<VV> Announcement – SCG Website Re-launch

[William Hubbell]

The Stock Corvair Group (SCG) website, http://stock.corvair.org, is the
home base of operations for the Stock Corvair Group. Kent Sullivan and I
have spent the past couple of months updating the site, adding new
material, editing, and tagging the old material, and giving the site a new,
fresh look. We invite you to visit it and check out some of our new
features:

·         All material, including photos, is now tagged, making it easier
to find topics of interest to you. Just go to the home page and select one
of the tags and the site will show you all posts with that tag.

·         New content includes original research on Washer Bottle Brackets,
many new external sites added, including links to all original Dealer Sales
brochures, detailed help on finding and understanding date codes, and an
indexed gateway to David Trull’s “Corvair Gold”

·         There is now a Help section on the menu bar, which includes
information on how to use the site to post, add media, manage
subscriptions, etc.

·         There is a new section devoted to surveys and research questions.
This includes some new surveys, including a member survey where you can
tell us more about your interests and offer suggestions for improving the
site.

·         Photos of all cars inspected at any “Annual Stock Corvair Event”
are now available for review. Each ASCE now has its own page with links to
the entire album or to individual cars. We even have documentation of some
“new” survivor cars over these past two pandemic years!

·         We have released more material to the public area of the website.
That said, you still need to login to see all of the content.

I’m saving our most exciting news for last! We have tried for several years
to evaluate Stock Corvairs at CORSA conventions (ASCE). We have not had
great success with that approach, for a variety of reasons. So now we are
going to offer members the opportunity to participate in “Virtual” Stock
Assessments. The way it will work is this: interested parties will complete
an interactive form we have prepared which will give us a lot of useful
information, and then they will submit a series of photos that we will
review to complete the evaluation. This is an exciting opportunity to
better document and preserve the information in an ever-diminishing number
of survivor cars, or to help those who are trying to restore their cars to
factory appearance. If you are interested in this project, open and
complete the “SCG Stock Evaluation Request Form”, found in the “Surveys”
section of the website.

Also, we will continue to offer the Facebook SCG Page and Group for our
more social-media minded members. The Facebook Stock Corvair Group
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/709344113297765> has been very popular,
currently with 1,070 members. This is certainly the place to go to talk
about Stock Corvairs. The SCG Website will remain the location where we
keep our databases, conduct our surveys, and publish our research. Check it
out!

Bill Hubbell, SCG President