26 March 2002
The March meeting of the Sacramento Chapter of the NSXCA
was held on the 26th. The next meeting is scheduled for the 28th of May at
7:00pm at ACE's Supper Club, 5321 Date Avenue, Sacramento, CA.
Dave
Ayers, Chuck Blakeley, Jenny Boakes and David Rives, Tom Brady, Brian Butts,
Calvin Douglas, Joseph Gavazza and Valerie Kimmel, Stephen Giachino, William
Frey, Ted Idolf, Kirk Johnson, Tom Kohrs and Siew Pheng Tung, Hrant Kouyoumdjian,
Bill Muirhead, Jon Nastro, Will Roth, Larry Wilson
New
members
None
Treasurer's
report
$3103.98,
spent $1500 on name tags and lanyards. Still
have not returned $1000 back to the national club.
New
Business
We
are waiting for members to help organize a couple of drives.
Hrant is also looking at another detailing session at Tomlinson or Fab
Specialties again and Al is working on another wine trip.
We are waiting for Al to be back to finalize proposals.
Al
found a pack of microfiber towels from Costco.
One towel is enough to do 2/3rd of car.
No choice on color, they are all pastel.
Each pack is priced at $12-13 and they are not located in car shop
dept, instead it’s in the laundry dept. The
packages are labeled High Performance MicroFiber Towels.
Someone
brought in a titanium short throw shiftknob from Grouppe M.
Next Meeting:
No
meeting in April. Next meeting will
be May 28 (Tue) at
Thunderhill
Apr 23 Track school.
Despite
low sign-up numbers (we are at ~40 paid), the group passed the motion to proceed
with the Apr 23rd event. We
acknowledge that we may not break even and may need to draw on club funds if we
do not hit 55 drivers by the event. Even
after opening up to other car clubs, we have not been getting good response. 33 of 40 cars are NSXes.
We
are working on cutting expenses by exploring the possibility of having lunch
catered by a sponsor. If the
sponsored lunch does not materialize, we may have to ask participants to
purchase their own lunch. We have
also asked if participants are willing to pay an extra $50 to help cover the
shortfall and have received 6 donations.
We
received additional sponsorship in the form of door prizes from Carbotech with
15% off brake pads and Hrant Enterprises who is donating Ivory floor mats (not
identical to original NSX logo).
Free
tech Inspection will be held in the week of April 15 at Niello Acura.
NSXPO
The
NSXCA Board of Directors leaked the results of the vote on the proposals for the
2003 NSXPO. The Northeast region
declared themselves the winners once enough votes we counted.
In conversations with the board members it became apparent that the
decision point was based on which region had not held an NSXPO in the past.
The Northeast region is planning on holding the event at Watkins Glen,
but they have not booked the track yet.
Since
the organizing committee is set up and the track reserved, we are looking at
holding a west coast event on the weekend Sears Point is booked.
This could turn into an annual west coast gathering probably held in the
spring starting 2004 or 2005.
Autocross
season
Al
has published a list of the autocrosses this season in Sacramento.
The 2002 Autocross event list will be posted to the NSXCA Sacramento
website
The
next event is an SCCA autocross on April 6 and 7 at CalExpo.
See http://www.sfrscca.org/solo2/Sacramento/Cup20021.htm
for more details.