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

Lance,

I don?t personally know you and yet I am indebted to you. You have unselfishly provided myself and many others with an enormous amount of information on contours, mystiques, and a number of other topics.

My decision to buy my contour was because of this site. No other car that I looked at boasted this kind of support and information. It was in late ?00 when I started looking at the site, right before the purchase of my car in early 2001. Since then I have checked the site more and more frequently, not wanting to miss anything about the car, developments / group buys, and to reap the knowledge of the many resident smart-people.

I think your dedication and the members of the site make CEG as great as it is. Chris, Brad, and Terry have always been there, sometimes within minutes with a reply that would ultimately save me time and money. There are many others too that have contributed to my experience here and I apologize for not giving you proper recognition.

I think there is a very mature and professional atmosphere @ CEG that I have come to appreciate and find lacking other places I go. I will miss many of the people I have come to rely on for information during my ownership of #147.

I hope to see CEG in the future, in whatever capacity possible. I will think of you all every time I fire up the duratec.
No amount of adulation will do justice after the benefits that I have receive so I simply say thanks.

Aaron

Thanks Lance and to all who have helped me with stuff over the past 20months or so.

If anyone wishes to keep in touch, my email is marko@neceg.org

Good luck to everyone if the site doesn't make it back.

I dont know what I would have done without the info on this site. Saved me time and $$ many times. Thanks Lance for everything you have done. I will miss this site, and I wish I could have met a lot of you guys (and gals) in person.
Damn...now I gotta go to work....
Its been fun.
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IS ANYONE ELSE EXCEPT FOR ME REALLY ANGRY??

One quick question ... how do you archive the entire site (minus forums)? I've been saving under Favorites and "offline favorites" but is there a better way?

Thanks Lance, I enjoyed much of the discussions on all the forums. It was great while it lasted, sorry it couldn't have been easier for you to operate the site. I can see it getting annoying with the maturity level decreasing rapidly and then bottoming out. Old people don't use the internet, and young users shouldn't take it and the effort to maintain a great site for granted. I hope the site can return, minus the BS, via subscriptions, donations, banner ads or whatever.

Best of luck to all!

Now I will have to work more too dammit!

lance, thanks for your free service for the past 5 years. when you take into it, almost everything everything i know about cars, not just contours, i learned from this site. it has helped me appreciate the automobile 400 times over than what it would have been.

the one thing i love more than my access of knowledge on this site is the fact that i have met so many funny, helping people. CAP CEG, FL, everywhere... THANK YOU ALL!!!

Yes thanks Lance.

This certainly is disappointing, but I'm not blaming you.

It will be sad to see contour.org go, even if for a short time.

I certainly would like to see an archive of the technical threads, but off topic can go directly to /dev/null as far as it I am concerned.

I do appreciate the hard work from Lance and the moderators on this site.

I'll see you on the list-serv.

TB

I've enjoyed a great number of you and have learned much from many who post here. I wish to offer my thanks to Lance for this as well as those who have contributed.

I've also riddiculed, insulted, cajoled or ripped a fair number of people here, too, thoughtout sopradic and even sometimes incessant lurking here. For that privelidge, I'd like to thank those with ideologies and beliefs different than mine. I'd also like to thank the bare-faced morons and idiots who also allow for such easy pickings at times.

The "gotchas" on contours and the prevention of such leaves me much indebted to many people here, so another thanks to the techical gurus and die-hard mechanics that populate this site as well. Another profound thanks to them as well (you know who you are).

So, with that, I'll close this final post with a final quote:

"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."

-T. S. Eliot, "Four Quartets"

Darn I hate to see the forums go. Contour.org has the best layout of any car forum on the web.

Now I have to go grab the DMD install instructions before the disappear.

Thanks for everything, Lance.