WHEN? ITALIAN CAR SHOW AT LAKE LANIER

I think I saw October 2 mentioned somewhere......

 

Oct 2nd, with an Oct 3 rain date. This year it will be held at Kurts in Duluth.
Park Rangers and Resource Management seem to be less and less cooperative each year. So this year my club, FLU (Fiat Lancia Unlimited) has negotiated with Kurt. He will be doing the onsite meals/catering.
Jeff Davison

 

Jeff: If you'd like to get me some detailed info in the next couple of days (we're coming up on the editor's deadline) I'll get a notice put into the FCA NewsBulletin and into our calendar on the FCA SE website. Thanks for helping to organize this!

Mike

 

If the same number of cars show up at Kurts as showed up last year at the lake.... you will have cars parked in the field along the driveway and still not have any room for non-show cars to park. I would suggest planning some sort of shuttle service to get spectators to park in the office park down the street and try to have some well organized traffic control to assist all show participants in finding the correct spots. Pre-registration and reserved spots is also a good idea.

Kurts is a really fun place and I love the food... but space is not his high point. The venue at the lake has double the parking space and it was filled beyond capacity last year. Some late arrivers left due to no parking within the show area.

Just my thoughts....


Terry

 

Wow. I didn't know that. I figured Kurt's would be larger. Why on earth would you rent a space that is smaller than what we used last year. We had to line F-cars up in a row in front of other parked cars. Last year was packed. I haven't seen Kurts so I wouldn't know what it looks like but I hope the coordinator has planned for this in some way. I even got there early last year and didn't have an actual space. Atlanta is huge so there must be an adequate place to hold an event. What happens when the fords and chevies have events down there? Even up here in TN we have local car shows that have over 300-400 cars and always have plenty of room.

 

While Kurt's has great food, it's lack of space will be a real problem if more than 100 cars or so show up. If its not too late, I suggest the location be reconsidered.

 

how about Speed Lab in Roswell they would have enough room (it used to be a Sams club ) They host a ton of Events for car clubs

C2Turbo

 

I second we look for another place. I am open to all suggestions.

 

Chateau is an excellent suggestion. Plenty of room, food, beverage....etc..

 

If we can't do the lake I like the Chateau venue. Lots of room, food and rooms if anyone wants to stay over or come in early. Kurts is nice for a smaller event but if we get the same turnout that we had last year at the lake we'll have to stack the cars 3 high.

 

So, who is setting it up? Who do we need to talk to? Who's in charge??lol

 

FYI, Chateau Elan was considered, but they want a BIG fee for using their lawn... unfortunately they don't see it as an event that's enough of a draw for them to allow use of their space for free or even at a reasonable cost... it would force the participant fees to go way up, and/or have to charge onlookers which also means keeping track of who goes in and out and restructuring how it's all managed, which we really don't want to do. Also, they wanted a guarantee of 200 meals at $26 per person (over $5,000) for lunch IN ADVANCE -- and that's absurd, especially when "Paddy's Pub" on their own property provides a sit-down lunch for half that... unless one of you guys wants to let them charge that advance against your Visa card!

According to John Montgomery, who is the main organizer, we can get 150 or more cars at Kurt's because we'll have about 35% actually parked on the lawn, not on the paved parking lot. Kurt's paved lot will be used exclusively for Italian machinery. What makes it work is that the adjacent lots at next door businesses are closed on Saturday. They are available to use for any overflow we need including at least 150 spaces for visitors in non Italian cars.

 

Yes Mike is right! We will have plenty of room at Kurt's. John considered several other places as well, and none of them were as willing to help the cause as Kurt's. There we have great food, great beer, restrooms and lots of AC and shade. I forgot to mention the last car show I did there, we had 138 cars at Kurt's, parked perfectly comfortably.