Dear Waiting List Members…

It’s with heavy heart that I write this letter to you, as your name is found on the waiting list for the 2018 Hagerty Spring Thaw. Some of you have become fantastic friends over the last ten years, some of you I am hopeful to get to meet for the first time in 2018…

I know the agony I feel at having limited spaces is only a fraction of what you’re feeling today, having found yourself on the waiting list. I am writing this note to remind you that it’s FAR from over!!

In 2015 we moved ten cars up from the waiting list…
In 2016 we moved nine cars up from the waiting list…
In 2017 we moved twenty-one people up from the waiting list. (it was something like 17 or 18 cars, and the rest of the people joined in as co-driver’s in cars listing a TBA)

We’re talking about classic cars here, and just a hair over three months to the start of the event. Heck, even getting the organizer’s car to the start can be a challenge!

The best thing you can do right now, is not panic. The second best thing you can do is look at your schedule, and work out for me how much notice you’ll need in order to go on the event. Some of you are booking flights, and may need 4 weeks notice. Some of have jobs that require a week or two notice, some of you may pack the car and be ready to go if I call you on Thursday night. Whatever your scheduling requirements are, make sure you have dave@classiccaradventures.com in your email contact list, and 604-849-0076 in your cell phone contact list. If a space opens up, my first call is to your cell phone. I then call your day time phone number, and lastly I shoot you an email. Usually there is a 24 period to claim the spot, unless we’re in the last week before the event in which case I may go down the list by phone numbers until I get someone who can take the spot.

With luck, I’ll be ringing your phone soon enough.

Cheers,

-Dave

(if you’re wondering why this is posted on Jan 22nd 2017, it’s simply because by ‘back-dating’ the letter, it doesn’t show on the homepage of the website)