Whew!
Okay...This is like the 10th time I've written this post and tried to post it in the last four days, only to have some computer issue pop up and stop me from getting this done. Meanwhile, I have half a dozen requests via e-mail asking me to forward what I'm trying to explain in this post. Jeeze Louise! Something must be getting through, or, y'all are thinking likewise.
For you new cookies, the first National Marauder Roundup was planned as a one-time event staged along side a "Fun Ford Weekend" in Ennis Texas, back in Sept, of '03. Everyone who visited this site then were invited to attend, MM owner or not. Moreover, our "National Member" tag meant all owners living in North America, not just those inside American borders. My my, how things have changed since then.
Nonetheless, Ennis came to be nick-named "Marauderville," and while this event was planned and carried out, none of us ever expected that we would want to do any of this "Marauderville" stuff again. ROTFLMAO, were we wrong about this or what?
Since Marauderville, many of us have become real road hogs. Driving fools hooked on sawed-off weekends OTR, just to meet up with other MM owners and supporters. Collectively, we have logged many miles doing exactly that. So, while this OTR "face to face" stuff has been seductive, reading maps and traveling light has paid off too. The joy of meeting and making new MM.Net friends at the next exit, is well documented in our threads. This "handshake hospitality" has been exciting, and no one here has yet to report any disappointment.
I'm not surprised that plans for a '04 Roundup are cooking on the stove right now, can y'all smell it? Just like Momma's busy in the kitchen, and y'all are getting more hungry now too. Well, the chief cooks of Marauderville II are the heroes of Marauderville I, Bob and Jean Mathis. Mary (MM03MOK) and I have signed on to the '04 team as kitchen help, and more kitchen help is needed, contact one of us to sign up.
Our poll is about where we are going to stage Marauderville II and there are two choices. Indy and Bristol are both equally exciting. Indy excites me, this event is built around a two day weekend event planned and managed by the "International Mercury Owner's Association," herein known as the IMOA.
IMOA's annual International car show is already scheduled and the IMOA has some neat stuff planned, more on that later. What is important for you to know now, is that the IMOA has extended an invitation to us MM owners here at the MM.Net, to attend their International event at Indy. This generous invitationoffers us something we do not yet have. Our very own and very real MM club.
The IMOA is often thought of as "collector's," or, "antique car" club, which we do not qualify for. However, the '03 Marauder wasn't around when Jerry Robbin formed his club, and today, Jerry Robbin wants us in his club. Thank you, Jerry.
The IMOA offers us a real time organizational chart, a real structure, with real and in-house event planning, and real management that can handle the scale of an International meet. Benefits continue with stuff like housing management, side event admission, club awards, and a very slick quarterly magazine we can wrtie articles for and see ourselves in International print.
To participate in the Indy event, we must be members of the IMOA. To be members solves a lot of "Roundup" headaches. To participate, is much too exciting to talk right about now, but trust me when I say that it won't be just a two day weekend.
Jerry Robbin has donated a lot of membership stuff to us already. I have 100 copies of "Quicksilver," the IMOA's slick quarterly mag, as well as applications for membership in the IMOA, and registration forms for the Indy event.
I had planned to send this stuff out to y'all who are registered in in Mary's "membership mailing list," but one package mailed out is a dollar eighty-six to the USPS, which "86-ed" this idea when it was "X 100" members. I don't mind the coins between friends, but why should I spend them blindly?
Mailing out to MM.Net members who are not interested in the IMOA or Indy, is a waste of my coin, right? So...E-mail me at SergntMac@aol.com with your real time home addy, zip, and I'll front you the cost of the package, k? This means e-mail, not PMs or messanging through MM.Net, got it?
Hopefully, every one of y'all who show because of me, will buy me a beer in our '04 Indy Roundup corral...
Y'all e-mailing me, I need to read your;
Name
Street Address
City, Stae, Zip
Screen name here @ MM.net.
This post can be refined, but I had to start somewhere, eh?
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