One suggestion to get a group going with relatively little effort - tie a cruise into an existing car show.
We are doing that with the Penticton Peach City Beach Cruise, and they allocated an area where we could all be together on the grass. We were originally hoping we could get 15 - 20 together, but we're at 34 now, with two months to go. The really amazing thing is that we now have two SSRs coming from Arizona, and more expected
NW SSRs at the Penticton Peach City etc
It lets us have a get together, but the parking, entertainment, food, vendors, etc are all taken care of by the car show. In our case, the 50 bucks entry fee is a bargain. Two days of live entertainment, 400 plus cars to drool over, steak dinners included, a Friday poker run, Saturday night cruise, etc. Can't do much better than that.
Look forward to meeting some of you at Woodward. Whoah - bad English. I meant I look forward to meeting ALL of you who make it to Woodward.