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V6 wheel chair Dan. LOL :-)

Thank you Dan Masters! (I really do think you are considered by most to be the senior authority in these kind of matters, though I know you don't ask for that. But your word carries a lot of weight.)

As for you other low-lifes ;-)
All is forgiven.

Jim

Come on guys,, lets settle down, remember even though it's called British V8 a lot of guys read between the lines
and attend with their V6s and turbo fours etc,etc.I'd hate to see this subject get ink like the HAMB , or heaven forbid the SCCA prod site,,, sheesh....................
Dave Craddock

When you girls get done....;)

We have Meet hosts for 2013, 2014, 2015, and 3 more people interested in reprising their roles beyond that. Once upon a time, we weren't sure anyone would step up & host a Meet. Odds are very good we will be celebrating #20 in 2016!

I do think it would be good if the organizer attended a Meet to get an overall feel for the event & the people (and vice versa).



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Odds are very good we will be celebrating #20 in 2016!

I think so. If no-one else, Jim Watson and I will step up and do it here (if I can get my wheelchair kick-started).

I will do 2020 in Hawaii any volunteers to help me out???

My new friend Jerry who I met at the Coal Miner's Lounge knows that tunnel you are looking for says he can help host in Hawaii.

This is fitting.

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Cheers.

Indeed!

Is it possible that if an event was actually held out west, it might improve western membership ? I know majority rules, but it seems all the polling booths are in the east. Think of it as sharing, for the common good. Cheers, Art.

Art, it's not so much that the majority rules, but rather that members of the group from those areas have stepped up and volunteered to host a meeting. I'm hoping that an event more in the middle of the country such as next year's meet in Omaha will be close enough to both coasts to allow guys from both sides to make it. We can meet anywhere we want and there is someone willing to host, but just as travel is a problem for you guys on the west coast to a site back east, so it is in reverse.
Seems like a majority of the members are from the east, but the original V8 meet was held in St. Louis as I remember, so the traditon for more westernly venues is well established.

It's not that the polling booths are in the east, it just seems that those willing to volunteer are mostly in the east. All it takes to have the meet in any given locale is for someone from that locale to step up and volunteer to host it. I've hosted the meet twice, and co-hosted it twice, and there are several others who have hosted it more than once. We need more volunteers.

I don't see why we don't have two meets each year - one out west and one in the east. We just need someone to volunteer for the west coast. Art?

British V8 West and British V8 East - sounds like a good plan to me.

That sounds like a good idea, Dan. Every five years or so have one big meet, and welcome everyone to attend either East or West or Both. If there are enough folks out west to have that meet. We know there is interest. And although I wasn't able to make it, I like the idea of the get together you hosted in fall a couple of years ago too.

Dan B

All it takes is someone to volunteer.

Um.... I thought "somebody" did, and then things got nasty ? The world is watching-sort of, roverman.

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It's not that the polling booths are in the east, it just seems that those willing to volunteer are mostly in the east.

If you chart out where participants are from, meet after meet, I expect you'll see that the biggest number are from the midwest (not the east) and there's usually a strong contingent from southern Ontario.

This year, Calvin's drive time from the Sacramento area must have been about 27 hours. The two cars that came from Canada had to drive about 23 hours each. (Although I think Ken and Katie made big detours...)

FWIW, if we WERE voting I'd be pulling for Canada or New England. A longer road trip means I get to enjoy my car more.

However, I don't see how I can possibly make it to two meets in one summer. I doubt many people could.

My intuition is that Colorado won't be far enough west to draw more than a handful of participants from the west coast. (I guess we'll find out.) On the other hand, it will be our third meet in a row west of the Mississippi.

I'm fairly new to the group, this year was only my 5th meet to attend but I have learned a bit from the others that have hosted events in the past. I'm not ashamed to admit that I have asked Rick a lot of questions about hosting the meet in Omaha next year. Art and Larry should know that part of the questions about their hosting an event may well come because we haven't had the chance to meet them in person. There is a pretty good fund that the group has put together from our yearly auctions and such to help defray expenses for a meet and some of us are just being careful that our reserves are truely going to be used in an appropriate manner, trusting the persons involved is a big part of that and having the chance to meet someone and talk to them goes a long way in helping form that bond of trust. I have no doubt that both Larry and Art are very sincere guys and will do us proud if they host an event, but at the same time posting on the forum or the MGE isn't the same as meeting a guy in person and sharing a few stories over a beer. I doubt if either of them wouldn't be a bit careful if someone that they didn't know personally said hey, I"ll host an event please send me $6000 to pay for the initial expenses. Please understand the reluctance of many of our group from that perspective.
The actual location of the meet isn't that big a deal to most of us, so Colorado or Califorinia would be fine with me, I could have the Jag towed back from either location I guess!

Seems to me that we're trying to fix something that is not broken.

If you want to host a meet, step up to the table and make the offer.

If there are two meets in the same year, separated by thousands of miles, so be it.

Just don't plan them so close together that someone who may want to attend both cannot attend both. (We all have lives outside of our cars, right?!)

But I fear that this may precipitate a "division" of the group that even a "five year meet" could not fix.

These meets are like homecomings/reunions to me.

Let's not make them too difficult to plan or attend.

If you divide the contiguous US into two parts, east and west, the dividing line would be the longitude running through Lebanon, KS. By that criterion, every V8 meet, including the next two, were held in the east. Not every one is willing (nor has the spare time) to drive 1500-2500 miles for one of our meets, as wonderful as these meets are. Splitting into two meets might divide us a bit, but no more than geography already does. It would, however, give more people a chance to participate.

No matter where we hold the meets, how many we have, they will still be out of reach for some. The U.S. of A. is a BIG country!

Someone mentioned maybe 1 year near/in the west, 1 near/in the east and 3 rd in MW ? In this way, folks might get to see special events, not directly associated with LBC's. Events like "Hot August Nights"-Reno or Vintage Auto Races(perhaps a British featured marque), at Laguna Seca with Concour de Elegance, Pebble Beach all the same weekend,all close to Carmel and 17 mile drive. These are big events that could coincide with our function. Cheers, roverman.