Suggestion: Members Ride/Car diaries, Its own section. Options

[whatthe]

Putting this out there. If mods/admin wish to create a Members Ride/Car diaries section for member who wish to create a diary?
As certain members are putting it in General Chat and some are putting it in Multimedia.

Rico.

[yarik83]

I think what we really need is to switch gears completely. We have all (well old farts anyways) been on this site since basically day 1. It would be a good idea to take 6gc.net and make it a 6gc.net club welcoming old members back with other cars. Face it lads... celica is an aging car and there is no substitute for it. 90% of people on this forum could not afford to purchase a new celica (if we were to commission some shop out there to actually build brand new 6gc celicas) and 90% of those who left are driving another car. We need to give them a reason to come back. Since our community is a friendly community but its not a "royal following community"... our community is an aging community.

Think of low riders. Does not matter what car you drive as long as its a low rider and is 1900-1980 car. Think of drifer cars. Does not matter what make or model but those lads end up having a heck of a fun time every weekend. Think of mud racers and rally enthusiasts and other car nieches where people kind of huddle together.

We rarely have get together events and when we do we usually have questionable turnout. Not like usa is a small country or island nation where there are 100 celicas and all 100 come. That aside I think one of the reasons why we are loosing members is because there is no upgrade for a celica... well there is the 7th generation but we all know that 6gc is the best celi ever.

I keep bringing up mutsubishi evolutions (partly since I can practically taste the smell of my future car) but their community is like a cult. Does not matter if you drive evo 1 or evo 10.. you are a part of a special nieche of enthusiasts. In many ways it builds community, especially if your first car was evo and your next car will be evo and your car after that will be an evo etc and all evos kind of flock together. I learned it first hand since I attend evo meets all the time. Here in florida (where we cant seem to properly organize a celica meet) there are several chapters of evo club and they all meet several times a year with a huuuuuuuge turn out. Last one counted like a cajillion cars. All passionate and forever evo addicts.

With celicas.. I think we need to bring the old spark back.. well at least people like Ferdie should. They are the "us" from 2002. They just got their celicas and that new smell of an old car is still in their veins and their brains are filled with excitement.

In all truth I would not mind pitching in for a website and I am sure other members would too. We could call it the same thing but add a little sense of community into it. It is hard to make people do things they do not want... but regular meetings and outings and other miscellaneous events could potentially bring back our good old community from brink of extinction. Maybe 6gc.net stickers that we can give to all members to promote the site or something...

For 10 years I thought of ways to make our community active and after 10 years of theorizing I came to a conclusion that personal commitment is THE key to community's success.
Here is a link to what other car communities do on a regular basis.
http://forums.evolutionm.net/southeast-reg...9-pictures.html