boakesey Wrote:I'm pretty certain Tony East at ARE in Kirk Michael would be interested and would also have lots of useful contacts.
Don't know if he uses this board, but he'd certainly be a good person to get on board.

I spent some time with Tony during this year's Manx. It seems that for next year (the VMCC Manx Rally) the IOM Section of the VMCC will be organising the event, rather than from the HQ.
Tony admitted that that such an arrangement would be a huge task for a small band of volunteers but it WILL be done.
The VMCC has over 16,000 members, world wide and a good neucleus of historic race bikes and riders.
I fel sure that with the right sort of "official encouragement" the VMCC could be a valuable contributor to the sort of event we are discussing for the TT.