[DeTomaso] FUN RALLY - EAST?

John Taphorn jtaphorn at kingwoodcable.com
Thu Oct 11 23:52:47 EDT 2012


The Fun Rally is a POCA event.  It assumes the financial risk, pays for 
the advertising and appoints the committee organizing the event.  POCA 
has handled negotiations with the hosting facility. POCA has also 
demonstrated an willingness to move the event to different locations so 
as to keep the experiences fresh and engage new participants who may 
find the location more geographically convenient or compelling.  As one 
may surmise, the event requires significant planning and local 
representatives have been instrumental to the event's success in Reno 
and Phoenix.

Certainly, the event could be held elsewhere should there be local 
resources available to help.  I have championed to POCA that the event 
is a significant membership recruiting tool and moving it around 
enhances POCA's relevancy to its geographically diverse membership.  The 
Phoenix Fun Rally proved this true.

Unfortunately, not all POCA board members agree it is a good idea to 
move the Rally (except back to Vegas).  We've heard from Board members 
that the moves couldn't and shouldn't  be done for various reasons.  If 
you want to make a difference, then get on the POCA Board and make the 
difficult decisions and contribute the necessary effort.  Otherwise, the 
current Board remains unchallenged and will do what they feel is best 
for the membership or the Chapter they represent.   Elections are now, 
step up and drive change.

I did

JT

On 10/11/2012 7:36 PM, shawkins777 at comcast.net wrote:
> So who negotiates with the hotel for the rooms and space for the store and hospitality suite?
>
> Steve
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "michael at michaelshortt.com" <michaelsavga at gmail.com>
> To: "Jeff Detrich" <jjdetrich at gmail.com>
> Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 7:02:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] FUN RALLY - EAST?
>
> 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
>> 6559
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 9:46 AM, michael at michaelshortt.com <
>> michaelsavga at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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