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Mickey Richaud

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Seems like each year this gets pushed back further into obscurity.

Anyone observing it this year? If so, how?

And what can we do better to promote it next year?

Mickey
 
Advertising it on LBC sites before it starts rather than when it is nearly over might be a beginning...
 
Exactly! It's not like it's on everyone's radar.

Which is my reason for posing the question. What CAN we do next year? I think it's a great idea, but needs some help.
 
See my post above :wink:
Having it as a sticky in the national events might be a start...
 
alana said:
See my post above :wink:
Having it as a sticky in the national events might be a start...
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Yeah, but simply announcing that it's British Car Week? Big whoop!

"Drive your LBC to work week!" :whistle: :troll: :crazyeyes: :rolleyes: :crazy:

We need to come up with something a bit more concrete...

Ideas?
 
Ok, kidding here....somehow get Oprah convinced that LBC's are good for the country and the environment? :smile:
 
Silverghost said:
Ok, kidding here....somehow get Oprah convinced that LBC's are good for the country and the environment? :smile:
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THAT'S what I'm talkin' 'bout! :wink:

Think outside the box - yeah!
 
How on earth are you going to get her to <span style="text-decoration: line-through">fit</span> sit in one?
 
Seems to me that if that organization is really attempting to make this fly, that they should have been the ones searching for sites like ours to advertize on.
I'm all for spreading the word, but not if the people who started it don't really care.
 
...yeah, I'm observing it. I drive mine every week...
 
Maybe we should overpost it - kinda like
the EuroSunday events.

- Doug
 
Put it in your signature and newsletters. I missed it too...I thought "drive your British car week" was mid-May.
 
Just did a BCF search. Found that even tho' there's a topic here on British Car Week at least once a year since BCF started, the topic was:

- always started by individual members,

- always in only one or two marque forums (not BCF-wide),

- and usually started only just before the week actually starts.

IF members feel the week is important, then I'd think that <span style="font-style: italic">unless BCF itself "advises" all its members to promote the week - maybe with an email to everyone?</span> - it'll slip by again next year.

I get the impression from the British Car Week website (where the pages aren't completely visible to any of my browsers), it's a great idea that could develop national recognition and participation. But like "National 150 Watt Bulb Week", if it's only a local club's idea, with no active PR machine, it'll continue drifting in the back part of the bay.

Just my 2¢

Tom
 
I think Tom just hit the nail on the head there by defining the problem and possible solutions!!! It puzzles me that someone, or organization would come up with the idea and then totally rely on the goodwill of others to spread the word! What is the goal of BCW? What activities do the organisers sponsor or encourage? What good does it do for interested parties to hear/learn of it at the eleventh hour?
An event with no plan is a plan for no event!!!
 
I remember seeing in the old British Car Mag. My have been in 1999 or 2000. This was listed in the event calander. I think it was just before I found out about BCF I thought it was May also.

Don
 
We did not know of this "event" but we did kick it off with a drive in southern Wisconsin and in Iowa last Saturday followed by a drive in central Wisconain last Sunday. Then we cleaned our car and drove to a neighboring town last evening for an outdoor car show which ended up being canceled because of weather.

We saw no other LBCs on the road but were waved at wildly by a pair of 70's era Mercedes convertables. We did see an MG parked.
 
Our local forum sends out a mass email every year for this "event". The real problem though, as Banjo points out, is that the creators of BCW don't seem to care much about it. When I visit their site each year, it looks just like it did the last time I was there. I noticed one page of the site updated this time to show some Triumph stuff. Oh well, even if it's poorly executed it's still a good thing overall.
 
How was old Hellertown, Dave? I had a friend years ago whose name was Heller from Hellertown!! :thumbsup:
 
After missing most of it while traveling, I finished up British Car Week with a bang. On Saturday I went for a fasat drive through the local canyons in my BGT, along with a friend in his insanely fast Caterham Super 7.

This morning I took the MGC GTS to a local car gathering where it got a lot of attention. Later in the afternoon an M.G. guy stopped by who I've know for years on another BBS. I took him for a run though the hills in the GTS and he liked it so much that he may buy one similar to it. No better way to celebrate BCW than to further infect another British car nut with "the disease"!
 
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