Seeking your views [ADL people please read]

[A.G.System]

First of all this isn't meant to be a slag OzHonda off thread so please if you decide that the only reply that you can come up with is this kind please refrain from posting.

We want to keep this positive people.

In This thread it kind of went from being a lets discuss small car sunday..... to why doesn't OzHonda enter these kind of events to well read the thread and see.

Anyhoo

The idea i was thinking was lets pool our ideas together and think of ways that we can promote OzHonda and help people that don't know about us learn something about the Adelaide Honda community.

Ways that have been discussed so far have been the usual car cruises and meet ups. That well lets face it either don't happen or people just cant make it, to people wanting to go but the thought of meeting up with strangers can be a little daunting.

One idea that was bantered about was that possibly we could start entering the local car shows and events as a group under the one banner.

Prelude Australia do it. Along with many others.

This would require a person to take charge of organizing these type of events. making sure that everyone has got their entry fees etc paid up in full before the event and everyone that is entering has passes etc.

Wyn or Ben this section goes to yourselves.
Have we as a community tried to do something like this in the past that you know of?
If so how did it work and do you believe that if we pooled our resources we could do something like this again?

There was talk about things like banners etc for shows such as Autosalon so people knew that we were from the same group.
This isn't too hard to arrange and would be minimal outlay esp if people on the forums all pull together. I'm sure that there are people out there that know someone thats a sign writer etc. It would just be a matter of storage and thats easy enough to arrange. Hell i have a shed that we could use for that if need be.

Other ideas that have been thrown out there are things like regular cruises.
Having an events coordinator that sets up the time and place once every month or every 2 months. We could even alternate monthly get togethers and cruises so that one month we can have a small BBQ or something and then the following month we can go for a cruise etc.

Forgive me if im rambling but its 2:44am.

Id like to hear others ideas for how this could work and if they have been involved in car clubs etc in the past what kind of hassles they have faced??

If the powers that be decide that this is all too much hassle at least we have put the idea out there.

But IF it takes off as an idea who's to say that it couldn't work for other states?

Come on guys (and girls) lets unite under the one banner and show these guys with their RWD smog machines that Hondas are still a recognized part of the local car scene even if they are FWD's.

Thoughts??

[DSNTGR8]

i made my feelings more than clear on this in the other thread, 'the powers that be' on OzHonda need to have input in this because lets face it, it cant be done without thier support/help!!

Each state should have a specific leader/s who run the state events so we can all be united. I dont know if its purely just an SA problem, we've got a sizeable honda entourage in adelaide its just we struggle to be united due to internal factions.

I especially get ostracised because my car is 'rice' with vinyls/chromes etc etc. But at least i still attend all related honda events!!! (if work permits me to that is, lol) weve all got a passion for hondas, we need to join up under the ozhonda banner.

As i said in the other thread, im more than happy to be part of a SA based 'leadership group' if i was asked. Bearing in my mind i dont know that many people well off here. But i would be more than willing to be one of the chosen few to step up to the plate

But without the support of my fellow SA members & ozhonda's main people whats the point?

[S92]

I reckon each state should have their own section... would be easier to organise stuff + /vote me for SA mod :P

[DSNTGR8]

^^^ i already put foward the idea of sub sections for each state, was met with a resounding no

[mr crex]

there are already 2 adelaide mods... John & Matt

I've always felt that state sections would be a plus, we have always had them in CRXAustralia and they work extremely well. But it has been discussed over and over in the site section and ozhonda just doesnt see fit having state sections due to the chance of over spamming etc... which shouldnt be a problem with sufficient mod control.

and I am sorry but I dont want to blow my own horn but the cruises/events myself, dave & team sahau have organised have been very successful with good turnouts...
the trick is to have a major event every 3months or so... have everything organised MONTHS in ADVANCE (not a fortnight prior) and have the cruise route and events for the day well planned and finalised in advance.

you could have monthly meets but the turnouts will be poor and become boring very quickly.

I quite like the idea of ozhonda representation at carshows, DEPENDING on what cars are on display... quality over quantity my friend

coming from a photographers point of view... nothing worse then covering a car show that is full of boring cars that are either stock, poor quality or all look the same... like the recent small car sunday...

having said this, it all depends on OZHonda's admin, its upto them if they wish for people to advertise them at car shows etc. and which people do it... OZHonda wouldnt want to get a bad name if the wrong people are advertising them (hoons, idiots & trouble makers etc)

I think until the admin of ozhonda have expressed their views on the subjects at hand everyone should relax and not get overly excited.

[A.G.System]

Some good ideas are being brought up here guys.

Liking the fact that we are getting some input from different angles (ie MrCrex)

Keen to hear other views.

[DSNTGR8]

theres more than enough owners in SA to make a monthly meet successful i dont think it would get boring or anything like that. Look at the track record of the meets weve had, theres at least 30 cars there which is more then decent for a meet. We all have the same passion here that being that we're hondas drivers.

Every other major car club in sa has banners and all that stuff, we've got just as much members as they have so we should be united. Look at all the car shows recently, it looks like we dont want to be grouped together. Im all for being an individual instead of a sheep, but we need to come together.

Thiers at least several very passionate people who feel the same way in the wrong direction were going in sa, so we could well organise a commitee to oversea this.

mods of ozhonda have been pmd/emailed over this, waiting for thier response

(should get on a christmas cruise)

[dundas]

i dunno about a christmas cruise.. thats a little dangerous. Many cops. High defect rate...More cars on the road. mmmz.. need to find days where people are free too. Many people require months notice due to work commitments etc.

[CTR Coupe]

Like Steve said. monthly/weekly meets have been discussed since the good old CRX Australia days with Sam. but the fact of the matter is that if its every month people go “ummm errrr nahh ill go next month” etc.
When Steve/ Sauhu guys organise a meet people go “far out haven’t been on a cruise in ages better go this could be the last one for a while” etc it always insures a good turn out.

we don’t really have enough people to organise a weekly meet like they do in syd and expect a good turn out every Friday night(plus I don’t really want to be cruising on a Friday night too many wankers/cops/defects out).

A lot of people work the weekends and need notice if they want to be able to organise time off.

If anything id like to see a cruise/meet on a Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday night rather than a weekend. Just to avoid the rest of the wankers on the road out to prove something.
However this defeats the purpose that “some” people cruise for in the first place to be seen.

Another point id like to make while we’re on the topic of cruises.
Hills cruises I really don’t think you guys should be planing open hills cruises. They are always recipe for disaster (see NS for examples). Inexperienced people trying to drive above their ability and their cars ability to keep up with the rest of the group. Id rather see these organised in small groups with guys that know their limits and are all around the same level.

The other thing I don’t like that’s been happening on the last few cruises. Everyone not staying as a group. Its not a freakin race to the checkpoint. Everyone seems to treat it as a cannonball run or something. If people get left behind at the traffic lights the lead cars should pull over and wait. Not just burn off and stand around alone for 20mins waiting for everyone else. This is where good cruise planning comes in and avoiding right hand turns at traffic lights.

[Muzz]

Great thread here A.G.system, i think the problem of not doing it in state/regional chapters (i mean having different orginisers for different areas), is that the orginisers wouldnt be able to attend alot of the meets that they orginise if we only have a pair of orginisers trying to orginise events across australia.
Say there based in adelaide, they wont be attending the actual cruise there orginising on the gold coast or whatever.

IMO, we need to appoint mods for each area, to plan the events for that area. i feel it wouldnt work as well if the event was planned, and all the people rocked up with no one sort of leading the cruise and keeping it orgainised, somone that they could put their thoughts and ideas to, somone to hand out information on that nights cruise.

Also it would be good if we wanted to enter into a car show, the event orginisers for that region, would acctualy know the members for that region, and appoint the stand out cars, and they would also know the owners of the cars that they decide to enter, because i agree, that we dont want hoons/idiots representing us in the public eye.

And i also believe, that anymore than 1 meet per 2 months would be detrimental, say like the first friday (or whatever) of every second month. That way people would be able to plan it in with there life, however far in advance they need to. Having the spacing between each meet would ensure a huge turnout, and give the orginisers plenty of time to really orginise the night and come up with cool ideas like photo shoots/scenic drives/ barbecues etc.

Making the meets official and regular, would be a great idea, get the members interacting, and making ozhonda more of a club, instead of only a forum.
As somone posted that the idea of seperate areas was previously brought up & met with a no, what was the reason behind this, why do you guys feel doing it like this would be worse off? if thats your opionion.

[aaronng]

I don't really get what's the bickering. You guys are complaining that you don't have regular meets or cruises. Just organise them! Us in Sydney have been having weekly Friday night meets and then cruise to dinner. We even have a Christmas meet planned up in 2 weekends. If you guys want more meets and cruises, just organise them.

With regards to an Ozhonda banner for shows, that would be up to Ben and Wynode.

[wynode]

Just read that thread linked to......absolute joke!

In regards to organising regular meetups I don't see how that is upto admins/moderators. I see the responsibility being on members to organise things AND to attend. I see the Syd and Melb users organise plenty of events and meetup quite regularly.

I'm not sure how having state specific sections will help encourage people to come out and organise events but if we can see some good points as to how it will help things we're open to suggestions.

Inregards to having an Ozhonda banner and so on at car shows I'd have to agree with what Steve (mr crex) said above. It takes time and effort by the organisers and basiclly it's putting Ozhonda's name up there so we need some way of screening the quality of car/entrants.

I'm all up for supporting the community and helping events happen, it's just that what alot of people don't realise is that it is upto the members to organise things.