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10-03-2008, 06:23 PM
I am a Police Officer in NJ and every year, my Police Benevolent Association runs a charity event and we raffle off a new Harley Davidson, the event goes well and evey year a local from our town wins it. (which is nice). We take all the profits and donate them to various charities such as Autism speaks, Cancer Society officers families who were hurt or killed on duty etc. The point is we are a non profit organization and by law we HAVE to donate all the profits we take into our civic association to various causes. We dont squander any money or waste it.
This brings me to the point why I am here speaking to all of you. This year I suggested the Harley thing is getting old and I want to raffle off a 1969 GTO convertible four speed. The PHS shows the car is a Canadian car, Liberty blue car, with blue interior and white convertible top. The kicker is it is a factory hideaway headlight car, tach and gauges, power antena, etc loaded up car. It is missing the original motor but the trans is numbers matching. I located a correct WT motor built a few months prior to the build date of the car.
The car is very solid and will be correctly restored by all of us over the winter months, and should be ready to show come early spring. Of course we dont have the time or money for a concourse restoration, but it would certainly be good enough to show off at local events and a great above average driver quality, my intention is to do a frame off restoration on the car.
Ultimately we would like to raise 60K. I have an idea of limiting the tickets to only 600 at $100 dollars each. I like the idea of very few tickets and the odds of winning are very good compared to unlimited ticket sales.
The members are extremely nervous about this and worry that the ticket price is too much. We will take a vote in 7 days to decide this prodject. I think its a great idea with great odds and a awesome prize to the winner. We currently have 125 police officer members in our PBA and if each guy bought their own ticket we would only have to sell 475. The few members that know what the car is and have experience with muscle cars think its a great idea, but as a Union The majority vote wins. If it were up to the unknowing crowd they would feel better selling an unlimited amount of Harley Raffle tickets at 1o each. I dont fault them or anyone this is just something new to them.
We have some community members and business ready to volunteer their help with labor.
My question to you all is Do you think this will work? Are the tickets too high? I have presold 11 tickets so far myself in 3 days, but that is not enough to convince these guys this idea may work. Their big fear is they dont know enough car guys that may want to buy a ticket. I will suggest that if we dont sell all 600 tickets, that the raffle then turns into a 50/50 with the net profits and the winner will get a nice cash prize.
Here is the big question, I know things are tight for everybody, but should this become a reality would anyone here be willing to buy a ticket for a good cause? If so please respond to me, I wont hold you to it if you change your mind, I just need to gauge solid interest in it so that way when I present my formal case with pics to the membership in a week I can come in and say that there are at least 20-30-50 -100 great people I know who could commit themselves to this and that may sway the vote to this project. Please just dont agree or commit to me for the heck of it, I need honest opinions and commitments should you choose to do so or not. You may do this publically or privately whatever you like.
I am one guy who really believes in this but I am fighting an uphill battle on this one.
Once Again I Thank You
Paul
I started this post on Peformance years for others comments and suggestion please read whats already been said and done.
If the membership here feels this post is innaproriate I apoligize and please remove it. I have really enjoyed reading the posts on your website and looking at your awesome cars.
http://forums.performanceyears.com/forums/showthread.php?t=575748
This brings me to the point why I am here speaking to all of you. This year I suggested the Harley thing is getting old and I want to raffle off a 1969 GTO convertible four speed. The PHS shows the car is a Canadian car, Liberty blue car, with blue interior and white convertible top. The kicker is it is a factory hideaway headlight car, tach and gauges, power antena, etc loaded up car. It is missing the original motor but the trans is numbers matching. I located a correct WT motor built a few months prior to the build date of the car.
The car is very solid and will be correctly restored by all of us over the winter months, and should be ready to show come early spring. Of course we dont have the time or money for a concourse restoration, but it would certainly be good enough to show off at local events and a great above average driver quality, my intention is to do a frame off restoration on the car.
Ultimately we would like to raise 60K. I have an idea of limiting the tickets to only 600 at $100 dollars each. I like the idea of very few tickets and the odds of winning are very good compared to unlimited ticket sales.
The members are extremely nervous about this and worry that the ticket price is too much. We will take a vote in 7 days to decide this prodject. I think its a great idea with great odds and a awesome prize to the winner. We currently have 125 police officer members in our PBA and if each guy bought their own ticket we would only have to sell 475. The few members that know what the car is and have experience with muscle cars think its a great idea, but as a Union The majority vote wins. If it were up to the unknowing crowd they would feel better selling an unlimited amount of Harley Raffle tickets at 1o each. I dont fault them or anyone this is just something new to them.
We have some community members and business ready to volunteer their help with labor.
My question to you all is Do you think this will work? Are the tickets too high? I have presold 11 tickets so far myself in 3 days, but that is not enough to convince these guys this idea may work. Their big fear is they dont know enough car guys that may want to buy a ticket. I will suggest that if we dont sell all 600 tickets, that the raffle then turns into a 50/50 with the net profits and the winner will get a nice cash prize.
Here is the big question, I know things are tight for everybody, but should this become a reality would anyone here be willing to buy a ticket for a good cause? If so please respond to me, I wont hold you to it if you change your mind, I just need to gauge solid interest in it so that way when I present my formal case with pics to the membership in a week I can come in and say that there are at least 20-30-50 -100 great people I know who could commit themselves to this and that may sway the vote to this project. Please just dont agree or commit to me for the heck of it, I need honest opinions and commitments should you choose to do so or not. You may do this publically or privately whatever you like.
I am one guy who really believes in this but I am fighting an uphill battle on this one.
Once Again I Thank You
Paul
I started this post on Peformance years for others comments and suggestion please read whats already been said and done.
If the membership here feels this post is innaproriate I apoligize and please remove it. I have really enjoyed reading the posts on your website and looking at your awesome cars.
http://forums.performanceyears.com/forums/showthread.php?t=575748