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Wizard thinking out of the box to solve NLA parts issues
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The Wizard and his rise to fame via Hoovie is well known around the world I’d say, 
The car YouTube scene is quite small, and they are household names in most car communities I’ve found. Even the old timers watch them. And by the way what a gem Donald Osbourne is, I’d never heard of him nor the Audrain Collection until he showed up at Leno’s.
Internet is fantastic for our hobby. 500Eboard alone saved me thousands of dollars over the years. That’s why I believe these forums are so important, because as long as they’re up, the information is there. It is so undervalued IMO, and I hated when Facebook took over most forums. There’s no search, no categorisation, no organisation, just long posts of the same over and over again. We need to value and protect the forums.
The car YouTube scene is quite small, and they are household names in most car communities I’ve found. Even the old timers watch them. And by the way what a gem Donald Osbourne is, I’d never heard of him nor the Audrain Collection until he showed up at Leno’s.Internet is fantastic for our hobby. 500Eboard alone saved me thousands of dollars over the years. That’s why I believe these forums are so important, because as long as they’re up, the information is there. It is so undervalued IMO, and I hated when Facebook took over most forums. There’s no search, no categorisation, no organisation, just long posts of the same over and over again. We need to value and protect the forums.
Hey, i probably am an old timer…The Wizard and his rise to fame via Hoovie is well known around the world I’d say,
Internet is fantastic for our hobby. 500Eboard alone saved me thousands of dollars over the years. That’s why I believe these forums are so important, because as long as they’re up, the information is there. It is so undervalued IMO, and I hated when Facebook took over most forums. There’s no search, no categorisation, no organisation, just long posts of the same over and over again. We need to value and protect the forums.
Totally agree about the FB vs Internet forums in terms of their organisation etc. the trouble is there are 1000 FB groups for every forum.
I’ve seen some of Hoovie’s content but I don’t really “get” him or his attraction.
Leno is like a cool uncle or actually more of a grandfather and has a great taste in and knowledge of cars - having a ton of $$$ helps of course.
Something I've found how to do recently in case anyone needs some help - making a new vacuum brake booster cable. I can get the material from cohline and a new metal check valve. I'm not sure about the E500E, but for my 300D the cable is bigtime NLA. It took about a week to figure that out
Everything he does is for click and content, the best thing to come out of it is the WizardHey, i probably am an old timer…
Totally agree about the FB vs Internet forums in terms of their organisation etc. the trouble is there are 1000 FB groups for every forum.
I’ve seen some of Hoovie’s content but I don’t really “get” him or his attraction.
Leno is like a cool uncle or actually more of a grandfather and has a great taste in and knowledge of cars - having a ton of $$$ helps of course.
I’m glad I found the Wizard first then.
He comes across as a thoroughly decent chap and someone whose services I would consider using.
