Relay for Life

[Mike Bean]

Hey everyone, I am posting this messge for anyone that would like to participate in helping Alan put together a BSR for the Relay for Life.

I will be donating plans to help get the ball rolling for him. If you are interested in helping or would like more information, Alan can be contacted at the phone number and email below.

Below is his message:
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After running this idea past Mike Bean, he was nice enough to post this “request” to barflyracers.com for me.

Let me first introduce myself, my name is Alan Bradford and I am a seven year cancer survivor. I never knew my grandfather; he passed away from melanoma skin cancer before I was born. At the age of eleven I remember seeing my uncle go bald from the chemo and radiation still young enough to not know everything that was going on. He also lost the battle with the same skin cancer. When I was a little older I realized this cancer didn’t skip any generations and that there were only 3 grandsons, me being one of them. At the age of 25 I had a mole removed only to find out it was melanoma. My initial response was “I knew my destiny” my destiny was to become a survivor. With 6 month full body checks and one more melanoma scare I am still doing just that SURVIVING!! 7 years strong!

Since that time I have become very active in Relay for Life (http://www.cancer.org/docroot/GI/gi_1.asp) being a team captain and various committee positions. It is my passion

My relay team is currently looking for a small ( easy to transport) novelty item to raffle off as a fundraiser. A BSR would fit the bill exactly. My initial idea was to travel around town on the weekends with the BSR and sale raffle tickets, i.e. Lowes, Wal-Mart etc...

With my hometown, Mooresville NC being Race City USA and having over 60 NASCAR teams I believe the profits could be two-fold, One for the Relay for Life and secondly for anyone who helped, as the BSR would be displayed with all donors at every location.

I am looking for any vendor, distributor or person who would be willing to help the “Relay for Life” BSR come to a reality. At this time I am merely looking to see if there is any interest. We have a small budget and a local co-cart builder that will assist us in the logistics of proper mechanics. I happened upon this site from a minichopper site last year when I was researching something different enough to attract enough interest to be a good raffle.

I think a venture like this could easily impact BSR sales from anyone who participates.

The event isn’t until late April so I am looking at mid March to have enough time to travel around with the BSR to strum up both advertisement for supporters and most importantly raise monies for Relay for Life.

Thanks for letting me take a few minutes of your time.

veedubya on barflyracers.com
Alan Bradford
704-746-4761
alan@vwlife.net

Fundraising Committee member 2006 Relay for Life of Mooresville/Lake Norman http://www.mooresvillerelay.org (http://www.mooresvillerelay.org/)

[veedubya]

Thanks Mike - i really appreciate this, lets hope its a success


Our exchange server took a dump and is Dead in the water
please use alan@vwlife.net or phone to contact until I get our exchange server back on its feet

[sniffles]

hey are you going to tour around the u.s. or just your state? either way its pretty cool. it will also get the word out about barstool racing. also if you cant get anybody to give you parts, you can always just head to ebay. keep us posted :blob_red:

[Woodchuckscustoms.com]

Thanks Mike - i really appreciate this, lets hope its a success
Hi Alen let me know how I can help I sent an e-mail to you . Just let me know.

[Mike Bean]

Our exchange server took a dump and is Dead in the water
please use alan@vwlife.net or phone to contact until I get our exchange server back on its feet

Alan, you can also receive private messages on this forum. I am updating your email address on the original post for you.

Mike Bean

[sniffles]

Are you guys still planning on doing this?

[freak]

I know i'm drumming up an old thread here, but i'de like to know if this ever happened or if it's still trying to happen ?

Someone please reply.

[voodoo_stepchild]

I wold like to get involved as well if this is still going to happen? Can anyone give us an update on progress or how it went over if this is a done deal. Big cheese do you have any info for us bro?

Voodoo

[veedubya]

Sorry for the long hiatus, A quick update. I was working with a local distrubtor of BSRs, the manufactuer's name I cant not remember, but with less than a month before the Relay the distrubtor still would not budge on anything less that "his price" And knowing a little about retail, "his price" = "a profit to him"

At that point I didnt have the time to look elsewhere.

Our local relay raised over $150,000, Just so happens I am the chair of the fundrasing committee this year, so the idea is still floating around.

I was just so flustered at how the local distrubtor treated me and the Relay community I just gave up at the time. Our goal this year is $200,700. Quite a lofty goal.

BTW thanks for the "old thread bump"

I still beleive this could go over very well for Relay for Life and the BSR community

For more info http://www.mooresvillerelay.org/

[veedubya]

Holy old thread bump batman....

To answer a few questions. No the BSR Raffle didnt get off the ground due to issues for the local dealer.

and yes i still want to make it work, We are currently trying to work with a few local companies, maybe a NASCAR team to help us cover the costs of a BSR that we will in turn raffle off.

Just got to find the funds and find a builder. I have a number of $1000 in my mind, but that could be a real pipe dream.

And with that said, Thanks for the time and I am off to send a few emails and try and guage any possible interest in the BSR manufactuer world.