i agree with hans. 3 days is not enough. and someone said earlier that there should be a cruise. i vote for a wally's burger/vancity cruise on thursday night. i have actually thought about trying to organize an ac/vc (air-cooled/van-city) cruise for the summer. cruise through gastown go around stanley park across the burrard street bridge down cornwall past kits beach through pointgrey up 4th and end at spanish banks for some lounging & a sunset. i may try to organize something like this regardless, but it could be something to think about as an addition to the gcvws weekend. it also could double as a rolling advertisement for the show. hand out some handbills or hang a big sign off of some type II.
personally, if i wasnt local, i would be bummed if it were only a one day event. a trip to vancouver is not cheap if you live on the island or outside the lower mainland. 3 days of festivities makes it way more worth while. i think car and people attendence would drop drastically if it were only a one day event.
you also have to think about all the exposure that is gathered from having a weekend long vw party. when people start seeing tons of vw's at mission, at hotels, on the highway, cruising around town, they really take note that something serious is going down. i dont know what the specific #'s are, but i have seen a steady increase of vehicle and people traffic over the past 4-5 years at all the weekend events.
one more thing about the # of cars. are you strictly talking about the # of cars in the show? because i can definately tell that even tho there were cars parked on the grass last year, there was definately room for more. but were the vw's in the parking lots in and around the show counted? alot of people wont enter their dailies, but will drive them to the show. i have seen a whole lot more vw's parked outside the show that ever before. what you need to do is figure out how to get them to pay and get them to enter there vw's in the show. maybe an \"everyday vw\" class? B)
regardless of what happens, i totally dig the whole gcvws weekend and look forward to it every year. kudos to all the people involved in putting it together. i know the hours are long and the sacrifices are many, but i truly hope that you all realize that the show you put on is 5 star quality and alot of people really appreciate your efforts.
