Who owns Comanche club?

[Anthi4078]

Hey I was just talking with my girlfriend and telling her how much better Comanche club is than her FSJ forum and I got to thinking about who owns the club. Just curious so if anybody knows who runs such a awesome site, I’m interested to know 

[eaglescout526]

The all high and mighty Pete.

[Salvagedcircuit]

Some say you can hear him roar when a strong breeze comes.

Others say he's the low rpm growl of a 4.0L at idle

But we all know him as....

@Pete M

 

 

Speaking of that, Pete if you need funding for upcoming website registration or hosting space, let us know!

 

[fiatslug87]

Mr. Montie

[eaglescout526]

3 minutes ago, Salvagedcircuit said:

Some say you can hear him roar when a strong breeze comes.

Others say he's the low rpm growl of a 4.0L at idle

But we all know him as....

@Pete M

 

I feel like you could’ve gone as far as making a Monty python and the holy grail reference here. 

[fiatslug87]

We already have a “some call me…Tim?” You know who you are 

[Pete M]

I am indeed the caretaker of your club.

 

if anyone wants to chip in, the paypal ID is: ComancheClub@hotmail.com

[Anthi4078]

Ah wow well thank you for creating such a great resource and community. I will make a donation to the cause 

[87MJTIM]

9 hours ago, fiatslug87 said:

We already have a “some call me…Tim?” You know who you are 

 

Hey, that's a cool signature line.  I might use it....Oh, wait.  I already do use it.

[Eagle]

We do, indeed, owe this place to Pete Montie.

 

Doesn't seem like that long ago, but almost 20 years ago I had it in my head that the world needed a forum dedicated to Comanches. I was going to create one, except that I had no idea whatsoever how to set up or operate an Internet forum. And then I woke up one day to find that some dude had gone ahead and done what I didn't know how to do ... so I joined up.

 

Seriously, that WAS almost 20 years ago. My join date was October of 2005, so it has been 18 years. And I believe I was one of the first members (other than Pete). Even though it's called the Comanche Club, Pete has never charged any dues or subscription fees, so if anyone can afford to chip in a few ducats to help Pete keep this place alive, you'll be helping the entire Comanche community.

[fiatslug87]

But before that was the Yahoo group that I believe Pete took over.

[Pete M]

yup, I was entrusted with the keys to the kingdom from Tom who started the yahoo group like a couple months before I bought my truck and joined up back in 1997. 

[ComancheKid45]

I still like it here. 😁

[Eagle]

On 9/28/2023 at 10:34 PM, fiatslug87 said:

But before that was the Yahoo group that I believe Pete took over.

 

Everything has a back story. Before there was NAXJA, there was an XJ forum that I belonged to for several years. Then one day, just after having conducted a fund raiser to help defray the cost of hosting the forum, the guy who owned the site ghosted us. I don't remember the sordid details, but the bottom line was that he took the money and disappeared. The rest of us couldn't keep it going because the guy owned the domain name (which I don't remember now) and the hosting company would deal with us because he was their client.

 

So several people did another fund raiser, we collected enough money to buy a domain name, buy some forum software, and put up a new forum. NAXJA was born -- I'm a charter (lifetime) member as part of the group that provided the seed money and started NAXJA.

 

And that's why I was (and am) so glad that Pete had what it takes to get this forum up and running.