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America's Reliability Run donation plea

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Subject: America's Reliability Run donation plea
From: "Blake J. Discher" <bdischer@blakedischer.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 20:56:32 -0400
Reply-to: "Blake J. Discher" <bdischer@blakedischer.com>
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Hello fellow Triumph enthusiasts,

Only one week left until myself and 46 other vintage British cars leave on this year's America's British Reliability Run so I wanted to give you all an update on fundraising efforts, say THANKS for your donation or consideration, and in words we all can relate to, give a "last call" to those who intend to donate but haven't done so yet!

As you know, the run is a two-day, 700-mile endurance run of sorts, fashioned after those run by John Macartney (jonmac on this list) in England. The purpose is to raise money for the National Children's Cancer Society <http://www.nationalchildrenscancersociety.org/> while driving our British cars. This year, the route is through Michigan, Ohio and the covered bridges region of Indiana.

As a point of interest, not only have the numbers of classic British cars entered increased with each year, so has the media and other car related business attention expanded. This year, "Automobile Magazine" is fielding seven cars in the run. They belong to columnist Jamie Kitman and are being shipped from out east courtesy of Passport/Fedex Transport to be driven by seven staffers, including their Editor, Jean Jennings to test the reliability of British steel! They're working to get donations by publicizing the Run on their web site and in the magazine and will definitely help with our goal of surpassing last year's fundraising total. Read all about it in their magazine or on their web site: <<http://automobilemag.com/features/0510_british_reliability_run/>http://automobilemag.com/features/0510_british_reliability_run/>.

Overall, several of the 47 registered teams (see them at <http://abrr.org/2005registeredcars.shtml>) are nearing or exceeding the individual goal of $500 per Team. Unfortunately, the current total fundraising amount is "only" about $17,000. Less than hoped for, and less than what we raised with a similar number of cars last year - due understandably to donations being given to the recovery efforts of the hurricanes in the south and the high cost of petrol. But, with a little last minute push on every team's part, I'm confident we can get much closer to the original goal of meeting last year's total of $33,000.

As a reminder, you can send a check (no matter how small) payable to "National Children's Cancer Society", to ABRR, 1363 East Fisher Freeway, Suite 8, Detroit, MI 48207; or as a number of you 21st century types are now doing, go to our event website <http://www.abrr.org> and make your donation simply and quickly with a credit card via a secure server available on the home page. Because teams pay all of their own expenses (about $350-400), your donation is entirely tax deductible.

We'll take lots of photos and mental notes along the route to share with you when we return - please wish us well!

Cheers,
Blake Discher
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Please support these generous run sponsors:
Little British Car Company <http://www.lbcarco.com>
Hagerty Insurance Company <http://www.hagerty.com>
Passport/Fedex Auto Transport <http://passport.fedex.com/>

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