Hot Rod's Forums

[george1861]

i take it the magazine's Forum has gone away?

[oletrux4evr]

I think so. This is the main off-shoot I think.
Hot Rod was replaced by
Carjunkytv which was replaced by
Frieburger's Junkyard which morphed into
BangShift.
Many of us were members on all four sites.

[Monster]

i take it the magazine's Forum has gone away?

Long ago ... I was also a Moderator over at HRM forum and with the success of social media, the traffic went to nil, so they pulled the plug. Didn't even bother to tell me, I just went in one day to scroll through posts and the whole website was gone, along with all the other TEN (The Entertainment Network) forums;

Hot Rod Forum
Car Craft Forum
Circle Track Forum
Classic Trucks Forum
Custom Classic Trucks Forum
High Performance Pontiac Forum
Kit Car Magazine Forum
Mopar Muscle Magazine Forum
Popular Hot Rodding Forum
Rod & Custom Magazine Forum
Street Rodder Web Forum

[george1861]

I think so. This is the main off-shoot I think.
Hot Rod was replaced by
Carjunkietv which was replaced by
Frieburger's Junkyard which morphed into
BangShift.
Many of us were members on all four sites.

Actually this always was a separate thing from Hot Rod's. Hot Rod's wasn't much of a Forum, but announcements on there sometimes hadn't been posted here yet.

[oletrux4evr]

Actually this always was a separate thing from Hot Rod's. Hot Rod's wasn't much of a Forum, but announcements on there sometimes hadn't been posted here yet.

By off-shoot, I mean many of us were members there and left when it got stupid.

[cstmwgn]

... left when it got stupid.

So you don't like Mopars?

[Redline04]

When I first started looking for HRPT info a few years back (like 6 or so) The first source I found was the Hot Rod forum. Some guy on there named Monster told me about this Bangshift forum, and ya’ll been stuck with me ever since.

[oletrux4evr]

When I first started looking for HRPT info a few years back (like 6 or so) The first source I found was the Hot Rod forum. Some guy on there named Monster told me about this Bangshift forum, and ya’ll been stuck with me ever since.

Whitemonster was the mayor.

[Loren]

Yeah, talking some time back. 15 year history: Hot Rod had a busy forum when such was a new and novel thing but got tired of it being junked up by trolls and drama and did a revision/housecleaning, resulting in most members leaving which I don't think they minded, one of their fired tech people started Rodder's Corner which was cool for a while but eventually got taken over by one of the same trolls. Freiburger was enticed away from Hot Rod by an investor to join CarJunkieTV along w/ Chad and Lohnes and the forum they had for that attracted most regulars from the other sites. CarJunkie folded after a year when the investor pulled out and became Frieburger's Junkyard for a bit until DF was hired back by Hot Rod then Chad and Lohnes made BangShift out of it, which remains and has a good front page still but after suffering from FaceBook interest as well as literally the same problem people whom I myself regret ever engaging with its' forum exists now in much-reduced form. Rodder's Corner meanwhile withered and died as far as I know. A site called Yellow Bullet which stomached some pretty-tolerant rules seemed to collect legit people and trash alike to its' forum-only site, becoming a thriving place and the forum to be on instead of anywhere else but whatever happened to that I also couldn't say unless I looked and I won't. The trash-talk was always my least-favorite part of racing anyhow, hear it at the street races, hear it at the track, and finally at the forums, serious racer-guys I know seem to enjoy that aspect (hey how 'bout a TV show then?) but for me, whatever/bye. BangShift Forum continues with a few older more-laid-back people and the occasional new voice, and keeps some Hot Rod connections, however its' owners I-think learned from unpleasant experience to not personally participate and what the future holds who-knows. As with many automotive forums there is a bunch of experience to be found within from over time, I hope it's cheap to maintain.

[Vsolo]

So you don't like Mopars?

LOL I almost spit up my drink when I read this (Alan always has some great comments)