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Cars & Coffee -- new Solo2 members in waiting??

Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 8:38 pm
by Steve Glusman
seems like we are always looking for more members...

has anyone ever considered setting up a display @ cars and coffee in Irvine?

I went there this a.m. with my TR club and many of the folks seemed to be interested in AutoX...wish I had club brocures but did give out the web site info...

Perhaps we should dres our cars up in racing gear and attand a cars and coffee event with SCCA membership and SoCal Solo 2 membership applications in hand.....maybe we could even do a mini autoX event in the bigger lot at he Ford center after Cars and coffee...well that might be too much...

just a thought.. :idea: :idea: :idea: :idea: don't shoot me ....

Steve G #424

Re: Cars & Coffee -- new Solo2 members in waiting??

Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 11:53 am
by Bill Schenker
I live very close to there (as does Mike S., Robert P., Tom T., Jay W., etc.) and would be happy to help.

Re: Cars & Coffee -- new Solo2 members in waiting??

Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 9:27 pm
by Steve Glusman
So here we go again -- off topic....

Who is the membership chair person?

I'll work with them if interested....cause you guys are all goof balls!

Steve G
:computer:

Re: Cars & Coffee -- new Solo2 members in waiting??

Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 9:40 pm
by Jayson Woodruff
See if Lenord has any more of the flyer's I had made up. Once the schedule is firmed up in San Diego, I'll make some more.
Steve Glusman wrote: I'll work with them if interested....cause you guys are all goof balls!

Steve G

Re: Cars & Coffee -- new Solo2 members in waiting??

Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 10:33 pm
by Tom Tanquary
I'm interested in helping out with this.

Re: Cars & Coffee -- new Solo2 members in waiting??

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:54 am
by Mako Koiwai
Perhaps we should dress our cars up in racing gear
... or just have the BerryRacer show up ... that would attract attention.

Re: Cars & Coffee -- new Solo2 members in waiting??

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 7:10 am
by Thomas Smith
We did this with some local CRS Rally Cars last spring and got some interest but no new rallyists. Of course rally is alot less accessible than solo2 to the average person.

I would suggest lining up cars with lots of stickers so they stand out (Schenker, Berry, Equina, etc...) and get there very early to secure the small piece of the lot at the front....

Re: Cars & Coffee -- new Solo2 members in waiting??

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 10:26 am
by Giovanni Jaramillo
Steve Glusman wrote:Who is the membership chair person?
Me! :)

http://www.solo2.com/contacts.asp" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

But for more info: http://www.solo2.com/MembershipFAQ.asp" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Re: Cars & Coffee -- new Solo2 members in waiting??

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 12:55 pm
by Bill Schenker
Thomas Smith wrote:...I would suggest lining up cars with lots of stickers so they stand out (Schenker, Berry, Equina, etc...) and get there very early to secure the small piece of the lot at the front....
You mean like this?

Re: Cars & Coffee -- new Solo2 members in waiting??

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 1:03 pm
by Jeff Shyu
Bill Schenker wrote:
Thomas Smith wrote:...I would suggest lining up cars with lots of stickers so they stand out (Schenker, Berry, Equina, etc...) and get there very early to secure the small piece of the lot at the front....
You mean like this?
you would need to get there VERY EARLY to get spots at the front, but the organizers are very good about reserving spots for organizations.

It may be partly because it's held at Mazda HQ, but whenever there's a legitimate Mazda group asking for allocated spots, the C&C organizers have been good about reserving a portion of the lot for them.

Re: Cars & Coffee -- new Solo2 members in waiting??

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 1:29 pm
by Mako Koiwai
So another reason for Bill to be there @ Mazda HQ's

Re: Cars & Coffee -- new Solo2 members in waiting??

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 1:51 pm
by Jayson Woodruff
Bill Schenker wrote:You mean like this?
Maybe one without the cone damage :-)

Jay W

Re: Cars & Coffee -- new Solo2 members in waiting??

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 11:28 am
by KJ Christopher
I usually attend about once a month. This morning I went with my daughter. A fair crowd, a little down from summer. VARA was out in force, advertising same as we're suggesting here. I'd be interested in doing this. I'd even put the stickers on my car to make it look more racey. The weekend between the next two events?

We have to get there early. Like 6:30am early. But it would be nice to get several together to do this. I imagine the 'featured' group is already set for that weekend, so it will probably be difficult to get the little cove section. But even so, it is easy to get a row together if we're early. I'll look and see what I can find out

Pics from today: http://picasaweb.google.com/kjchristoph ... ffee111008#" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Re: Cars & Coffee -- new Solo2 members in waiting??

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 12:08 pm
by Bill Schenker
Again, I'd like to be a part of this - I only live about 15 min. away.

Re: Cars & Coffee -- new Solo2 members in waiting??

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 4:40 pm
by Steve Glusman
the British cars show up on the 2nd and 4th Saturday of every month....they may be a prime group for us

the featured car schedule can be obtained..not sure how but I know my TR club is featued 2x per year

suggest we pick a date in Jan or Feb around our races and of course San Diego as well.....

Steve G


KJ -- sorry I went last wek and missed you this week!!

Re: Cars & Coffee -- new Solo2 members in waiting??

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 4:47 pm
by Mike Simanyi
KJ Christopher wrote:The weekend between the next two events?

We have to get there early. Like 6:30am early. But it would be nice to get several together to do this.
Well, that could be useful for attracting some people to the Thanksgiving Championship. I think it's a lot easier to encourage someone to join us when we can say "it's next Sunday" instead of "the next event is in January."

Mike

Re: Cars & Coffee -- new Solo2 members in waiting??

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 4:57 pm
by KJ Christopher
I've got a message in to the guy who runs the cars and coffee forum to see how the featured marques thing works. It really won't matter if we're not featured. It just means we will have to arrive early to get space together.

Who will definitely go if we do this on the 15th? Does that Sat work for you Bill? Steve? Mike? Who else lives close? Doug? Gary? Let's reach out and drum up some cars.

Re: Cars & Coffee -- new Solo2 members in waiting??

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 5:35 pm
by Doug Teulie
KJ Christopher wrote:I've got a message in to the guy who runs the cars and coffee forum to see how the featured marques thing works. It really won't matter if we're not featured. It just means we will have to arrive early to get space together.

Who will definitely go if we do this on the 15th? Does that Sat work for you Bill? Steve? Mike? Who else lives close? Doug? Gary? Let's reach out and drum up some cars.
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I can make it on Sat the 15th and bring my nice Solo race car. It is cool for them to see my red car. After years of hard solo racing it still looks like a show car.
I think SD has an event on Sunday.
I am going to C&C on the 8th with the Scirocco group so I will not be at Speedway that day but I will be at Speedway on the 9th.

Re: Cars & Coffee -- new Solo2 members in waiting??

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 6:14 pm
by Bill Schenker
That day works for me.

Do we (CSCC Solo2) have any kind of bannereage? Seems like I've seen an SCCA one that Gayle uses for signing-up people @ our events - could we use that?

Might I suggest that everyone that displays their car do a little write up of what their mods. are and what class they run in (Stock, ST*, SP, etc.)?

Re: Cars & Coffee -- new Solo2 members in waiting??

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 6:27 pm
by KJ Christopher
Bill Schenker wrote:That day works for me.

Do we (CSCC Solo2) have any kind of bannereage? Seems like I've seen an SCCA one that Gayle uses for signing-up people @ our events - could we use that?

Might I suggest that everyone that displays their car do a little write up of what their mods. are and what class they run in (Stock, ST*, SP, etc.)?
I can check with Gayle if Mike doesn't know of another. Also, I like your write-up suggestion.

Re: Cars & Coffee -- new Solo2 members in waiting??

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 6:28 pm
by KJ Christopher
Okay, so far we've got:

Me
Bill
Doug
Steve G

I'll edit this as people say yes.

Re: Cars & Coffee -- new Solo2 members in waiting??

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 7:01 pm
by Doug Teulie
Bill Schenker wrote:Might I suggest that everyone that displays their car do a little write up of what their mods. are and what class they run in (Stock, ST*, SP, etc.)?
Got it! Retro cars and Grassroots motorsports press for me. :D
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We need some cones too.
Most of the cars and drivers at C&C don't want to race. It is full of ego show cars. We need to show them that they can use the car they have in a safe way.

Incase you don't know this..... The Irvine Cops are all over this event and they kick you out at the end so you need to pick up quick and slowly drive out.

Re: Cars & Coffee -- new Solo2 members in waiting??

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 8:01 pm
by Bill Schenker
Show off! :D

Hey, where's my email w/your "signature"?

Re: Cars & Coffee -- new Solo2 members in waiting??

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 9:04 pm
by Steve Glusman
I'm in....Mr Spitfire will be there :gpower:

Re: Cars & Coffee -- new Solo2 members in waiting??

Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 6:45 am
by Mako Koiwai
We can contribute the Team Blew banner. :mrgreen: