Hello everyone . I'd like to take this opportunity to respond to this thread since I seem to be the subject of it.
First let me introduce myself. My name is Eric and I go by the moniker of Wildbunch02. I am a Train Operator with New York City Transit. I have 15 years in the seat operating in the NYC Subway. My wife is "on the job" as we say up here when you are in civil service. she happens to be a member of New York's finest.
That's pretty personal stuff right there, a lot more than most members say about themselves. I said that to dispel any notion that some of you might have of me, believe me I'm not some dimwitted fool that with nothing to do, I have plenty on my plate.
I have reached a point in my life where I felt that It was time to treat myself right, lets face it, the reality is that most of us have less time and front of us than what is already behind us. I decided that I wanted a C Body, found one, fell in love and made the purchase.
As it turned out the car had some mechanical issues, and since it has been a long time since I fixed anything, I did an internet search which brought me to your forum.
I became a member, posted my cars issues and I was amazed at the responses. The wealth of knowledge and people that where willing to share it was just fabulous. Davelux and Cbody67, you guys should take a bow, I make a point of reading your posts and I thank you for help, there are many others, but these two gentleman stand out.
I followed the forum and wanted to contribute, but my background isn't as an auto technician, nor do I have any knowledge as far as decoding fender tags or the rarity of options and colors. But I did notice cars for sale being posted by the members and decided that this is something that I could do.
Did it get out of hand, yeah it sure did. Was it meant to be spam,no not at all. My motivation was to try and put cars out there that other members may not come across otherwise. There were no ulterior motives, just trying to help others that enjoy this hobby. Believe me there were a lot of hours invested in collecting and posting those ads, I even did a quick check of the forum to try and avoid re-runs.
As for the 'not mine' pet peeve, I agree its pretty silly. Of course I realize that no one thinks that I own all of these cars across the country and decided to put them up for sale on the same day. Believe me , I felt silly writing that, but just so you know there were folks that inquired about to my posts, and yes I politely explained that they weren't mine and moved on. I included that because that is how I saw other ads posted.
Mr. Commando1, I understand that you Iggy'd me, another member informed me that I will be ignored, if that's the case so be it, but let me point out a couple of things to you sir. Earlier this week you replied to the 77 Monaco Station wagon at Copart, which by the way "is not a C Body", I replied that I have a guy that can be of help . I put this out there because of last weeks 74 Monaco Cop car. There was a member that expressed interest but I was at work and I needed to get on my train so there was no sense in bringing up because there was only 40 min left. I want you to know that I was sincere in that offer, I just wanted to help.
I also notice that you come off pretty strong, probably ex-military or law enforcement. I'm pretty sure you read most of the posts and I hope you noticed that I was always respectful of other members and the forum. I never used profanity in my posts as you do , not that it isn't in my vocabulary, just out of respect for the forum and other members.
In summation, If I annoyed you, you have my deepest apologies, if any of you have followed up on those leads and made a purchase, then I'm happy for you. For those of you that PM'd me and spoke kindly of me in this thread I want to thank you for your kind words, it meant a lot.
And last but not least Mr. Commando1, if you really have the balls you say you have, then let this thread run for a couple days. You see there are a lot of really cool people out there I would like to continue to correspond with and if they want they can PM me and I will give them my contact info, I will not contact them because I really dont know how they feel towards me.
I'm going to leave it here, I have an autistic child that occupies my time my morning, he loves going for rides in 'Daddy's old car", yes Carmine I saw your ref.
Goodnight all, Eric
while you are presenting it to the masses...
