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Posted by BigKev On 2007/7/9 15:48:48

Just through I would say thanks to everyone that have been participating here on the website. It's nice to see it grow a little bit each day.

The Owner Registry is really filling in nicely. I think we almost have every model in the the 55/56 years represented.

Also thanks to those that have taken the time to add part information to the Part X-Ref. It makes it so much easier to have all of the contained in a central database then having to search all over different forums and website to locate it.

A few people have asked me about when the Model Info pages for the pre-war cars are going to come online. Too be frankly honest, I hope to put some serious work into it after summer is over. With the summer giving me longer days, I am taking advantage of them to work on my car. Once the time changes and it's dark by the time I get home from work, then I will switch back into research mode and start working on the Pre-War Model Info pages.

Also I hope to enlist some of you pre-war experts out there that can help decipher and document some of the same type of information that we used on Post-War Model Info pages.

The Model Info pages are not something that is just thrown together in an afternoon. The Post-War pages took myself, Brian, John and Dave almost 3 months to compile, fact check, and manual enter all of that information. Also trying to locate as many factory renderings(illustrations) to use for the pictures was also time consuming. So if anyone has any of the renderings for the pre-war cars or the any for the post-war cars that are currently missing, we would appreciate the help. These typically came from the product Brochures, Magazine Advertisements, and Salesmen Fact/Data Books.

Also if anyone runs across a newer edition (1996 printing date and newer) of "The Standard Catalog of American Cars, 1805-1942" for a reasonable price, then please let me know. The newer editions are going for over $300 on Amazon. That is outside my budget.

Thank again for all the support....