914club.com

Bewildebeest · Post by **Bewildebeest** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 12:17 pm

Any else noticed the bickering (to put it mildly) going on over at 914club.com ? A shame cos it was a useful site. Lets hope the same never happens to DDK.

defianty · Post by **defianty** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 12:44 pm

Certainly is a shame as the site held a wealth of fantastic information. I've spent hours reading old posts there learning about the '14. I also hope it regains some sort of normality. Seem like an case of handbags to me

All it ever took was just one word out of context and a huge argument erupted! I guess what has happened was forseeable.

After reading what went on from both sides on both 914club.com and the new 914club.info I think it's going to be a while before the dust settles.

abm914 · Post by **abm914** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 1:42 pm

What's been happening over there ??? Ad

Nige · Post by **Nige** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 2:02 pm

without us all having to register and hunt around the forum can somebody summarise the situation in a not too gossipy manner (we're not like that here

)

Am I just being lazy?

defianty · Post by **defianty** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 2:22 pm

I've just tried to write down my view on the situation but found it difficult without pointing fingers at people. Something I won't and don't do.

So really basically... There's been a row the club money was tranferred by someone without authorisation. Site was closed by admins. Admins split, now 914club.com is run by the one guy and all the others have started 914club.info.

There's a lot more to it than that, and it all looks a bit messy. Hopefully it'll resolve itself but I do think it'll take a while. In the meantime I'll sit back and hope normal service is resumed.

Bewildebeest · Post by **Bewildebeest** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 2:26 pm

You're not lazy, probably sensible.
I didn't put any details because :
(A) I didn't want to put my spin on things and
(B) It's virtually impossible to work it out and
(C) I was hoping someone would enlighten me.

However......basically it appears that the site management have had a big
fallout over all sort of things based around the general way that the site
should be run but what seems to have been the last straw was one of
them wanting to be paid/compensated for the work/time/hosting etc.
When the rest of them disagreed he did something techy with the domain
name, wanted $10K to sell it back to them and it's gone downhill from
there. Now there are 3 or 4 sites with 914 in the name, all sorts of
namecalling and puerility etc etc. ALLEDGEDLY !! And a great technical
resource has been lost, but possibly only temporarily.
Refer back to A B and C - I may have it completely wrong but it's
definitely a shame. There's a lot of bad feeling about it and where once
you could go to one point for all sorts of info it is now non existant and
even when it does re-surface it will be watered down and harder to find.
Just as I started to get going on my basket case as well ! Poo !!
Talking of which - here it is half an hour ago

and it's been just the same since I bought it in 1988 but now this site
and you lot have fired me up.
Just don't tell the wife - I've told her I'm prepping the lawn mower for it's winter lay up.

Nige · Post by **Nige** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 3:31 pm

thanks for the lowdown guys.

keep the momentum going on the resto fella

Helen · Post by **Helen** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 4:20 pm

Bewidebeest wrote: Just as I started to get going on my basket case as well ! Poo !!
Talking of which - here it is half an hour ago

and it's been just the same since I bought it in 1988 but now this site
and you lot have fired me up.
Just don't tell the wife - I've told her I'm prepping the lawn mower for it's winter lay up.

now i don't know much about this cars but, i think your looking in the wrong place for the engine

BTW..i like the gold stripe down the side,

Nige · Post by **Nige** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 4:23 pm

if you look at the marks made on the floor I suspect he's dumped the body under the patio

Helen · Post by **Helen** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 4:37 pm

NARP · Post by **NARP** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 5:24 pm

It's mostly a case of big mouths and thin skins. The dust will settle, and I don't believe we'll lose the old posts.

In the meantime, there is a 'mostly' neutral place to meet. More chat room than hard tech data, but you can still post a question and probably get a reply there.

http://z8.invisionfree.com/ClubNARP/

Bewildebeest · Post by **Bewildebeest** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 5:29 pm

Oops, I appear to have hi jacked my own thread. Does that mean I have to shoot myself ?

Helen wrote: BTW..i like the gold stripe down the side,

It is tasteful isn't it ? Nothing to do with me though - one of many previous owners. 8 between '74 and '88 according to the log book.

Now stop it or I'll be in trouble - I'm starting a new thread on this rusto/resto project and you can look at the gold stripes on that.

Helen · Post by **Helen** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 5:36 pm

BTW the PCGB now has a 914 section, ok i admit its as dead as a very dead thing at the moment but i live in hope

autohausdolby · Post by **autohausdolby** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 10:05 am

for 914 club. It was on my daily "sites to visit" list

autohausdolby · Post by **autohausdolby** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 10:07 am

Helen wrote:
Bewidebeest wrote: Just as I started to get going on my basket case as well ! Poo !!
Talking of which - here it is half an hour ago

and it's been just the same since I bought it in 1988 but now this site
and you lot have fired me up.
Just don't tell the wife - I've told her I'm prepping the lawn mower for it's winter lay up.
now i don't know much about this cars but, i think your looking in the wrong place for the engine
BTW..i like the gold stripe down the side,

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