I broke this down into sub groups so we can track each item to conclusion. Only post in the information about merchandise in the thread.

Thumbs up or down for merch.

"T" Shirts?

Hats?

How about a Wind Breaker in case it's raining?
I've been to several events and never got a wind breaker. Lots of "T" Shirts though...

I vote no.
That is because I dont want to deal with it.

Rich

From what I have learned in the past:
Carry no stock for sale to the event. If we only do pre-sales, then we don't have to worry about ended up with a ton of unsalable product after the event.

For Hershey - we don't want to do t-shirts. Its usually way too cold for them.
Sweatshirts, hoodies, or lightweight jackets could work well through.

Jackets like these: http://www.automotiveworkwear.com/RedKap/J...rk_jackets.html
or these: http://www.automotiveworkwear.com/RedKap/J...rk_jackets.html
are cheap to buy, can have logo printed on them, and names embroidered. And, will keep you a little warmer on a chilly April day.

Shirts like these:
http://www.automotiveworkwear.com/Uniforms/work_shirts.html are inexpensive and fairly durable. We used this shirt in gray: http://www.automotiveworkwear.com/RedKap/S...ork_shirts.html for the ECC2008 shirts. They sold very well, and turned out nicely.

Zach

Very nice Zach!

Here's another option.
http://www.classiccloseouts.com/items.asp?iid=74123

Zach....your pic if creapy

Rich

Its a joke. I'll change it to something else tomorrow.

Zach

I like it. My son scanned one of his baby pics and did this.

Click to view attachment


Sorry I got off track!

Funny, I said one thing in the moustache thread and it took off like fire....what a funny place this has become...no mercy at the 914World...lol

Rich

now we got logo....website almost....how about the Merchandise.

I lost track of where it stands.

I wouldn't mind have a momento of the event. Others visiting the offical website might be able to preorder? Maybe I could try to get some sponsorship to help pay.

My guys guy gave me a tee shirt price of $12 for good quality one sided; $15 for two sided tee shirts.

He could produce hoodies or wind breakers. I'll try to get some number on them too.

I'm with you. I like Zach's windbreaker idea considering it sounds like it rains every year. I think the Windbreaker could be factored into the event price.

Can you get a cost by Friday?

today is Friday...

do we want printing on front and back?

maybe just the logo and date on the one side??

What a dork.... I went all day thinking it was Thursday...

Here's an unusual Idea. How about the vertical logo down one sleeve?

Anyone second this idea? I have never seen an event jacket or long sleeve shirt with the event logo down the sleeve.

I have seen it before, but I don't know that it is very effective. The sleeve makes it hard to read, and the screen printing may crack and ware faster then normal due to all the extra flexing that sleeves tend to go through.

Zach

I'll ask for ideas from the vendors I speak with

Ya, That's likely why you don't see it much.

zach,
getting this message when trying to open the cars_shirt.ai file.

I have to go off site for the rest of the day, and still don't have the ability to get on line from home. (at least I am home now...). I'll resave the image with PDF support tomorrow and send it to you.

Zach

I have three requests out for quotes on:

Tee shirts
windbreakers
hats
long sleeve tee shirts
etc...if they have any suggestions

one new vendor that I have never delt with, and two local guys that have done tons of work for me over the past 10 years.

Hopefully prices are resonable....I've usually spent other's money (Athletic Association, Recreation Committee, etc.)

There still seems to be enough time to look into other's if we're not satisfied.

First quotes to get back to me. Of course he neglected to give me numbers on hats and windbreakers. I'll re-ask.

TEE-$9.99/pc
LONG SLEEVE TEE-$12.99
plus $75.00 set up charge($25.00/color)
3-4 days should be good.
thank you!
G. S. Lee
SPORTS EXPERT
201-664-5600
201-664-0756 (fax)

Good job Ray! Glad your on this.

still waiting to hear back from 2 other vendors...

Mr. Lee spoke to me about hats and windbreakers.....

he thinks (and could be right) that our logo might be too busy for a hat. And 3 colors on "windbreakers" is a risk. Once you get to the third color, the material starts to shift, and could be a mess. But did give a price, and windbreaker would be $39.00 not to thrilled about that.

my favorite and the most appropriate for the weekend might be a long sleeve tee shirt. 12.99 doesn't seem too expensive....

still waiting to hear back from other quotes...I'm trying to deal with 3 vendors.

heard back from Stable Energies:
...it's a start!

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Hi Ray,

This looks like the 914 guys are going to have a great get together. We would be happy to offer you some stable energies promotional items. We will put together a package for you.We will let you know when it is ready. Did you want to pick it up?

Sincerely,

Laurette Foshay

Stable Energies
175 Passaic Street
Garfield, NJ 07026
Phone 973-773-3177
Fax 973.773.3178
Laurette@StableEnergies.com
www.StableEnergies.com

And so it begins.... WOO HOOooo! Way to go Ray!

I recieved a message back from Autohaus:
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Ray,

Sounds like a fun time. The 914 happened to be one of my first cars ever.

We do sponsor this Hershey event via the local Porsche Club, and also the autocross as well, which is a separate sponsorship.

I would be able to contribute something to your event in the form of a small door prize but would not be able to extend this event sponsorship out any further.

I think that these are really great cars, but they are not part of our core business, and the sponsorship requests are many. I am sorry, but these times do not allow further spending.

I do happen to have three 914s in my basement here at the dealership in the basement collection area. I do invite your attendees to come and visit the collection, and you are welcome to extend that invitation to all of your participants.

I hope that you have a great turnout.

Kind Regards

Tom
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I returned a thank you and mentioned that we could use his door prize for one of our internal 914 events....as a award or prize.

Nice work Ray! Could you be sure to post a link here to anyone wanting to sponsor this event?

I will have Forrest place a sponsor page on the web site.

Ask him to bring out one of his basement cars that is a real show stopper...that would be great advertising for them to show their real love the the 914.

Rich

Ray, Did you ever have a chance to lock up a deal with oldschool?

Forrest is waiting for a link for swag.

yep...just sent he Dr. Evils logo for the back of the shirt, so he could finish set up. He just requested for me to resend our event graphics, not sure why. But I'd have to imagine that he's just about done setting up the shirt ordering site/process/stuff.

emailing/contacting/PMing all "sponsors" today. Requesting they prepare and ship any give-away's to me in the next week or so; so it could be determined what is available for "prizes/awards" at the 914 get-together Saturday night.

I wont be sure what my work situation will be till the week of the event, but I will definitely attend the swap meet Saturday, rain or shine. I could hand off the stuff to Mike, Zach or Rich to bring to the party that evening.

already heard back from George Hussey...he'll ship stuff to me this week.

also just heard back from Autohaus:

Tom wrote:
We will get a goddie box together for these guys and have it for them at the SWAP. Ray, visit us at our booth.

Seppo, see me and we will make a donation to their function.

Keep up the great work Ray!

..also heard back from Mr. Mike Lesniak:

CV bolts and a tranny rebuild will be donated to the cause....personally, the bolts would be a very cool something to walk away with!

got a return text message from Brad Roberts BRAG:

He'll be in CT working on a 9146 project that week and will be attending Hershey. He'll be bringing giveaway stuff too.

Cool!

just got off the phone with Chris Foley (Tangerine Racing- CFR):

he will attend the event and will be bringing a broken cam shaft award for the 914 in most need of maintenance....and they will also be given a case of BRAD PENN OIL

...not bad.

Stable Energies:

they're still on the fence...they might either provide gift certificates or shirts and sweat shirts with, of course their names on them.

They sell lots of race/autoX stuff to all the 911/boxster guys. After letting them know that a good portion of our group will be beating the crap out of their cars on Sunday, they will probably provide certificates to purchase merchadise. They seem to be the go to people on the east coast for helmets, cages, etc....just from seeing PCA events or work shops they sponsor.

I got this message in the webmail this evening. Ray, since you are doing most of the sponsorship stuff, would you give them a ring?

Hi Zach, I sent Ray an email to be sure he sees this. Great News!

will do...funny, George said he was shipping stuff to me over a week ago. I guess this supports the usual AA bad comunication stories.

just got off the phone with Reid from AA...we had a good laugh. George does drag his feet with most stuff. So he'll be dropping goodies in the mail today so I have by next week.