Is this a renaissance? Or simply back to simpler times? Time will tell. I'd love to see an update thread, but let's sound off first. If you're still around, and consider yourself a WIRE OG, sound off!

BTW, this is PHIL (this system no longer supports my original userid which was 4 characters. Bah!)

GRRRRRR. Or is it RRRRAAAARRRR? Been so long Ive forgetten how to growl.

Used to be Mongo - then Oso. Think I'll keep Oso awhile longer.

Weird you can't get in with 4 letters. 3 work just fine for me. Maybe it's the capital letters? Maybe because you are TEMPORARILY without a real offroad vehicle? Maybe it's aboot the flag, eh?

See?! It's just like old times!

I am I

It's been so long since I've logged on here that I couldn't remember my password.

Still around!

John B.

Charlie North is in the house and happy to be here.
Curious if I have a signature still.

I finally reached moderator status through attrition, but...I'm a mod now!

Welcome back, everyone!

At your service:

Daaaang, this site is not very phone friendly. Hahaha. It's been ages since I've posted on here. Cant believe the AZ Crawler Crew board still exists.

Kevin here checking in. Also known as Blackjayz_az in other places.

So did everyone quite FB?

kind of? guess some of us just got sick of it and realized that we missed the camaraderie of this place... and of course Az crew.

anyway, we created the OG Montero Crew for all members of the wire BEFORE the migration to facebook. It's a place for us to hang out there and a rallying point for those who want to come back here. There are around 20 members there in 2 days. I'm hopeful that will continue to grow and will feed the fire here. It must be working a little. We got PHIL to come back and HE
DOESN'T EVEN OWN A MONTERO ANYMORE.

I have not quit Farcebook, just never have liked it there. I hate the total lack of structure. The inability to even find a thread you were in a minute ago.
Two months ago a friend started a new section/ forum for a classic performance boat group on FB. Intention of replacing a long lost online forum from the past. He brought me in as the second admin so I am kind of stuck now.
Trying to honestly moderate a world wide sham where way to many people are just trying to get in for greedy gain is near the point of anger. We are not there for someone from some place I can not find in an atlas to sell T shirts.

I do not actually know when I joined Farcebook but have essentially no activity there until last fall when I was searching for a replacement for my current 95 SR and with an intention to cut up my second SR to shorten it to be a SWB, Bill McVicker stated there was a Pajero SWB for sale on FB. Turns out it was for sale by Shaun S here on the Wire. Being a roller, a bare body was just what I wanted.
Well here I am with another big complex build, no love for FB but now stuck there due to responsibility of maintaining a forum or whatever they are called there. Heck I can barely find my own posts in a two month old forum over there.

To me, the major value of coming back here as well as the private forum on FB is to be free of totally useless questions by the immature and unwilling who will never even try to search for an answer themselves.
Those that know me, know I will do my best to answer true questions, There are so few true questions there that I am rarely aware of any real ones.