don't even mention it boys.....................
I kicked it off a couple of years back, contacted a major car-based committee (that does alot of these American, British, European, Australian, etc, things) to have them as the main organiser because they had the experience, contacts and knowledge to make it a success, and they wanted me to help as a sort-of advisor/steerer/etc.
all was travelling great with a fantastic venue arranged, date set, a possible sponsor in the form of a big name company in the car world, notifications going out, a good amount of interest coming back, etc, but then....
we had one club (one of the multiple that I'm a member of!!) decide that the date set wasn't suited to them, so they back-doored me, went straight to the organisers and got the date changed.... to the same date as the Bellett Nationals! I told the organisers this was not satisfactory at all (obviously!!), so we changed it again.... and then another club whinged that they wanted to be involved in running the thing, but when they came in, they took over and changed the date without any consultation! then another club cracked it because of the 3rd change and said they'd boycott it, but when they were asked to help out with the event if they wanted things changed, they said "no, it's all your problem.................. but we still want it our way."
in the end, the committee just got sick of the to-ing and fro-ing, and walked away, as did I, as it all got waaaaaaaaaaaaay to hard, and it became a case of everyone wanted it their way and didn't want to know about the work involved to do it.
basically, my days of organising it are over!
.Isabell is entered but his owner does not know 
MMM he might now.