The only way you would be a member of the VCA is if you sent in the $100 a year for membership dues and provided the VIN Number for your vehicle.
Actually, this is not true. You forgot (or didn't know) that everyone who buys a Viper brand new from a Dodge dealer gets a complimentary 1 year membership. Its called the "COOL" program, don't recall the meaning of the acronym at the moment.
However, concerning how long it takes to process, its a number of months, for some reason. One big delay is that JRThompson is not allowed to provide anyone's information to the regional or national club without first securing approval from the person - part of the recent privacy legislation. But, our club, for instance, often does not see new member information for as much as three or four months after someone joins. We have a number of provisional members on our rolls, awaiting the eventual verification from national, but July 19th to 31st is probably two months too early to be looking for the membership process to complete.
