Annual BMWCC Ireland event?

As stated above and having briefly discussed the idea of an annual club event/show, i have decided to open a debate on this issue.

Each member vote once and please post replies as normal.

Your reply should relate to the following issues and it is important that everybody express their views, be they good or bad!

1. Place to hold such an event.

2. Time of year most suitable for the event, obviously early/late summer, month & dates?

3. Would you be willing to attend and/or support such an event?

4. Do you think it's a good or bad idea?

I would like the see an event of this nature organised for club members as the showpiece event on our calender.

My proposal is to use Emo court and the estate grounds to host the event. Emo is a small village just outside Portlaoise 5 mins from the motorway, for those of you not familiar with the area. It would provide a perfect backdrop for all models, both past and present to be displayed.

Aswell as Irish car club members, i would hope to invite members or sections from the UK to display their cars at the event. Ultimately i evisage an event once a year for all BMW enthusiats with trade stands etc. and hopefully backing from BMW Ireland.

So please vote and reply with any comments/concerns or ideas you may have aswell as suggesting something i have probably left out!

Lets make a date next summer for the first annual BMWCC show 2006.

I like the sound of it anyway

Cheers,

Robbie

Excellent idea Robbie!

Agree with above posts regarding location, sharing the day with the Porsche car club & inviting club members from the UK.

April / May might be the best time - reasonable chance of good weather and getting in ahead of holidays etc.

Getting word out there wil be one of the biggest challanges/expenses.

I'd like to see new / unique models (e.g. new M5, M3 CS) and maybe some of the racing cars (M3 GTR) being displayed if that's possible to arrange. A lot of this would depend on BMW Ireland getting on board I suppose?

Show and shine contest? (so we can justify our massive Megs budgets!!).

In line with Fey's comments about ideas, it'd be great to see some stands displaying or selling aftermarket parts along with some show cars.

owenw wrote: Excellent idea Robbie! Agree with above posts regarding location, sharing the day with the Porsche car club & inviting club members from the UK. April / May might be the best time - reasonable chance of good weather and getting in ahead of holidays etc. Getting word out there wil be one of the biggest challanges/expenses. I'd like to see new / unique models (e.g. new M5, M3 CS) and maybe some of the racing cars (M3 GTR) being displayed if that's possible to arrange. A lot of this would depend on BMW Ireland getting on board I suppose? Show and shine contest? (so we can justify our massive Megs budgets!!). In line with Fey's comments about ideas, it'd be great to see some stands displaying or selling aftermarket parts along with some show cars.

I too would like to see what you have mentioned, BMW GB might be interested.....maybe. I'm sure some tuners/performance houses would be interested in some exposure in this country and may bring race spec cars etc. Tim Harveys BTCC racer springs to mind. Maybe if i buy a carbon airbox, Moseley Motorsport might bring it over

Suggestion;

Could this be tied in with next years National Country Fair - held three weeks ago in Emo?  There was a classic car show there over the weekend, so I dont see why we couldn't have our own section.  Turn out was huge for the weekend with thousands off people in attendance. 

Great idea Bob!

Geoff

Definitely something that with the right organisation could be something special.  Agree that requires input form the not so active BMWCC members and non-forum contributors.

Early June nearly guaranteed good weather to tease the students sitting the state exams.  Any later in the summer will clash with to many holiday arrangements for people.

The Classic Car Club hold an excellent annual event which may be something worth considering tying up with.  Last year they have some other clubs attending (unfortunately this included a small minority of “max’d” motors).

As for support, I’d defo contribute any way I could.

This is all true Gerard. I'm still of the opinion that a "main" event like this would attract a greater number of members as a kind of yearly get together. If circumstances prevented certain members from attending local meets then they could meet up with fellow BMW muckers on a fixed date every year.

I'm well aware that everybody has their own lives to get on with and it's not possible for every member to attend every event. My point is that members from each region will attend the events closer to home and this makes the club a bit fragmented IMO.

In my opinion a showpiece event once a year would attract greater membership and make the club more accessable to the public in general, but then again this is a debate so all input is welcome as this is a proposal for everyones benefit and not just my ego

Fey dude, go to the bmwcarclubireland homepage and click on members. This will give you a pretty good idea of numbers in the club.

I'd imagine "most" forum users are members also, but i think there are alot of members who don't use the forum at all.

If Eamo can establish the Show and Shine as a midlands event in Tullamore, it would make a good event to be high profile annual event. Since there is no driving element it can be more family friendly (MacDonalds is just down the road from the BMW dealer!)