July 10 Monthly Meeting

[Fierofool]

9:30 AM, July 10
Marietta Diner
306 Cobb Pkwy S
Marietta, GA 30060

Fiero club July 10, 2021

Opening





2- Treasurer Report
Beginning balance $4,727.75
Ending balance $4,727.75
 
3- Membership report
30 paid members

4- Minutes from last meeting
Posted online

5- Old Business
   
A. Parade events updates
Gabe met with the BBQ place. Great place for a Sunday cruise in or club meeting. Plenty of space inside.

B. Cruise to coast updates
Memorial Day 2022
End at Patriots point - USS Yorktown.


C. Run for the hills updates
Shirt picked
Hotel Clayton days inn $65
Asheville hotel Red Roof inn $125
Set up marketing at caffeine and octane August 1st
Site seeing run this year too.
Scouting run to see a replacement road soon. Probably a week day, Charlie to arrange.
Jimmy and Zach’s wife to work on marketing
Chaz to video edit

D. Other events updates
Next Club Participation of Caffeine and Octane is September 5th

Auburn car show is either the last or 4th Saturday of the month, Charlie to update us when he finds out.


F. Project thread updates

Strip Pat’s car - strip the 88. Open to date suggestions
Spartanzz’s Fiero
Crazy Jimmy’s Fiero

G. Newsletters
Reminded everyone to reach out to Michael for article ideas. Take photos of everything you do; it can be made into an article.

From Michael:

I’m still looking for someone to write an article on insurance for Fieros.  This will be a lot of work on the phone, most likely.  Likely, this article would include coverage options, carriers, expectations, pros and cons.

I’m also still looking for someone to write an article on various Fiero wheel options, including tires.  Apparently, I’m not the only one for whom the chart isn’t helpful.  Such an article should include tire sizes that fix, scrub radius, and spare tire size/options.  Other details, such as wheel spacers, stock lug bolt pattern, and lug nut info may also need to be included.

With RFTH just around the corner, an article on Fiero safety would be great.  This would be a then-and-now article.  This article would involve some research back into Fiero incidents and incident reports.

H. Facebook Page
No new updates.

I. Website Updates
Work in progress.

5- New Business

A. ScottB has a really nice tool box for sale $700


B. JayDog has ab 87 Duke auto for sale. needs gone asap!


LAST-  closing

[GTRS Fiero]

Thanks.  Add to calendar?

[Fierofool]

Nobody looks at the calendar, but I'll do it.

[GTRS Fiero]

Just me.  It shows up on the events page.  Sortof on the home page.  Google indexes those changes, and should list our events.  Anyway, or rankings go up.  More people will find out web site, and may participate.

[GTRS Fiero]

Agenda?

[Spartanzz]

Ill plan to be there! now that im actually a Fiero owner again lol

[The Art Doctor]

Any chance we can go earlier?   It was very busy and noisy there last month.

[GTRS Fiero]

If the food was bad, it would be less busy.

[Fierofool]

Any chance we can go earlier?   It was very busy and noisy there last month.

I think if it were any earlier, we would lose more of those who live outside the Metro area. 

[GTRS Fiero]

I thought 9:30am was supposed to be their slow time.

[Wreck It Ralph]

I’ve been there earlier and later. Yeah. 930 is “slow”. We chose 930 so everyone can come but not get up stupid early. Well at least most everyone in the state can.

[GTRS Fiero]

Something that really ruins a thread, is a bunch of dead picture links.  Browsing through the threads, I found that more and more images that are remotely hosted have gone dead, for one reason or another.

We have 8 malformed image links (images that never worked).  We have 1,397 images hosted remotely (many no longer working).  We have some posts that say they have images, but you have to look at the contents of the post to see that they did, because it doesn't even show a missing image icon.  A total of 90 different remote hosts are currently "in use".

Many remote hosts are dead; or the images were removed; or the images have been rendered useless, due to blurring and/or watermarking.  Some remote hosts require logins to view the images.  Some remote hosts have placed the images behind a paywall.

To be fair, we have 5,684 images hosted locally, so we not all images will vanish.

A total of 794 images are hosted on photobucket.  99 images are hosted on Pennocks, and then there are 98 other remote hosts.  On the face of it, Pennocks may seem better than the rest, but most of those links are now also dead.  Some images are hosted on personal servers, vendor sites, news sites, auction sites, or file sharing services.

53 of the 85 users who post images have at least 1 image hosted remotely.  I'm an offender on the remote image hosting.  Of the 2,136 images I've posted, 22 of those are hosted remotely.  Some members use exclusively remote image hosting.  One user has 300 remotely hosted images.  67 images are remotely hosted by users whose accounts no longer exist.  11 current users have images hosted remotely.

I'm not picking on anyone other than myself, but these are all actual stats.

These stats are for the forum proper, only.

My hope is that at least some of these can be corrected.

[Fierofool]

That's why I always suggest using our image posting app.  Any guest browser can't see most remotely hosted images, and it may be vital to helping them resolve a problem, without registering, getting approval, then logging in. 

[GTRS Fiero]

I was making a possible agenda suggestion.  Wrong thread?

[Raydar]

I was making a possible agenda suggestion.  Wrong thread?

And so you were. Just seemed kind of "out of left field". I get it.