Looking for a few good station wagon guys: We at Wild About Cars http://www.wildaboutcars.com wanted to ask if there are any of you out there who can help us with materials for our site. While we have material, we are always looking for people to help us accelerate the content (and members). This is the way ALL the content on Wild About Cars was acquired. We are not a commercial entity - we are collaborative effort - where members help members build the best darn auto enthusiast resource on the Internet. All material from all makes and models not in our collection is welcome. We already have over 35 THOUSAND pages of classic and muscle car materials and add to our collection daily. If you can help, please email Bob at bg@wildaboutcars.com. Tell him jaunty75 sent you. Thanks.
Station wagon forums is the best site for station wagons. Support this site not that one. Promote this site, not that one. My $.02
Anything that was ever written down. Dealer sales literature, factory sales literature, service literature, magazine advertisements, magazine articles and road tests from back in the day, and much more. Go to the site for yourself and have a look around. The collection is spottier for some makes, better for others. We're trying to build it up.
A few comments. 1. I've not suggested that anyone abandon this site or spend any less time here than they now do. 2. I think that most people are capable of walking and chewing gum at the same time. I would be very surprised to hear that any auto enthusiast who uses the internet at all is a member of only one forum. I, for one, am a member of TWO station wagon sites, this one and GM Longroofs (http://gmlongroof.4umer.com/forum). Obviously, as the name implies, it caters to General Motors station wagons, and it also seems to focus more on the later years rather than the years of my station wagon ('73), but it's still an interesting place, and they've welcomed me and my wagon. I'm also a member of about a half-dozen other sites that are Oldsmobile-related. Certainly I spend more time at some of them than others, but I do visit them all regularly. 3. Wild About Cars is not a competitor to this or any other forum or "discussion" type site. There are no discussions there, there are no forums. It is primarily a repository of information, although it's much more than that. You need a factory service manual for your '63 Buick? They probably have it. Want some literature on tuning your Rochester carburetor? It's likely there. Want to read a road test on '65 Mustangs that appeared in the January 1965 issue of Road and Track? Take a look and see what you can find. That sort of thing. If these things aren't there, that's where we need help. Lots of stuff IS there, but there's much that's not.
I registered at the site and it looks like it could be a fine site. Not much info there yet, but I can see how helpful it will be once it gets off the ground. I wish I had something to contribute.
I'm guessing the site is very, very new? It may help the site if you could brouse/lurk what it really has to offer before you deside to join, as I did here, Cougar forum, and stove bolt forum. Non member mite get a bit more excited about it IMO. It sounds like a great idea but should be a bit more open arms so to say. Sounds great, some nice sample reading but........ Kinda like going to a book store, but all you can read before you buy(join) is the cover. I like the idea though, just not the how and whens...
Interesting thought, but if you think about it for a minute, the idea is to get people to sign up, especially since it costs nothing to do so. If you make content available without signing up, people have less incentive to. You didn't have to join those forums you mention to see what people had posted, but you had to join them to post anything yourself. Remember, as I said earlier, Wild About Cars is not a forum/discussion site. It's a content site. Comparing what was available to you on Stationwagonforums or the Cougar forum without signing up to what is available to you at Wild About Cars without signing up is really not fair. They're very different things. As far as making some sample content available, again, that's not a bad idea in concept, but in reality, what would you choose? There are literally thousands of documents, etc. available there. Should we put some Ford stuff up? How interesting would that be to Chevy guys? Or vice versa? If we put Ford stuff up, what should it be? Deuce coupes or Mustangs? If we put Chevy stuff up, what should it be? Tri-Five stuff or Corvette stuff? Or Camaro or Chevelle stuff? If we put stuff for both makes up, how interesting would that be to Buick guys or Plymouth guys? In other words, where do you draw the line? In reality, it's probably best not to have a line at all. As far as how old the site is, I don't know for sure, but the earliest info was posted in late March of last year, so it's apparently right on a year old at this point.
The site doesn't really grab you when you first look at it. Needs... I dunno.. something that makes you want to stop and look around. I'm a "car guy".. not just a wagon guy. I look at many sites and would have no problem looking / registering on that one (if interested). I've got a wagon, I've got a 4 door Chevy (49), a '55 Buick.. I belong to Buick sites, this site, Chevy sites... I don't think supporting one means your leaving your support for another. The way I see it.. the more info/resources out there the better. Just MY 2 cents.
