as everyone knows the forums and poll is basically the only things working on the site, i will get the rest of the site up to speed as i can and the pain in my knee will let me, here are 2 ideas i have to make it better.

#1 A Photo gallery, it would be tied in with the forums, so registered members of the forum could upload directly to the gallery(NOT the forums), it can be catogorized my years or what ever, it would have a rating and comment feature for each pic, the only downside to doing this would be the cost factor of added bandwidth and storage space

this is what it would kinda look like, this is from the site of the guy who created it...

http://smartor.is-root.com/album.php

#2 A Calendar system, this will show and actuall calendar with clickable links that would pop up a new window with the information of the event, this would give everyone the ability to add their truck runs with out them getting lost in a thread somewhere, the only downside to this is I would have to give the responsibility of maintaining it to some one else as I doubt I would have the time...

this is from one of my sites I am developing right now, there is nothing scheduled on it right now but it will give you an idea of how it looks and works...

http://www.roanokebusiness.com/calendar/index.php

These are just ideas as of right now, installing these features involve quite a bit of PHP programming to get them to work with the site so it would take me awhile. everyone take a look at the above and give me some feedback,,,

Those are great ideas Joe. As long as you can handle the bandwidth and storage problems you're talking about. I'm sure a lot of people are willing to donate to keep the site going too. I know I am.

are ya sure you wanna even have the ability to upload instead of just image linking?...this will keep the bandwidth issue at a minimum .. just trying to think from an overall perspective Bro

Those are some great ideas! I would agree with Damager as far as uploading.

I will third that or is it fourth...........

Those are some great ideas! I would agree with Damager as far as uploading.

I will see if I can find a photo gallery that allows for linking instead of uploading. keep the feedback coming, thats what i need

I agree with damager on the photo gallery. I also like the calendar idea too. That way everyone will know what is happening, when, where, etc.

I also agree with the above statements

I agree or 4th or 5th the comments. Just think about Superford.org. I am sure their banwidth/server(s) are quite large

okay

yeah the calander sounds awsome always got have one of those

yea lets do it :D

i agree, lets do it

i like both ideas. as for the gallery make it so the person can only upload like 3 pictures or less(if you can) to cut down on bandwidth.