Which location will you be going to for the 50th Celebration

[jacostang]

Its not too late, I hope but again the decision was made without a drop of membership involvement... Truly Sad...
Doug your words are strong and I feel your frustration all the way here in AZ.....

[Mustang 3]

Very good point! More driving events associated with the shows, has anyone here ever been to the Rocky Mountain Round up in Steamboat??? Autocross, mountain cruise, burger burn, and of course location but its the whole package that brings people to clubs and events... We do several cruises a year and people love them!

Bingo- that is much of the future. The trick for MCA to save itself is for it to be 2 organizations in 1. Put on "events" and "judged" shows. Simply running 5 judged shows per year will not work. Just attended Concord--saw all the hard work put on by the local club as well as the MCA directors and judges who flew out. Nice time but 3 days parked in a parking lot ...that will not fly outside of a small group of dedicated folks. You will not grow attendance. What is the trick....Maybe fewer full on 3 day "judged shows" say 3 per year instead of 5...1 west, 1 east and 1 national. AND 3 MAJOR EVENTS per year. Same 3 day set up but NO judging ...things like the Rocky Mountain event--OTHER ACTIVITES..you car doesn't stay static. A 3 day Mustang party so to speak. Modest entry fees (you do not have to for Judging materials, flying judges in etc)

[57158]

It is not safe to draw any conclusions from the results of the two polls posted on this website. As of today, there are 29,491 registered users of this website yet only 93 and 121 users have expressed a preference on the polls. That is less than ½ of 1% of the users, hardly a statistically valid sampling.

The users with strong opinions have expressed themselves and continue to do so, but the silent majority continues to remain silent. Do they have no opinion what so ever? Are they still in a wait and see mode? Are they apathetic to the entire process? We simply do not know.

[Flicka]

It is not safe to draw any conclusions from the results of the two polls posted on this website. As of today, there are 29,491 registered users of this website yet only 93 and 121 users have expressed a preference on the polls. That is less than ½ of 1% of the users, hardly a statistically valid sampling.

The users with strong opinions have expressed themselves and continue to do so, but the silent majority continues to remain silent. Do they have no opinion what so ever? Are they still in a wait and see mode? Are they apathetic to the entire process? We simply do not know.

as is with most that I know - they all are waiting to see if Ford will have a celebration. If Ford does the option for us is to go to the Ford event instead of anything else for the 2014 year.

[1MOTIME]

Charlotte !!!

[jacostang]

It is not safe to draw any conclusions from the results of the two polls posted on this website. As of today, there are 29,491 registered users of this website yet only 93 and 121 users have expressed a preference on the polls. That is less than ½ of 1% of the users, hardly a statistically valid sampling.

The users with strong opinions have expressed themselves and continue to do so, but the silent majority continues to remain silent. Do they have no opinion what so ever? Are they still in a wait and see mode? Are they apathetic to the entire process? We simply do not know.

Staggering that only a small, very small portion of the folks use this forum...

[FastDad]

Staggering that only a small, very small portion of the folks use this forum...

I personally think that the current board likes the fact that the majority of the membership is not net savvy. It makes them easier to control when all the information about the club that the majority receives is through the club magazine.

These forums are too random and immediate for the MCA board to control, although as my local club president has told me, they try, by deleting posts, even in the restricted presidents forum.

[jacostang]

Its kind of like that here with our club.. For years the board states "we need to bring more new blood into the board" but, they wont let the entire membership vote,, only those who show up to meetings. Well you eliminate 80% of your membership because not everyone can make the meetings, work school, family etc. etc. So you get the same people voting for the same people over and over and over again. We came up with a simple way for everyone to vote if they wanted to but it was tossed aside.

Even thought we may not be the majority we "the disgruntled few" are very passionate about whats going on or we wouldnt be on here because we could care less. Once the magazine is printed, like our newsletter, the decisions have already been made and without the majority of the memberships knowledge.

Major decisions should have set date and open discussion for those who are and are not computer/internet friendly.

[Roush86]

I agree with you. If there were events a week apart I would absolutely make the first then drive across country for the second ! What could possibly better than driving our beloved Mustangs across our beautiful country !

I understand the reasoning for two shows but I really like this idea of seperating them by a week. I really enjoyed the 45th MAA drive to Birmingham so the drive to Charlotte would be fantastic.

[CharlesTurner]

It is not safe to draw any conclusions from the results of the two polls posted on this website. As of today, there are 29,491 registered users of this website yet only 93 and 121 users have expressed a preference on the polls. That is less than ½ of 1% of the users, hardly a statistically valid sampling.

The users with strong opinions have expressed themselves and continue to do so, but the silent majority continues to remain silent. Do they have no opinion what so ever? Are they still in a wait and see mode? Are they apathetic to the entire process? We simply do not know.

Agree that the stats are a very small sampling, but the 29k registered users is kind of misleading. From what I understand, a dump of MCA membership numbers that were active within the past x-amount of years was done and created the bulk of these "registered users." If you look at the bottom of the forum page, it shows that about 1,200 members have been "active" on the website. Not sure exactly how that stat is calculated, but it most likely is a more true number of how many MCA members have logged into the site. If that number is more in line with reality, then we have about 10% of MCA members using the website, which is somewhat disappointing.