You may have noticed the website is changing a lot these days. The main reason for this is that I'm never satisfied with how it looks, or how helpful it is, or how easy it is to navigate through it. As I suppose most webmasters do, I often wander through other websites trying to figure out why everyone else's site looks. . .   More

I'm really starting to enjoy our welding class. They're finally letting us melt metal. Half the class is using arc welders, while our half works with oxy-acetylene rigs. We'll switch in a couple of weeks. We're not actually welding things together yet, just making puddles on flat steel. It's great practice. I'd imagine. . .   More

About four years ago I ran across a thread on miata.net about a sports car you could build from scratch, using parts from other cars. The car was called a Locost. It looked like a Lotus 7, cost next to nothing, weighed around 1200 pounds, and most importantly was a blast to drive. The first Locost was designed and built. . .   More

The weather has not been kind lately. When it's too wet for a spirited top-down drive, and too cold for a major component overhaul, I sometimes resort to one of my other favorite automotive activities—tinkering. Tinkering involves work on your car that's intended to make it a little bit better-looking, a little bit faster,. . .   More

As we start a brand new year and decade, it's hard to believe that BAMD has only been around for six weeks. We welcomed our 100th registered driver on Christmas, and a dozen more drivers have signed up since then. In this short time we've already added more than a dozen features to the website and held four BAMD events.. . .   More

We've added a private message system to the forum. I don't expect messages to start flying back and forth between drivers, but there always seems to be an occasional need to PM an individual, as opposed to blasting something out on the forum for everyone to see. Using PMs you can contact another driver without an email. . .   More

Back in November when we launched the new web site, we thought this baby was ready to go. We'd put hundreds of hours into the graphics, content, and scripting, and we were anxious to get started. Little did we know, looking back now, that all we really had was a calendar, a forum, and a registration page. Most of the buttons. . .   More

As the description says, I want to use this online journal keep everyone up to date on what's new with the BAMD website. What's new today is the blog site. I have no idea whether or not anyone will use it. I've actually never seen a blog site before. This is just my idea of what a blog site would look like.
 
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