East Meets Midwest at Watkins Glen?

[CurtEgerer]

Ok, here's my dumb question for today: what would the booth be for? I understand it at a big West Coast event. Here, a really good turnout would be 15-20 Early S / R Gruppe guys. Is the purpose of the booth to drum up new members, promote the club, sell merchandise to ourselves, or what??????

[John Fusco]

That is actualy a very good question, good point Curt.
Even a small gathereing can sell some stuff but is that enough to justify the efforts ?
We would need some commited (or recently released) members to make it work (?)

John

[Paul Schooley]

Count me in...2 hour trip for me. We need to book some motel space soon or we're gonna have to use tents at the track. The Zippo draws a pretty good crowd to that little town.

I'd like to see a tour of that museum/library. Of course we'd loose a day or 2 just going there from what I hear.

An idea here might be to produce a special tshirt for this event. I know I'd be in for a couple. Is this doable?

This would be a great S Reg/RGruppe event for the east. It is time to step up to the plate a bit over here and show the left coast they don't own all the fun.

[John Fusco]

I agree.
What do we need to do ?
Anyone who has done this before - instead of e-mailing Mike maybe we can get the info here or on a seperate thread. Don't know if that would be too complicated or compomising.
Paul - where would be a good place to stay ?

John

[John Fusco]

If this starts to become real I may be able to arrange a tour of The Glenora wineries - Herman Wiemer makes some outstanding rieslings. Might make an interesting run from the Glen.

John

[Paul Schooley]

I have no idea on where to stay as I've only gone to the glen in my motorhome and stayed on site. Not sure how to go about setting up with rooms, but I'm pretty sure there's no large hotels there, just smaller deals. Maybe someone with much more Glen experience can look into this?

[CurtEgerer]

I'm trying to remember the place we stayed a few years back when we had a little R Gruppe gettogether .... Steve Turco set it up for us. It was just south of town. Don, do you remember? Anyway, it was a clean motel with very reasonable rates. I agree, we need to get something going quickly because that area will book up.

[Jim Garfield]

Curt, I think it was the Falls Motel, but what about the rustic place closer to town? Do you know the place I mean? Up on the hill, has some separate cabins as well as rooms, and there is a restaurant and bar. The only problem is that a lot of the drivers stay there and it books early for big weekends.

[CurtEgerer]

Jim - Yeah, that's it - The Falls Motel. The other one is the Seneca Lodge I think - we went up there for drinks that one night - awesome bar with all sorts of motorsport memorabilia. That would be the ultimate, but I'll bet it fills REALLY fast.

[John Fusco]

A friend of mine has been to the track a few times with the BMW club, I'll check also to see where he's stayed.

Funny how small this Porsche world is - Steve Turco was the guy who used to own my Vintage seats - good egg.

John