Hello. I wanted to announce an upcoming event we are
hoping to be a part of and wanted to get some early
feedback on.

Huey and I (Ryan) have been in talk with Jeff Chao, a
Nissan North America's Marketing Specialist. He
contacted us regarding seeing whether or not our club
would be interested in participating in Nissan's
Xterra display at the upcoming Sacramento Auto Show
here at Cal Expo in Sacramento. His general idea is to
see if there would be a possibility of 4 NCCX members
donating their Xterra's for use at the Auto Show
(display) for a total of 4 days (Thursday thru Sunday
November 9th to the 12th). General thinking our
modified club Xterra's would be displayed next to the
new ones in hopes of showing the over 100,000 annual
people that attend this show how versatile the Xterra
can be. Ideally he would like to have 2 heavily
(visibly) modified rigs along with two other Xterra's
that show the represent well the general theme of the
"outdoor" lifestyle by holding
bikes....kayaks.....gear....etc. All this is still up
for debate but this has just been what has been
discussed so far. There would be no compensation for
those who were to donate their vehicles for the
display for the 4 days, but it would help garner
exposure for our club by the heavily attended public
event and media coverage it receives.

Jeff has also arranged for our club to have a display
table at the event to help promote our club even
further. Early plan is to have it "unmanned" but stock
it with a informational flyers on what we are and what
we do.....pictures of some of our Xcursions......and
how people can contact us should they have any further
questions on the vehicles or should they want to join
us on some of our future outings? Early on we are
trying to identify the best way to show photos from
the club outings so input would be much appreciated
here as well. Power will be available if anyone has
any "electronic" ideas on how to show trip photos.

I have sent a long laundry list of questions to Jeff
regarding details on the event such as but not limited
to what security or insurance would be provided to the
owners of the club donated vehicles over the four days
Nissan would be using them in their display. As I get
more information from Jeff I will post it here he will
be back in the office this Wednesday.

I would like to invite everyone to offer up any
further detailed ideas for the display to help Nissan
promote the Xterra and our club in the best way
possible. Jeff said he was going to monitor this forum
to see what the involvement may be like and any ideas
that we may have to further improve the effectiveness
of the display.

If you are interested in having your Xterra be a
display vehicle at the Auto Show, please send a
description of your Xterra to my email (
slamson00@...) and a couple pictures where upon
I will forward it to Jeff for his consideration. He
would like to receive all information and pictures on
possible display vehicles by October 23 (the decision
on which club trucks to use will be made later that
week). Please include a short description of what
modifications you have to your Xterra in the email and
what outdoor attachments (aka bike, kayaks, canoe,
skies, gear baskets, etc..) you already own that you
could mount for display at the show.

In addition, like stated earlier we don't plan to
"man" or "woman" our club table at the show just
because the standard weekday 8 to 5 work shift won't
allow it, but if you have a different shift and would
like to sit at the table and help promote the club,
directly answer questions etc., please let me know as
well. The event is a Thursday through Sunday thing so
the weekend may be easier for some people to do should
they want to participate in this way.

My apologies for the long email but I wanted to get
this out now so we could start to garner interest and
ideas on participation in this event. I will be the
contact for this event since I am physically located
here in Sacramento and I will be directly working with
Jeff when he comes into town. Still, if you are
physically located in Sacramento and are willing to
help.....or will to drive from where you are and
willing to help...............I would love to hear
from you too. All help is much needed and much
appreciated in advance!

Anyway....please email or post here should you have
any questions. Thanks in advance for any help or
involvement you may have in making our involvement in
the Sacramento Auto Show a success.

Ryan "Slamson00'
slamson00@...