Our club, the "Texas A&M Sports Car Club" has often held exibition events on
campus during Parents Weekend. We have a car show with cars and videos in
the middle of campus, and set up a course on a perimeter lot. The problem
we ran into was getting a suitable lot. There are a LOT of cars on campus
those weekends, 40K+ students have a lot of parents, and they are as loyal
as the kids.
I wish we could revive this tradition. It was very effective, and seeing
Turbo Toddie in his CP Firebird on a tiny lot would be a hoot!
Bryan Williams
Beer Money Racing
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Linnhoff <eric10mm@qni.com>
To: Hottvr@aol.com <Hottvr@aol.com>; forestg@ionet.net <forestg@ionet.net>;
autox@autox.team.net <autox@autox.team.net>
Date: Sunday, February 28, 1999 1:16 PM
Subject: Event exposure & attracting new members.
>><< Since mirrors in autoX aren't an issue in cars like his C-mod we could
>all
>> get some of them and make it the biggest class at Nats this year! :-{ >>
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>>Did I miss something here? I guess I just don't get it?
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>>Mike B.
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>Yeah, well Rob must be dreaming of beating Neons so often that he's gone
>wacky.
>
>After all, he actually expects to win something, ANYTHING, while driving a
>Ford. He MUST be crazy!! ;^)
>
>BTW, yesterday I was letting my Neon try on all of it's new Solotime
>graphics (THEY LOOK GREAT!!) and drove around the neighborhood running
>errands for a while with them on the Neon. I got stopped 6 times by people
>who wanted to know all about what type of racing I participated in. Not to
>count all the finger pointing and "Wows" from kids who were tugging at
>mommy's arm begging them to look at "the race car".
>
>I got 4 out of the 6 talkative people very interested in Solo events (the
>other 2 seemed to be straight line race fans, go figure?) and we may see a
>few new faces at our local innaugeral event in late March.
>
>Now I come to the purpose of this post. More public exposure. What I did,
>on a larger scale, might be a good way to drum up more membership for our
>clubs.
>
>I don't know about other clubs or cities but here in Kansas City we lost
our
>most visible race site (GSA) which was on a very busy main street. Which
>may be a mixed blessing by bringing back out some past racers who just
>didn't like that particular site because it was on the small side of
>acceptable site size. But, most of our other available larger sites aren't
>very visible by the general public and we could use more exposure to
attract
>more members.
>
>We Soloists don't exactly get a lot of media exposure (at least here in KC)
>so the only real form of advertising we have is either by way of word of
>mouth or our event visibility.
>
>So......What I propose in an attempt to get the local clubs a little more
>exposure and members (and I will present this idea to the KCRSCCA Solo
>meeting this Tuesday) is to hold some type of informal "parade" of
>"decked-out" Solo cars with several stops at(?) car shops, dealerships,
>eateries, etc, (on a nice, sunny Saturday or Sunday morning) that ends up
at
>an already set up Solo event that is designed purely to attract and
>introduce potential new racers to our beloved sport. We might even get
>informational flyers or business cards made up to give to interested
parties
>along the "parade" route about the event and local clubs.
>
>We could hold this parade event in conjunction with an already scheduled
>Solo event and arrange to have most of the Prepared and Modified car
>drivers, whose cars can't or shouldn't be driven on the streets and
>therefore might not be able to feasibly be part of the parade, run in the
>morning and let the "parade" folks run in the afternoon. If the interested
>attendees are apprehensive about racing their cars then I propose a
>"ride-along" program to "hook" them. The race-pace would be limited to
less
>than ten-tenths in an attempt to keep safety at a maximum and I personally
>would be more than willing to lose a few local event points in order to
give
>some rides in my Neon. Heck, I've even got 4 doors so why not use 'em?
>
>All this is just an attempt to drum up new members and racers. Does
anybody
>have any constructive thoughts or suggestions? Any potential problems?
Any
>better ideas?
>
>See you on course.
>
>Eric Linnhoff in KC
>#69DS TLS #13
>'98 Neon R/T
><eric10mm@qni.com>
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>Baby you can drive my car
>Yes I'm gonna be a star
>Baby you can drive my car
>And maybe I'll love you
>
>Beep beep, Mmm beep beep yeah!!
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