[DeTomaso] Convention ideas

[Mad Dog Antenucci]

When MD was a puppy and  was IL Duce/president of POCA (we sent out survey's to members and the overwelming majority of members voted to MOVE out of the Plaza...As Mike said earlier a few people said they would not return to the Plaza again....so the following year we set aside 30 rooms at the MGM Grand and less then 10 people took the rooms! 
 
 The following year I saw a couple of the people who said they would "never" return to the Plaza again IN the Plaza....wotz up ;-)>
 
Mike is right....Pantera owners are cheap bastards....maybe not as cheap as Mike but while they will vote to move anywhere else (elect anyone else, etc) few will follow through....
 
Yet we have seen great ideas for new conventions.....Road America, Pocono, Miami Beach, Houston, Monterey, Larry's house in Cleveland.......problem is with the exception of the moves to the New Orleons Hotel in Vegas or the move to Reno no one else that I know of <?> has followed through with a offer to stage and put on the event the way Kent and Sandi Snyder, Bob Reid, Jim Demick and others have done in the past.
 
Yea I am sure a survey will help!


 
Mad Dawg Antenucci 
Team Pantera Racing 
The 1st & still the only vintage race team in open road racing 
www.teampanteraracing.com

--- On Wed, 8/18/10, msm at portata.com <msm at portata.com> wrote:


From: msm at portata.com <msm at portata.com>
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Convention ideas
To: "LaurieFerrari at aol.com" <LaurieFerrari at aol.com>, "Detomaso at realbig.com" <Detomaso at realbig.com>, "MikeLDrew at aol.com" <MikeLDrew at aol.com>
Date: Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 5:19 PM


The short answer is that no site has been selected for 2011.

The plan is that we will collect info about the various sites, publish the info so that people can make an informed decision, then put out a survey to collect opinions.  Naturally, there is the plan and then there is the reality.  The reality is that I am way, way behind.  (Yeah, that sounds like a broken record.)

Anyway, there are upsides and downsides to the various cities and venues.  As was just pointed out, San Diego is a very nice city and is well located for the mass of west-coast Pantera owners.  The downside is that there is no track and that the hotel and convention costs are likely to be substantially higher.

To clear up the attendance issue -- when we moved from LV to Reno, attendance actually went up.  This year it went down a bit to everyone's surprise given the enthusiasm in 2009.  There are a number of possible reasons for the drop off such as the economy and the lack of a track event.  



-----Original Message-----
From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On Behalf Of LaurieFerrari at aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 1:52 PM
To: Detomaso at realbig.com; MikeLDrew at aol.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Convention ideas

There you have it. I compliment myself on making the effort to attend;  
what's this "late" BS?  If the event were closer I would have had my  beautiful 
Pantera with me. Let's really be serious. Why not take  a true unbiased 
survey and judge how many would attend with or without their  cars if the event 
were to be in SD.  The actual  statistics should be considered. 
L.


In a message dated 8/18/2010 1:33:01 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
MikeLDrew at aol.com writes:

>>>That's because you showed up two days late!  Even  though PCNC didn't 
stage a formal track event, quite a few Fun Rally attendees  drove out to the 
track (30 minutes) and had their own private track day on  Friday!  You 
could have gone too, but you were in  LA...:>)
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