20 Years Ago Today.....

This board was re-launched. I suppose there are still a few of us around since then.

Yep.First posted in "98"

I'm still here!

I was here before that relaunch, and I think there was one a couple years before it I was here for as well. I believe I date back to the late 90s on Moparts. That was back in the days they had to start over when they stepped up in power.

Odd tid bit of trivia

A few still check in

Been here since 1997.

Yup

do i get a prize ?

Present

I don't remember if I'm still here or not? Someone said something about something being the first thing to go when you get old, can't remember what that was???

Mike

Yup, I've been around longer than that...

I was here as well in the early/mid 90's..... what do I win????

I do remember though that the re-registration started at around 6:00 pm est on the 19th and there was a lot of confusion as to what was going on. That confusion and uncertainty made me sit back and wait until there was some clarity that it was the same site before I started putting in info to re-register so I did that at 3:00 am on the 20th morning. You below 200 registries were braver than me, and site hero's now Am I still here BTW?

Mike

Oh and HAPPY 20TH ANNIVERSARY (new) MOPARTS

There were a lot of angry people for a little while after the switch.

YES

Don't remember when I joined, was right after the old Dallas board, what year was that?

I joined in 99, I believe. Dallas board was gone by then, or at least nearly gone.

seems like yesterday. I was going to say that life was less complicated and crazy for the most part, and then realized they weren't.

I can sort of remember starting to lurk around 1996 after I changed positions in the company that gave me internet access at my desk...LOL..

Been here pretty much since the beginning. Still miss the old chat room

Appears I joined around that time as well, woo hoo! Same t8me as 05Dakota.

Yep. I noticed the other day that I still have the part under my user name that a bunch of us added at the time when the join date and post counts got erased. not that it matters anymore.

1999 for me

I came over from Mopar Alley after it got cratered in a car deal that went sideways..
But I can't recall what year. When the software switched here, everyone had to re-up their accounts, and lost all prior messages and post count..
Can't believe it was 20 years ago though.

I remember the tag line was something like 'Moparts 2000 and beyond'..............


Geez........TWENTY YEARS!

I was here before the reboot also. Found Moparts when the Dallas board died.

I joined in the late 90's and was there for the 2003 switch over. I'm still here every day but rarely post anymore. Still love this site though.

but....will the plane ever take off from that treadmill....??
or
can you really paint a car with a roller...??

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I stumbled across Moparts when I was going through a divorce many many years ago, and found myself being a single dad with a whole lot of new bills and a barnload of old parts. A quick on-line search for 'mopar parts for sale' brought me here. That was...more than two decades ago. A lot of people have come and gone through here, and I miss many of them. Some more than others! For the 'old guys here'.. I never warmed up to OBS, don't know why, and never understood DG, at all, but found I missed her when she left. It was a heck of a board and while I was never a big 'contributor' then, or now, I visited several times a day, and still do when I get a chance. It's still the best board on the net.

Thank you, Tom, for all you've done for me, and for all of us here.

Joined in mid 90's.

Moparts was just a for sale site then. Then later added the Q&A forum.

I missed the conversion - didn't join till march of '03. So I'm a newbie.
Not sure how time flies so fast though.

Same ... been around since the early days === Mopar Alley + FABO were other places that helped me source parts for my 69 340 Swinger and later my 71 Duster 340 ....

Time flies when you’re having fun.

still here

I remember the for sale and Q&A board, before the switchover. I think I joined originally in early 2001 right before I bought my Charger, and definitely remember the outcry in 2003 when the board switched. I also remember people complaining that not everyone's usernames transferred over on the same day. Some of us got the 19th, and others got the 20th!

"Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play"

I thought you were doing a Beatles thing.......

I wuz here.

I slipped in the door sometime in 97. I've learned more here than I ever would have on my own thru trial and error. A lot of folks have come and gone over the years, and we have lost too many members who seemed like the glue that held a place like this together. Gary Davis comes to mind first. He was a friend to all, and just a great all around guy. His funeral was the hardest one that I've ever gone to. There were almost as many Mopar muscle cars in the procession from the church to the graveyard as there were cop cars! Stu passing was tough also, because he let us know how dire his situation was, communicated while he was able for a very short time and then he was gone. I am a member of a few other car sites, but this will always be home. The board has to change every so often due to technology, so we just need to roll with it. Until then....I'll be here until my day arrives!

Thanks Tom, for all you have done to keep this place kickin over the years!

I think I joined in 98.i usually stop in a couple times amonth but I was always more of a lurker, never posted much.I sold my Barracuda in 2012 and that pretty much ended things for me.It would be nice to pick up another mopar but Im pretty much priced out of the market.

IIRC, I joined the old board in 1998 or so. Found out about it from the MoparChat board.

I don't remember how I found this place. I was on moparchat originally.

Still lurking about.....

Almost the same for me.

Seemed a lot of us stumbled in here after that “smokin deal” on that HP computer Wal-Mart had on their Black Friday sale

Yep, still here but I lurk most of the time now. Lot of the old timers are gone, a few have passed away. I came here around the mid 90s switching from that old Dallas site.
What was the name of the dude that ran the Dallas site? Seemed he was always pandering for money.

Very well said,
and I have been around since 95 or so ? Don't remember but I do know it was between 95 and 7. When I get stressed the wife always send me to Moparts

I've been around for more than 20 years as well.
I was on the old Dallas board prior to Moparts, but I also joined Moparts prior to 1998 (96 or 97).

JS

Dave Schultz???

Not familiar with the Dallas site, the only Dave Schultz I remember is the guy who had the 'moparstyle' site for awhile...... and at the time he was from the Houston area. End of Moparstyle


Way back then Dave gave me an 8 1/4 axle out of one of his Magnums to use in a Satellite I had. Got to see his little compound (but didn't get a tour). For whatever reason, I felt very uneasy while there, and it wasn't just from being in a higher tax bracket than I'm used to.

I remember the MML list was a big deal. That was really before online forums started like Dallas, Moparchat, etc.

MML was just a mass email list that you got every post as an email or you got digest email that contained a couple handfuls or so of emails.

Same

Yeah, I get those two mixed up. Dave was the Moparstyle guy. Don’t remember too much of the Dallas site, not much compared to now.

20 years & I still haven't finished my car.

I joined on my WebTV box around 2000. (WebTV was a box that used your land line and your TV to browse online. It was much cheaper than a desk top computer)

Wow, I remember that! Thanks for the nostalgia!

Beat me to it!

Beat me to it!


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Took me 13 years to finish mine so I can relate. Are they ever really finished though?

Nope!

i have been [slowly ! ] working on my 1933 dodge humpback panel delivery since 1976 or so, and it's STILL not anywhere near being under it's own power.

HEY, YOU CAN'T PARK THERE!

i didn't get a ticket because i'm a police commissioner.

Twenty years.
Man I don't know
Twenty years, man where did they go?
I sit and I wonder sometimes, where they went.
When the moon comes calling its ghostly white I recall
Like a Rock
I was strong as I could be
I stood proud, I stood strong
Nothing ever bothered me
I stood strong, I stood bold
As sure as I could be
I believed in my dreams
Like a Rock

Thanks Bob!

As far as car builds, the last 20 years have been pretty productive for me, but I wasn't restoring anything, and perfection was not the goal. Having fun and having great drivers was the goal. Lots of fun great drivers.

No. Never.

Still here too. Re-registered a few days after the switch I think it was.

I'm hardly here!

I am still here joined in 2005!! still like most of the forums and the inelegance of the members!!

still here

I waited two days to reregister. Still check in but not here as much.

I was two months behind you, March of 2003. I guess I'll have a little celebration in a couple of months.

1/20/2003 was my "in service" date. LOL! 69 years old, now lurking more than posting, no current car related projects at the moment.