The first time I attended the Vintage, I was in the process of looking for a coupe to buy. I had been active on the forum for about a year, and as part of my quest to find a coupe I attended various BMW events to meet people, learn about coupes and ask informally if anyone knew of a car for sale. While walking through the menagerie of beautiful BMWs parked along main street in Salem, NC, I struck up a conversation about coupes and some specific part the guy I was chatting up had been seeking. I said "hey, you should connect with Stan Chamallas, he had been talking about that part on the forum and perhaps could help you." The guy says: "I'm Stan Chamallas, nice to meet you."
So, maybe name tags would come in handy. My thought would be that maybe we could make up e9coupe.com name tags that we could wear around our necks as an adjunct to the ones we get for each event. Something to wear on a second lanyard for us to easily recognize each other, perhaps using a standard 3 x 4 name tag holder. By way of example, the tag could have the German flag colors black, red, yellow, laid out as on the top of each forum page along with "e9coupe" on the first line, to emulate the look of the header on the forum. Our screen names would then take up the remainder of the tag, with a standard font size set to accommodate the longer screen names (like the OP in this thread).
Not sure exactly how we would implement this. My initial thought is that perhaps someone here with some graphic design talent could create a template that we could each use. We would add our names to the template and have the tags printed using some standard mechanism (like Walgreens business printing services, for example). We would then be on our own for tag holders and lanyards (most of us probably have a dozen of these laying around).
Thoughts?
