Good point. It's quite sad watching sites like the silver registry become so active so quickly when they haven't even been around as long as this site. I have told people of this site but from who Ive heard from they already knew about it, claimed it was a great site for research, but I guess they don't really care about the forum as I don't see them post.

Another issue we have is that there has been 3 different red mustang sites since this one, two of which were abandoned after it's first year, 3rd one abandoned after 5 (torch red s197s). In fact on this site the forum link used to forward you to one of them because I had not set up my forum section yet, and knew that dividing the community by adding another would be bad.

To split us apart even more rather than google search for an existing registry people start their own with threads on other mustang forums. One even started one on facebook (yes we were around before them too). Such threads and sites tend to just be replies like "Im in!" "here's a pic of my mustang. And "whats my number?" You'd be surprised how much people want a number. Probably explains why people sign up but don't post here. And even though those mentioned responses are ok and even encouraged on this site, once they've showed interest and posted a pic, they're gone and never seen from again. At least on here what members do post actually comment on other peoples cars.

After mentioning what hurts this site, here's what helps, promotion. Very few people google for a registry. They were either told about it or saw a link to it. That's how we suddenly get bursts of people. You dont have to spam sites like others do, but if members here would like to see it grow I would suggest linking to it in your signature for other mustang related forums that you guys visit.

Offline promotion. I got some vinyl letter stickers designed for scrap booking and added it to my license plate frame. I also added a larger site decal set under my hood to display at car shows. I also leave business cards on my radiator shroud for people to take at shows and events. Sometimes if I see a really nice red mustang that's obviously owned by an enthusiast Ill leave a card with them. So far I have not seen any local members. A few people have bought shirts from the store. I do not recieve any profit from this store as I would have to raise prices. So right now cafepress gets all the money. Since wearing such shirts also promotes the site, I currently have no plans to. I do not know if this has brought in any people.

Anyway point is, I can't do this alone. So this is a request for everyone here to please help. Installed something new on your car? Tell us! Made a writeup or photochop on another mustang site? copy and paste it here too. Having mechanical problems? Post your technical question here. You may not find your answer here the same day but at least we can talk about it, and perhaps someday such posting actions will result in a much faster response time from multiple people.

Thank you.

Wow, thats as long as Ive had my mustang! About the club, I am confused as to why one needs separate membership in both MCA and their local chapter. People Ive spoken to who were past MCA members tell me that they were one for just one year, then just paid local club dues. When I joined, it was the local chapter too, not the official MCA, but it was also for just one year. I had already been attending several events without being a member, and membership to me just meant a sticker and a newsletter. I couldnt go to the meetings because while the events were close, the meetings were far away. So I guess the reasons for others are: distance, conflicted schedule, lack of interest in meeting activities and so on. Think about your average club member. Theyd really like to go, but their spouse doesnt, or dont know what to do with the kids, etc.

Thats what makes the internet so great. You can participate as much or as little as you want, whenever, and wherever you want. I was looking back at some old posts on other forums that addressed one of the now defunct sites.

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That person made a whole lot of sense, which is why I linked to their forum rather than start my own. Truthfully thats probably what I should have done in the first place.

About posting pictures, theres two ways to go about it. In the reply field, either upload a pic to a server, and do a direct link using the picture icon button, or  below the message feild is a "browse" button. Select your pic, and upload it directly to this site.

Yeah I had an agreement with the webmaster there. I would link to him, and he would link to me. The webmaster there added the registry section and made me moderator. Unfortunately, I was only given access to that section, which meant I had no editing powers outside. I kept emailing them about the spam, but they wouldnt do anything. Naturally my section was all clean

Thats when I finally launched this forum. I told them about our great spam filters. Many of the active posters came here, and posted, but they kinda gave up too. I wonder how many of them still have a red mustang. Its a good thing I told them when I had the chance, as later that year the site would be gone entirely.

May I ask how you found out about this site if you didnt discover it through RMC?

Have you seen this thread yet?
http://ww2.red-mustangs.com:8080/cgi-bin/redmustangforum/YaBB.pl?virboard=announ...

Also, sadly I recently found this:
https://sites.google.com/site/redmustangregistry/
This is a good example of someone who didnt even bother to do a search before investing time. Thankfully it doesnt seem to be doing too well, and hopefully it will die off, and not split the group apart again. It just stinks because this is a person who obviously cares, and would probably be a great contributor to this site.

And yes it would be nice to have a red mustang G2G. All the other colors do. Hopefully someday if we get enough people.

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Mustangs Across America and The Great American Pony Drive has stopped by the area several times for various mustang anniversaries. And next years MCA is having their national show here next year. It would be cool to have a bunch of us show up together as a group.