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Originally Posted by marvins_dad
Looks like Tail of the Dragon GTG (North Carolina) is going to be a yearly event. Getting a huge boost next year because Roswell has gone to every two years (odd years). Those are really the only New Beetle Only events that I am aware of.
For a while there was Margaritaville in So Cal and the TNBRU in Dallas...but I think Margaritaville only lasted a few years and I think we put on the TNBRU for 7 shows?
The last TNBRU rained throughout the event, we had a great group of out of towners, but the large numbers for in town folks didn't come out because they were local and could choose not to. Bummer, that was probably about 25-ish cars that year...but in the years past we pushed 50 every year....which was good because we were competing with the Monster that WAS Roswell back in the day.
Last year we had it in October and a hurricane took the show out for good. Being that we had already done a low attendance show with the new sponsor Lewisville VW, we didn't want to waste their money and our reputation because of the rain out...so we called the show before people started traveling to Dallas for the show.
Unless we start getting a new group of folks here in the DFW area interested in the club and helping out with the show...there probably won't be any more TNBRUs...we dumped the shirts and goodie stuff at the Roswell show...so we would essentually have to start all over. Our current President stated that we were out of the show business.
That doesn't mean that if another VW club came along and wanted to jointly put on a show we wouldn't... but it would be a watercooled show primarily...not a New Beetle Only show. In fact in the last two years of the show we had invited other watercooled VW's to join us because of the dwindling NB numbers in the final years.
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Well I've been wondering about this but just haven't asked yet. Guess I got my answer. Sounds like there needs to be an all new Texas event developed. And maybe it needs to be more centrally located.
