John -
I suspect the folks at Pebble Beach figured the same such idea was
good for business a long time ago. Probably a good idea to get
businesses involved to help organize and run it all!!
Alan
On 10/19/10, John Sims <ahbn6@verizon.net> wrote:
> I don't know about LBC folks getting older. We just had our annual Brits on
> the Beach show and we were up about 20 cars to approximately 140 this year
> (including over a dozen big Healeys) from last year's 120. And, again, we
> added members to the club who attended the show and signed up. Of the now
> approximately 100 members, we get attendance of upwards of 35 at each
> meeting which I believe is a pretty good percentage. As I look around the
> meetings, it appears that most of the attendees are in their 40's and 50's -
> certainly not old by my standards.
>
> Venue has a lot to do with the show as the attendance has really skyrocketed
> since we moved it to the beach - we take over two blocks of the main street
> of a small beach community parking on both sides of the street while
> pedestrians walk down the middle of the street and on sidewalks gawking at
> our cars. Support of the community is great as the merchants draw business
> at a time when the town is starting to scale down for the winter (the venue
> is basically a historic religious summer retreat). As far as I know, the
> only complaint from last year was from some merchants who were not fully
> aware of the show and wanted to participate more this year. Nice problem to
> have. During the show we settled on a date for next years show -- September
> 17, 2011 -- and work is already starting on it. While there are small shows
> in the area almost weekly, most are muscle cars and other Detroit pieces of
> iron. This is the only true British show in the area. You can see videos of
> the last two events on the Video page of my site.
>
>
> John Sims, BN6
> Aberdeen, NJ
>
> http://www.healey6.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: healeys-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of Greg Lemon
> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 10:22 PM
> To: Richard Kahn; healeys@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] support our hobby
>
> The two shows I am most familiar with seem to be stagnating or shrinking as
> well, my local show, the Flatwater All British on the first weekend in
> October had 65 cars this year on a beautiful, not a cloud in the sky, low 70
> degree day. There was a time when we were in the 80s for cars. I am not
> sure about the raw numbers for the Kansas City All British, but it does not
> seem to be as big as it was when I started going in the late 80s, early 90s.
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