LocostUSA.com

Dave...., Chuck and Larry said it for me. (Sounds like a good headliner for a XX movie).

I'll be the first to admit that this site has become a part of my life.

All jocularity aside Dave, let us know when it time to replenish the funds that keep this site on the interweb.

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Perry

'If man built it, man can fix it'
"No one ever told me I couldn't do it."
"If you can't build it safe, don't build it."

Perry's Locost Super Che7enette Build
Perry's TBird Based 5.0L Super 7 L.S.O
Perry's S10 Super 7 The 3rd
Perry's 4th Build The Topolino 500 (Little Mouse) Altered
Perry's 5th Build the Super Slant 6 Super 7
Perry's Final Build the 1929 Mercedes Gazelle

I absolutely will contribute funds to keeping this site up! Let us know how and where. I really missed this site for reference info on my build.

Thom

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Thom

Really glad to see we are up and running again! Thank you to everyone trying to keep the lights on, I would happily contribute given the option.

Me too: thank, you; thank you; thank you.

Don't hesitate to take donations. We all love this site and want it to keep going.

Cheers,

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Damn! That front slip angle is way too large and the Ackerman is just a muddle.

Build Log: viewtopic.php?f=35&t=5886

You know, one way to look at this is that we were off line so many days to give the other car build forums a chance to catch up

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Perry

'If man built it, man can fix it'
"No one ever told me I couldn't do it."
"If you can't build it safe, don't build it."

Perry's Locost Super Che7enette Build
Perry's TBird Based 5.0L Super 7 L.S.O
Perry's S10 Super 7 The 3rd
Perry's 4th Build The Topolino 500 (Little Mouse) Altered
Perry's 5th Build the Super Slant 6 Super 7
Perry's Final Build the 1929 Mercedes Gazelle

There are other car building forums?

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Larry in Seattle

Looks like we owe you thanks yet again Dave, but what will happen if you can no longer resurrect? That will be a sad day indeed, but until then Merry Christmas everyone!

Each time this happens, it underscores the importance of having your own site…

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Midlana book: Build this mid-engine Locost!, http://midlana.com/stuff/book/
Kimini book: Designing mid-engine cars using FWD drivetrains
Both available from https://www.lulu.com/

@KB58

Well, I hate to think of this site ever going away, Kurt. I've had a site for several years, but never really populated it. It supports Wordpress. However, I built another Wordpress website to support a community project here, and it was such a buttpain to work with that I never took on my own site thereafter.

[SIGH] Well, necessity the mother, right? So, if it ever becomes necessary . . . .

Cheers,

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Damn! That front slip angle is way too large and the Ackerman is just a muddle.

Build Log: viewtopic.php?f=35&t=5886

Yeah, it is back!!
It would suck to go away, right when I'm just starting a build.
Maybe you should post your sites address, just in case, if this site would go down.
Still trying to figure out, how to combine the 442E with Gibbs chassis.
Got a NC 6 speed trans, it is a start.

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Tibor


'20 Alfa Romeo Stelvio daily
Locost/442E in progress

I just discovered a substantial number, but not all, of the photos in my build log are missing. is there anyone else with the same problem?

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Damn! That front slip angle is way too large and the Ackerman is just a muddle.

Build Log: viewtopic.php?f=35&t=5886

Just checked mine & they all appear to be there.
But they're linked via postimg, and not posted via attachments here.

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1975 MG Midget
http://www.locostusa.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=24382
13B Powered Rotus Geauxkart
http://www.locostusa.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=20899

Are your lost pictures from a few years back? Things were lost in confusion for a while during one of this site's "episodes". Most pics were recovered but not all. There was a period that are missing. I filled in some of the pics on the MG build but pics from others who posted on my build logs during that time are lost. In my Cushman build, the pics between Feb 2017- Jan 2019, the last post in that build are gone. Everything since then is still viewable, I think. Sad. But to think hosing pics elsewhere is any guarantee, think again. Hosting sites, both public and personal disappear often too. I have every pic I have taken on every one of my builds in their original resolution. I always reduce them for hosting and posting here.

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Chuck.

“Any suspension will work if you don’t let it.” - Colin Chapman

Visit my ongoing MGB Rustoration log: over HERE

Or my Wankel powered Locost log : over HERE

And don't forget my Cushman Truckster resto Locostusa.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=17766

@rx7locost
After the last crash, all my build photos ended up re-loaded, Chuck. It was about 2 weeks (or so?) after we came back up, but they did reappear.

I know we've had this conversation before (collectively as a group, not just you and I) about paying a yearly fee and having the site managed by a hosting organization. I really hope that happens in the future. There is so much history here now. It would be a real shame to lose it.

Cheers,

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Damn! That front slip angle is way too large and the Ackerman is just a muddle.

Build Log: viewtopic.php?f=35&t=5886

What I see as the problem is not the forum software, it's the machine it is being run on.
Managed by crisis, which means it is probably a side project not maintained by the principal, may even be au gratis.
It may be overloaded, or poorly maintained, there is also the beating a machine takes when exposed to the prying fingers of internet losers.

My hosting service is VERY economical, VERY fast, and VERY reliable and a basic hosting account comes with forum and checkout software I can just plug into. (and support staff) Pair.net
Their UpTime is beyond reproach.

The value of what is here is immense and unique, there is no replacement or alternative.
It is frustrating to have such a valuable resource as Locostusa.com held under a dubious situation.
What is here belongs to the community that created it, it is up to them what happens.

Perhaps the way to do it is to start another domain and transition new posts to the new domain keeping the old in reserve, or slurping it off to the new domain if possible.
I'm not sure if the membership info can be transferred to a new setup. That would be the biggest hurdle, if guys had to re-register

Although it seems to me that whoever is in charge has no intention of making any changes, as we have been limping along in this fashion for quite a number of years.
I expect the forum could pay for its self with a small membership fee or some innocuous advertising or even donations, so economics should not come into play.

As I said though what happens here is up to the community and where they click.
I don't wish to incite anarchy, however I do not wish to see this resource disappear with some hackers rm *.*.
Or not well backed up and lost to a hard disc failure.....
In the big picture, outside of the membership this forum is not "essential", and not really monetize-able without crippling it so there is no motivation for improvement.
I'm betting we are not big enough or that would have already happened.
I wonder what the stats are?

In reality nothing will get done. The community quickly forgets
The forum always seems to come back up and the members are only concerned with this aspect when they can't log in.
No cure for the human condition. :^)

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Honey anyone?