The Alfa Romeo Owners club has held an annual meeting since the club’s inception in 1958. In the early years the meeting was usually in Chicago in February or March and included a speaker and a few race cars on display. In 1969 the meeting was in late April, outside Chicago, and a track event, concours de elegance, and rally were added. It was the first convention as we know it. Since then, a lot has been learned about what appeals to convention-going Alfa owners, and how to fit it all into (usually) three and a half days.

While year after year content and scheduling are very similar, the moving convention site assures that each organizing committee will be new to the task. This handbook is an attempt to pass along all that’s gone right, and to improve on it.

What this handbook is not is an attempt to apply the sharp edge of a cookie cutter to every convention. On the contrary, by using this handbook with details of proven popular activities to more confidently shape an enjoyable convention, the organizing committee will have the time and energy to create something novel – if it wishes. At a minimum, with this handbook, it’s expected a committee will end a convention with fewer “if we’d only thought of….”

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