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Offline dfrazz

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How to Organize a Show or Club
« on: January 05, 2015 - 05:02:49 PM »
As anyone ever organized a show or club?  I am considering doing it for/through my church.  I constantly see other muscle and classic cars in the parking lot and thought it would be cool to get something going.  For a club I was thinking of monthly cruises around the metro area to maybe a couple spots.  I was also thinking of hosting an annual show at the church since the parking lot is huge, and would invite anyone interested from hot rods to classics to muscle cars to modern cars.  I am looking for help with lessons learned from someone who has done this before, and for what you guys like or don't like about shows or clubs.  Thanks for you help!   :cooldancing:




Offline roadman5312

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Re: How to Organize a Show or Club
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2015 - 05:12:11 PM »
Were putting a club together here at the shop. We had our first show/bbq couple weeks ago, just friends, friends of friends etc. Had fun. So I'm running an ad on CL in cars for sale by owner, CLASSIC CAR/HOT ROD CLUB FORMING. Getting lots of responses. One word of caution, I don't post my phone # on CL, I ask they respond thru e mail if interested.

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Re: How to Organize a Show or Club
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2015 - 09:39:10 AM »
Forming a club you need to decide how formal it is going to be. The more formal you want it, then you would need to create by-laws for operation, set up a tax ID number for non-profit status. If you have by-laws, then you'll need to pick officers, set up a bank account, file paperwork, look into liability insurance and figure out how you will finance the operation or conduct fund raising. Don't forget the monthly or quarterly meetings of the officers and general membership.

A show would fall under a fund raising activity if associated to a  club, or could be a stand alone event. If held in your church parking lot, you will need to review liability insurance with the facility manager to see if this would covered by their policy or if they would need additional or special waivers. Once that's nailed down you have to choose a potential date, get volunteers lined up to handle registration, decide if you will have awards, prospect sponsors to provide those awards, then decide on advertising mediums to get the message out and manage those. On show day you have the logistics of setting up show parking, spectator parking, organizing judging, handing out awards, and traffic flow.


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Re: How to Organize a Show or Club
« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2015 - 10:38:27 AM »
Which church will you be hosting the car show at?
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Re: How to Organize a Show or Club
« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2015 - 05:53:33 PM »
Which church will you be hosting the car show at?

Smoky Hill Vineyard in Aurora.  It is in the planning stage now, so I'll be sure to keep you updated.  It would be great to get some Mopar's out there.