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Started by rodomo , Mar 20 2008 08:05 PM

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#1 rodomo

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Posted 20 March 2008 - 08:05 PM

How did this forum come about? Does anyone know it's history from it's beginning?

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Posted 20 March 2008 - 08:18 PM

Tim(V8Gent) created this site after building his SS Torana Hatch Agent Orange.

Was basicaly about his car if i recal correctly.

It has been a long time you know lol.

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Posted 20 March 2008 - 08:36 PM

In the beginning, there was the word, and the word was TORANA.........

A long time ago, on an internet far, far away..........

Many (many, many) years ago there were a number of torana based forums running around. About the time of The Judge's death at Eastern Creek, a number of these forums began going belly up.

There were a number of us long-termers using more than one of these sites and becoming well acquainted with each other. V8gent decided to create a forum and website just for the Torana-tragics to replace all the others. It would be everything we wanted from the other forums and more.
Dagabond and I agreed to help out with this original forum.

As the forum and site evolved (sometimes falling down to be rebuilt back up) other regulars and knowledgable folk quickly joined the ranks of the Admin and Mod team to form the wonderful place you see today. This is probably the sixth (?) incarnation of this site/forum.

Tiny came on board as a mod, then we all basically just let him do the work of running the place........we get slack you see. :D

Obviously we are still evolving to become even better and hopefully we can add more exciting things in the future.

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Edit: John, don't make posts while I'm typing slow dude, hehehehe :P

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Posted 20 March 2008 - 08:50 PM

Very interesting, in real terms the history of any net forum is but a few years (3-10 at most) but its amazing how quickly a good forum evolves and takes on its own life. So wheres Dagabond these days, he hasn't abused me for ages now :spit:

#5 rodomo

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Posted 20 March 2008 - 09:51 PM

I know it has died a couple of times but when did it start?

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Posted 20 March 2008 - 10:07 PM

I first found it in about 2003, back in the pre Heath/Rodomo/Rim/Rory blabbermouth days............

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Posted 20 March 2008 - 10:09 PM

I still remember those good old days too. V8gent and I were both members of the Torana Street Machine Club. That orange beast of his was one super clean Torana.

I don't recall how many years ago that was now - but it was LOTS! I don't even know if I had my P plates back then.

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Posted 20 March 2008 - 10:10 PM

I first found it in about 2003, back in the pre Heath/Rodomo/Rim/Rory blabbermouth days............

There are participants............
And then there are "wallflowers", petal. :tease:

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Posted 20 March 2008 - 10:15 PM

on october the first 1972 the wheels were first put in motion.
the legend began then,had it not there would be no forum.

C 28 Holden Dealer Team  Peter Brock Holden Torana LJ XU1 130 5
2 D 5 Bryan Byrt Ford  John French Ford Falcon XY GTHO Phase III 129 3
3 D 15  Doug Chivas
Damon Beck Chrysler Valiant Charger E49 128 9
4 D 2  Leo Geoghegan Chrysler Valiant Charger E49 127 6
5 C 19 Max Wright Motors  Don Holland Holden Torana LJ XU1 125 11
6 C 37  Bob Forbes Holden Torana LJ XU1 124 12
7 D 10  Paul Gulson
Ray Gulson Ford Falcon XY GTHO Phase III 123 16
8 C 20  Ray Kaleda
Paul Pressler Chrysler Valiant Charger E38 122 26
9 D 1 Ford Australia  Allan Moffat Ford Falcon XY GTHO Phase III 122 1
10 D 3  Murray Carter Ford Falcon XY GTHO Phase III 120 22
11 D 4  Tony Farrell
Tom Naughton Chrysler Valiant Charger E49 118 21
12 B 44  Digby Cooke
Geoff Leeds Ford Escort Twin Cam Mk.I 117 31
13 B 37 Mazda Dealer Team  Wayne Rogerson Mazda RX-2 117 27
14 B 41  Bernie Haehnle Mazda RX-2 116 39
15 B 36  Barry Seton
Herb Taylor Ford Escort Twin Cam Mk.I 116 34
16 B 38  Pat Hogan
Lakis Manticas Ford Escort Twin Cam Mk.I 116 28
17 C 25 A.F. & M. Beninca  Ray Harrison
Mal Robertson Alfa Romeo GTV 1750 115 33
18 B 52  Bob Holden Ford Escort Twin Cam Mk.I 115 38
19 B 43  Ron Kearns Fiat 124 Sport 115 37
20 C 32  George Giesberts Holden Torana LJ XU1 113 24
21 B 49 Mazda Dealer Team  George Garth Mazda RX-2 112 30
22 B 51  Mal Brewster
Ray Strong Holden Torana LC GTR 112 40
23 B 39  Bob Cracknell
Bob Wedd Holden Torana LC GTR 111 36
24 A 73 Datsun Racing Team  Bill Evans Datsun 1200 107 50
25 A 72 Mazda Dealer Team  Gary Cooke Mazda 1300 106 48
26 A 63  Jon Leighton Datsun 1200 106 53
27 A 62 Mazda Dealer Team  Lynn Brown Mazda 1300 106 49
28 A 64 Len Bainbridge Motors  Mel Mollison
M Hayson Mazda 1300 105 47
29 B 53  Ray Hanger
Barry Bassingthwaite Ford Escort Twin Cam Mk.I 105 43
30 A 75  Bruce Stewart Datsun 1200 105 57
31 A 70  John Leffler Mazda 1300 104 55
32 A 61  Don Smith Datsun 1200 103 56
33 B 45  Doug Grimson
Morrie Miller Datsun 1600 103 54
34 A 71  Ray Lintott Datsun 1200 102 60
35 A 69  Gary Leggatt Fiat 850 101 52
DNF B 48  Eric Olsen Ford Escort Twin Cam Mk.I 104 32
DNF C    Gerry Lister
David Seldon Holden Torana LJ XU1 103 15
DNF B    Alan Keith Ford Escort Twin Cam Mk.I  42
DNF A 66  Roger Bonhomme Chrysler Valiant Galant 94 59
DNF B 47  Christine Gibson
Jan Holland Holden Torana LJ 2850 88 44
DNF D 14  Lawrie Nelson
Tony Roberts Chrysler Valiant Charger E49  13
DNF A  Datsun Racing Team  Doug Whiteford Datsun 1200 76 51
DNF D 13 Goldpower Auto  Des West Ford Falcon XY GTHO Phase III 74 10
DNF C 29 Norman G. Booth  Graham Moore Holden Torana LJ XU1 72 8
DNF C    Pat Peck Holden Torana LJ XU1 71 25
DNF B    Max Grayson
Bill Gates Ford Escort Twin Cam Mk.I 68 41
DNF C  Ron Hodgson Motors  Bruce McPhee Holden Torana LJ XU1 66 19
DNF B    Lyndon Arnel Ford Escort Twin Cam Mk.I 64 35
DNF A  Datsun Racing Team  Barry Tapsall Datsun 1200 46 58
DNF D 11  Tony Allen
Len Searle Chrysler Valiant Charger E49 36 20
DNF D  McLeod Ford  John Goss Ford Falcon XY GTHO Phase III 24 2
DNF B    Jim Murcott Ford Escort Twin Cam Mk.I 23 29
DNF D 8 Ford Australia  Fred Gibson Ford Falcon XY GTHO Phase III 22 4
DNF C    Wayne Negus
Neville Grigsby Holden Torana LJ XU1 21 14
DNF C    Bill Brown Holden Torana LJ XU1 20 18
DNF D 9  Graham Ryan Chrysler Valiant Charger E49 14 17
DNF B    Herb Vines
Chris Batger Ford Escort Twin Cam Mk.I 8 45
DNF C 24 Holden Dealer Team  Colin Bond Holden Torana LJ XU1 2 7
DSQ A  Len Bainbridge Motors  Geoff Perry Mazda 1300 107 46
DNS A  Victorian Police Motor Sports Club  Fred Sutherland Mazda 1300 
DNS C    Allan Grice Holden Torana LJ XU1


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Posted 20 March 2008 - 10:26 PM

I first found it in about 2003, back in the pre Heath/Rodomo/Rim/Rory blabbermouth days............

There are participants............
And then there are "wallflowers", petal. :tease:

13.4...... Let me know when you're ready for a showdown......

And yes, I agree , if PB hadn't won the big one in '72, we might not be here now.

Edited by micklx, 20 March 2008 - 10:28 PM.

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Posted 20 March 2008 - 10:37 PM

Tiny came on board as a mod, then we all basically just let him do the work of running the place........we get slack you see. :D

*cough*

I'll try finding some of the early screen shots. But below is from the first "test" forum after ezboard then we went live and transfered most of the data across.

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1 V8gent
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2 Dead Man Walking
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27 Nov 2002

3 ezboardimport
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4 Dagabond
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5 tinkers
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6 enderwigginau
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7 Tiny
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04 Dec 2002

8 Forum Admin
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15th Feb 2003 is when most members joined that version

The first "normal" member to join was ........

9 YiriSS
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Posted 20 March 2008 - 10:54 PM

Blast from the past, click the link for a screen shot of the old ezboard.

Old Ezboard index

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Posted 20 March 2008 - 10:58 PM

15th Feb 2003 is when most members joined that version

That's the date I joined.

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Posted 20 March 2008 - 11:01 PM

Correct

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Posted 20 March 2008 - 11:10 PM

I first found it in about 2003, back in the pre Heath/Rodomo/Rim/Rory blabbermouth days............

There are participants............
And then there are "wallflowers", petal. :tease:

13.4...... Let me know when you're ready for a showdown......

And yes, I agree , if PB hadn't won the big one in '72, we might not be here now.

Is that another "glowmesh" getting thrown? :huh:
Give me 12 months and I'll be right up ya "big boy"

Thank you Waratah for pointing out the obvious.
Which leads to more thought and another thread/poll.

http://www.gmh-toran...=ST&f=1&t=26301

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Posted 20 March 2008 - 11:20 PM

There are participants............
And then there are "wallflowers", petal.
Is that another "glowmesh" getting thrown? :huh:

You're talking in riddles Rob......
Wallflower
Glowmesh ??????

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Posted 20 March 2008 - 11:28 PM

A "wallflower" is someone that sits on the sidelines and doesn't say much.
A "glowmesh" throw is like a grown up dummy spit or challenge offer.

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Posted 21 March 2008 - 10:48 AM

Ahhh back in the days... I have only experienced two or maybe three of the reincarnations and it still feels like I've spent my whole life here. Amazing how the net has evolved...

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Posted 21 March 2008 - 10:54 AM

Give me 12 months and I'll be right up ya "big boy"

So the above is a glowmesh right ?

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Posted 21 March 2008 - 10:54 AM

are there any pics of the orange ss torana which helped in the beginning of this site?

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Posted 21 March 2008 - 11:07 AM

No good ones that I've seen.

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Posted 21 March 2008 - 11:15 AM

I vagualy recall the ezyboard days... I don't think i started on the forum untill i purchased the SL back in 2002. If i was around before that, then my user name may have been vl_hsv since thats what i used for all my internet 'alias' back then, since i have the same hotmail.com account. :fool:

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Posted 21 March 2008 - 12:10 PM

Yeah I used to browse a bit without posting. When I put the deposit down for my car I made my first post because I had to tell someone who cared about cars! The rest is history.

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Posted 21 March 2008 - 12:41 PM

Ah the good old days, pity a lot of that info is lost. I often wonder about what happened to some of the personalities that have come and gone over the years, perhaps sold their Toranas and moved on ?

Hey mods, when did A9brother (my old user name) join up ?

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Posted 21 March 2008 - 02:23 PM

Can't remember when I joined up originally either! :P
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