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IN THIS ISSUE:
Annual BYOC show Page 1-7
Club Jacket order form Page 8
Business Minutes Page 9
President’s letter Page 10
Letter from the Editor Page 11
Upcoming Events Page 12
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HUGE Thank You to Trattoria Oreganata for
supplying all the great food and drink, and to
Drake Parlor Entertainment for the refreshing
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TOP
10
CARS
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Kids Choice
Best Club Car
Best of Show
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EXAMPLE:
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JUNE BUSINESS MEETING
CALL TO ORDER - WELCOME MEMBERS AND GUESTS:
The June meeting was called to order at
3:43pm by President Jared. There were 9 members in attendance.
MEETING MINUTES:
Jay Robinson read the minutes from the
previous meeting, and they were approved as
read.
TREASURER’S REPORT:
Mary Chevalier gave the treasurer’s report,
and we still have money in the account.
OLD BUSINESS:
BYOC Car Show Update:
See the pictures!
It was a successful show, even if we were lacking more cars. All had a great time, and the weather was perfect.
Club jackets are for sale!! - they will be $22-$29 + $1 for every size over XL, + $4 for your name on the front. Please see examples in this newsletter. Place your order with Mary Chevalier today!!
NEW BUSINESS:
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Meeting adjourned at 4:11 pm
There was no 50/50 pot
NEXT BUSINESS MEETING:
The next Business Meeting will be
held July 12th at Dairy Delite, at
3080 West Eisenhower, in
Loveland. 6pm for food, 7pm for
meeting.
PLEASE plan on attending!
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Last weekend we held the 17th Annual BYOC car show. We had several members missing. Some were on Rocky Mountain Race Week, some were out of town, some had family obligations etc. If you were not there you were missed! To all the members that helped prior to the show, during the show, or after the show THANK YOU!!! This event takes a fair amount of work to put on and we could not do it without everyone’s support. I consider this BYOC to only be a marginal success. The weather definitely cooperated. It wasn’t ex-tremely hot, a bit muggy, but not hot. We only had to worry about rain right at the end while we were packing up. The quality of cars at this years show was phenomenal! We had decent door prizes, and some great silent auction items. A special thanks goes out to Dave and Denise Jackson who were responsible for some of these drawing items. The 50/50 pot seemed to be a hit again this year. I believe all in attendance had a good time. At least that's what attendees were telling me. I have also received a couple of emails since the show telling me that we did a great job. So why do you ask was it only a marginal success?? The attendance! I believe our final car count was 47 cars!!! I believe if we have any chance at breaking even at all with this show it will be because of the 50/50 pot, and the silent auction items. This money made up for around 12 cars that were not there. Since the show I have been milling this over. 47 cars! That is not very good. On any given Friday night the Loveland cruise nights attract 75-100 cars very easily, and that is just one instance that I can think of. I know we passed out tons of flyers! Personally speaking I know I passed out several hundred at Realities Rides, Old Town Car Show in Fort Collins, Loveland Cruise Nights etc. We were also advertised in the Scoop, and we were using social media to advertise as well. So 47 cars just doesn’t sit very well with me. I know we were in competition with a couple of other events that day, but the car count still seems extremely low to me. I think in the coming year we need to make some decisions. Are we going to have a show? What do we want to accomplish with the show? Every year we come up with a plan to have this show. We plan on donating a portion of our proceeds to charity, but frankly our donation was minimal last year because we had to cover the bottom line. This year I doubt very seriously if we will have much to donate. I personally feel that our low car count numbers are due to the fact that our event is pay to enter event. The region has become saturated with car events, and I believe that many car people will opt to enter a free show before they will pay to enter. Especially pay to enter a show with only 47 cars whether the money is for charity or not! So what do we do?? As I mentioned earlier it takes a lot of work to put a car show on. If we continue to do the work, and just break even or worse every year what is the point?? If we aren’t able to make a donation to these charities maybe we need to re-think how we are conducting business. If we have to cover a portion of the cost every year on this show or barely breaking even our budget will not sustain it. My personal feeling is if we are coming up short on these shows I would rather at least see car count!!! So do we lower the entry fee? Do away with the entry fee all together and change the format of the show?? I challenge you all in the coming months to brainstorm ideas, and please share your ideas with the club, or at least the board members. BRING YOUR IDEAS TO A MEETING!! If we were to eliminate the entry fee for the BYOC we would need some other forms of revenue to help us out. Whether that is more drawing items, more sponsorship, us doing the concessions, selling t-shirts, eliminating trophies, or whatever the case may be. The club doesn’t need to get rich on this show, but we do need to cover our bottom line, and it would be nice to make a substantial donation every year to a selected charity. Each and every one of you are important members of the club, and each of you should have a say in this event. I would like to see this show continue in the future, and I would also like to see it be a success and not just a break even type of endeavor. I think for this to happen we may need to change things up a bit. Please help us out with any ideas you may have. Sooner than later please. Until next time….. Adios, Jared Warnock – NCGTOA President
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2018
President:
Jared Warnock 5628 Meyers Drive
Loveland, CO 80538 970-581-6565
Vice President:
Mary Robinson 655 Zuni Circle
Fort Collins, CO 80526 970-227-1398
Secretary / Newsletter Editor:
Jay Robinson 655 Zuni Circle
Fort Collins, CO 80526 970-226-1974 (h) 970-214-3257 (c)
Treasurer:
Mary Chevalier 1803 Daphne Drive
Loveland, CO 80537 970-663-1174
What Jared said.
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The information packet from PHS will include the following: Want to know more about your Pontiac? A copy of the factory invoice or billing history Contact Pontiac Historical Society today! A letter decoding the options (when necessary) Price is just $50! A copy of a dealer order form for that year Other specific information for that year and model Pontiac, if available
Bandimere Test & Tune May 2, 9, 16, 23, 30; June 6, 13, 20, 27; July 11, August 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 - Bandimere Speedway
J.B.’s Drive-In Cruise Nights June 13, July 11, August 8, September 12, October 19 - Greeley CO
Eaton A&W Cruise Nights 3rd Thursday of every month - Eaton CO
Golden Super Cruise 1st Saturday of every month - Golden CO
1st Friday - Runza Cruise night in Loveland; 2nd Friday - South Sonic in Loveland cruise night;
3rd Friday - Dairy Delite in Loveland Cruise Night; 4th Friday - Freddy’s in North Loveland Cruise night;
5th Friday - SmashBurger in Loveland Cruise night - ALL CRUISE NIGHTS START AT 5pm
2018 CLUB CLASH at BANDIMERE SPEEDWAY
MAY 11 JUNE 1 and 29 JULY 13
AUGUST 3 SEPTEMBER 7 and 21
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The Northern Colorado GTO Association was founded in 1984 with several objectives in mind. The primary objective is to HAVE FUN and to promote interest in the Pontiac GTO. With that in mind, we try to schedule at least one club event every month. These events may be car shows, picnics, club member attendance at car shows, sanctioned drag races, participation in charity events, Drive-In movie nights (Yes – we still have a drive-in theater in Northern Colorado!) or any other event that involves people getting together to enjoy the fun of owning a true muscle car.
DUES: $30.00 yearly for the entire household
CLUB WEBSITE: www.ncgtoa.com Follow us on Facebook! Group name: Northern Colorado GTO Association
(On electronic version of newsletter - control "click" to follow link for both website and Facebook site)
The club business meetings are held the first Thursday of each Month Please see the minutes for the time and place of the next business meeting
The Northern Colorado GTO Association is an affiliated chapter of the GTO Association of America, and we encourage all of our members to become members of the GTOAA. As an affiliated chapter of the GTOAA, your club is supplied with a $3,000,000 liability insurance policy. This covers both Officers and Members while conducting approved Chapter events. When you become a member of the GTOAA, you get a monthly publication of the Golden Quill award winning magazine, THE LEGEND. This is a 32 page monthly magazine that contains technical articles, stories about members GTO's, a large classified section and much more information. The GTOAA hosts an annual National Convention where GTO enthusiasts can come together and see the vast diversity within this great organization. From the Technical Seminars to the Concours Judging to the Activities and Popular Vote Car Show, there is no other single GTO event like a GTOAA National Convention. No other Pontiac organization or publication does more to bring together the issues, ideas, needs and wants of GTO enthusiasts worldwide. Technical experts for each of the production years are available through GTOAA to answer those difficult questions we all have encountered while working or restoring our GTO's. The annual dues to join the GTOAA are $35.00 and $5.00 for each additional family member. To become a member of the GTOAA online, you can visit www.gtoaa.org. To receive a membership by mail, write to GTOAA, PO Box 455, Timnath, CO 80547. You can contact Bill Vantuono at [email protected] for Local Chapter Information. (NCGTOA Newsletter Editor's Note - This is the "canned" letter given to all local clubs by the GTOAA to place
in their newsletter. Not necessarily the views of your newsletter editor)
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Northern Colorado GTO Association
c/o Jay Robinson, Newsletter Editor
655 Zuni Circle
Fort Collins, CO 80526
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