New event! Need your opinion! Dreamland Classic Car Show and DRIVE IN MOVIE!

Hello, Hello, Hello,

Hope your all okay?

I have been at a meeting today with the events organiser from the dreamland Margate project about the idea of organising a classic car event at Dreamland! She was very interested and in a short amount of time we managed to make a rough plan of what we would like to do.

Details,
The day would begin at around 2-4pm ish, with classic cars being welcome to park in the dreamland site, explore the local area or take in some acts that we are hoping to organise, probably bands but all that is tbc. We will also be having a traders area, an autojumble, food stalls etc etc
The main part of the event will start at around 8pm with the showing of a drive in movie. Which I think, is a very individual idea and unlike anything I have seen before. The film that we decided almost definitely had to shown was Grease, its a classic and its where our idea for a drive in movie came from.
Tickets will cost £12 per car on the day or £10 pre-booked. If you think about this a car show usually costs £5+ and cinema is usually £6+ per person. A bargain I hope you will agree.

The film showing will be primarily open to classic cars, with them receiving the closest spots to the screen. Ideally it would be great to fill the whole car park up with classics but as we realise this is unrealistic we will be opening the back end of the carpark to the general public who can buy tickets for their car on the day.

We are planning on doing this for hopefully Saturday 22nd of October, as it gets dark earlier and normally has half decent weather. Although if it rains we would still be able to watch the film from the comfort of our cars.

That's the plan, I will try and create an image of a rough plan of how we would set the car park if this goes ahead.

What do you think, constructive criticism is appreciated etc etc because without YOU and other classic car owners we cannot make this a success!

DISCUSS!

~Lee

Sounds a great Idea Lee
Will you be posting it on the other sites?

Hope fully by then All will be back to normal here.

Roger

Hatch DLM wrote:

Sounds a great Idea Lee
Will you be posting it on the other sites?

Hope fully by then All will be back to normal here.

Roger

Yes I will be but just trying to get an idea of interest at the moment and if we can make it work. If we can pull it off I expect it could be big!

~Lee

Hi Lee,
Sounds fun to me something to look forward to at the end of the season.Please let me know further details when available.
regards
Bob

That's what we were feeling an end of season bash (except the Christmas cruise!)

Any more opinions on the matter we can't do it if only 5 of you turn up lol!

~Lee

Sounds cool lee!! Are Thanet classics also able to supply us with willing females fir the evening!!!!!lol

miniman77 wrote:

Sounds cool lee!! Are Thanet classics also able to supply us with willing females fir the evening!!!!!lol

Lol!

Anymore anymore, have had somebody ask about camping? And the fact that the autojumble is a big draw in.

What do you think?


~Lee

Sounds good Lee, I would definetly be interested in taking part. I have managed to avoid ever having seen grease so I supose that would be the perfect time to actually watch it. My girlfriend loves it so I think she would enjoy coming along.

Number6 wrote:

Sounds good Lee, I would definetly be interested in taking part. I have managed to avoid ever having seen grease so I supose that would be the perfect time to actually watch it. My girlfriend loves it so I think she would enjoy coming along.

Brilliant! Always good to get the girlfriends on side!

~Lee

you can count us in, with this much notice all members should be in attendance.

This event sounds awesome! The auto jumble is a big tick and lets face it, for what you get the price is pennies, lok

roverv8 wrote:

you can count us in, with this much notice all members should be in attendance.

Cheers, and yeah it would be great to get a big turn out from the club to support this!

OscarTheMini wrote:

This event sounds awesome! The auto jumble is a big tick and lets face it, for what you get the price is pennies, lok

Cheers, glad you think so! And I know you like your autojumbles ha.


Ohh just a thought from elsewhere, is the date worrying people? I.e. it being too late in the year?

~Lee

Nettles wrote:

Sounds great to me. Post it up on my site as well because I'm sure a few of the Monkeys would love this.
Top job fella.

Yeah I will put the idea up soon to see what people think about it!

~Lee

Anymore, for anymore?

~Lee

Brill brill idea
Mez and I will defo be there
food stalls would be good ... love to eat at these types of events
was talking to someone about using dreamland for classic car show this very night and said you would be up for that and so you are.

I'm sure we can fill Dreamland with classics there's loads of us out there , just need to get the word out

Mez wrote:

Brill brill idea
Mez and I will defo be there
food stalls would be good ... love to eat at these types of events
was talking to someone about using dreamland for classic car show this very night and said you would be up for that and so you are.

I'm sure we can fill Dreamland with classics there's loads of us out there , just need to get the word out

Good to hear! And yes obviously food stall will be there! haha
That's funny I was obviously well ahead of you!

And yeah I think with the right advertising this could be big.

Cheers

Lee

I think the idea is great. October does worry me for us soft top drivers, but I will probably need the extra time to get mine on the road

Tunz202 wrote:

I think the idea is great. October does worry me for us soft top drivers, but I will probably need the extra time to get mine on the road

Yeah I have had a lot of worries about the date, I think moving it forward a month would be a sensible option, but it depends on the venue etc etc.

We shall see, thanks for the comment!

~Lee

Any more comments and ideas for this! Speak now or forever hold your peace!

Gotta get people opinions collected!

Remember its for you classic car owners, no question or idea is stupid!

~Lee

Define "classic"? Worms and can fully opened....

Why not American Graffiti? Far more yank cars in that!

robbo86 wrote:

Define "classic"? Worms and can fully opened....

Why not American Graffiti? Far more yank cars in that!

I define classic cars as anything over 25 years old, but already in the club we have multiple cars that don't adhere to that rule, but am I bothered no! Because cars can be a classic in their own right. As long as its old skool and the owner is enthusiastic then its cool with me!

So many people have suggested American Graffiti. I must watch it!

~Lee

It's wicked! Do it! You know I think as a fortnightly thing (the drive in at dreamland) durin the summer would be wicked!

robbo86 wrote:

It's wicked! Do it! You know I think as a fortnightly thing (the drive in at dreamland) durin the summer would be wicked!

I don't think organising it as a fortnightly thing is possible as the costs involved are quite high. But hopefully doing it more than once will be on the cards depending on the success.

~Lee