[members] A West Coast Lotus Meet in 2013...

[Mark Velky]

Doug
 
    I read your e-mail last night after getting back from the CLNW Membership Meeting. I had already forwarded your e-mail from Sep. 11th to the ELCC about the WCLM next year to CLNW and based on that and our conversation at the Portland ABFM, told them last night that you might be looking at some Possible CLNW involvement. Our plan right now is to think about Possible CLNW involvement in the WCLM next year, then during our Business Meeting on Sun. Oct. 21st discuss it and take a vote.
    Based on what I read below, two ideas you have at this point are:
 
    1. A lunch or dinner in Portland.
 
    2. A caravan from Portland to the Seattle area.
 
    Let us know if you have any other ideas or firm up something before the 21st of Oct. when we will vote.
 
    As you can see I have cc'ed CLNW to keep them informed.
 
Mark        
 

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 From: Douglas Jackson <douglasejackson at hotmail.com>
To: Mark Velky (ELCC/Club Lotus Northwest) <dmc.lotus at yahoo.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 3:11 PM
Subject: A West Coast Lotus Meet in 2013...
  

 

Hey Mark:

As you'll see in the message that I just sent out to the ELCC Googlegroup e-mail list shown below, I'd mentioned the potentiality of CLNW and/or the Vancouver, BC, Canada LCCBC people "hosting" some sort of an event or activity in conjunction with or in advance of next year's West Coast Lotus Meet (WCLM)... and I'm hoping that you (and they) will be able to do this.

You might like to know that the Golden Gate Lotus Club representative that I've been talking with (Kiyoshi Hamai) has already suggested the idea of proposing that members from the south (California, Nevada, Colorado, etc.) and any of your members who are interested in taking part in the WCLM, caravan from Portland to Seattle. That sounds like a nice idea.

I know that next summer is a long ways away, but what do you think?

Doug Jackson 



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From: douglasejackson at hotmail.com
To: elcc_org at googlegroups.com
Subject: [ELCC] A West Coast Lotus Meet in 2013...
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:32:07 -0700

 

Hello everybody:

Because I have continued to have conversations with a representative of the Golden Gate Lotus Club (GGLC, think San Francisco) about our club acting as "hosts" for their multi-day 2013 West Coast Lotus Meet (... note, this is not the Lotus Owners Gathering event, it's specifically aimed at and put on by west coast Lotus car clubs!), I thought y'all might be interested to know that he and I have come up with a number of events and activities that might occur during next year's event.


We have discussed events, activities and other things that might include, in no particular order:

A "Track Day" at The Ridge Motorsports Park near Shelton. 

A "Track Day" at Pacific Raceway near Kent.

Possiblly a whole-group attendance to at least one day of the 4th of July SOVREN vintage races at Pacific Raceway... with a big showing of Lotus cars during the lunch/noon-time break track
 parade lapping..

Maybe a "Lapping Day" at the small Pacific Grand Prix race track adjacent to Pacific Raceway.

A visit and possible end-of-the-event banquet and private tour of the LeMay - America's Car Museum in Tacoma... possibly inside or outside, maybe with a casual car show out on the Big Lawn or in their parking lot.

A visit to Griot's Garage only retail outlet and possible tour of Richard Griot's private car collection in Tacoma, where we could also have a casual car show on their lawn.

Maybe a visit to Paul Allen's Flying Heritage Collection up at Paine Field near Everett.

A drive-in-the-country, possibly to the Olympic Peninsula with at least one ferry ride or maybe around Mt. Rainier.

A visit and possible casual car show on the grass at the LeMay Family Collection (of hundreds of vehicles) near Tacoma.

Maybe a huge turnout of Lotus cars on display during the Western Washington ABFM.

A
 visit to Dale Chilhuli's (sp?) art glass "hot shop" and museum in Tacoma.

And possibly the involvement of Club Lotus NW (Oregon) and the Lotus Car Club of British Columbia (Canada) as "hosts" of an event or activity in Portland and/or Vancouver (maybe something as simple as a lunch of dinner get together) while people are here for the WCLM.


Of course, we couldn't squash all of these things into a typical 3-4 day WCLM (and we probably don't really want to do all of them anyway!), but if we schedule things well, we can probably do a bunch of them.

The representative of the GGLC has told me that they will be discussing this issue at their next Board Meeting, this Friday. And, after I get feedback from them, we'll need to start firming a few things up and begin to establish at least a tentative schedule... I know next summer (probably sometime in June or July) seems a long way off right now, but venues and hotels require large
 amounts of advance reserving and scheduling!

Also... as you can imagine, I can't organize this whole thing myself. Luckily a few of you have already offered to help me (people like Alice Larson, Tim Barker, Chris Curtin, John Abbott and Alan Perry, plus I've already reached out to and have gotten some help from Trevor Cobb, John Scheidt and Scott McGill), but I still will need more people to help in the planning and coordination.



As I've said above, I just felt as though some of you might be interested in the "progress of discussion" regarding this 2013 West Coast Lotus Meet. It definitely could be a lot of fun!!!

Doug Jackson    

  
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