I know I haven't been here the longest but I signed up on November 11, 1997 - the day I got my truck.

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1998 F150 XLT S/C 4.6L Auto, 3.55LS, 4X2, Moonlight Blue, all the bells & whistles except for leather seats. Lund Deflector, K&N, Pentaliner S/R, Window tint, factory side-steps, Infiniti component speakers, Superchip. Tom in Tacoma (Washington not Toyota)

 

TCole,

It says on your bio: Date Registered: 04-09-99

Mine says Date Registered: 05-25-99

You've been here longer. Dunbarton has been here pretty long.


54regcab, I got more senority!

 

What was the start date of the site anyway ?

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99 F150 5.4 4x4 ORP 3.73 styleside deep wedgewood blue ..no mods (yet)

 

Well sonny....
It all started back in the summer of '48. There was this pinging noise in my new flathead F100. I heard that an old man named Steven Ebineezer Eppinger had a similiar model. So I sent him an inquiry using a new fangled communication called "Air Mail". Eventually, I got a response from the old fart. He said, to him, it sounded peculiar to say the least and I said "What?". Anyhows, soon after, 'piston slap' was born.

And that's the way it was.
And that's the way we liked it.

 

Raoul,

Haha! Lol..

 

That is besides "Webmaster" aka Steve

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99 XLT 5.4L reg cab 4x2 120" Wheelbase 4 wheel disc brakes/ABS 5 star larait style wheels Toreador Red/Silver 3.55 gears 255/70/16 OWL Delta toolbox
Eclipse 5340 cd player
Memphis ARCS50 component speakers w/tweeters mounted flush in the door panels (excellent sound)powered by a Sherwood 35x2 RMS amp
Jensen 50x2 RMS for the 2 Audiobahn AWC10 subs
Looking for reasonably priced used running boards
regcab54@sc.rr.com in Columbia SC

 

 

I know this log-in is new but my orginal one FireZap is 05-09-1999

 

I remember you FireZap !

 

Man is this thread old.

 

The thread starter 'TColegrove' was also known as 'Tom in Tacoma' on Ford Truck World. He was the number one Moderator there until he gave up that job a year or so ago.

 

HI!... I believe JMC was one of the 1st. He was the one that got MIKE T to come over here.

 

I'm just waiting on the old timers to start playing bingo and shuffleboard in this thread!

 

If you go to "MEMBERS" and then date joined, it gives three or four pages of 1969 memberships, but you finally start recognizing names around 1997 with WEBMASTER, then JMC etc to follow in 1998. That must have been when the new server was brought online. Maybe the '69 dates are just Steve's way of migrating some of the older users to the new server.

 

There was something else used before this type of Message Board.
It was like an electronic mailing list that you could subscribe to.
It ran concurrently with the Forums for awhile. I joined here first and I have a 'joined date' but I was also a subscriber for awhile but withdrew because it was cumbersome. I remember when I quit I got an automatic message that said, 'Hope it wasn't something we said or did'. (I wonder if people who get banned from here get one of those?)

Anyway I suspect the '1969' people are the original 'mailing list' members. I can understand why Steve wouldn't make them re-register and the Database requires a date in a date field.