I was allready affread that was going to happen :frown:
I'm sorry to say me too.
Very interested ... but where, and who's going to take the responability of organising such an event
Well, I could do something in Switzerland but we've ruled out Switzerland because driving here is very restrictive and I don't want our Europe guests to loose their driving license for a while. Switzerland is also not in the center of Europe. If you still like to do it in Switzerland please tell me. If not no problem with it.
I've greatest respect for Dirk's preparation and ideas but I'll propose something different now.
I've seen that there is strong Belgium NSX community, see
http://www.nsx.be/startpagina.htm who may be interested in organizing such an event, stress on SMALL event.
My suggestion of location would be Strassbourg, ok that's Luxembourg but it's a nice area.
Generally (and this literally really generally) WHAT DO WE NEED?
-a date fixed
-a meeting point = hotel
-a parking space for max. 50 cars
-a plan of the tour/activities
-a guy to coordinate the event
-nothing else to keep it simple
What is overkill for the first meeting IMO:
-race-track. I've greatest respect for this idea but this complicated the organizing by far. I'd suggest that we do a small meeting and discuss it this year on which track we go next year, ok? :wink:
-a Europe tour-plan as I think that people from each country will organize themselves and find a way to the event.
MY suggestions:
date: sept or oct 2007, saturday/sunday. Saturday arrival. Meeting time about 13:00. Not in the morning because some people may drive directly to the meeting. Sunday open end (everybody drives home whenever he wants to).
location: Strassbourg +-50 km? Leaves it the tour open for Black forrest. Could be another trip too except driving mainly on the Autobahn because that's boring IMO.
Activities: Visiting a museum or other technical stuff, depending on the interests people have. It could look like this: sa 13:00 meeting, 14:00 driving max. 3 hours/200 km to the first visiting point (i.e. museum). Driving to the hotel (must be organised) where we all spend the night. su 10:00 driving max. 3 hours/200 km to the next visiting point, then driving to the end meeting point where you can do some final pictures and say goodbye.
The preparation all depends on how many people will attend. So there must be a joining list here on prime or on Dirk's site. I know that the weather will be a critical point for some people (inclusive me) as it's no fun to drive several hundred km in pooring rain.
Some more detailled notes: The date will be fixed virtually here, the location too. There must a guy who's locally near to the meeting point to check out what place is ok for us. If some people arrive on friday it's in their responsability where there stay overnight. We'll vote on the first activity (sa) here on prime. Depending on what it is it must be organized or not. What we need mostly is the hotel we'll stay from sa to su because we need beds to sleep in and dinner to eat.
Depending on the second actitity point it should be organized or not. (If we're 20 NSX's and drive to a hotel with a massive parking lot and 1000 bedroom's it's no need to prep it explicitly, a phone ring often clears the situation) For the several trips there must be a volunteer who makes himself clear where to drive through and will be responsible if we all find ourself in the desert.
You see that a weekend is complicated enough to organize.
So what you think about this one?
