Any british car shows in in the southeast?

[regularman]

I was just wondering if there are any british cars shows within driving range of me, anywhere around. I seem to be out of the loop for what is going on. I now there is the Eurofest down at the BMW plant but that is in October. Its looking like I am going to be out of the country for the biggest part of October, so I might miss that one too. I just want to go to a gathering where there will be a few spridgets around.

 

[Whitephrog]

https://peachtreemg.dnnsites.com/default.aspx

https://www.bccwnc.org/index.html

https://www.nashvillebritishcarclub.org/

https://www.southernbritishcarclub.org/carshow.html

 

[Mickey Richaud]

And don't forget "Springtime in the Smokies" in Townsend in May. Check 'em out here:

https://www.blountbritishcars.org/

Mickey

 

[Guest]

I just want to go to a gathering where there will be a few spridgets around.

there was all of THREE Spridgets here at the March show.

 

[Trevor Jessie]

I've discovered that spridget owners do not seem to be drawn to car shows. There are bucket loads around here, but only a handful ever come to the local Brit Car Show.

 

[Guest]

I've discovered that spridget owners do not seem to be drawn to car shows. There are bucket loads around here, but only a handful ever come to the local Brit Car Show.

I have to admit I didn't enter for fear of being "out classed". (I did win best of show in the rear parking lot. )


Stu got second place in the Spridget class !!!!

 

[regularman]

I've discovered that spridget owners do not seem to be drawn to car shows. There are bucket loads around here, but only a handful ever come to the local Brit Car Show.

I have to admit I didn't enter for fear of being "out classed". (I did win best of show in the rear parking lot. )


Stu got second place in the Spridget class !!!!

Maybe some spridget folks don't have the 30-40 bucks it usually costs to sign up for the show. I never figured why the show don't charge a spectator fee of a dollar or something instead of charging the car owners. They would probably get a lot more cars at the show and more spectators and more money brought in.
I have thought about joining that local club but I went to a meting and its really not for me. The cost to join is not much ($20) a year or something, but I just don't have the time to be involved in all that. Its not just meet up and see who has what new car and maybe go for a run somewhere, its helping with charities and all that (which there is certainly nothing at all wrong with),I don't see where people have time for that. I worked 70 hours last week and 60 this week and get behind on just things I have to do around the house.

 

[Trevor Jessie]

I've been involved with local car clubs for about 8 yrs, and I'm just about finished. I'm contemplating forming a Spridget Coterie. Just a list of names/numbers/emails of local spridget people. No dues/shows/meetings. Just a list of people you can contact if you want to do a drive or need help working on a car.

This forum is great, but it is much nicer to have local spridget people to help out and share ideas.

 

[Billm]

And that is precisely why we have our local NOXXXX here in the Seattle area- I think that we all belong to one club or another but we just get together very informally on occasion as Spridget owners.
BillM

 

[bgbassplyr]

And that is precisely why we have our local NOXXXX here in the Seattle area- I think that we all belong to one club or another but we just get together very informally on occasion as Spridget owners.
BillM

It's easy to get 'burned out' in a formal club setting. You HAVE to go to every meeting in self defense or you find that that you were nominated and elected to head/run whatever. Had enough of that with SCCA back in the day.

Need help or have a question, call me. Want to go for a drive or a drink, call me. Head a committee, leave a message.

 

[JPSmit]

And that is precisely why we have our local NOXXXX here in the Seattle area- I think that we all belong to one club or another but we just get together very informally on occasion as Spridget owners.
BillM

It's easy to get 'burned out' in a formal club setting. You HAVE to go to every meeting in self defense or you find that that you were nominated and elected to head/run whatever. Had enough of that with SCCA back in the day.

Need help or have a question, call me. Want to go for a drive or a drink, call me. Head a committee, leave a message.

+1 Interestingly in my club I get the same spiel as most every church I work with "We've been doing it (president, treasurer etc. etc. for years and can't get anyone else to take over." maybe that's God's way of telling you it needs to stop.

BTW My Orlando club - free to join $15 if you quit.

 

[mightymidget]

I am a member of a local Mustang Club which as been active for 6 years or so. No officers no meetings no membership. The common denominator is a website we all share.

Works very well, people come and go, some stay. but we do mini meets, meet to do car shows cruises

We do have a monthly "get together" but attentance is not required

Works great, no fights no duties

 

[Hap Waldrop]

Kim, you have Autumn in the Mountains in your neck of the woods, put on by the Western NC club, it's normally in the Asheville or Hendersonville area, you can go to the FBCC website, www.fbccsc.org and look at the calendar and see the dates for the local car shows.

There also a big british car show the same weekend as the Autumn in the Mountian show, in Dillard, GA, put on by the Peachtree MG club, they are normally the same weekend, but this year it worked out that way. We have the Great Scot British car show at Furman earlier this year and Euro which is all European and pretty big 500+ cars is in October.

Everybody ougt to go to couple of british car show and enter thier cars atlleast a few time, I'm not big into the car show scene, and could care less about winning a trophy, but it's neat to look at the cars and meet the people.

Now if you really want to do something fun, in early Novemeber we will caravan down to Carolina Motorsports Park (Kershaw, SC) and do the British Invasion at CMP, where we get to go do a couple on track sessions on the 2 mile road course, David, Alan, myself will all be there.

 

[Gundy]

Kim, <snip>

Now if you really want to do something fun, in early Novemeber we will caravan down to Carolina Motorsports Park (Kershaw, SC) and do the British Invasion at CMP, where we get to go do a couple on track sessions on the 2 mile road course, David, Alan, myself will all be there.

I'm calling dibs on getting behind Hap this year.
I'd like to see how it's done right. I don't think
I hit a single apex last year.

Kim, this is a BLAST! I can't believe more people don't take advantage of this fabulous opportunity Hap arranges.
It really is an UNBELIEVABLE experience. Nirvana for us LBC guys that like to drive the darn things.

 

[toysrrus]

Howdy Gents,

Wish I had an LBC to play with at CMP! It appears like next year for sure.

Hey Hap; Twist "Freds" arm into going this year.

See Y`All later,

Russ

 

[vagt6]

It takes a lot of hard work, dedication, creativity, patience and know-how to perpetuate a successful car club.

I'm very lucky to have a great one in my neighborhood, the Shenandoah Valley British Car Club. Tons of fun driving events; charity fundraisers; parties; winery tours; dinners; speaking engagements (with surprising good speakers); european trips; and most importantly, plenty of help with your car if you need it.

There are plenty of other good LBC and antique car clubs here, too many to mention here.

It's all about the people, IMHO. And in my (fairly long) experience with volunteer organizations, what you get out of club membership is directly proportional to what you put into it. :thumbsup:

 

[Trevor Jessie]

You are correct Mark, but when you have 6-7 people putting effort into the club and 94 people taking without giving...

 

[Hap Waldrop]

You are correct Mark, but when you have 6-7 people putting effort into the club and 94 people taking without giving... [/quote



I wrote a huge post to this and realized it sounded too much like a rant, so I deleted it and started over. Mark, Trevor you nailed it.

Here's what I would say to folks new to car clubs.

As a past car club president you'll get plenty of opinions, without any commitiment from some members, the loudest voices are alot of time the very last to raise their hands when you need help. People stepping up to the plate helping run a car club, normally never envisoned themselves doing that, they got reeled into it, I know I did. A club president needs your help, not your opinions.

I very much value being car club member, it's more of social thing than anything else, you will meet life long friends there. Just remember someone is giving up their free time to do this stuff, and if you benefit from it, at sometime, you too should step up the plate, your club's future may depend on it. Evolution of leadership thru fresh blood is the very life line to a car club's existence.

 

[Hap Waldrop]

Howdy Gents,

Wish I had an LBC to play with at CMP! It appears like next year for sure.

Hey Hap; Twist "Freds" arm into going this year.

See Y`All later,

Russ [/quote

Russ, I'd love Fred to join us at CMP, but I think he thinks of "Bonnie" (his early Midget) as a "beer run" car, I doubt we'll ever talk him into taking it to track or even a long mountain run for that matter, but I hope I'm wrong.

It's somewhat shocking that we don't have more than 12-15 cars show up at CMP each year, but thats normal turn out, I think they are afraid they will tear up their cars, which is not the case, you are your own governor. It amazing how I will get these people calling me up asking me about the CMP run, they ask a million questions, and then I normally never see those folks at the event.

My favorite one was this clown one time who had a Jag XK120 and wanted to bring a his Jag buddies along, a handful of XKEs, 120s, 150s and such, he demanded that I give his Jag buddies their own private track session, he was afraid that British cars of lesser pedigree (his words) could possibly damage one of their cars. What a pompous DA, I told him a big fat NO, and he could glady call the track and set up a private tech sesion for a few thousands dollars.

It's very simple, the CMP event. I pace the field, I am a experienced national SCCA race driver, I have won several SCCA races at CMP, and been a competition driver instructor there as well. We do the follow the leader type deal, allowing "careful" passing on the straights with point by from the pass-ee. The whole idea is to hold back on the straights and test yourself thru the corners. Most people that do this event, love it, it's one of the only times you will get on the race track in roadster without rollcage and helmets. If we tried to do this with young kids and Hondas and Miatas, it would never work, but you guys are normally older and think more rational, so we never had issue. Most folks learn more about driving their cars in those two 10 minutes session than they will ever learn on public roads, and the comments I get most is people love the fact that the track lets them use the whole road.

No one has ever hurt their car or themselves, but you will be tested, no matter what your limits are, and for most who have attended, it has been some of the best fun they ever had in their cars (their words, not mine), and most folks who come to this event come back. If you ever done the parade lap thing at the races, this is way better than that.

 

[Trevor Jessie]

Did you see the incident at the Indy BritishV8 meet? A car blew a hose and leaked antifreeze. Apparently, they failed to stop session and a guy smacked his TR6 into a wall on the straight after spinning at fairly high speed. I do not know the details, but it seems like it could have been prevented.

Driver was OK with just bruises and small cuts.