lol i lived thru that shift in my teens an twenties. its not as sacred...
True car crews are legions..
Still love them..
You should do a video on what happened to all the custom body shops. They all seem to be insurance claim body shops now!
Exactly!! :/
I’m over here in MN almost every weekend driving around trying to find car clubs and find nothing... rip car clubs. Hope to start one soon though!
What part of mn? I might be able to help
@@CuysThiccThighs north of Minneapolis, that would be awesome!
MNCEC puts on big events and rallies, Drive Cartel puts on monthly shows/meets and some larger shows, MNIllest has weekly meets where you can drive whatever and just come hang out with like minded people. All three have FB pages, but I think there is a combined two events left for the season since it is starting to get colder. There's some other groups, but they are more exclusive with their meets so you probably won't be able to just drive in.
@@Azkanse thank you for the Info!
Anything someone has pride in is respectable. If taken care of whether built, bought, show, or go. I built my 98 volvo t5 from ground up. Rn swap, turbos, fuel delivery, turboback, poly everything, chassis n strut bars n braces, ported manifolds, even a bc coilover kit from fitment industries!
Its body is super clean but its 1 previous owner got hit in pass door and never repaired it. So i have a vt license plate covering the damage green car green plate.
Some love it some hate it...
8:55 song ?
The club I was in a long time ago was named R-Gen which was short for Our Generation!
There's somethin' about engines... that calms me down.
I’m in the best car club on earth.. it’s called being a good driver.😂💯
In a matter of months f1 is everywhere now, that new guy promised and he delivered on making f1 more popular
That's because Liberty Media tried and succeeded on softening the image of F1, going from a premium Monaco luxury type thing to a more "hey look at these quirky drivers" type thing. Oh and socials. Lots of socials.
@@leagueoffortnightkyle5373 it’s just crazy to see it happen so quickly 😂 adding Miami to the roster boosted its popularity here also
i really miss my car clubs, but i am also almost 40, so theres that….great post tho!!!
In Milwaukee you see them every now and then the sad fact most of them are Corollas and Toyota matrix
I appreciated the Vegas Vacation reference at 2:03
The only car club near me is literally full of ricer hondas and v6 new edge mustangs
Alex thank you for another righteous video!! I’m 6 months in at UTI college because of you! Almost half way done. Watch out as I make a name for myself. I’ll be in fitment payroll soon enough dammit!
Car clubs are still going strong… I’m in TEAM Dragon. We are nation wide in the USA.
I’m in the process of starting my own car club:
JDM
KDM
USDM
And Euro
And I have rules to go along with it.
Arrive and leave meets and shows peaceful ly , respect other people and enthusiasts, help each other out and never support illegal activity
I’ve been trying to start up my own little club that I named Insomnia, but my first and really only rule is that you have to believe anyone can be an enthusiast. Members of insomnia essentially have to be leftists in order to pass the vibe check
agreed.. single type nation car club, they even seperated from their gen 2 gen3 lol
you bought sticker and you are a member, 3-4yrs then move on to next car+club
i used to have attend every event for months before given sticker, thats the only way for 20yrs
I recently joined a car club and it's fun we have our own discord server where we can shit talk eachother's rides and peer pressure each other into finishing our projects so we can race them to see if any of us even stand a chance VS. the club owners 600hp ZR1
Here in the Twin Cities, MN there’s lots of different car groups to join but what I think makes it hard to stay involved is how hard it can be to fit in and that if your car isn’t good enough or you don’t know the right people you’re just irrelevant
socks with sandals are never cool; but the verstappen bit was spot on
JCCS needs to watch this.
I always hated the "car clubs" because people claim top be car lovers but hate fords or hate chevys. I love all cars and find all builds interesting. I also find a lot of the newer cars amazing. I never thought I would love the way a Kia looked until I saw the stinger LOL
Car clubs at my place are still in A-OK kinda state though. No gang-related or crazy shit happens. Just natural low profile tuner community doing low profile meets and cruises.
The cops still okay about it as long as there are no dumb shit happening like people blocking the intersection while cars making donuts in the middle that later become killing machine that caused sideswiping people nearby and crashing into random cars
Or a bunch of cars drive fast like an idiot in a tight 1 way lane thinking they're in Wangan Midnight which ended up crashing into random cars in the opposite lane which caused major damage and even worse, death of innocent people (yeah there are a bunch of idiots in my place driving like that and it's still happening.)
Every time you said family I heard it in Doms voice
Props for the Conquest sighting
Like, Chrylser Conquest TSI?
These days I find a lot of groups/clubs are toxic. Most of the time even when I do mods to my mk7 golf on the owners club they laugh at it or say I should of bought an R or GTI. It's always follow the heard. And people in one club fall out and start making their own club and then I get invites to a new club every 2 or so weeks 😂
Yeah, or people complain and argue over what generation is the best and all kinds of other shit like that
Seattle Street Racing represent!
Alot of people come in to clubs as an ego, not as a member. Car clubs, bike clubs, air soft you name it.
Aaaaaand subscribed
In L.A. the clubs are alive and healthy.
I think there's a pretty good amount of clubs. Some big, some small. I'm not in one but I know individuals that are in those clubs/teams.
Stanced kids in every scene ruined it. But the real answer is because it's super expensive now. New car prices, used cars (have you seen 240sx, S2000, WRX prices now), import engines going up. You could have 10 different well-funded hobbies and be better off than a car enthusiast right now.
They were popular in my high school in 2015 car clubs now they don’t exist