Aircooled VW South Africa

The Forum as we know it will turn 5 years old in 2010. I think it is only reasonable to think of the Forum's 'birthday' as September 13, 2005 - the day Eben 'joined'?

Anyway, I had a quick look - and the 13th of September falls on a Saturday this year. EDIT - I had a slow look again, and it is actually on a Monday Come hell or high water, I think we should do something that day, and celebrate it in true ACVWSA style!

The date is noted in the ACVWSA calendar - any ideas for what we should do?

Mince, how 'bout designing us a special ACVWSA 2005 - 2010 banner, perhaps something we can make a sticker of?

What amazes me, is that no less than 9 of the original first 10 members who joined ACVWSA, are still here - and fairly active, I might add

Here they are, with the dates joined in brackets...

1. eben (Sep 13, 2005)
2. Tony Z (Sep 14, 2005)
3. calooker (Sep 14, 2005)
4. IMPI Wed (Sep 14, 2005)
5. camperman (Sep 15, 2005)
6. Pine (Sep 18, 2005)
7. vader (Sep 19, 2005)
8. 4agedub (Sep 19, 2005)
9. beetlepower (Sep 20, 2005)
10 Merlin (Tue Sep 20, 2005)

Currently there are 2269 registered usernames, with the latest member 'Bloulaag' who signed up less than an hour ago. I am not sure how many of these users were spam, or how many are inactive members - nontheless, I think ACVWSA is quite a milestone for the whole South African VW fraternity!

Like you say Pine, the forum has really grown, and to have so many "founder" members still active is great.
Yes, why not organise something special for September?

I made a mistake, sorry - the 13th September 2010 is a Monday...

So let's party on Saturday, September 11!

911 ?
That weekend is good, better than the monday obviously!

Was also thinking politicaly not emotionally not good

69bug wrote:911 ?

Yes, air cooled too - quite a coincedence

Get them to join us!!

I joined back in the day when the 'first' forum was created. When the site 'got lost' I didnt sign up immediately with the new site..... So yes, I was there then, before the forum reincarnated......

Anyway, party on!

Well, I joined two years later, first came across the forum towards the end of 2006 when I was in Matric! If I had to discover the forum at the beginning of that year, I would have failed my matric I can't think of a single day that went by, where I didn't check out the forum, since then, it's my 2nd religion. Awesomeness.

The reason I didnt post so much in the 1st Edtition of the site, is because it was unknown and DEAD QUIET. Well, a post or two per week! That is why I didnt frequent often, and hence, didnt even realise that the site was 'lost' and '(re)found' !

Truth be told.... It just came to mind. I found this site shortly after I got my Fastback in France. And I have my Fastback for just over 5 years! I remember still asking IMPI a question about how I could get hold of one of his FGlass bellows for the air intake on T3s!!

I was first mentioned on this site on 12 Jan 2006 on request from Eben (I had met Eben in Melkbos in late 2005 (I think), I chased Groenie down in Rumours and chatted to him). Eben mentioned the forum, and I think he said it was brand new. I was ID'd in the thread by rattbug, aka Dave Jones. I joined 30 months later... Only 30 months...

But! I'm sure I registered once before Aug 2008, and I think it was in 2006, maybe 2007, but it was rather quiet in those days and I certainly wasn't on the internet a huge amount then. I was still working in Nigeria, where we had email, but not internet.

1) as most of the members dig pics, how about posting a single pic of u and ur aircooled or aircooled related ride with a birthday message to acvwsa on that day for helping us all on our rides.

2) as many members to log onto the chat at the twelve hour

3) organise a meet in different areas and make a video clip, ct , dbn, jhb, pe etc etc

Yeah guys, this sounds cool, I am sure the Jhb and Pta guys can meet somewhere in between too.

we all joined at the same time simply because the original site closed down and we relocated. Eben will have more details. But yea, we have come a long way since....