Adam,
It's just that time of the year. I myself havn't been on my computer at all for over 2 weeks. Between helping out at my buddy's dealership, military duty, party's, then my work has been working 10 hour days and Saturdays, picking up leaves in the town that seemed to all fall at once this year. Then the dreaded "white stuff" fell from the sky. So I was one of the lucky ones to get called out to plow the "white stuff" for what seemed like endless hours. I'm not complaining though. The taxpayers pay us very well. Just it gets old quick and sleep becomes a scarce and necessary commodity.
So don't go getting discouraged. You have a terrific site here. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to ALL!
I'll be back after the holidays end.
Sarge

Adam

The site is great, all your work is paying off, but you are at a cross road. Having built several secussefull orginzations in my past lives I know where your at. The differance is what I did I did as a profession. What you have is a hobby that has become larger than one person should have to handle. The question is do you want to keep it as a hobby or turn it into a full time occupation? Thats one only you can answer. The site can survive if you want to keep it a hobby, but you have to take a break from time to time and let it take care of its self. The work you have done in just one year is wonderful, but you need to take a break.

Thank You Glenn

Hello Adam,

I have only known about your site since last Corvettes @ Carlisle when I saw the booth and got a preview. What I have seen is getting better and better each time I take a log on. The forums have some interesting discussions on them and I love to interact with those who need help or advice and I usually learn a thing or two while doing it.

It is soooo nice to have a site like this dedicated to the C-3 Corvette. The C-3 Corvette is a true Corvette, it is not a Maclaren want-a-be. The car was built when our country was proving to the world that we could build fast, powerful and sleek sports car without making it so expensive that only a limited few could own one.

When I look at my 1968 Big block convertible it makes my blood speed up. It is unique and beautiful, best of all it is mine.
This car has a lot to do with my life, it is a hobby, a lifestyle and the friendships I have created with those who have the same interests has made my life more fulfilling.

Your efforts at the C3VR web site have spotlighted a great interest of mine. I now know where I can go any time of the day or night and have discussions with other like-minded C3 nuts.

By organizing us into a group we might once again show some clout with the manufacturers and have them make the parts that are not available for our cars. We could do so much.. but none of this would have happened if you had not started the C3VR.

Your work has started a snowball rolling and I believe that if we all pitch in the growth and involvment would grow beyond your original ideas. There is power in numbers, maybe we could get our own row at Corvettes @ Carlisle.

I also agree with the others who have commented about the time of year. Everybody seems to get a little down when the days are shorter.
Just close your eyes and imagine the top down, the tach rising as you slip the shifter into 4th gear on a nice 80 degree (f) day. The sound of that big V-8 banging away pulling so hard that you are glued to your seat while the shade tree lined road starts to look like a picket fence. Imagine that road that has so many switchbacks that you are using the shifter as much as the accelerator, feel the acceleration between corners and then those big monstrous Delco brakes just sqeezing the tarnation out of those nice big discs just so you can point the car in a new direction to accelerate one again. Remember the last time you took your car through the long tunnel? Do you remember that thunderous roar that made you want to stop, turn around and do it all over again. Remember that thrill of the sound your beastly V8 can make as it tells other cars to step aside and let you through?

When I was young and depressed I thought of Holidays like Christmas and such. Now that I am an older character I think of those days I drove my vette, it always cheers me up!

Unless of course, I think of the time my throttle stuck wide open on a curvy two lane road, then I can still remember the smell of Clutch disc burning trying to break lose while I tried to slow the beast down and free the throttle linkage. The car slowed down okay but my heart rate would have pegged hospital equipment to the point of needing recalibration.

Thanks for all you do for us Adam, I hope that my spring memories can bring up your spirits and get your mind ready for that nice 80 degree day when you go out driving nowhere.

Merry Christmas and have a great Corvetting New Year

Sincerely,

Christopher T. McCloskey

Adam, it's the time of year and everyone is busy. You're doing a great job! Kathy

Adam, this is a great site to get much needed info about my 77 and also hear from others who have some of the same problems that I have. It's been hard to get here lately as I have gone back to day work and now I have to fight kids for computer time (aol and homework). Don't let the lack to traffic here get you down, its the "busy season". Have a good "Holiday Season" Adam!!!!!!!

i have noticed that the number of users online has been going up

garry72conv said: i have noticed that the number of users online has been going up

Yeah, a Forum Update email when out today. That always seems to bring a lot of people to the site.

Also, today is very close to the busiest day ever on C3VR. The highest was on Wed, May 29, 2002, there were 3,970 page views. As of 11:11pm today, the forecast is for a total of 3,599 page views today.

I guess people were just too busy in December with their holiday shopping to visit the site.

Thanks to all of you that are a large part of C3VRs usage... you know who you are!