I've been a regular viewer of these forums from well before sign up. It is a shame that some of the best contributors no longer, well, contribute, and things have gone a little quiet.
Last Triumph, Rattletrap, 48REME and 55KAB to name a few. Proof of their efforts are Last Triumph's excellent thread on his so original Oval's recommissioning, it has taken a whopping 110,000+ views, then there's the Rattletrap thread, that's taken an amazing 142,000+ views. These two examples are of informative and entertaining topics, which is probably why they are so popular.
It seems that the forums are becoming more like a personal messaging board, with members making post purely for the information of another member although there is a personal mail box to use.
Is it time for a poll to consider a section for post '67 Beetles and other later air-cooled VWs :wink:
Old Blue wrote:
I agree things are quiet in here lately, I have scratched my head over it sometimes - thinking about things such as 'real names' etc. I do think that the weather has a lot to do with it, so many shows cancelled or postponed there's just not much going on.
People do come and go. LT's thread was fantastic, but as he's now sold the car he no longer posts here.
Post '67 Beetles? Kind of goes against the name of the site doesn't it? :rofl:
My preference would be to stick to pre '67 VW's, but to include modified cars (although I suspect this would be a very unpopular change to many of the regulars). When I say modified, I'm not really talking about heavily modded cars like the VolksRods - more the early cars that have been lowered etc. Seems a shame to me that some nice early cars are 'excluded' from the site because the owner chose to lower their car...
Personally, I'm not into lowering cars anymore - they drive so much nicer at stock height than when they're lowered - but does that mean that the owners of lowered cars should be excluded from contributing to the site?
When the site started out, it included all types of pre '67. I even used to post photos of drag cars that were pre '67, but over time and after a few trips to Camberg and Hessisch the site developed into more of a stock theme (not specifically from me by the way, it was what people were asking me to do). Maybe the time has come to move back a little bit?
This photo was taken by Claus Missing at the VW Classic, it's a split window Beetle - but it's not stock so we can't talk about it here... :?
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Rob Amos
Happiness is a stock VW