Spring car show 2016 PLANNING thread

[jbails39]

Is judging an important part of the MM show?
1) If "yes", attempts to make the judging system better shouldn't be "swept under the rug".
2) If "no", then you're just a meet up, not a car show. Do you want this event to be a meet up, or a car show?

Not to take away from the idea, i agree that planning should be taken far more seriously than it seems to be now or has been in the past.

Why not make MM the host of car meets in Harrisonburg? I feel like the club is so focused on track events and our usual shtick that we completely forget the whole reason that like 99% of new members want to join. People want to do racecar shit with their racecar friends, and no not in the hey lets go to a track kinda way. The turnout we get for the car show every year is great, but why does it have to be a "car show" anyways? Its basically more of a big car meet anyways, why not embrace it? Its not like we have super cool sponsors and awesome prizes anyways, don't make it out to be more than it is.

I have a fuckload of underdeveloped ideas, but I know I'm not alone in the sentiment that MM seems to be less about people who like cars and more about just being a generic JMU club that sits isolated from Harrisonburg and the surrounding area. Kinda pisses me off how little drive there is to engage with the community outside of our comfortable autocrosses.

We have a serious issue retaining members because they are turned off by the emphasis on structured club shit over just getting together to talk shop in a parking lot. I would kill to have a local meet equivalent to somewhere like Richmond or NoVa, why not make MM something which can involve that? There are dozens of people who at least have an interest in cars at JMU, but do you see them in MM? No.

Maybe this all needs to be in another thread or somewhere else, i don't know, but there are definitely deeper issues within the club that need some serious addressing so it stops being about 5-10 active people per year. Just look at the 40 people we had at the first meeting vs. what we have now.

/rant