Community/Group Build

[bwizard]

Just putting this out there and wondering have you all done this yet? Would anyone be interested in doing a community group build? It seems to me alot of knowledgeable people here, with alot of spare parts.

So basically we take a beater B5 S4 pass it member to member city to city each one does some work to the car logs it and then passes it to the next member.

When all said and done either nothing more to do to the car,every member involved has worked on it , or time based we raffle off the car to one of the members. Then get another and do it again.

I will do a more specific write up, detailed plan but for right now just seeing if enough people are interested.

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[Monty23]

We did that already with Lee Johnston.

[Jism]

Very nice this thread. A community build car.

[bwizard]

We did that already with Lee Johnston.

Cool sorry im new here and it must have happened before I was here or I would have gotten involved.

I would still like to do it for all that are interested.

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[-Billy]

We did that already with Lee Johnston.

😂😂

[FlyboyS4]

I'll be interested to see what you estimate for the numerous costs.

[jpurre]

We did that already with Lee Johnston.

Ouch

[christianb5s4]

Monty is savage.

[getslideways]

We did that already with Lee Johnston.

Coffee on my keyboard now... well played Sir.




Its a nice thought, but i think its riddled with potential problems:

1. Who is in charge of who does what work?
2. Does someone who rebuilds a motor and add turbos receive the same percentage chance of owning it as someone who donates a taillight?
2b. who makes these decisions?
3. Who is covering transportation?
4. Who is insuring this thing as it keeps changing hands, seems like a liability problem
5. Who holds the title on it, what keeps them from just saying "thanks, its mine" at the end? Not to mention the liability issue of above
6. Who is making the initial purchase?
7. How do we keep a cohesive build plan? Person A wants part x person B wants part y
8. Half the people lately seem to not have enough parts, knowledge, or time to keep their own B5's running let alone a community one

There are charitable people in this community, as well as knowledgeable. However, I hate to be a pessimist, but even still, I dont give this idea a snowball's chance of working or reaching completion. I would love to be proven wrong though.

Perhaps there is a smaller scale project that should be tested first. One with less risk or initial investment. I know Flyboy was trying to get a tuning tutorial put together using community contributions for example.

At the end of the day, it already feels like most cars on this forum are Community Built. From sharing information, trading or selling parts at fair prices, or just lending a physical hand between members. One specific community car would be a nice symbol of that, but in reality we already have a lot of them. There are countless members I have met in this community without whom I would not be able to keep my B5 or my friends VAG cars running as easily.

[hibiscusS4]

We did that already with Lee Johnston.

Lmfao ... enough said.


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[Monty23]

Cool sorry im new here and it must have happened before I was here or I would have gotten involved.

I would still like to do it for all that are interested.

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It was a joke. Look up Britishturbo aka Lee.

[jibberjive]

We did that already with Lee Johnston.

ZING!! hahaha



Just thought I would say this publicly because I haven't said it anywhere yet, but Lee made me whole with what he owed me. Though I may just be one data point.