The SAOCA Board is very pleased to announce that our Club has formed an alliance with the UK’s Sunbeam Alpine Owner’s Club (SAOC). As a starting point in that alliance, effective immediately all Platinum and Diamond SAOCA members now have access to the SAOC’s bi-monthly publication: The Horn. Greggers, our Technical Director, has added a new Platinum+ section to the forum. Platinum+ members now automatically see this forum when they log into the site and are able to access our pdf copy of the Horn there.
All SAOCA Club members are also encouraged to send them articles for publication in the Horn. Let’s all work to make that an even more valuable club resource!
The Horn is just the start. As soon as we get them the Platinum+ member email addresses (more on that in a moment), our members will have full access to their website! (Non members are currently excluded from their technical articles and some forum content.) And, the SAOC is preparing a pdf copy of their Alpine Guide for us! While this document is about 30 years old, it has a great deal of very useful content and is really an invaluable resource for Alpine owners. I was a member of the SAOC about 10 years ago and still refer to my Guide regularly. That will also be posted to the new Platinum+ forum as soon as it is ready.
Platinum and Diamond members today only make up about 20% of the SAOCA’s supporting members (and a much smaller proportion of total forum users!). We want this new benefit to encourage the rest of you to support the Club, so we have set up a special one-time process to allow you to increase your membership level:
Three caveats before closing:
All SAOCA Club members are also encouraged to send them articles for publication in the Horn. Let’s all work to make that an even more valuable club resource!
The Horn is just the start. As soon as we get them the Platinum+ member email addresses (more on that in a moment), our members will have full access to their website! (Non members are currently excluded from their technical articles and some forum content.) And, the SAOC is preparing a pdf copy of their Alpine Guide for us! While this document is about 30 years old, it has a great deal of very useful content and is really an invaluable resource for Alpine owners. I was a member of the SAOC about 10 years ago and still refer to my Guide regularly. That will also be posted to the new Platinum+ forum as soon as it is ready.
Platinum and Diamond members today only make up about 20% of the SAOCA’s supporting members (and a much smaller proportion of total forum users!). We want this new benefit to encourage the rest of you to support the Club, so we have set up a special one-time process to allow you to increase your membership level:
- Anyone who already contributed to the Rootes Archive Trust during our ‘fund drive’ will be automatically upgraded to Platinum for the remainder of the membership year (through September).
- Current supporting members (Bronze plus) can be upgraded to Platinum by making a $10 donation to the Trust. Non members can upgrade for a $15 donation, which includes $5 (Bronze level) for the Club followed by a $10 donation to the Trust. Just click here to be taken to our Donation page, which now has the upgrade section added.
Three caveats before closing:
- First, we do have quite a few European members. Unfortunately, we cannot make SAOC publications available to you without jumping through a number of EU data protection hoops, so the Horn and (later) the Guide are only available to Platinum+ members outside of Europe.
- Second, we don’t want to share email addresses without permission, even for something as beneficial as this. Therefore, we will soon be sending an opt-out email to all Platinum+ members. You won’t have to do anything if we have your permission to send your email address to the SAOC, but please reply ASAP to let us know if you do not want it shared. Not sharing won’t impact your access to our forum content, but it will prevent you from being able to access the SAOC’s entire website, as they control permissions via email addre
- And, finally, you should know that simplifying our current membership levels is one of the things the Board has discussed. We currently have five different levels – Bronze through Diamond – and the Club actually nets very little from a few of them after expenses (e.g., calendars and window stickers). There has been no specific discussion on this topic to date; it is just something we know needs to be looked at. However, no changes will be made until the current membership year expires at the end of September and anyone who increases their 2018 membership level to take advantage of the new joint association will not lose that access during the membership year.
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