Re: club affiliation

[jack@domain.elided (Jack Hagerty)]

Michael Williams spake:

> The robotic midwife writes:
>
> >If you're in the Bay Area (presuming you mean the San Francisco Bay Area)
> >please consider joining ARA as well as AROC. We are not part of the
> >national anymore (not since 1975) and there is no local AROC chapter;
> >the closest being Delta Sierra in the Sacramento Area,
>
> We're thinking of changing our name to "Delta-Sierra-Fog Alfa Romeo Club"
> so that we may rightly claim that sliver of freezing beach you all live
> on...

I think all of the heat and politics have warped your view of the Bay Area.
There's a lot more to it than San Francisco. Here in Livermore we're a
lot closer to you (geographically and climatically) than The City. It's
an interesting mix of cowboys, major vintners and nuclear physicists.

I know it bugs AROC types to see the most densly Alfa populated place in the 
country (a club with nearly 1,000 members in a footprint barely 100 x 50 
miles and we're probably less than half of the Alfa owners) forever beyond 
their grasp, but that's why we believe in peaceful coexistence.

- - Jack

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