[DeTomaso] FUN RALLY - EAST?

[michael@michaelshortt.com]

Excellent, I did not know that at all.

Thanks for sharing,

Michael
On Oct 11, 2012 7:56 PM, "Jeff Detrich" <jjdetrich at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm sure others will repond but the reason there is a Fun Rally is not
> because of POCA, per se. The Fun Rally is organized by Pantera people who
> happen to be POCA members. The Las Vegas Fun Rally was started and was
> run by 4 couples for years, and BTW, those 4 couples were not all West
> coast people. They organized it to get the max participation so it was,
> rightly so, a West coast oriented event. Later some other people
> volunteered to take up the work involved and now, members of the Phoenix
> chapter have volunteered do the work for at least one more year. It is a
> big undertaking.
>
> POCA helps a little with logistics and with the Raffle but they don't run
> it. In spite of the fact that POCA does not organize the Fun Rally, it
> benefits from the proceeds of the Auction. It's a not inconsiderable amount
> and is important to the club.
>
> So, I think we need to disassociate POCA membership benefits from the Fun
> Rally. They are 2 different things. Other clubs have a more geographically
> diverse membership and their local chapters take up the responsibility
> for a moving national club event. We don't seem to have that geographic
> diversity and as a result the local chapters aren't big enough or don't
> want to take such a big responsibility.
>
> Having said that, there have been a number of regional events over the
> years that were organized by local Pantera people, POCA people. We used to
> have a 3 day regional event for Italian Car Fest here in Dallas and one
> year we even brought over Tom Tjaarda and had 35 cars from several
> different states and people from as far away as CA and OH attend. On the
> East Coast, there was a regional race weekend, actually two different ones,
> at Pocono where they'd get 30-40 cars. I think one still continues each
> year in May, la Bella Macchina. The guys in San Francisco organize the
> activities at Pebble each year, including the Corral at the Historic Races.
> The guys in Canada organized a trip across the Canadian Rockies a few years
> ago that was well attended.  And Michael is getting some traction with the
> Tail of the Dragon run, which, BTW, I'm looking forward to for next year.
> The key thing to note is that these are not POCA events, they are Pantera
> events. In fact, it's one of the things I like about the Pantera community.
> People like Michael, and me, and many others, just seem to step up and do
> things. POCA isn't large enough to drive these so we do it. Accept it for
> what it is and don't complain that POCA is unreceptive to hosting an event
> on the East coast. They don't host any events.
>
> Jeff
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> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 9:46 AM, michael at michaelshortt.com <
> michaelsavga at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> But knowing that isn't going to happen ( and for some valid reasons, a)
>> the one in place works b) tradition , being the main two reasons ).
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