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Hey Everyone,

Hope you're well and about to have a great Thanksgiving!

I wanted to ask for your help and partnership. As you know, SAAC is a non-profit car enthusiast club, our sweepstakes is vital to our club's survival. It has quickly become our main fundraiser, enabling us to better serve our members.

Getting the word out there hasn't been easy and we are looking to partner with others who "live" in this auto enthusiast space. Car dealers, Race Shops, Parts Vendors, even your local track - these are all examples of entities who likely have decent mailing lists of auto enthusiasts.

We'd like to send our sweepstakes email out to their list. The links in the email have a promo code embedded so entries can be tracked. We pay a healthy percentage of every dollar raised from these emails. Ultimately, everyone wins!

Our sweepstakes ends soon and much of the "action" takes place in the next few weeks. If you know a dealer, tuner, race track, or anyone who might have a sizable email list and can connect us to them I'd like to reward you with a slice of the raise. They will get a good chunk of compensation for their help too. We make it very easy. We have professionally designed emails ready to be sent. In a few clicks, it's off!

My SAAC email is info@saac.com and I'm happy to further discuss this with anyone. All I want to do is make this sweepstakes successful to better server our SAAC members.

Thank you,



https://www.tapkat.org/shelby-american-automobile-club/4E2Lj9?promo=FORUM

Great photo, who took it?

Hello,

Aug 22 - https://www.gotbluemilk.com/2025/August-2025/250822SHELBY

Aug 23 - https://www.gotbluemilk.com/2025/August-2025/250823SHELBY

Aug 24 - https://www.gotbluemilk.com/2025/August-2025/250824SHELBY

There are a slew of forms available for download here:

https://www.saac.com/50-forms

The Passenger Waiver is here - https://www.saac.com/media/pages/50-forms/6de5596288-1753386284/saac-50-passenger.pdf

However the Passenger Waiver is only needed for Open Track, not Parade...

No. But you can enter the same car twice per day. We have two groups so for twice the price you can get twice the track time!

We've got hired security at the host hotel (Embassy Suites by Hilton San Rafael Marin County). And of course you can leave vehicles at Sonoma Raceway. Trailers can park up in Lot 2 at Sonoma. Have a look here - https://www.saac.com/media/pages/50-forms/5e42f07869-1754769858/saac-50-parking.pdf

SAAC-50 Hotel Email

The host hotel has sold out but here is the info:

Host Hotel (where the Saturday Dinner and Evening Program will be held) is:

Embassy Suites by Hilton San Rafael Marin County
101 McInnis Parkway
San Rafael, CA 94903
(800) 686-3741

Three Additional Hotel options for SAAC-50
Thanks to the success and popularity of SAAC-50, our room block at the host hotel has sold out. In an effort to provide attendees with additional low cost options for lodging, we have established discounted room blocks with three additional hotels. When calling these hotels, just ask for the Shelby American Automobile Club room block rate:

Four Points by Sheraton San Rafael Marin County
1010 Northgate Dr.
San Rafael, CA 94903
(415) 479-8800
$199 plus taxes

AC Hotel Downtown
1201 5th Ave.
San Rafael, CA 94901
(628) 336-6500
$249 plus taxes & parking

Best Western Plus Novato Oaks Inn
215 Alameda Del Prado
Novado, CA 94949
(415) 883-4400
$185 plus taxes

A box? Guessing someone had more made. I started these originally for the help with the lawsuit defense fund.Had 1000 made by a shop in Carson City. At the time thought it was a creative way to raise funds.

Well, a few weeks ago it was starting to look like we might need them again. But that ship has sailed. So now I've just got extras...need some?

I saw a box of them somewhere recently...

Wrong link or link to the redacted version .  btw i have files saved on my lap top in their orginal form ......  ricks version .      ohh and I guess its not  a mistake that i no longer have access to my personal meesages ..
not censored thou  right?

The link I posted above is the link Rick has been sending out. It lands on a page which is identical to the link you posted (check the URL, you know what you posted, you will see they are a 100% match...) Rick created a Bitly link so he could see how many people access the book. No tracking is taking place, just a simple counter. The book is also in a lower resolution version easier for quick download.

There was an original version that was directly emailed to a small group of people. That version had some very minor differences and included a few cartoons which were subsequently removed by Rick. It also contained much higher resolution images and was about 10x the file size.

As far as your Private Messages, I don't know anything about that. I would be happy to investigate and resolve that for you. Just confirm to me that it's still an issue and I'll research the solution for you.

Really? Why did it have to be "restored"? Who removed it to begin with?

GT350SHELB's posts have not been "restored". How is that not censorship?

I think that this is much more a Moderator out of control issue then anything else? Who is going to deal with that?

Why do we have to deal with this internal power struggle at SAAC publicly. This is something that "The Board" should take care of and should already have dealt with in the past. This is terrible timing.

Ned's post was originally removed because we were in active negotiations with Kopec and we were trying hard not to let outside forces influence the outcome. In the weeks since, it's become obvious that full transparency was far more important than anything else. While I can't turn back the hands of time, I've tried to...perhaps unsuccessfully.

As far as GT350SHELB's post, it contained the wrong link. Here's the correct link: https://bit.ly/4jdssLp

Enjoy!

Thanks Dave. I got on this thread late in the game!!

All good. We're on the same team in this game.

This forum was started because I was a moderator on Randall Shelby's forum and whenever SAAC issues came up there, they were quietly deleted. I realized we needed our own Forum and along with the Technical abilities of Ron Richards, the Political power of Dave Mathews, we approached Rick Kopec who gave us the blessing to start the SAAC Forum! to hear that censorship is taking place on this forum that is the bastard child of censorship to begin with, is a sorry state of affairs.

Hello Dave,

The post (#48 in this thread) was restored. No censorship. I'm seeing some transparency in this thread which is very refreshing.

...The issue here is that by not being able to openly discuss this, it casts the Board and the Moderator in a significant negative light...

All issues are open and being discussed. Nothing is being hidden or obscured or removed. I've been enjoying the flow of this thread and you guys certainly have hit the nail on the head.

If there's something not being openly discussed, raise it and collectively we can talk about it as a community.

To quote The Cranberries, there's "No Need to Argue."

Should be an interesting SAAC 50...when all these folks meet face to face....

Indeed! All the more reason why attending SAAC-50 is going to be the must-do event of the summer! Get your seat at the table here - http://msreg.com/saac50