Peninsula Volkswagen Club

August 3rd Meeting for 2003

I.               Call to Order: President Greg Anderson called the meeting to order at 7:05pm.

a.     Members Present: 17?

b.     Guests Present: 2.

                                                     i.     Mr. Stacy Cambel owner of a Porsche speedster kit VW

                                                      ii.     Nate Wallace owner of a ’68 Bug project

II.             Reports:

a.     Secretary’s Report:

                                                     i.     Minutes of last meeting: read by Alexander

                                                      ii.     Website Update: Updates to the calendar are coming.

                                                        iii.     Constitutional Amendments or By-Law Changes: none

b.     Treasurer’s Report: Given By Eichenburger

III.           Old Business:

a.     Name: Alexander brought up Burney’s: previously mentioned idea to have a recommended shops list

                                                     i.     Bill Sorrel agreed to start collecting data on different shops. If anyone has recommendations, please e-mail them to Bill.

                                                      ii.     Alexander will look into also doing an online poll in addition to the Official Shop List.

b.     Name: Sheck  Business: Passed around some pictures

                                                     i.     Anyone who wanted a print could take one.

c.     Name: Jim Collins  Business: Asked about a previous idea of printing up some flyers.

                                                     i.     Burney volunteered to come up with one for next meeting.

                                                      ii.     Anyone with suggestions for the flyer please contact Rufus Burney

                                                        iii.     He can spend up to $30 in keeping with the constitution/by-laws.

IV.           New Business:

a.     Name: Vince Martinez Business: Knows of a ’71 Ghia Convertible for sale

                                                     i.     $3500 but needs some welding work that Brentwood Auto would do for about $500

V.             Open Forum:

a.     Name: Sheck Subject: Spoke about the differences in Fuel.

b.     Name: Mark Rogers  Subject: Bug Out 54 coming up.

                                                     i.     He will be going up.

                                                      ii.     It’s on Sunday August 31st on the Labor Day weekend.

c.     Name: Alexander Subject: Troubles he was having getting glass for his Thing

                                                     i.     Recommendations were made including Danny’s Glass, City Glass in Portsmouth, amoung others.

                                                      ii.     The problem was that windshield glass is normally 1/4” thick while the original Thing windshield was 3/16” thick.

VI.           Adjournment:       

a.     New members: 0

b.     Next Meeting: September 7th