I need a picture

[Fierofool]

I have it and several others.  I'll email them shortly.

[GTRS Fiero]

Thanks.  Whose Fiero is the gold GT in front?

[Fierofool]

That is Spirit.  Jack Cooke.  One owner 86 GT with a crate 4.9.  Always a show winner. 

[GTRS Fiero]

I'm looking for the picture that exists somewhere on here, where Fierofool is getting ready to lead a group of Fieros on a drive.  Maybe it was a RFTH.  Fierofool is driving his GT.  I've read that thread twice in the past, but can't find it, now.

I found a cropped (close-up) version of the pic I remember.  RFTH05

[Fierofool]

I didn't make the first RFTH until #8.  I remember two similar pictures.  One, I was in my first 85GT and we were based at the Comfort Inn in Dawsonville.  The second, we were based in Franklin, NC, and it was the Burgundy 87GT.  Those pictures are on floppy disks and I don't have a drive. 

[GTRS Fiero]

Maybe I got my facts wrong.  The pic is RFTH05, but it dhows the year as 2007, which does not match up.

Here is the pic I found today, but not the version I remember:


I remember it being in your burgundy Fiero, in a parking lot, now that I think of it.  I recall there being other Fieros in the picture, as well.

[GTRS Fiero]

We had previously discussed the floppy drive.  I sent you one.  Due around 7/20.  Just plug into the USB port on your PC.  You can give it back to me when you see me.

[Fierofool]

Yeah, the other one was at Franklin, in the Fun Factory parking lot.  It was a foggy morning which might have shown in the pic.  I have some pictures of that location, but someone else took the picture you're referring to.  I think it was captioned something like 'Head 'em up, move 'em out" or "Charlie says Move'em out."

[GTRS Fiero]

Yes, but I can't seem to find it using that text.  I have included fun factory, franklin, and other search terms, and came up with nothing.  Was it an RFTH? 

[pgackerman]

I didn't make the first RFTH until #8.  I remember two similar pictures.  One, I was in my first 85GT and we were based at the Comfort Inn in Dawsonville.  The second, we were based in Franklin, NC, and it was the Burgundy 87GT.  Those pictures are on floppy disks and I don't have a drive.

By floppy drive do you mean something that can read a disk that looks like a save button?  Cuz I have a reader.

[TopNotch]

Bring your floppies to the meeting, and I will transfer their contents to CD.

[Fierofool]

I probably have more than a hundred of them. 

[GTRS Fiero]

Magnetic media, such as floppy disks, degrades over time.  If you ever want those pictures, they need to be converted ASAP.

[Fierofool]

By floppy drive do you mean something that can read a disk that looks like a save button?  Cuz I have a reader.

Yeah.  The floppy drive used to be the A drive on most PC's.  The disk was about 3 1/2 inches square. 

Converting them to CD doesn't guarantee longevity, either.  One of the problems I've found is that Windows software programs change over time and will no longer read older CD's.  I had some CD's that I had recorded many years ago that I had to throw away for that reason.  No need to keep something that's for all practical purposes, blank.  Maybe flash drives would work better, except there's no really good way to label them with their content. 

[Fierofool]

The picture you're looking for may have been lost on the old message board.  I searched RFTH's 11, 14, and 17 and found TopNotch's photos in the Fun Factory parking lot, so he may have been the one who took the picture you're searching for.