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In the old days I used to read the whole internet over breakfast. So I can confirm Retro-Rides was pretty much unique at the time I discovered it.
There was retro car club about the same time but that was also different
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1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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Damn phone...
rcc never seemed to get the "critical mass" rr has done.
forums set up in competition to an established one rarely prosper, rodsnsods being the notable exception
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1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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I think the key to running a forum is to have your own unique niche. RR is obviously fairly general, but it would have been unique when it started, and it now has enough people to keep it going. So, if you wanted to make a new forum, you need to find something which people can't get anywhere else.
There seems to be a huge number of people on this forum asking questions about getting the cheapest possible car. Is there already a UK bangernomics forum? Perhaps that would be a good area to get into, ultra-economy. You could have a particular focus on small diesels which run on veg oil and have cheap insurance, or whatever.
A friend of mine was running a forum a few years ago, and was trying to build up a user base. The problem was, he wanted it to be about absolutely everything! It started out as a sort of hosting site for flash games, with built-in scores leaderboards, but then he wanted to try and expand the general section of the forum to include discussion about life in general. People were posting movie reviews, game reviews, articles about building gaming PCs, overclocking, all sorts of stuff. With no unique hook to keep the members there, we gradually drifted off to other established places which offered what we wanted to read.
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There seems to be a huge number of people on this forum asking questions about getting the cheapest possible car. Is there already a UK bangernomics forum? Perhaps that would be a good area to get into, ultra-economy. You could have a particular focus on small diesels which run on veg oil and have cheap insurance, or whatever. That is a great idea!
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Oct 30, 2012 13:46:06 GMT
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There seems to be a huge number of people on this forum asking questions about getting the cheapest possible car. Is there already a UK bangernomics forum? Perhaps that would be a good area to get into, ultra-economy. You could have a particular focus on small diesels which run on veg oil and have cheap insurance, or whatever. Bangernomics could be a problem because it exists at the moment as the intellectual property of James Ruppert, though it seems a bit neglected and doesn't seem to have a forum. More broadly, you could be onto a winner with a forum that's a midpoint between the hypermilers, who seem happy to spend loads to use less fuel, and normal car forums where economy is secondary to enjoying owning cars.
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Oct 30, 2012 13:49:53 GMT
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Bangernomics could be a problem because it exists at the moment as the intellectual property of James Ruppert He may own the name, but he can't own the concept of running cheap cars cheaply.
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Oct 30, 2012 14:40:22 GMT
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Bangernomics could be a problem because it exists at the moment as the intellectual property of James Ruppert He may own the name, but he can't own the concept of running cheap cars cheaply. Yup... just look at the popularity of this section : retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=bugmotWe put it there to make sure our actual for sale section is about what the forum is about... the section formerly known as budget motoring for sale could spin out into a forum of its own to be honest.
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Oct 30, 2012 16:46:13 GMT
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Bangernomics could be a problem because it exists at the moment as the intellectual property of James Ruppert He may own the name, but he can't own the concept of running cheap cars cheaply. I meant the name, not the concept. A clever, memorable and descriptive name must be important if you're trying to build an audience for a new web forum. Which reminds me, I'm just popping off to register "www.runningcheapcarscheaply.com"
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Oct 30, 2012 17:21:40 GMT
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try to sort out the other pages robert (stig ) says he'll have auction page and for sale Auto jumble area open by the end of the week as having few problems with it he wants it trouble free for users
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Nov 11, 2012 17:02:08 GMT
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I see the site has not had a single post in 9 days, looks like its died on its backside already, plus why can't I log in anymore......waste of time, my 3 year old grandaughter could make a better website.
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Last Edit: Nov 11, 2012 17:07:01 GMT by lordtolly
Round the U bend looking for my camera
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