Happy Birthday MRC and Rotorstock 4 News!

[clive]

Today is the day Mazdarotaryclub.com was founded 5 years ago and was the start of the Rotary community that I am pleased to say many have enjoyed and been assisted by over the last 5 years.

But how did it all start?

Pre MRC there was the old RX-7 Owners Club that I felt really did not cater for all Rotary cars or seemingly people under pensioner age and had no wish to become part of any type of the new internet World that we were all starting to enjoy.

By now FDUK was in existence and I was part of it and enjoyed it, but at the time this was really just a mates e-mail list and whilst there was nothing wrong with that I felt it was a shame that there really was not any thing in the UK that catered for a complete Rotary community for all ages and all types of car from Old  Skool to the new rumoured  RX-8 that Glenn and myself was convinced Mazda was going to make.
 
A couple disenchanted RX-7 Owners Club members had badgered me to think about starting a new club. So one evening whilst sitting in the Dog and Duck pub somewhere in the Midlands,  I agreed to start something totally new and exciting, for the at the time very small Rotary World here in the UK to help owners get the maximum out of ownership of their Rotary powered cars.

I also had a very clear vision of what I felt was needed to make this new club welcoming to both old and young people along with old and new cars.

However I knew that to achieve this I could not conceive this new club by myself and so on the way down the M1 I phoned someone who had by now become a friend, some chap called Glenn Butcher who I knew worked in I.T.

Without Glenn, MRC would never have even been formed because I knew that without the internet I could never put the ideas in my head into practice because at the time I had only just about mastered plugging the computer into the wall let alone building a web site to be a vehicle for this new club.

I was very clear in the knowledge that this new club needed to attract people from all over the World in order to assist our forthcoming new members with the information required to maintain and modify their Rotaries and so was very insistent that we need to have dot com on the end of the name of our new club otherwise people from around the World would never visit our new club web site as they would have known at the time that nothing Rotary really occurred here in the UK and Europe!

So what have we all achieved in five years that evolved from a conversation between Glenn and myself?

Well first and foremost we have all created a Rotary community for all types of people and cars where none existed before and through it assisted many people with their cars.
Became only the second Mazda club in the World to receive recognition and assistance from Mazda themselves which became evident in 2002 when the RX-8 was being launched in Detroit when we were asked for our views on the new RX-8, and then these comments were used as a backdrop on the launch of the car, something which to this day the club should be very proud of.

(See the attached questionnaire and image of the backdrop used)

We have also become the Worlds Number One Mazda car club in the Top 150 sites on the internet and also as you all know we are much much more than just another internet forum and are a proper day to day car club serving its community.

In addition to the above I am also proud of every owner of a Rotary who has been part of making our very own Rotorstock meeting such a huge success, a meeting put on not only for our own cars but all the Japanese car community and today I am pleased to announce that there will be a Rotorstock 4 and it will be bigger and better that ever as it will now be held next August at Europe’s Premier Drag racing track, Santa Pod.

Santa Pod will be assisting MRC to put Rotorstock on and ensure that Rotorstock will maintain its own unique feel and will not become “just another Jap car event”.

I am pleased to say that Santa Pod actually jumped at the chance of working with us to take Rotorstock to their venue.

I feel that we are also unique in that MRC have also now made a proper documentary DVD which is now on sale here , see http://www.mazdarotaryclub.com/shop/product_info.php?cPath=27&products_id=65 but will also go on general sale around the World that tells the story of Rotorstock.

Lastly I would like to Thank YOU the members of Mazdarotary Club for making your Club into what it is today because without all of our paying members we would not have been able to achieve anything like what we have to date.   :Party :Party :Party :




(Below are images from Mazdarotaryclub\'s first ever meeting at Brooklands in April 2002, The image up on the stage at Detroit at the launch of the RX-8 and the questionare  and my answers that let to it)

[ro284]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MRC:Party :Party
Many congratulations and thanks To Clive, Glenn, and all the people behind the scenes who have made MRC the success it is today, Where would we be with out it?
Well done Guys,:Thumbsup!
Bob

[peterwolds]

Clive congratuations to you and Glenn damned good site converted me from evoland to  RX7 world (and empty wallet ).
brilliant news rotorstock is on and at santa pod,cant wait hope weather is good - we loved last year at SCR despite a few hic cups and rain,sure will be miles better 2007,roll on

[travellinbob]

That is brilliant news about rs4! And brilliant that the club has gone from strenght to strength over the past 5 years. A true credit to all involved in the hard work behind the scenses. The future of the rotary scene in the uk seems like it getting more exciting every week. And this club is assuring that it will!
 cheers, michael.

[Initial-D]

Happy Birthday to MRC and everyone thats contributed their time and effort!!!
I don\'t know what I\'d have done without the support and help from the people here - Thanks Clive and everyone else over the years!!

[ScuttleRX]

I share a birthday with MRC, what an honour :cool

Happy B-Day MRC

[robedwards99]

Excellent on all counts

[Martiny]

Happy birthday from member no 004 !

[gsb876]

Brill news about RS4 looking forward to it already, might even try to get back into a rotary by then

Without this community i would deffo not have been confident owning the rx7 i had, so many friends made and so many people i\'ve met through the club its been a privledge being involved, long may it continue,

Many thanks to Clive, Glenn, Lisa for all the work that goes on behind the scenes that we never hear of, please continue the excellant work,

Gurj :Party :Party :Party

[grinder]

nice write up clive

and RS4 - thats superb news - it really is

maybe we cant expect decent weather by then !!

Stu / Grinder
Proud to be a part of MRC

[Dominic]

:Party :Party :Party

Happy birthday MRC and well done to all who make it happen...
Cant wait for RS4, and look forward to buying myself the Rotorstock DVD as an early Xmas present. :Thumbs-up

[peterwolds]

forgot well done lisa and all mods

[BlitzBoy]

Happy Birthday!!!

good news about RS4

hopefully only Jap cars are aloud to run, no other makes bar Jap

[Ada7]

A big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to MRC and well done to Clive, Lisa, Glen and everyone else that has made the club waht it is today. Lets hope theres many more years left in it :Party

Great news about Rotorstock IV! :D Really gonna have to start saving to get me a car for the show

Adam

[oddball]

It\'s a privilage and pleasure to be a member of such a well organised and friendly club.  I know there is unlimited help, support and advice out there if required which adds a new dimension to RX ownership.
So a big thanks to Clive and the team for the insight and bloody hard work which has gone into making the club what it is.  Cheers all