Members, Andrew tried to help me but wasn't able. He's referred me to Julian (mightyjlr). Hopefully he will be able to assist us with providing you access to the members only forum so we can continue our work.

Thanks for your patience

 

Sorry I missed the call. I checked back here after the voting threads quite a few times and saw the same stuff over and over. Because of that I quit checking this part of the forum. Please don't take my absence from the call as I'm not interested. I'm very interested in taking this forum /club whatever to the next level, just wish I'd have known.
Pat

 

Hi SIX SPEED,

I am simply a conduit. The real credit should go to FP and friends for saving the Club. I hope all that have submitted information over the last few months have been contacted by FP; I am now forwarding registration information on to him via the website.

RH

 

Thanks, I can't take all the credit. This has been a team effort, and we've had a lot of contributions by members that don't want to give up. I will be getting back to you soon with further instructions, I hope.

 

FP, perhaps I can help. I ran the RI Crossfire Club for over a year and had six members total. Small state. Back when I had my Healy, I ran a club that was devoted to British cars. It was always enjoyable to meet new members and share info about our cars. There, we had about 75 members with all sorts of British cars from Morris Minors to Aston Martins. Jag's were very popular then and a member had a beautifully restored XK-120 Two tone with BRG and cream with a cream leather interior. I sure do miss those guys and gals. Wonder if any have Crossfires now? That would be something now wouldn't it?
Rick

 

It has been a week since the call and I still do not have access. If it take this long to add 2 or 3 people we might need to rethink using this area and create a new one. I hope I have not been missing important conversations or chances to help with the formation of the "new" club.

 

You have not been missing anything.
FP has been unable to reach Julian (mightyjlr) the admin for this site. He has not logged in since 5/20/08.
He is the only person that has the ability to grant access to the XFI members only section on the forum.
He is also the only one to create new sections in the forum.
Hang in there because you will eventually get access.
In the meantime we will use this discussion area so all members can communicate openly.

 

Thanks Valk for updating the thread. Please, all be patient. I'm sure Mighty will be on soon.

 

Where is the info about joining? Thanks

 

Send a PM to FP

 

Been there, done that, read the book. I'm STILL waiting. I answered that I had some experience with operating clubs before. No answer on that either.
At least there's a fair amount going on in NEX. Hell, all I want to do is help.
FP, you listening?
I don't want to sound like I'm dissapointed but I am. I know that FP must be busy. I'll continue to wait. I filled out the application, sent it along and am waiting for a yea or nay.
Rick

 

Folks, we had multiple threads going on about this subject, and it was getting difficult to update both of them. In the interest of streamlining the communication in this forum, I have merged the two threads into this one.


Originally posted by Valky;

You have not been missing anything.
FP has been unable to reach Julian (mightyjlr) the admin for this site. He has not logged in since 5/20/08.
He is the only person that has the ability to grant access to the XFI members only section on the forum.
He is also the only one to create new sections in the forum.
Hang in there because you will eventually get access.
In the meantime we will use this discussion area so all members can communicate openly.

Guys, please be patient. There's not much we can do until we get some forum administration help. I'm sure Julian will be on-line shortly and will help us. I hope you can help us Crossfire Trail once we get going.

I appreciate your patience. I will post updates in this thread to keep you abreast of the progress.

I urge you to please read the thread as much as possible. In the meantime if you want o add your name to the list of new members, please send me a PM with your informations as follows:

• Screen name
• Name
• Year, Model, type Crossfire
• Color
• State where you live
• NO SS number needed

 

OK, this is just me thinking out loud since I can't get into the member section and it's been some time since the conference call.

Things that NEED to happen:

We need officers, 3 was the number everyone on the call seemed to like. I think it needs to be taken further and that there is once person per region/state as an officer and then we have 3 that would be treasurer, VP and president. Reason for this, I'm thinking that FP will probably hold one of those 3 spots but I hardly see him as wanting to be organizing things for the chapters in NJ. Let NJ people do that. Obviously this is something that will need to grow and as a township to city type of deal, until we have a considerable amount of members per area, the area that a region encompasses may be actually quite large.

We need to figure out how we are going to carry over the member numbers from the last membership. I propose that we allow those that wish to continue to use their number, are given a set time to request their number after which time , the numbers are recycled and given to new members in the order they become available. I'd say if the members haven't contributed anything in the last year, they probably don't own a XF anymore, 6 mo, not a social member, 3 mo, slacking and need a kick in the pants. There should be a role call to all current members and if they fall into one of the previous categories, find out if they are indeed still an owner and wants to actively participate or if they're long gone in a new whip never to be seen again. They should also have some identifier letting people know they were from the original XFi such as red number if the normal one is black or outlined or some other unique distinguishing feature. This is not to make the rest of the members look any less important but it is a way to understand that say, FP is number 100 and I'm number 51, that I know that he has indeed been a member longer than I have even though he has a high number in sequence.

We need to figure out what we will be doing as a whole with this club. Are we going to be just meeting up for wings and beers once a month or are we going to actually get into some sanctioned events such as track days/weekends, things like the dragon but all over the country and maybe even the world. I do wonder how many members do we have in other countries? Does anyone know the number? What kind of community involvement could we have?

What are we going to do as far a membership dues? This, I think, will play a dual role in moderating our members and finding out who is still here. It needs to be reoccurring. I'm not against an initial charge, which with you get your membership number, decal, name put into the records, and I'm thinking some type of business card type deal with info about the club, the forum and yourself. You may want your user name on it, you may not. You may want everything down to your phone number of it, or nothing at all. That choice would be yours. This will all be part of the initial membership registration. Then after that, should you need new decals or more cards, they can be purchased anytime thereafter. Also, we need to come up with some figures. Will it be $50 up front and then $25 every year there after or will it be a deal where it's like $2 a month for as long as you're a member at which time you don't pay your dues, you cease to be a member after a few months.

How are we going to divvy up the funding for meet and greets, event's, track days, etc? I think another thing that may have a positive influence is discounting events based on membership. Like all crossfires are welcome to attend but it will be XXX for you and XX for members type deal. Then offer them a membership afterwords if they like what they see. Another thing people mentioned are discounts through Chrysler dealerships and other parts suppliers. If we had an organized chapter and make a list of all the places that will currently offer us a discount on parts, we can not only probably have more success recruiting more dealerships and suppliers into discounting parts for us members but we can also have a large enough network of individuals that if say one chapter doesn't have any luck getting into discounts, another chapter that does, can work with them getting the parts ordered and shipped out to them.

Last but not least, we need to determine how we are going to do all of the above in a timely manner yet take enough time to do it correctly so we don't have a bunch of snafus along the way. Anyone that has run a club or beet part of a club that had bylaws, if you have a copy of them and how the structuring of the club went, please feel free to chime in and enlighten us. We are obviously going to have some struggles along the way but I think this can really go somewhere if it is put in good hands and handled properly.

I'm excited to see what may come of this. Hope everyone is as enthused as I am.

 

All sounds good to me.

Having an "organization" gives us more recognition.

Firstly, (after officers are elected/appointed) we should incoporate as a not-for-profit organization and seek the sanction of Chrysler as the official Crossfire Club. Those were suggestions I made to Senna many months ago.

Maybe we should start with three chapters: East, Central, and West - each state with in the chapter can have a "Foreperson" in charge of their region and represent their state in Chapter discussions and help guide local community events in there state. ???

Also, (being in the east) I favor adopting the Chrysler Nationals as our official annual meeting site. There must be other regional Mopar events for the Central and West chapters as well. has anyone started trying to organize the Carlisle event in July? It is getting closer...

I did draft the attached charter as a starting point (modeled after the Jaguar Clubs').

 

rcompart, these are all good ideas, and much of them were discussed in our conference call. Unfortunately conference calls with as many members that called in didn't work well, as not all got a chance to express their ideas not to mention the static. I was hoping that by now we would have the private forum open to all who will participate in forming the membership charter. If I don't hear from MIGHTLYJLR soon we will need to come up with a plan "B". Maybe he's on vacation, and will login soon.

 

LOGO/Emblem?

 

https://www.crossfireforum.org/forum...&postcount=192

 

I Joined Xfi A Few Days Ago , I Havent Heard Back , The Home Page Will Not Open All The Links To Me, I Dont Know If I Am A Memeber Or Not....my Number That I Had To Type In Is 217.......dan Swiger From Canton, Ohio...any Help On This Would Be Appreciated...thanks..

 

Sorry, I Just Read This Thread, See Where Your Coming From....there Is A Lot To Organizing This...but Count Me In When It Is Up An Running.....swagz1

 

To my knowledge the “Chrysler people” at the large official Chrysler LLC Woodward Dream Cruise display don’t know our Crossfire Club will be next to them. If we want to have Chrysler LLC recognize XFI this would be an excellent opportunity to network. Someone would need to volunteer to do this that day. They’d need business cards with the XFI logo, their name and contact number to hand out. If your attending and willing to help send a PM
Also, does anyone know if the Prowler Club is recognized? How did it happen and through who? I don't know anyone with a Prowler to ask.