Hello corvairCenter community. I have created a GoFundMe page for soliciting donations for the conversion of the corvaircenter forum to a moden forum codebase. Excess funds raised will be used to support the forum and pay for future expenses like domain registration and web hosting fees.

If you are inclined to make a donation, click here: https://gofund.me/58512918

Also, I used a picture of my Corsa in the ad. If you have another corvair image you'd like to see - PM it to me. If I get more then one, I'll pick one randomly

Alec
Dahlonega, GA
1965 Corsa Convertible Turbo 4-Speed
Restoration "In Progress"




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Thanks

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Phil Dally Wrote:
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> For those of us that don't do internet money, where do we mail a check.


I would imagine, you could send it directly to CORSA, with a designation that it goes towards CCF, and they WILL make sure the funds are allocated correctly.

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WA. state, 1 mile south of the Canadian border, I am not at the end of the world, but you can see it from here.

American Mel Wrote:
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> Phil Dally Wrote:
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> > For those of us that don't do internet money, where do we mail a check.
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> I would imagine, you could send it directly to CORSA, with a designation that it goes towards CCF, and they WILL make sure the funds are allocated correctly.

No. I reached out to CORSA to try and get them to accept the donations on behalf of the forum. I contacted 3 of the CORSA Officers - none of them ACK'd my email. Currently all donations are just accumulating in our GoFundMe account. I'll try again when we have the funds to get started.

This is a copy of the email I sent last week:

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Hello X, Y and Z,

My name is Alec Carlson. I have been working with Danny Davis making changes to the corvaircenter website over the last year or so. Recently I moved the website to a new web hosting service that is cheaper, faster and better supported. That move was the first step in converting the forum to a modern website codebase. We are now looking at starting Phase II which is converting the forum from the old Phorum codebase which is obsolete and no longer supported to a phpBB based forum which has support, gets periodic updates and has many features that Phorum doesn’t have.

This migration is a complex process - I won’t go into the issues involved with it. We have identified a 3rd party company which claims it can migrate the Phorum SQL database (25 GB of data) to the latest release of phpBB, including all users, messages, attachments, images and PM’s. There is a cost associated with having them do the work and we need to make sure we can pay for it before we get started.

I took a quick poll of the corvaircenter members and everyone who responded recommended using a crowdfunding solution in order to pay for the conversion. This approach has 2 benefits: (1) it doesn’t cost CORSA anything and (2) it provides money for website expenses like domain name registration, hosting fees, and backup capability.

However, it occurs to me that if we use GoFundMe to solicit donations, the donation money should go into CORSA’s bank account, not one of the forum members bank accounts (and not mine). CORSA would then write the check to pay for the forums expenses out of membership donations.

So, what I’m asking is: is CORSA willing to accept donations on behalf of the corvaircenter forum and then pay our expenses out of that donation pool ?

If so, please let me know who I need to work with in order to facilitate this arrangement.

Thanks -

Alec Carlson
’65 Corsa convertible, turbo, 4 speed

If you want to send a check, let me know and I'll PM you an address.

Alec
Dahlonega, GA
1965 Corsa Convertible Turbo 4-Speed
Restoration "In Progress"

There are so many new irregular non-real abbreviations, and crazy acronyms out there now days, I have no idea what most of them even mean!
What the heck is ACK'd ? ? ?

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WA. state, 1 mile south of the Canadian border, I am not at the end of the world, but you can see it from here.

American Mel Wrote:
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> There are so many new irregular non-real abbreviations, and crazy acronyms out there now days, I have no idea what most of them even mean!
> What the heck is ACK'd ? ? ?


My guess is acknowledged...

Donated

Dean F. Gemberling
Columbus, Georgia
Heart of Georgia Corvair Club Webmaster
Springfest Webmaster

1963 Rampside w/305 V8 - Built by Ken Arnold in 1998
1965 Monza Coupe - Converting from Drag Race Car to Nice Street Car - 63 Buick 215 V8

American Mel Wrote:
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> There are so many new irregular non-real abbreviations, and crazy acronyms out there now days, I have no idea what most of them even mean!
> What the heck is ACK'd ? ? ?


Sorry - that's an old-school acronym for acknowledged. It comes from the protocols used by computer software which allows computer systems to talk to one another. Ie - you send a request (REQ) and you wait for the ACK.

Alec
Dahlonega, GA
1965 Corsa Convertible Turbo 4-Speed
Restoration "In Progress"

"Promises made. Promises kept".

I'm in. Thank you for doing what you do. Next.

Donated--This is the best investment I've made in a long time!!

Tom Keosababian

Racing a Shelby GT500 at the Riverside Raceway 1/2 mile drags in 1966--and WINNING with my turbo 140!!!

Sorry Alec,
I was way behind on my emails. I just responded to you and will know more shortly. I am sure there will be no problem routing the donations through CORSA but I need to get approval from a few others.

Thanks for what you all are doing!

Enjoy the Corvair!

Paul Sergeant
CORSA Central Division Director / CORSA Treasurer
Lee's Summit, MO
CORSA since 1975
Member – HACOA, Corvair Minnesota, CORSA, Little Indians, POCI

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Paulsgt Wrote:
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> Sorry Alec,
> I was way behind on my emails. I just responded to you and will know more shortly. I am sure there will be no problem routing the donations through CORSA but I need to get approval from a few others.
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> Thanks for what you all are doing!
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Paul,

Just got your email - Thanks for following up on this.

When you're ready, I'll transfer all the GoFundMe donations to you/CORSA so you can handle dispensing that money to cover the corvaircenter expenses.

Thanks for your support !!

Alec

Alec
Dahlonega, GA
1965 Corsa Convertible Turbo 4-Speed
Restoration "In Progress"

Donated -- This forum has bailed me out many times!

Fred Gillam, southern SC coast
Former Corvairs from teens and 20's.
3 65 Corsa 180 convertibles
63 Spyder
66 Monza 110 PG, "Moldo"
65 Corsa 140
Currently helping son with 65 Monza 140 4-spd coupe

Glad to if you use GiveSendGo instead of GFMe.

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NOTE: from Alec - send a PM and he will send an address for contributions.

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Al
Georgia



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Donated.

Fantastic sight for information and support.

Keep it going!

Everybody else that uses this site and has not donated.....

"Skip the take out pizza this week and support the cause."

Good luck boys!

Jeff Sandor
Pres Cincinnati Corvair Club
61 Lakewood Wagon 4 sp
62 Convertible
62 Monza 900 More Door
63 Spyder Convertible
63 Greenbrier
64 Spyder Convertible
65 500 3 speed
66 Corsa 140 Coupe - Sold
66 Coupe Aztec Bronze 110/Auto
68 500 auto

Done.

Sam Russell
Durham NC
1962 Monza Wagon Ted Brown EFI Gen II
1964 Spyder coupe

Donated. I have no issue with using Go Fund Me.

Frank DuVal

Fredericksburg, VA

My check has been in the mail for a couple of days. As others have stated I have gotten a lot out of CCF in both information as well as business here at the shop.

best wishes, Steve
Rear Engine Spec. Inc. Golden, Colo.

1962 spyder 3.0L turbo---1965 Crown V8
1967 monza 110/4---1968 monza 110/4
1971 amante gt 110/4
CORSA/RMC/PPCC/V8 Registry