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Thought it time to do this, as the club has neared 80 members now! The idea started between two grumpy old men, Ghost and myself! We had run with the LXers last year, but felt that the Challenger owners had different priorities/values/pride in our cars then they do/have. Now all of u know of the two other websites out there for our cars, I am a member of both. So I started a thread in the regions section of each, saying to pm me email address, as that was the best way to link people from both sites, called it NorTex at the time. Well I learned something real quick, one of the sites is not just a forum, it's a "club", guess which one! They deleted the thread, no pm, nothing! Had to ask them thru pm, reply was " this is a competeing club", the thread was! So enter Moparx2, who I've known for awhile. Good spot to mention here, that neither Ghost, nor Moparx2 will post/visit the other sites, so I'm in the middle, trying to link people from both sites. Most who know me know I don't own, nor want a computer, as I cause enough comotion with this iPhone, so I asked Moparx2 to be the database for the email list. Moparx2 and I talked about how we had seen/been in many clubs/organizations that had spiraled into cliques/power struggles/problems as what starts inclusive usually turns exclusive. So it was decided that this club/unclub would have no officers/dues/orginzation that the SHARING of the ENTIRE email list with everyone on it, would enable a round table/all equal form of non-goverance, as it's just/allways has been a way to get around/link the forums, just an information sharing group. Then I asked Dave to let us be a "club" here, and he did, now we have a home! NorTex was the half of Texas Challengers, and I expected Ghost to do a SoTex, tho at the creation it was all under the Texas Challengers banner. Well it was decided that it would be better to make it one club/unclub and the addition of Outlaws between Texas Challengers would diffrentiate us from other groups( one a softball team) with the same name. Once again Dave came thru, changed our name to the present, and made Ghost and I both moderaters of the clubs forum, woohoo! So this is where we are, trying to keep the basic concept of the group, that one email list unites us( sounds like lord of the rings, eh)! The rewards of this unsystem were seen at the Temple show, when we outnumbered the other modern mopar models with Challengers! But we are still struggling to get the entire list updated/sent to all members, as I am very limited to what I can do with this iPhone, I even tried to use my friends computer to update a Excel worksheet that Ghost sent me, guess what, no Excel program on his puter, just my luck, haha! But I will get it done, send it out to all, so we can get back to the core idea of the club/unclub that Ghost and I started, that if people know of events early enough, they will have a better chance of scheduling/making the events/m&gs/cruises this year, the goal to Challengerize everything this year! No rules/officers/roadcaptains/bosses/founders/dues EVER, no glory, just RESULTS! Sorry the post is long, just wanted to give credit to my two GREAT friends Ghost and Moparx2, without who this idea would have never been possible! Now guess I'll work on the dang list, get that out to everyone, before we hit the 100 members mark, woohoo! Sicki(Mark), da sick'r bee
