Car meets are not a dying trend as Stew said before the original thread was closed. I know i'm going to hear about this later, but does anyone remember the Wal-Mart Spur of the moment meet? Does anyone remember the one weeks notice Canadian Tire Mini-Meet?
These meets were both BIG. Why? They were'nt complicated, no paying for parking, no driving 30 minutes out of town during a day when people have plans, and no contests for prizes. You make it too big, you make it too flashy not everyone will show up.
The issue about paying for parking came up, and members said well if someone dosent want to pay for parking then they should'nt come anyways. Is that an attitude you want to have?
You want (or should) want to have as many people show up as possible. Make
www.kelownacivics.com feel welcome, for the most part theyre good people. Make the midnight illusion/ family pizza crew and even the general public feel welcome, afterall theyre people into cars aswell. You turn it into a Revscene.net meet and what do you look like? A group of snobs, or just geeks?
Yeah I was going to go to the meet instead of autocross. But with less than a week remaining before the meet, and the meet location just being finalized a day or two ago... The signup list was dismal. Lets be honest here, I don't want to go to bear creek park, pay for parking and be one of 15 cars in attendance. My mind would be on racing even if the meet was going to be HUGE. But at least if it was big i'd be there.
Great effort Mike, and Stew and to anyone who was preparing for the event... Collaborate ideas, thoughts and dates. Have a joint effort on the summer meet and make it truly great. Have RCMP involvement. And have members from every, any or no car club attend. And look for somthing out of Colin (ckrieg) and myself again
soon in the way of mini-meets as we talked about it at the beginning of April.