Hey ya'll....I searched around but didn't really find anything on this topic. A bunch of my friends here at Fort Benning (mostly Honda drivers, lol) are getting sponsorships from different show teams for their cars. I called one company and they said they would be happy to sponsor me. It included three full sponsorships, one from Vertical Doors, INC, and the other two from some other companies that I never heard of before, and lots of partial sponsorships. The cost to join the team is $135 a year (two years for me since I'm military) nd only have to go to three shows in the membership time period, and have two vinyl stickers on the car. Now to me, this sounds like a lot for nothing, which means there has to be some fine print somewhere. Has anyone ever looked into this or done it? If it's as good as it seems, I could get some awesome stuff for the Z. Any input??

 

i have a friend that races hydroplanes and he has several sponsorships. they always seem to work very well for him. he gets money just for putting stickers on his boat.

 

Wait... the sponsors want to charge YOU money for being YOUR sponsor?!?!?

 

I dunno Nismopick....the team is charging the money, but with membership to the team you get full sponsorships from these companies and stuff...but like, i wouldnt have to put vertical door stickers or the other company stickers on my car, just the team stickers

 

so like nismo said.. we pay the team so we can get sponsor?? like we give you money so people can give us money?

 

ahh they do this in my town... its a smart ricers way of feeling cool and making money at the same time.....

there used to be a little club called hyroshin i think(they had cute little pink window stickers that costed like $50 or $60

it was funny cause you were sposed to have over 200hp to get in and the only car that did was the leaders stock STI.... the rest were just civics accords volkswagons and old eclipses

 

ah yeah here in colorado the 'shocker' sticker = NOS, but you didn't have to pay...

 

I'm gonna sponsor my Z31 then! It's got 200HP, if I turn up the boost, oh man it'll have more. Then one day when I get an S30 for my L28ET that can join the club!!!!!!!!!!

Our leader will be the melting Z31!

 

What do the sponsors / companies do for you?

 

they give him a cool sticker and a spot in their "reserved section"coughparking lotcough at car shows....

 

My thoughts are that it should work like a union? You have to pay your dues, but in turn they give you all sorts of discounts on parts, would possibly give you new products to try out for no cost? Stuff that would outweigh the cost of membership? That's just my guess. Otherwise I'm just going to make up some stickers to put in my quarter window and just pretend I have my own team.

 

can i join? PLEEZ!!!

 

well here's their website http://www.teamscp1.com/Index.aspx

 

Do your honda friends have to pay for their sponsors? What do they get from their sponsors?

 

three full sponsorships and a few partial sponsorships, im still looking into the details

 

just keep looking for other people who have joined and see if they have gotten anything from it...

 

just FYI, vertical doors + Z = FAIL!

 

oh no he just got the sticker....what the sponsors dont know don't bring out their lawyers....

 

it sounds like you go promote these products that i highly doubt are just given to you, i gather its "provided to you at a substantal discount" so you can buys it, install it your self and being what it probally is will be a HUGE pain in the *** and then go out and promote the crap to people so they buy it.

all in all it sounds like your paying them to advertise their ****, thats a bum deal.

 

if you want stickers so bad why not sponsor zdriver,hybridz or zcar.

 

Paint a rising sun on your hood. Pretend its a NISMO sponsor.

 

thats exactly what bleach did...

just go look at some pics of his 350

 

Any real sponsorship comes with obligations, like participating in X amount of shows or races. Otherwise, no one's going to "give" you stuff for a car that you just drive to and from work. This' just a way for smaller distirbutors and companies to sell their stuff. Just do the math for the stuff you actually want and see if it actually benefits you, or offsets your obligations.

 

why don't we make our own z gang lol