another forum gone

[Panici]

I'm very much alive, but busier than ever these days.

Hi James,
Thanks for checking in, glad to see you're doing well.

Just to echo Simon, there are a lot of members here willing to help with the site.
Just let us know what we can do!

[benfidar]

I have relied on BMW Airhead, Porsche 912, and e28 forums to restore and run my cars and motorbikes over the last 23 years. This is a really good community that works. These cars cannot be run without a community to help figure out things when they go south. I am in for the long haul.

[bangn]

wont lie, ever since e30tech was lost and photo bucket ruined the internet I have found it pretty difficult to stay invested in forums. For me they remain integral for research but i've been more of a reader for the last few years than a poster. Majority of people who used them in the 2000's have grown up or out of cars, moved onto houses, families, family cars ect and flocked to facebook/reddit. I hate facebook so counts me out lol, but im still building the E30 I started in 2012. It would really suck if this place ever disappeared as there is so much info and knowledge here that I still refer to when my brains forgotten something.

[2mAn]

Good to see you stop by James, I think it’s probably a good idea to start simplifying things here. In addition to that it’s probably a good idea to try and give some more people moderator powers, and see about archiving threads to not lose any of the historical stuff that is still surviving

[James Crivellone]

Hey look, tags don't notify me for some reason.

I'm very much alive, but busier than ever these days. I did a ton of additional database tweaks the other day when TJ (Thanks!) hit me up on Facebook regarding slow performance. It isn't perfect but neither is the vBulletin database schema.

To cover a few things, the site has not been sold, just partnering with BMWCCA E30 Chapter so we can try and drive up some traffic and utilize this as a discussion board. I'm very willing to chat with folks regarding the future and keeping R3V more relevant and would be happy to jump on a conf call, discord, whatever to keep some movement going on it.

I also don't post much on the R3V Facebook group.. frankly I don't care for it (or FB for that matter)

[roguetoaster]

...seriously

Hey, I was going to post that earlier and gave up. It seems better for now.

[MrBurgundy]

...seriously

[Digitalwave]

James Crivellone site has been broken for weeks again. Takes me 3 to 5 minutes to load a single page. Can you let some of us that have an interest in saving this forum get involved?

[MrBurgundy]

Hopefully the speed issues will be fixed.. This shit is getting bad.

[Panici]

Most Canadian cars are rust buckets.
You need special skills to fight rust.

Tell me about it. Pulled the carpets from my E28 this weekend for the first time since 1986.
This will be the fourth car I've had to address some form of floor rust. Par for the course on something that has seen road salt unfortunately.

On the plus side I'm pretty good at sheet metal fab & welding by now

[Vincenze]

Uh have you seen the starting points of some of the muscle car restorations guys do these days with good examples in the six figures? I know E30 people think E30 M3s are expensive but take a gander at some of the more desirable variants of classic muscle cars.

Those muscle cars have no value to most guys who are interested in BMWs, Hondas, Lexuses from the 1990s, 2000s.

On the other hand, Baby Boomers are not interested in Ford Ts, which their grandparents had restored.

[varg]

I guess only Europeans fix rusted cars.

Uh have you seen the starting points of some of the muscle car restorations guys do these days with good examples in the six figures? I know E30 people think E30 M3s are expensive but take a gander at some of the more desirable variants of classic muscle cars.

[82eye]

Most Canadian cars are rust buckets.

depends on how they were kept.

You need special skills to fight rust.

the larger issue is finding a shop to do it proper if you are not going total diy on body / paint. most cars of that era that are still driving have received piles of maintenance or restoration work. regular drivers have long since returned to the earth from which they came. by this point you really aren't seeing even survivor cars where i'm from. the ones that still move won't be seeing any snow or salt.


i'm looking at body / paint next year and it is definitely going to be a challenge getting a decent shop on it. no one local likes resto at all. they're nearly all focused exclusively on accident damage re and re. there's literally mountains of cash in insurance work. that's what we pay massive premiums for.

[Vincenze]

Most Canadian cars are rust buckets.
You need special skills to fight rust.

I guess only Europeans fix rusted cars.

It seems this guy can't afford BMW's rubber seals.

[It's Soda Not Pop]

I was watching the smoking tire podcast the other day. Brian Scotto from Hoonigan was on. He was talking about forums and how other media options kind of killed it. But he said that he is that old guy still using forums. I believe, just by reading through this thread, that a lot of us still enjoy forums enough to keep it alive. I know that I for one love this site. I use other media outlets, but this place by far is the best.