Boston VCOA - New Direction?

[ereuter]

Boston-area T-brickers,

After 20 years at the helm of the Boston/Merrimack Valley chapter of the VCOA, Duncan LaBay has stepped down, and I'm honored to taking the reins.

The hope is that we can breathe new life into the chapter, and appeal to a younger crowd. I know that many of you aren't VCOA members, so I'm hoping to get more of you involved.

One of the immediate goals is to have a monthly meeting that is well attended. We have attemped to do this in Newburyport with little success. Moving it to the Boston area is probably the next thing to try, but I welcome your input.

If you are interested in helping me in the quest to get the chapter back off the ground, please send me an email. I'll put together a mailing list, and we can bounce ideas around.

A spring event would be nice, so that's something to start thinking about.

Thanks-
Eric Reuter

[Greg Wong]

Dude, that is awesome! Congratulations!

Definitely a monthly meeting would be something to shoot for, I would definitely come more regularly if it were closer to Boston. Put me on your mailling list, I'd love to be of help!

As far as a location for a monthly meeting, I'd say a little North of Boston somewhere would be good, because there seem to be quite a few of you in NH, and not many people in South of Boston. There's Shane/Roversweed and myself, but that's all I can think of off the top of my head.

Though maybe if it were in the Northern suburbs close to Boston, some of the less hardcore VCOA people from the Boston area would show up, probably a lot of 240s and 850s there.

So are you getting a lot of input from the round fender guys on Swedishbricks? Is Duncan still going to have his BBQ?

Two words: Dyno Day!

Greg

[NUFAN]

Eric,

I know that there are a good number of volvo owners over on swedespeed.com and volvospeed.com, can't forget vptuning.com either, who are in the Boston area. You might want to try posting this over on those forums too in order to gauge some interest.

Also, a bunch of new R owners have been pretty interested in getting a track day together in new england over on swedespeed.com. Here's the link to the new R forum there, I'd try posting this in that forum along with the events/gatherings forum, since some of those guys only check out the R forum.

http://forums.swedespeed.com/zeroforum?id=51

Good luck with the chapter