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- Jon B March 2010
Help with a car show?
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Hi everyone! my name is sarah and my employer The old Camp Casino with suggestions from the community have decided to put on its first car show :eek: I was put in charge of getting things orginized since my father has done many car shows but there a diffrence from showing to putting one on! anyways i need help finding were to get goodie bags? and were to get items to put in goodie bags :confused: and how do you get places like mopar and jegs and other national retailers to bring there displays? Im could use any help you guys could offer! thanks so much sarah A
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That's a TALL order! You might want to contact other groups in your area who have put on car shows, and then sit down with the person in charge, and take notes!
If this show is this summer, it may already be too late to organize it. You have to place ads around town and in car-related newspapers and magazines, work up flyers, send out press releases to local papers, put notices on car-related websites. You have to decide if you'll have judging, and what the trophies will be, and who will do the judging. You have to decide whether this is a "general" car show for street rods, antiques, motorcycles, etc., or a show for just one type of vehicle -- "car show" takes in a lot of territory.
You have to check around to make sure that the date you've chosen, doesn't clash with another car show in the area.
You need a site for the show, and you need to verify that there is liability insurance that will cover the show's organizers if anyone is hurt.
The goodie bags, door prizes, etc. are only a minor consideration, next to the major planning. You can go to antique car insurers such as Hagerty, and get free goody bags, or Hemmings Motor News will also help -- go to http://www.hemmings.com/clubs/services.html .
You will need a LOT of volunteers, to man the registration tables, park the cars, prepare the grounds ahead of time, and clean up afterwards.
Again, you need quite a while to do this, so I would start planning right now for the summer of 2011.
