On 4/1/2025 at 10:54 AM, alanrichey said:

March was almost a zero-cost month.   Eight members failed to renew (none of whom replied to me when I asked why 🤨) and 7 new members arrived.  So we welcome

User name                             Location          Area Secretary
Robert Rudd                       Salt                     Andi
Christian Knight                   Chorley              Darrell
Jon Green                           Ulverston           Darrell
Chris Clelland                     Ruskingtom       Me
Shawshank66 (Robin)       Totton                 ThanasisPolitis
milesw12                             Birmingham        richyb66
Alex Jones                          Denbigh              smpaarrkky

Al
    

Hi Al, can't seem to find Christian Knight! to add him to my message group and follow them, thoughts?

My mistake, original post edited.

30 minutes ago, alanrichey said:

My mistake, original post edited.

thanks 

HI, Im new to the world of the 2b, I have just acquired an unbuilt 2b and most of the donor 1988 Sierra.

I expect I will posting many many things and questions about the build.

26 minutes ago, jimmyybob said:

HI, Im new to the world of the 2b, I have just acquired an unbuilt 2b and most of the donor 1988 Sierra.

I expect I will posting many many things and questions about the build.

Welcome to the club, feel free to search in the forum as there is a huge amount of information and post if you need help with anything!

Howdy from Prescott, Arizona USA!

I recently acquired this '69 Corvette based Ferrari Daytona Spyder.  It was part of the Alexander Harwick in Alabama collection, who had real Ferraris and other cool cars.  I've been a member of the Prescott Antique Auto Club since the late 1990s, my first vintage vehicle was a '48 Chevy pickup, currently own a '68 Chevy pickup.  I jumped on this because it's Chevrolet running gear, much like my pickup but with a shrink-wrapped body/frame, and it was about $2.5M less than the real thing.  When I committed to buying it, did a quick search and found this forum.  The first forum I ever joined was North American Motoring for MINI Coopers, I picked my forum name based on where would I rather be than in front of the computer, driving highway 89A over Mingus mountain to Jerome (when it's not clogged with tourists).  I waited until I got the brakes fixed, then took some glamor shots before announcing my arrival.  I'm also active on the Model Car Magazine forum (same name, similar website format), I'm an award winning model builder, so I'm excited to have a full-scale kit of a dream car that I built in 1993.  I'm also on Facebook, where I found this car via a contact who brokered the sale.

Should I start a new OT about me and my Robin Hood car?  I see we need tiny versions of photos, do I need to set up another account such as Flickr (which booted me and lost 12,000+ photos), to share larger photos?  Since I live on another continent (saw the map, need to learn how to pin my location), I don't expect to pay for benefits that don't work over here.  But I'm fine with supporting this club just because.

First car question: How many of these were built?  I know only 122 (125 other sources) Spyders were built in the 5 year run, and 16,663 Corvette Convertibles were built in just 1969.  So if only a handful of these were produced, it should be worth a billion dollars. 🤪

April was a good month, 6 members left but 7 new members signed on, plus we welcome back a member who forgot to renew last year 😀.    So we welcome

Forum Name       Location             Area Secretary

Nick Carey                Rugely                  Andi
Gavin Thompson      Morpeth               alantoon
Bernard Rey              Alicante,Spain
Paul Meads               Leigh-on-Sea      ThanasisPolitis
Nic                             Bury                      Darrell
Darren                       Huyton                  Darrell
Phil Fairless              Morpeth                Grim
Ivorbiggun                Wells                     ThanasisPolitis     (Returnee)

6 hours ago, alanrichey said:

April was a good month, 6 members left but 7 new members signed on, plus we welcome back a member who forgot to renew last year 😀.    So we welcome

Forum Name       Location             Area Secretary

Nick Carey                Rugely                  Andi
Gavin Thompson      Morpeth               alantoon
Bernard Rey              Alicante,Spain
Paul Meads               Leigh-on-Sea      ThanasisPolitis
Nic                             Bury                      Darrell
Darren                       Huyton                  Darrell
Phil Fairless              Morpeth                Grim
Ivorbiggun                Wells                     ThanasisPolitis     (Returnee)

Welcome everyone!

@alanrichey I believe Ivor is based in Somerset so he should be under Robbie 2B

 

True, my mistake, thanks

May turned out to be a zero-cost month with 9 members leaving and 9 tmembers joining.  Hopefully the new members will be more active than the ones that left.

So it's a warm welcome to :

Forum Name                 Location              Area Secretary

Andi Dunsmuir                 Kirkaldy                Has volunteered to be Area Secretary for Scotland

Jim Pailing                       Marylandsea          ThanasisPolitis

Andy King                        New Milton           ThanasisPolitis

Barry Chown                    Colchester              ThanasisPolitis

Jake Gully                         Isle of Wight          ThanasisPolitis

Richard Joel                      Chesterfield           Andi

Edward Parks                    Minehead               Robbie 2B

Christopher Bryceland      Shilbottle               alantoon

binto01 (Robert)                Northern Ireland    toriitom

June was not good.  We lost 10 members and only had 5 new members join us.   So we welcome:

Username                            Location                   Area Secretary

Mitch1991                      Chesterfield             Andi

Matt82                           Sheffield                   Grim

WillB                               Thatcham                 ThanasisPolitis

mmarksx19 (Michael)   Leeds                        Grim

Ax2020 (Luca)              Italy/Spain 

 to the Club

I can see why this forum is declining.  Sorry to ask, but did the originator of this forum pass on?   I'm way over the Atlantic with this Robinhood car, sure draws attention at the right locations.  I'm planning to get as many stickers along historic Route 66 and stickerbomb under the trunk lid.  Am I limited on website space, and need to share via a photo-hosting site?  If anyone cares?

Of course we care, but we also have to be realistic.   We have a limited amount of space on our host server and at present we are already hosting 20,576 pictures dating back to 2003, so we have to limit the size for each post and image. 

So all we ask is that you are sensible.   If you pre-shrink your picture to a reasonable size to display then you can post more pictures without any change in the display.   For example a raw picture from my iPhone is 4000 px by 2000 px.   The maximum we allow is 1200 px by 1200 px so you cannot post it as it stands.  But if I shrink it to 20% it is only 800 px by 400px yet still displays perfectly on the screen.  

We also limit the overall size of the post, and unfortunately as you are not a member you will be severely limited as to the number of pictures you can post as well.   Members have a much more generous allowance and can post almost as many as they like.  

There are many free programs available to do this shrinking (technically called ‘resizing’) operation, personally I use paint.net.

Hope that helps.

Al (Webmaster)

June was a pretty brutal month, with 15 members not renewing.  Apart from one who I knew personally and had sold his car, I have no idea why the others left.  I asked all of them why but no-one replied.

The good news is that we had 9 new members signing up.   It's good to see new blood in the Club, let's hope they are more active than the ones that left.

So welcome to:

Forum User name                         Location                            Area Secretery

RSB2b (Richard)              Sowerby Bridge           Grim

Brian Evans                     Wollaston                      Richyb66

Jonny boy                       Andover                         ThanasisPolitis

Aydon Hassan                Milton Keynes                ThanasisPolitis

Joe W                               Witney                           ThanasisPolitis

Michael Emerson           Manchester                    Darrell

David Norman                Pinxton                            Andi

Darren De Block            Lowestoft                         Me

Jason                             Dunfermline                      KitCar7

2 hours ago, alanrichey said:

June was a pretty brutal month, with 15 members not renewing.  Apart from one who I knew personally and had sold his car, I have no idea why the others left.  I asked all of them why but no-one replied.

The good news is that we had 9 new members signing up.   It's good to see new blood in the Club, let's hope they are more active than the ones that left.

So welcome to:

Forum User name                         Location                            Area Secretery

RSB2b (Richard)              Sowerby Bridge           Grim

 

Brian Evans                     Wollaston                      Richyb66

 

Jonny boy                       Andover                         ThanasisPolitis

 

Aydon Hassan                Milton Keynes                ThanasisPolitis

 

Joe W                               Witney                           ThanasisPolitis

 

Michael Emerson           Manchester                    Darrell

 

David Norman                Pinxton                            Andi

 

Darren De Block            Lowestoft                         Me

 

Jason                             Dunfermline                      KitCar7

 

I think would be sensible (if not already in place) for members to have a card or details on a window sticker or their membership card, which they pass on or leave in/on the car, if they sell it. Obviously (probably) only when reprints need to be done.