[urq] FW: [urquattro] New poll for urquattro - urq26

[Brandon Rogers]

Quick chime in here...

FWIW - our group was about 9-10 strong - Dennis Graber, Peter Coulter, Dave
Lawson, Dave Hackl, Ben Howell, Gary Bergman, Mark Mattavi, Steve Eiche and
me - with those guys doing a lot more than I did.  We also had some help
(manpower, brain power) from a couple guys local sponsor 3Zero3 Motorsport.
We had weekly meetings starting around April IIRC, usually all were not
present but majority enough.  Plenty of differing thoughts and opinions -
but all were incredibly and surprisingly civil.  We just wanted it to be
about the car - and make it _worth_ doing.  Events etc were ultimately
decided based on time/cost/ability/fun factor.  

Yes we should have gotten the event in print - we talked with a few
magazines about covering it - and eventually they said they were unavailable
- but said we could write a "guest article" or something.  I know I just
never got off my butt and did anything.

It's been a few months now - memories of planning hare fading - but not of
the event itself - those will never fade.

I have an, ahem, feeling something will happen in 2009.

Brandon
'84 ur 



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The BMWMOA (Motorcycle Club) has one big to-do every year that moves all
around North America ... some folks will ride there no matter what (I wonder
how many here know what a 50CC is? - Hint it isn't an RC engine displacement
:)  The BMWMOA model intrigues me ... but at this point I'm not sure it is
practical.  I don't believe it is out of the question that we can do
something every year ... 

As to the distribution of the cars about the continent ... I know that there
are some down in Texas, and I'd expect there still to be some in Minnesota
... KC perhaps? ... perhaps Bill Bremer maintains some sort of location
distribution list.  

Your idea of an east/west scenario is more or less what I was thinking too
... with the folks on one side of the continent figuring out when and where
for themselves ... and those of us out the western side of the continent
doing likewise.  I tried to drum up interest in a northern California urq
event stealthily in the background ... to dismal results ... and that is
another thing that precipitated the creation of the poll.  

I think it would be cool to coordinate any set of multiple events so that if
there are crazy folks (ya think?) who wanted to meet the challenge of
attending all the events it wouldn't be completely out of the question.  Who
knows, maybe other corners of the continent might decide to put their own
celebration together ... say southern US and north-eastern US/Canada having
separate events?  Perhaps California and PNW might have separate events?  My
car is nearly to the point where I'd trust it to take me to the PNW ... and
I might be convinced to venture east some distance ... 

The one thing I think would be great would be to get some feedback from the
folks who made the urq25 event happen ... how big a core team did you start
with?  How did you decide what sort of events to put together?  Any
suggestions to someone wanting to start the process from scratch?  

Steve B
San Jose, CA (USA)

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Steve, I lean towards separate east / west events run by the locals in that
particular area, I logged in and voted accordingly.

I started thinking, and with the exception of Rob Dupree and James Bufkin, I
dont recall a single UrQ east of Denver or west of Chicago...  

Im sure there are a couple still in Minnesota but we haven't heard from them
in years.  The guys closest to the middle are the ones that really make out
since they can point the car in either direction.

The Porsche Parade changes sides each year, in fact it's in Keystone
Colorado in '09, I know I'll be attending, but last year it was in
Charlotte.

Every year there is "a Mini vacation in Las Vegas" 500 Mini's converge in
Vegas, from all corners of the country.  

Those are just a couple examples that work for other clubs...


Regardless of where it's held, it's very important for a gathering like this
to happen more often than every 5 years.  


Im as guilty as anyone else that attended UrQ25 for not writing an article
for the quarterly, or any other magazine.  Although we got some coverage on
AW and Fourtitude if we were in the mainstream print it would have done
wonders for the recognition of our cars.  Did we all just assume that
someone else would write it? I did.  Is it too late?  I dunno.

Anyway, Im just as excited about having an event in 2009 as I was for UrQ25.


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