I guess the good news is that if you were READING VCA Notes then you go the first benefit of the raffle. Yes, VCA Notes gets it's funding from the raffle. The second benefit was the VCA paying for the cost to have factory Viper's at each of the Regional Rendezvous this year. The third is to have the funding available to help keep this site up and running when certain programs and equipment do not fall into the budget. And the most important one is to make sure that the VCA can keep functioning in the event that Dodge could no longer supply the funding it currently does.
As for the additional Cost: The RT10 ACR cost no more than the same RT10 you could buy at your local dodge dealer. Why? Because there is no price set up in the system, and no way to even order one. So let's just say that again Dodge came to the plate and never noticed the additional features. You may be aware that there is a GTS ACR? Since this is the case, the VCA has to PAY FOR IT!
Now if I recall, no one REQUIRES you to purchase a ticket. So if you do not like the odds then don't participate. The objective is to provide VCA MEMBERS with an opportunity to get unique and rare pieces of Viper History. If you can not justify the cost to participate then fine. But do you have to belittle all the work that some have gone through to actually get his project up and running?
Now for the timing issue: When we finally got approval to hold raffles one of the criteria was to make sure that we only did so with "special" Viper's. Well as you can see, all of the ones that have been raffled have all been special and unique in there own way. Since we are at a very special time in the Viper legacy (the launch of the new and the end of the beginning) the VCA has been fortunate enough to negotiate a few special Viper's. So if you feel this is over-kill then I personally apologize for asking that Dodge help us to achieve this goal. But the reality is that in the coming years we will be hard pressed to continue having unique and special Viper's which would meet this criteria. So we either take advantage of the times and do what we can, or we just sit back and let the opportunity slip away.
So if you feel that individuals spending thousands of their own personal money to get these raffles in place is not the way to go than just tell us. I am sure that many of them would love to have that money to put down on their own car, verses providing you with an opportunity to own a piece of history!
