Some have emailed me regarding the lack of traffic and activity on the DTA Forum
Absolutely astute observation.
Contrary to some comments, No I have not sold the forum, although I have had a few offers, it would be like selling a child, can't do it, even when they aggravate you.
Honestly, I have lost the drive to be there nearly every hour of the day as I once did. Since my two year ordeal with my eyes, my bout with cancer and my blindness and the partial recovery of my sight, frankly, it's just tedious for me to read the computer screen.
I have been working in my shop more often and the near loss on my vision made me realize that my opportunities to see this world may be coming to an end, so I've been out in the world more, off roading and camping and enjoying every minute of life that I can.
I do feel guilty about not keeping the forum up at it's past high level and frankly, with so many people who I once considered supporters going to other sites, it has lessened my focus to keep up and I have no desire to put the vast amounts of effort into it, that I once did.
I'm really in a quandary of what to do, because It's both harder for me to maintain the site and harder to get motivated to spend the time.
I rarely ever get a truck of the week picture sent to me and that was my first clue, nearly two years ago, that interest was waning, so I had to resort to taking pictures from the Registry, or placing duplicates, both things I hate as most of the first 10 years of TOTW photos came from first hand contact with the owners of the trucks.
I'm at the point in my life that I want to spend all the time that I can, being active and out in the world, so it's with sadness and some sense of accomplishment that I announce that I'm shutting down the DTA website, at the end of May, Memorial Day 2012, 12 years after we started, in 2000.
It's been fun, I've met many, many great people along the way and made some lifelong friends. It's time to get the Parts Pile finished and go on to a new chapter in my life. You may post here until May 28th, after that the forum will be read only.

You will never know how gratified I have been to see the site grow, become number 1 on the major search engines and help keep a number of these great old trucks on the road.


I will be always grateful for your support and friendship,
MoparNorm