what ever happened to the good old days of catalog mailings and cods?

Damn that Al Gore for inventing the internet!!

Think of the trees!

we quit needing them when we got indoor plumbing... now we only virtually wipe our ass on the catalog by venting frustrations here

So where's the big announcement from the good Dr. AA?

Yes it seems perfect that announcement says site closed for a day and its late opening by several already.

I want to get in on those to be expected big AA group buys and special 914club member discounts!

Oh wait! ..I am still a club member after paying my $250 lifetime 914club membership fee ...right?

Im pretty sure that the new owners will announce whom they are and what they plan as soon as all the deal has been completed. Realise there is a lot of data to go through as well.

IMHO - take as much time as needed. Its far worst to limp into operations than to get everything set and working right...

In that case shouldn't one in charge say we will be closed for two weeks during reorganization and then open in 3 to 4 days? I have always been one to set low expectations and then over deliver.

The 914club has reputation of constantly setting very high expectations and really under delivering quite miserably. I was just hoping with ownership change that we would see a philosophical change in the way the club does business. But it appears to be mediocre business as usual.

I'm pretty sure I'm out of there if the guy from AA is the new owner however. Suspect the site will turn into AA infomercial space.

Doesn't matter to me who owns the 914Club... This is the only site I keep up with.

Remember...depending on who bought it--there are a lot of threads to comb through, alot of editing to occur behind the scenes, and yes...history is being re-written as we speak.

Grant, you realize that Brad is the one who posted "be back shortly"?

you actually PAID to be a 914 club member??

crazy, huh?

one born every minute...

No damn wonder there are so many HARD feelings.

Crazy as h*ll!

Yes, well, membership fees are what started the Great Clone Wars of '06



........and a few egos

I think things will change. "Why can't we all just get along?"

We could make this club a lot stronger if we could encourage everyone in the world to buy and restore a 914. Like I always say: "Save the 914 and to h*ll with the whales"

I keep showing my Mustang driving buddy pictures of nice ones... one day he'll cave. he loves the ride in mine

Careful there George...


"Santa Monica sushi restaurant closes after serving whale meat"

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/20/lo...ump21-2010mar21


Eric

Glad I didn't fall for that one.

Didn't Rico Suave just come out of the closet this week?

Yup....yer Momz let me out when the coast was clear....Dad came back home when he forgot his ballet pumps......

Whatever you say tough guy

My eyes!

You don't know much about the inner workings of the interwebs, do you?

That page you see was put up by Brad. My educated guess is that the new owner does not yet have access to the club server. Hence you still see the page Brad put up there.

I bet as soon as the new owner actually has access to the site and data, we will be informed ...
Andy

Yeah, that neon pink tutu was harsh.....

George,
The first thing you need to fix on the 914club site is the capability to post world url's to share information between the two sites. I thought it was pretty pathetic that I could not post a world link for someone who needed help with a topic that was already done on the world site. Personally, I surf both sites and try to stay out of the politics.

I wonder if Ms. K got a disease after you wore her shoes.

SHAVE THE WHALES!!!

They look lousy in beards!!

I totally agree that the buyer should again have a very open forum with shared info and the immediate unbanning of all of the political prisoners. Total pure thought no commercialism except by member vendors who care, encouragement of nationwide 914 events freedom to post where you want without repercussions, etc.

Whoa, sounds like George is running for office!

I want to be Sir Andy's vice president and limo driver. I am just afraid of pushing the 20 foot long clutch cable and the tube breaking in the tunnel!!!!!!!

A hydraulic clutch would fix that problem

Use an elevator cable and a titanium tube...welded in 40 places.
Should be fine.

Rich

I sent money to Brad to help pay back subscription fees to disgruntled 914club members and keep site going during hard times right after the split. All voluntary on my part and it was truly nothing for me financially. I told Brad back then money came with no strings attached but to try to make things better. I sort of got a kick out of doing that without anyone knowing.

... Will be very intersting to see what happens going forward. Honestly I cant see it surving without Brad and key contributors but perhaps youre planning on defectors from the World. Yet another split?

I got some good info off of the club site especially when I was researching how I wanted to do the 911/944 style emergency brakes. I think that is also where I got on to the alfa romeo aluminum brembos.

I don't see why Brad shut off access in the first place. Kinda sucks for the buyer to pay $5k, while the active members are cut off by the previous owner. The new owner paid for a running site, and what their getting is a site that forced it's membership to leave (by being shut temporarily).

Why is it shut?

Probably because George is trying to get some help running it without disturbing his other busy business.

I wonder if any of these "rocket scientist" have figured out that it takes a little time to relocate servers and such? Maybe George is also intelligent enough to not reopen a half assed site but would rather make sure things are up to snuff before the Grand Reopening.

not a half assed site ...where do you think all this came from?
just a different, but same site.

After seeing George's catalogue, I look forward to whatever he makes the club site into....

It doesn't diminish the world site or anything else. More than 1 site is a good thing as long as you achieve critical activity.

george, if you don't know, and you are the only person with the right to ask... I don't get it?

FWIW I think the problem with having 2 sites was that they were both trying to be essentially the same thing, a community. but only one was full of people... there wasn't enough differentiation to support 2 duplicates... people would cross post, and guess which one got answers faster? the one with people.

I think George should do like the Pelican site. Why continue a copy of what we have here? Make it original somehow and AA related. It could be a boon for AA and the community.

I also agree with Steve (way up in an earlier post) that the banning of other site URLs was childish and unnecessary. It was that one more that made me decide to basically abandon that site.

Really?

All that info was here

hence the Alfa brakes going on my car

Alfa! Why not go all the way:

Ferrari 308 rear fit a six or a four with vented rotors by the way, just have to install an additional bleeder nipple