RE: [BaadAssGremlins] Ardsley Show & AMC Owner's Participation

["John W Rosa" <JohnRosa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doc,

I had planned to attend, but my Hornet is still sitting 
in Kansas, awaiting transport...and nothing else AMC that
I have is roadable at the moment. But the car is now 
slated to arrive by the coming weekend, so I hope to get 
her out and seen then.

Combine that with my attendance on Saturday at Warminster, 
PA's show...which I followed up with a dinner/drinks/bar 
band thing my wife had with friends, and I was in poor 
shape Sunday AM.

Sorry to see the light turnout. Maybe we should run a quick
poll on this and other AMC groups. Find out how many members 
live within 90 minutes of the show location. Of those folks, 
how many have a street-legal or trailerable AMC? Just to get 
an idea of how many potential cars you have via just these 
mailing lists and forums. Then, post the show info on as 
many club websites as have ads. Ditto on all car classifieds 
sites. Then, have any 'club' member owners use their 'free 
newsletter ads' rights to advertise the show.

Finally, I haven't seen your location in person, but I think
it helps to have a site where more activities are possible
than just showing the cars. One natural is food service of 
some kind, whether a show-provided buffet, or food vendor(s),
or an adjacent restaurant. As always follows food & drink, 
restrooms are a biggie. And another plus is an area and 
activity to keep kids busy. These things all work not only 
to attract more cars, but it keeps them on site longer...
because while dad is going through the crevices with a 
toothbrush, Junior can be trying to kill himself on the 
monkey bars. And thirst and bladder relief is local.

Other factors are things like participant nick-knacks (cheap
stuff like keychains and dash plaques are usually enough to 
get folks more interested), area roads and traffic (i.e., 
must cars dodge heavy potholes and rolling gun battles to 
find the site). And, of course, other shows on the same 
weekend in the vicinity. Some folks can't do BOTH weekend 
days because they are compromising with other family to have 
the 'other day' for events the others want to do (those sick 
bastards!! ;) ).

Just some observations in case any of this isn't covered at 
your current location.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: AMC74HORNET@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:AMC74HORNET@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 5:32 AM
To: BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [BaadAssGremlins] Ardsley Show & AMC Owner's Participation


Well weather wise the show was a huge success and I can prove it by the
sunburn on my bald head. Participation wise in my book compared to the
spring show (22 AMC's) it was a dismal failure in my book participation
wise. The quality of the 12 cars there was top notch, 4 clean daily
driver cars, my friend who put on the show's 68 AMX, a work in progress
and his 63 American along with a few humpster Javelins, a couple of
Spirits and a beautiful silver Gremmie and an original 39,000 mile
little old lady 72 Hornet SST and a beautiful 69 AMX.  My Hornet got the
daily driver trophy. Now I have one trophy for each Hornet. I can't
understand why with no AMC shows in the local area that there was such a
poor turn out on a nice day. It's not that this is the first time the
fall show has been put on. It is the 4th year. Although last year was
rained out and there was no rain date. I initiated a rain date in both
the spring and fall shows and we didn't need them this year. I could see
my friend was disappointed with the turn out. He wasent going to have
the spring show but I talked him into it. He does 99% of the work
putting this thing together by himself with me doing what I can to
advertize it on the various on line AMC groups. I feel bad for him. I
didn't even want to ask about the spring show because with the poor
showing yesterday I think there might not be one or even a fall show. So
don't complain if the smaller local events start to disappear, it's not
that there is a lack of cars, but lack of owner participation. And it is
usually the non-participating owners that are the first to complain.
Sorry I had to get this off my chest.
"Doc"




 
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