[Mulv]

I belong to the National SAAC club and I find them to be pretty good guys when you meet them. I only go to their conventions every other year when they are nearby as it is too far to go all the way to the east for me.
When I lived in Northern California, I belonged to the NorCal shelby club but I would not recommend it to anyone. Not only are they pompous and really boring, the are really into the clique thing as well. I was a member for about 8 years I think and I only met three people who would speak to me at the track or their meetings in all that time. Two of them are BACC members, which explains their friendliness. I had one person scream and swear at me at Mini Nats at Sears 5 years ago and then the club official he involved did the same thing. This for parking in an unmarked space for maybe 3 minutes while I went to register for the open track event. This person had a Mustang track car of some vintage and I was in my "Tupperware" Cobra. He screamed profanities and only my accepting nature and disbelief saved him from a serious thrashing. My wife was not impressed by the proceedings (her first at the track) and I decided that I would never again attend a NorCal event.
Do what you like, the National group is ok, the locals are a bunch of spoiled jerks.
I should add that my plastic car is supposed to be accepted by the Shelby group for the registration book if the rumours are true... even Shelby's new fake cars are made by SuperFormance after all... so it matters not whether your car is old or new as far as I can tell.

Steve