Kurt, it’s hilarious that you mention this as there’s something that we’ve been working on for a couple months that ties into this (actually on a slightly bigger picture as well).

After a similar type on inquiry from a member (grainger), who was seeing lower usage in the gen1-4 sections, I starting thinking of building some kind of repository for Viper. We often get questions about the cars, and finding it is usually a means of searching the internet, old forum threads, etc… So I starting thinking of a repository beyond just forums, and something organized by specific year/model, and also something more easily searchable. I started to work with Don our website programmer trying to find a way to do this online, and hopefully make it available only to club members (as a benefit). We went ahead and built a pilot site using the same software we use for the forums. I’ve built some of the cars in the navigation bar and began creating a draft of how it would work. Basically you can navigate by year, by specific model – then see a general write up/history on that car and the top level vehicle specs. And some pictures. Then on a different tab we can have tables that we can continue to expand on over time and include whatever we want. I thought that having service bulletins for that model would be helpful, along with common issues. We could expend it to include what you’re talking about too.

The plan was to roll this out as a “Viper Legacy Site” for VOA members. A database for all of the Vipers in the cars history. We’d make it one of the navigation options at the very top of our website. Best of all, it would use our club credentials to access it, so we can control access based on membership. I think it would be a nice member perk and would grow to something special after a number of years. And we certainly know enough (especially of the older cars) that we can build the foundation very quickly.

I was going to write to everyone about it, but this is as good a time as any to introduce it. So far I’ve talked to the mods about it and also the tech team. What we will need however are people who are car savvy to provide the information and also document it (and sometimes the car savvy people aren’t great at the technical piece – so we may need help).

So we’ll need volunteers, I suggest a small group, to begin building this database out. I’d give them access to it first so we get a foundation, then we can make it available and then begin to grow it based on input and new info.

So the next step is finding those people. I can lead it until we get a foundation in place and then the next president (or an assignee) can continue to grow it,

How’s that sound?

That sounds AWESOME!! Great! I don’t know how all the website wizardry works but it sounds like it will be user friendly, quick access and informative.
I know over the years the biggest complaint/regret from members is losing the huge DIY database from the old club. I’ve told them that most of that is on the VOA site, just need to search but i guess they can’t find it in one place so they give up.

This new section sounds like it kills several birds with one stone. Thank you.

The site had limitations because it’s adapted for this, but actually not bad at all.

So we need to approach specific people who may be able to help with populating this, as that’s the grunt work. Anyone have ideas? Probably should have 4-6 people initially.