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Originally Posted by dreadly

I say we organise some sort of petition... get the idea out there to all the local car clubs from coffs to foster.. aim for around 10k signatures? approach the council.. have the clubs chuck in some money each and have it assessed? for viability etc? May take us a while but geeze it'd be worth it! Kempsey would finally have a tourist attraction... and would inject some big money into the town..... from vendors, security, porta loos, tyre places, modification shops, mechanic workshops... we'd get a dyno in town some where.... Hell i reckon people would even move here to be able to race, surf, leave the hussle and bussle of the city. Think of the FUN we'd have and and an assett to the mid nth coast.

Every month 50- 100+ cars, $50- $100 per car entered.. family passes $30 2 adults 2 kids, alcohol tent, food stalls, show and shines, merch tents/stalls, Performance/spare parts tents/stalls... yearly memberships etc? start lunch time go through to 9pm? Like tacking the family to the cricket or footy?

Hit up all local club sponsors? then places like capa, bluepower, msd, crow cams, ford, nizpro, rba, etc sell em signs around the place $$$

I really hate to spoil your hopes Peter..you will not get this through the local council. Its been done and tryed before. Dont get me wrong mate....im all for it, i would hate to see you waste alot of time and effort meeting a dead end. My 2 cents which others will not like...but closer to the truth. Read IAM58L post above, Kempsey council is dead broke and in the red a couple of hundred thousand if you have been reading the paper, and getting a petition to turn part of the airport into a local dragstrip, which will cost the council quite a bit to do, i dont think any amount of signatures will change their minds.