<VV> Re: VirtualVairs Digest, Vol 3, Issue 35

[bub049 at comcast.net]

Hi Mike,

Seriously....... ICE prepared a bid for the 2007 convention and was passed over in favor of the Detroit bid (as far as I know). ICE later proposed a kickass regional convention to be held this coming June and was accepted. (Thank you Iowa Corvair Enthusiasts!). We, in Minnesota, had considered a 2007 bid to the point of forming a committee to study the feasability of it. We decided to not bid for a convention based on several factors: 1. Our membership, like other clubs, has significantly aged. A lion's share of the people that would put together the proposed 2007 convention would be the same ones that hosted the 1977 convention in Minneapolis, only 30 years older.  2. We decided that we did not have enough members to pull it off. Many clubs hosting recent conventions enjoy the close proximity of other clubs, and they typically host the convention as a groups of clubs together.  Minneapolis has it's closest fellow club around 200 miles away. 3. We heard that ICE was preparing a bid for the 2007 convention and chose to defer to them and if they were given the convention, offer our help and support in putting it on. 
We felt that as much as we would have loved to have hosted another convention, we do not have the numbers of people available to put on a convention with the high quality programs we have come to expect from a CORSA International Convention.  No chapter wants to be the one to host a convention that falls on it's face. 
I would love to see a convention along the I-35 corridor. Perhaps a consortium of the clubs along that same corridor should get together and look into the possibility of hosting one in a centralized location, with each club responsible for a portion of the convention. It would be a monumental task, but one that I am sure is possible. I know I speak for my fellow members of Corvair Minnesota in stating that we would support such a bid and would sponser our fair share of events. 

I am willing to put my 2 bits where my mouth is. I will work with other folks from the I-35 corridor to examine the possibility of bidding for the 2010 convention (God willing I live that long!). 

Bob Johnston
Frostbite Falls, MN
Former CORSA BOD, former CORSA VP, founder Corvair MN
(older now and much wiser.......)

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> Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 01:01:03 -0400 
> From: "Mike Ioanes" 
> Subject: CORSA regions and conventions 
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> Noticed that "the other half" of the ballot lists the states. provinces, 
> countries and continents in that region-Central for me. Texas, N. and S. 
> Dakota, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Minnesota...these are all pretty far west 
> compared to Kentucky or Michigan, the last and next Central Div. conventions. 
> How a bid from one of these for a convention? Or, maybe Central America? Just 
> kidding! 
> Seriously, I've been lobbying for a convention somewhere along th I-35 corridor 
> since attending my first one in 98. 
> Mike Ioanes 
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