This'll be one of those off the rails updates that I write that will get little if any of the intended result. Since its my thread on my borrowed soapbox I guess this is the only place I can make a statement that won't get the thread locked.
Speaking of that...
I watched another thread get locked that I came into this week and stirred up. As usual, it seems that i'm the only one here that gets a bug in my ass when some noob comes in, introduces himself, makes a stated plan post that literally says " I'm gonna do something stupid....or possibly dangerous" and everybody is supposed to handle the new guy with kid gloves to risk offending the new member.
I've also watched the standard evolution of that same thread when I don't get involved in it. It'll sputter and cough because there never was any real "gas" to the thread in the first place,..and it'll just die. Some of the new(er) guys will come on ( and gen car theif of course
) throw out the standard " looks good, good start, post up some pics" attaboys, and that's about it. Whatever happens after that to the guy, or his project.....who freakin knows?
A fox forum is getting to be a classic forum. The cars simply aren't sitting in CL ads in every city on any given day of the week like they used to be. The days of the clean gutted out notch shell for $350.00 are gone. The majority of guys who own these things aren't 20 somethings...the majority are more like 30-40. Sure, there are the exceptions at both ends and it's more common at the later end than the converse, but the meat and taters of the ownership average age is in the middle.
And having been there already, age 30-40 has a whole bunch of other priorities in life as opposed to a car. And I get it when just trying to keep the car becomes the priority over being able to do a full on resto-mod.
So, when a new member pops in who clearly is defying the odds, and turns out to be on the younger end, and starts off by asking the same " I can't be bothered to look first" questions, you now gotta ask yourself...Do I answer this question for the 7 zillionth time, Or,...do I ignore the question and let a newer member field it.
How many people answer,..and how many people ignore it? And if you just ignore it...how long before it just dies off anyway?
I don't know about the rest of you, but I count about a dozen still participating members in talk that are trustworthy in the advice they give. Add another 6 new(ers) that may, or may not know what the hell they're talking about. That makes it about 18 total if that much. There are a different few that frequent the tech forums that add to that.
Then there's 6-8 regulars that never leave the off topic area......Seems strange to me,...I know that every person that I'm talking about here frequents that place as well. ( considering this is an " off topic" rant........
)
Some guy told me that i was more or less expecting too much from the other build/progress threads given the scope of my personal build....
Uhh two things...
What
other build/progress threads?
And this.....
When you go to an auto show, do you go to see the average build, or do you go to see the shop builds?
I never liked the chromed out super builds that rotated on a platform, but I take inspiration from the Chip Fooses of the world..if you look at the same-ole, same-ole, youll never learn anything new from someone else when they do something different.
So that brings me around to the bottom line.
I'll leave the noobs to you guys. If you guys wanna answer the same freakin questions over and over, have at it. At the same time however, be mindful of the fact that when it comes time for you to post the progress of your individual cars, and nobody says dick about anything you've done,.....it's because the only people that still frequent the place are all up at the squeaky wheel exchanging funny picture threads,
Or it's.....the remaining few don't care,...or more likely,......
Because the guy that put the spool in his street car doesn't have it anymore because he wrecked it.
It turns out that the guy that claimed he had a 15k build SN 95 going on never actually had a car in the first place.
And they both are now frequenting the Nissan forums.