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As Brownie says, insurance coverage is the big issue here. Personally, tho I don't have a Hudson, I feel much more secure knowing that I can go to a local chapter meet and if I'm dumb enough to walk out in front of a moving Hudson I know there is insurance coverage.



On this point, and this point alone, you are doing the Hudson-Essex-Terraplane Club a grave disservice by being a chapter member and not a national member. You are putting the club in a spot. If you are injured, or your car is damaged, at a local chapter member what are you going to do about it. You probably won't be covered - so are you going to get a lawyer and sue the chapter and club for damages?



I may be wrong, but my feeling is that you, and others, want the goodies, but don't want to pay the freight. You can jump all over me all you want, but I've been a member of this club for 41 years - so I feel that I can say that if you want the chapter, but not the National, then perhaps you should find yourself another club. (These are my thoughts and my thoughts alone - I certainly don't wish to see you leave our great Hudson family). I just wish you'd reconsider and join the full package.



Let me leave you with a little story about why I've been an HET member (and over the years also a member of several chapters) for so many years. In 2007 my marriage of 40 some years finally reached the breaking point and my wife and I were going out separate ways. I was involved in the planning sessions for the 2008 National that was held in Marlborough, MA. At the last planning session I attended, in 2007, a very nice lady came up to me and said "Alex, always remember you have your Hudson family!" For that alone my 41 year membership in the HET club has been priceless and worth every dime.



Please, try to reconsider your reasons for not joining HET and become a member so you can enjoy all the great cars and, especially, the wonderful people.



Hudsonly,

Alex Burr

Memphis, TN

A few year ago a local club here in Utah was holding a show. There were around 40 cars with a very open format for the show. It was a hot day and in the early afternoon a person found some shade partially under the running boards of a car. The owner came by a few minutes later and jumped in his car and started to drive off--running over the person. A "big buck" law suit was filed. The local club had no insurance for the show. The lawer named the owner of the park, the club, every menber of the club and all the folks who had filled out an application for the show. The final tally came out to be around $750,000 for each person named on the case. The lawer won his case and the law suits continue to go on.



If you had attended this show--you would now be fighting to keep what little posessions you have. You would be paying for your own lawer and trying to figure out how to save some of the things dear to you. I was not at that show but a few friends of mine were. You should hear the things they say today. One gentleman thinks he will win in the end. He has been in court four times and continues the fight. His legal bills today are more than ten times what most National clubs charge for life membership.



Much like you, I carry insurance to protect me when I take my car out. But I also make sure a few friends join with me and we call it a HET event. I may never need it, but, how do you know with our society today?



This is just one reason I belong to a National. I could take several pages if you wanted to hear more reasons..... By the way, this forum is great!!! However, all it provides is a forum to express thoughts and ideas. Good thing no one comes after us for what we say about a subject or person....