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Hosting a car show

Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 8:49 am
by Scorpma82
Hi guys,

I know this a MASSIVELY long shot.....but would people (in this car club) be interested in hosting a dedicated 4cyl car event????
Could we go in conjunction with another Mitsubishi car club to help us with a drag day event????

Would people be more interested in competing in their cars knowing that wont be lining up on the strip next to blown Falcon??? or on the dyno competing for the same award as a Twin Turbo Supra??? ( I know I would be)

Could we do a dyno day?????
Maybe even just a static car show??


There's sooo many things we could do in terms of shows and stuff


Any comments are welcome

Re: Hosting a car show

Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 4:51 pm
by geezer101
It would be great to have a dedicated S-G hosted car show, but the amount of money involved is massive I'm sorry to say. Factoring in costs to - hire a venue, advetise the event, public liability insurance etc. You could possibly reduce costs by fishing for event sponsors but that can be a task in itself... I think a better (read easier) way would be to organise members to enter an existing event as a group and get authorisation to represent S-G from the event managers.

Re: Hosting a car show

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 3:03 pm
by Scorpma82
yeah thats fair enough geezer....like i said...it was a massively long shot

Re: Hosting a car show

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 3:30 pm
by GB_BB4C
geezer101 wrote:It would be great to have a dedicated S-G hosted car show, but the amount of money involved is massive I'm sorry to say. Factoring in costs to - hire a venue, advetise the event, public liability insurance etc. You could possibly reduce costs by fishing for event sponsors but that can be a task in itself... I think a better (read easier) way would be to organise members to enter an existing event as a group and get authorisation to represent S-G from the event managers.
What he said. Having been in a few car shows and helping out on a couple it is a massive amount of time, effort and money to have such event's as these. Most car shows have on the entry form (or in SA they do anyway) if you are entering as part of a 'club / business display' or an 'individual'. That is why most of the event's I enter are part of a club display promoting SMASA (Street Machine Association of South Australia).

Re: Hosting a car show

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 4:39 pm
by davetrees
Scorpma82 wrote:..... in this car club ......
I wasn't aware this was a "car club" ... I thought it was just an internet forum !

Re: Hosting a car show

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:43 pm
by A112H
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing Dave.

As the others have said, we aren't in a position to pay for such an event. I think (of course you would need to check with MrD) that if you wanted to organise a display at a local event it wouldn't be a problem and you would get a few members interested.
You wouldn't want to turn up with only two cars really, lol.
I am not sure what an established event would charge for a "club" or "team" entry but it would be something you would need to pay for yourself, or maybe the members entering might be willing to split it.

Re: Hosting a car show

Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 9:32 am
by brendon
If people are interesting in doing some shows/driving events and gettign the SG.com name out.

this looks like it could be an awesome event
http://forumbattle.com.au/2011/11/29/ar ... arch-2012/.

unfortunately 3000km is one good reason why i wont make it :(

Re: Hosting a car show

Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 10:45 am
by brendon
is anyone going to this meet at Calder park, competitor or spectator?

I'm very interested to see how it goes, and people thoughts on the event

Re: Hosting a car show

Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 12:04 pm
by Scorpma82
no sorry...im working thaT weekend F@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@CCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!