Colin,
I don't think the suggestion of having two get togethers would or
should upset anyone. Anyway this is the same thing I suggested only you
were more detailed and said it better than I did.
Bob Stone, Harker Heights, Tx
rsto...@hot.rr.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin & Bev Rainey" <crain...@cfl.rr.com>
To: <kr...@mylist.net>
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 11:04 PM
Subject: KR> Like Nascar and Football/Baseball
> Not to upset anyone, but I have been thinking for a while that we should
> have 2 events a year. Nascar has 2 major races at the same tracks each
> year, football and baseball play the same teams at least twice, and clubs
> like the Bonanza Club and Mooney Club meet once a week to once a month for
> breakfast/brunch in local areas. Even the bike runs I attend happen twice
> a year, Biketoberfest in the Fall, and Bike Week in the Spring.
>
> It seems to me that if it were organized well with 2 different hosts,
> maybe 2 slightly different locations, one event sometime in the Spring,
> and one in the Fall, more people could attend one or the other, or both.
> The biggest thing I can see is that it would raise the enthusiasm of the
> builders, because they could meet with their friends more often, touch and
> feel KRs more often, and just raise overall camaraderie of the KR
> community. Sun n Fun is fine, but KRs are dwarfed at Sun n Fun, and too
> much of that event is commercialized (no offense Virgil). I have been to
> Sun n Fun 4 times and feel that there is NOT enough contact with actual
> builders, whether it be kit built or plans built. The Gathering does
> that. If agreeable we could call them The Gathering in the Fall, and The
> Get Together in the Spring. The world of bikes and Nascar, and sports
> have seen no detriment to twice a year, I don't believe we would either.
> The Southern Rebels have been talking for 2 years now about h
>
> Ok, said my piece and then some...
> Back to finishing the assembly of my Corvair...
> Hey Langford, when you get a chance, let me know about your test prop you
> ran your engine on please, off net, thanks.
>
> Colin Rainey
> KSFB
> N96TA
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