Jé, vajon hogyan mondja: "kubi" a magyar nyelv??
What I like is that after Mark has taken the time to research lots and lots of stuff for his particular race car restoration, he then takes the time to format and post lots of other stuff that he came across while looking. Feri ... at least HE shares! What a concept.
I know about his 1974 alpina race car project, and he want to do it good.
But we are talking about three other things:
1. How usefull to recycle (ahem... steal) stuff already shared on the internet ? You know this is not different that what I had seen at the first bmw pages around 1995: as no original stuff were on the net about the bmws, most early website makers bmw owners (think about free hosting sites like geocities) stole photos from other websites.
Was it usefull ? Did we got any new info about the bmw hobby ? Not really.
I think we need proper websites with original material still NOT posted on the net. There are couple of great examples, like e12.de or
www.bmwe21fansclub.it, but this is nothing. Anyone can show me an e12.de quality website (not forum!) about e9 or e3 ?
If there are people who can share the result of their research, collection, why do we need to celebrate those people who only can download stuff from other sites, and post it on different website / blog / whatever (= recycling) ?
2. As the number of more or less usefull hobby bmw websites something under 50 or so, and these websites are very-very-very well known, and except 2-3 websites there were no real big updates since about 3-5 years on those sites, why, oh why is it necessary to repost their webaddress every bmw hobby website forum, every year ?
3. As most people have HIGH expections about a doctor who will operate any member of his family, or about a financial consultant to get the best way to invest money, or about the teachers of the school where his/her child studing, etc etc etc, I am very dissapointed to see that most people who has any kind of bmw related hobby have incredible LOW expectations about a bmw related hobby website / blog / forum / whatever.
And this is the main reason of most bmw hobby websites sucks, 90-100% of their content is stolen from other websites, not updated since 5-10-15 years. If more people would concentrate about the quality stuff, more people would boycott the low quality hobby bmw websites on the web, then IMHO it would push the website makers to stop this low quality stuff, and share lots of previously unpublished material, and make their real research about his favourite bmw type, then it would create finally good website.
But what can we expect if very well know website with 95-100% stolen, recycled stuff presented as 'interesting website' like the ultimate source of bmw stuff ?
Like I said, i want to see couple of proper websites in the future, like 2-3 every year.
I want to see some is new materials posted on the net, like historic reseach about the bmw e3 serie is japan, or a homemade website about all the problems can be fixed on bmw 1600 gt car (not just 10-20 problems, like how to fix the car, with low quality photos taken with antediluvian camera). Original stuff, new website. Show me 2-3 of these new sites every year, then I will be happy. Until that I will go to sleep.