SBARC Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 Greetings everyone. I'm going to be setting up the new Automotive forums this week but I first want to get some feedback on what you want as sub forums. For instance.....I'm guessing a Motor bike forum and a separate truck forum is a good diea. Do you want a race car forum or maybe separate race car forums......such as Nascar, Open Wheel (for F1-Indy type cars) and maybe a Rally car forum?. Then we could have a Street car and Rod forum or????? I've not visited other car froums...so I'm flying blind here......I do want a separate motor bike forum and I think a separate Turck of big rig forum would be a good idea and motor bikes and big rigs are very different from Cars. We could call the Big Rig forum the Truck Forum....but this could confused guys that are building a pick-up truck. Remember....this is not just for American cars.....so the sub forums should be useful for any type of car, truck or motor bike on the planet....so I don't want 10 different sub forums catering to the different types of race car clases in the US...such as NASCAR, INDY Car, IMSA, IROC, Monster Truck, Truck racing, Drag racing etc etc etc. Also the open wheeled sub forum should also include 1908 cars that raced at Brooklands raceway and old stuff like that.....so an "Indy Car/F1" forum might be too specific. There will be an ARC auto website coming.....so there will also be sub froums catering to feedback on articles posted on that website. I also thinks separate tools and tips Auto sub forum is also a good idea.....but I'm open to your opinions about this. Anyweay...give me some feedback or how you want "your" ARC Auto forums to be structured. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wege Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 While I have not done a bike in a VERY long time, why not have: Truck Motorbike Car- competition (F1, Nascar, WRC, Targa rally etc) Car- 'standard'? home owners, Porsche, Mazda, VW etc Car- hotrods.. etc Hmm. You deleted the other thread. :D Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SBARC Posted September 4, 2011 Author Share Posted September 4, 2011 Thanks for your feedback......I do like your input and I'll let others wade in before I do anything. Hmm. You deleted the other thread. :D Sorry I goofed and posted this thread in the new armor forum.....so I moved it to the automotive forum. Sorry...sounds like you got caught by that. Sorry my mistake. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wege Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 hey.. it is (dayligt?) where you are.. I forgive you.. PC guys work best at night.. early hours of the morning I figure.. :D btw.. I don't know how you do it.. phew Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SBARC Posted September 4, 2011 Author Share Posted September 4, 2011 hey.. it is (dayligt?) where you are.. I forgive you.. PC guys work best at night.. early hours of the morning I figure.. :D btw.. I don't know how you do it.. phew Nah...it's 1:20AM here......I'm going to work on the forum most of the night. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
geedubelyer Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 Hi Steve, Just one small thing re the forum title. You've got all of the right letters, just not necessarily in the right order (Automotive...not Automotvie ;) ) Now get some sleep :lol: HTH Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Neo Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 Lol dont forget to put a Diorama section Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SBARC Posted September 4, 2011 Author Share Posted September 4, 2011 Hi Steve, Just one small thing re the forum title. You've got all of the right letters, just not necessarily in the right order (Automotive...not Automotvie ;) ) Now get some sleep :lol: HTH Thanks geedubelyer....yup I was getting pretty tired by that point. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Iron Man Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 (edited) I will be all over this forum. Finally a place where I can post picks. Great job Steve. Looking forward to this one for a long time. Edited September 4, 2011 by Iron Man Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bigasshammm Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 Yup this will be my mainstay forum from now on. I agree with above to have a Bike, Truck, Racing, Street, and Custom subforums. That should cover all bases. Concepts can go in custom and dioramas would go with whatever section they apply. Now how bout that Race Car GB I pmed you about!! (I know you're busy no rush just excited) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Iron Man Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 Yup this will be my mainstay forum from now on. I agree with above to have a Bike, Truck, Racing, Street, and Custom subforums. That should cover all bases. Concepts can go in custom and dioramas would go with whatever section they apply. Now how bout that Race Car GB I pmed you about!! (I know you're busy no rush just excited) I will do a Race Car GB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bigasshammm Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 I will do a Race Car GB Therea an extensive thread somewhere in the geeral discussion. It was a big hit. We're ready to go on it next year and even ready to start lining up sponsors. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Charlie Cheetah Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 I will do a Race Car GB Same here, I have a real nice Fujimi F430 Competition kit here That I would build! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Liberator24 Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 Alabama blood here will try out some Nascar..... My Navy buddies are getting mad right now. They dont know why but I bet they start calling my cell to ask me what did I do. -Jim Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Albert Moore Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 SAWEET! I've been waiting the automotive forum to go live for a while and baboom, it's here! Can't wait to put it to use with new car builds. Thanks Steve! Cheers, Alby Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SBARC Posted September 4, 2011 Author Share Posted September 4, 2011 Yuo're welcome guys.....I must admit I'm acar guy so I have a big interest in car and motorbike modeling. Thanks for the feedback and I look forward to hearing from more of you with your opinions or ideas. I want to make sure I get this set up just the way you like it. The new ARC auto site is also comign....but I need to restructure / rebuild the ARC Air archiving system completely before I can launch ARC Auto and ARC Armor but I hope to have it all done this fall. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aaronw Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 Personally I wouldn't get too far into subcategories, just a few broad ones. I've belonged to several automotive model site and have found cars tend to not to fit into nice neat cubbyholes. Trucks can fall into almost all the same categories as cars, they get raced (dirt, drag, circle tracks etc), they get customized (low riders, customs, hotrods, monster trucks etc). Rather than a seperate area for trucks I'd look at a Commercial vehicle section. That would cover the working big rigs and smaller working vehicles (taxi's, pizza delivery, ambulances etc). Then let other trucks fall in with like minded cars. If it was up to me, I'd probably go with something like Stock - Mostly as they come from the dealer, Econoboxes to Luxury cars. Performance - Muscle cars, sports cars etc, fast street legal cars. This could include barely street legal modified cars as well, Tuners, Gassers, Hotrods etc. Race - Race cars of all types, straight line, circle track, rally etc. Street legal race on the weekend types to track only super cars. Custom / Show - They may be fast, but they are designed more for show, style over performance. Low riders, rat rods, lead sleds etc. Commercial - Working vehicles, semis, delivery trucks, police cars etc. Motorcycles - While they share many styles with cars and trucks they really are kind of their own thing. Weirdness - Stuff that really doesn't fit elsewhere, End of the world Madmax cars, Oscar Meyer Weinermobiles etc. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
imatt88 Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Steve, Wow, a car forum....Way Cool! This is my first posting on ARC in ages because I've taken a break for building aircraft to build some cars... Have you hit some other car forums yet to get some ideas? If not, try www.modelcarsmag.com I'm a member of that one, and its real cool Cheers, Ian Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SBARC Posted September 6, 2011 Author Share Posted September 6, 2011 Thanks Ian.....I'll check it out. I hope to have all the sub forums set up after I give everyone a week to give me their input here on the forums. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bigasshammm Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 Must have race car sub forum. mmmmmmmmmmmmm Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tosouthern66 Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 What about Muscle car thread? Vintage and modern, anything above 1980 is modern and anything 79 and under as vintage. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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