Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums General General ANNOUNCEMENT: The future of contour.org [is bright]

Lance, Matt, Admins, and fellow CEGer's:
Thank you. I would like to thank you all personally for all you have done, the insight you provide and services rendered.
There may be other Contour sites on this great big internet that Al Gore invented, but none will beat the CEG. From the technical insiders, to the trolls, this site has felt more like a place, than little bits o' data floating about.
Yes, I will move with everyone else to another site, but I will be one of the first back when Lance or someone can restart the CEG.

Once again, thank you and goodnight.

And Lance, this is for you...
Page 7 OWN3D!!

Its still here...
This is such a shame..
If money will help, email me at DNixon@hsc.vcu.edu

signing out.

Well, this stinks.

Thanks to Lance and all. Everyone's help with my car before I traded it Monday has been very appreciated.

CEG has been the first place I visit online since I discovered it. Unlike how some feel, I have really enjoyed the off-topic forum, have met some great people online.

If CEG is ever back up, I'll be around. Until then, take care everyone. It's been a blast!

this has been a matureing experiance for me and i hate to see it go but you gotta do what ya gotta do.sorry for any disrespect we all may have caused to you, it's unselfish people like you that make this world a berable placeand i hold you in highest regards ,i geuss what i wan to say is "thank you"

It seems to be the fate of most good and positive services on the net to become too expensive to maintain once they reach a large audience that actually benefits from them. If there was some way to set it up so that the costs were spread over all users, as a tiny part of their normal net access bill, then something like this could thrive forever. But when one person gets stuck paying for it, everybody is hosed, despite some who make voluntary donations. (This is why the government doesn't run on charitable contributions.)

I will really miss the Zetec forum. It has certainly been financially valuable to me at times... but then, without contour.org I would never have caught the mod bug, so financially I'm probably no better off.

Thank's for the time and effort Lance.
You were always appreciated (although we may not have shown it).

I will miss many of you. I would have loved to have met more of you.

(and a question, does this kill off everything associated with ceg? i.e. spring zing '03 national meet '03)

Although I don't post often ... I have always appreciated all the great info available on this site.

I really appreciate those who have hosted and ran this for the past few years and I look forward to the revamped (downsized) site.

Best wishes and best of luck to Lance and esp. Matt!

If this is the end, my friend,.....

VERY SORRY to see this place go...

The only place on the web where contour owners are represented....

I am very disheartened....thanks Lance.

Good.

As part of the un-vocal minority, thanks so much for all that you have done Lance. I think I was one of the first 100 members when the Contour List-Serv was started up on the American University site. I had been seeking Contour enthusiasts on the Car & Driver site when Ray McNairy and Nick Dinatale recruited me to the mail list.

Then you came on board Lance, with tons o' questions regarding your Tour (of which I'm still partial to midnight blue '95 SE's being a former owner). Ray, OF Emeritus, was there to guide all of us in his own special way - damn do I miss his quips.

I've never been one to post much and hope that things don't fall apart in the time it takes for Contour.org to (hopefully) reappear. It's been a lot of hard, thankless work on your part to keep this up and running, and I'm sad to see it go.

It's been an invaluable source to me when I needed Terry's help to rebuild my tranny. I would have never known Terry existed, let alone thought of shipping my tranny out to MI rather than having it fixed here in NJ at some schlock-house repair shop. As recently as last week, the Problems section came to the rescue when my clockspring went on me. This site has saved so many of us countless repair $$$'s, on top of the comeraderie and friendships that have come about.

So to all, best of luck. I hope our Tours don't fall into disrepair without this site. To Lance and the moderators who have made this site possible, thank you even though I have never met you.

Best regards and ta for now.

Jim Harris
'98.5 Silver Frost E1 (87,800 miles and 2 payments to go)
'95 Midnight Blue SE (sold at 66,000 miles)
(153,800 total miles at the helm of a Contour!!!!) :p