<VV> Conventions

[The Reinharts]

Seth and All, Seth made some great comments pertaining to conventions in his 
post. Just to let everyone know, myself and others are working on ideas for 
the formats of future conventions. I don't have time to go into detail at 
this time. I will try to write something up and post it in the next couple 
days. But if you do have suggestions, please feel free to call or e-mail me 
or any board of director. Our contact information is listed in the 
Communique and on the website. Mine is jtreinhart at omnitelcom.com or call 
563-547-5282.  Thanks

Jamie Reinhart
CORSA Central Director
CPF Vice-President
2010 Convention Coordinator
Cresco Fire and Rescue 2nd Asst. Chief


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Sethracer at aol.com>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 11:19 AM
Subject: <VV> Conventions


> The cost of travel and the advancing age of the Corvairs (and many of 
> their
> owners) will impact both the locations chosen for Corsa conventions, and
> the timing/scheduling of convention events. I have been attending Corsa
> conventions since 1975, all of them since 1980. Events and schedules have
> changed over the years, usually for good reasons. Some of the earliest
> conventions ended on the Sunday, with awards for the Sunday autocross 
> given out  the
> day after the Saturday night banquet. People just kind of dispersed after
> the event. Availability of sites for the autocross, often local parking
> lots, usually drove the slalom event to a Weekend day. Only recently have 
> the
> autocrosses been able to be held on weekdays at all.
>
> In the early days, more people did drive long distances to the 
> convention.
> Many younger folks and families took long driving  vacations in their
> Corvair. Not so much of that anymore. As the conventions  shifted to more
> "regional" events, appealing more to the folks a day or two  days away, 
> moving the
> events to the weekdays, allowing weekends for traveling  made sense, since
> it allowed one week of vacation to be spent on vacation, using  weekends 
> for
> traveling time. If indeed, the area of participation shrinks again, 
> perhaps
> due to costs, the day schedule could shift again, maybe back to the
> weekend, since less travel time would be needed.
>
> In the past, the local host clubs have run both the Economy Run and the
> Rally on the same day. In order to allow folks to run only one or the 
> other, a
> reasonable option, care must be taken in planning the routes. If Corsa or
> the local club wants to shrink back a day, this is really the only option.
> The  Lexington car display, on the downtown streets was a really 
> successful
> event. Much of that was due to the outstanding support of the city. That
> support  is hard to come by today as many city governments and Chamber of
> Commerce have  moved head into sand due to budget constraints. Perhaps 
> Cedar
> Rapids will  overcome this.
>
> If folks  would prefer changes to the way the convention is scheduled, 
> they
> would have to  make their wishes known. Besides writing here, a note to 
> the
> Corsa directors -  _corsabod at corvair.org_ (mailto:corsabod at corvair.org)  -
> will get them  your message.
>
> Seth Emerson
>
> C's the Day! -  Corvair, Camaro, Corvette
>
>
>
>
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