Where did this site come from?
It was thought up by Craig
Ueltzen and Sven Dailey.
I drive a 1965
GMC Suburban, and I was tired of fruitless searches for old Suburbans
on the internet. The only ones I ever found were buried on other classic
truck sites, and mixed in with Ford, Chevys, Dodges, Studebakers, etc.
And mostly pickups at that. Sven is a member of Bombsight
which is a Buick Owners club. He drives a 1965
Buick Riviera GS. The club's name of Bombsight is taken from the looks
of the old style Buick hood ornaments. We figured that since there's a
club for Buick Riviera owners, why isn't there one for Suburban owners?
After all, they are much more rare than classic pickups. So, it was started
as a place to collect Suburban owners from around the world. |
How do I join?
Just send me email
with your Suburban information, and I'll give you the password to the members
roster. I'll also post pictures of your 'Burb if you send any. Also, I
frequently check the guestbook
for new entries, and add them as members if your Suburban information is
filled in on the entry form. |
How much does it cost to join?
So far... nothing. Consider yourself a charter member
when I add you to the roster. We started this as a fun project, and so
far it's still fun. As fast as this site is growing, it may eventually
get bigger than we can handle ourselves. We may start a joining fee and/or
dues and become a nonprofit organization, but we'll cross that bridge when,
and if, we ever come to it. |
How did it evolve?
It started out on The
Globe.com, but the popup ads drove everyone crazy. It was intermittently
disappearing and reappearing too. I moved it to my personal site and started
adding more and more classic 'Burbs as people found out about it. I was
running out of space rapidly. Then, Classic
Truck Shop offered our club site space on their server, and would give
us email addresses and club server space for free. Hmmm, let me think...
Yessss!! It has grown quite large since then. It's now at around 19 megs
of data, which is more than three times the space I had to work with on
my personal ISP. I've had help, such
as Sven's frequent searches for classic automotive parts source links,
and the Old Burb Club logo which was created by Chris Haggerty. |
How big is it?
So far, there's about 185 members on the list, and 210 in
the discussion group. There's 59 member's vehicles posted in the gallery
in three pages. We are now international, with a few Canadian members,
one from Columbia South America, and recently, a new member from Holland. |
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Why is the members roster password protected?
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| This was done to keep spammers from cleaning up emails
from the list. Some sites are famous for having spammers send spam to people
in chat rooms sometimes within minutes of one's entering the room, by using
spammer's email address grabbing software. If they want classic vehicle
owner's info, they will have to work for it here! If you are a spammer
and are reading this, click here.
Also, there is a voice chatroom here, and we don't want just anybody
joining in the conversation, right? |
Why does it take "forever"
for my name to appear on the roster?
That's because I'm always updating a Microsoft Excel 97 file,
and there really isn't any automated method of adding names and information.
The animated GIF at the bottom of the page should sum up how much I like
doing this operation. I've been very busy this summer. I don't spend much
time in front of the computer when it's nice outside, and/or I'm gone on
trips. The next roster list will be more than double the size, and will
be in Adobe PDF format. It will be updated sometime this Fall. |
Do you sell any names and/or email address to
advertisers?
Not on your life!! And if you are an advertiser, don't even
ask!! This is strictly a private listing for members to contact other members.
If I ever decide to sell any names, it will be the same day I put on white
shoes and a plaid sport coat, and start selling used cars. Not very likely
to happen anytime soon. ;-) |
Where are you located?
We are in Pasco, which is in Washington state. I like to
say it's "the other Washington." Pasco is part of the Tri-Cities, which
is Pasco, Kennewick, and Richland. We are on the Eastern side of the state,
and on the other side of the Cascade mountain range from Seattle. This
is desert land here, and only gets about 7" of rain per year. The Mighty
Columbia river is over a mile wide as it divides the three cities. The
area's total population is about 100,000. Click here
for a map.
(on our local newspaper's site)
I'm sure some of you have heard about "Kennewick
Man" He (it?) was found during the Unlimited Hydroplane races in July
1996, and less than 2 miles from my house, across the river on the Kennewick
side. The latest pictures of my
Suburban on the gallery page was taken about 200 yards from the site.
If you REALLY want to see where the Webmaster lives...
click
here.
(Satellite images of the Tri-Cities, and my house from
above)
Richland is the considered the home of the atomic bomb.
The Hanford nuclear reservation is just North of Richland, and a good part
of the Manhattan Project was completed here. Lots of Richland businesses
are named 'atomic', such as Atomic Bowling Lanes, Atomic Body Shop, Atomic
Screen printing, etc. The high school football team is known as the "Richland
Bombers." They got the name during W.W.II because everyone in town donated
a days wages to pay for a B-17 as a contribution to the war effort. The
bomber was called "Days Pay." |
Why doesn't this site use frames
and cool Java mouse-overs?
Mainly, because this site is linked from several framed
sites. Most try to view a linked site within it's own frame. I run a few
framed and Java coded sites, but decided to keep this one simple for people
who aren't power computer users. There's been too many times during web
surfing, that I will follow someone's link only to have the browser appear
to stall out. Then I notice "Starting Java" in the status line. My eyes
stare at the ceiling while my impatient fingers drum the mouse pad waiting
for an over-done Java'ed site to load, all the while thinking: "Is this
site going to be worth it?!?" So, I decided to NOT do that to someone else.
The only exception is the voice chatroom. hearme.com
runs a Java applet for the live voice and text chat functions. |
