JBJ .....10 years on

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Was flicking through the most recent posts yesterday and noticed JBJ’s avatar, “joined the forum in January 2005”

Is it really 10 years JBJ !

Not many older members have survived 10 years on this forum, very few in fact…. whether they’ve moved on hobbywise……. or lost interest in vintage vans…… or got frustrated with the banter that goes on here …….. or were only ever here for the “vintage caravan fad” until they got bored with it!

But, JBJ is always there, and always has been. He has survived the bun fights, the sometimes endless boring “imageless” posts, the forum’s quite times….. but has always been here for the good times the forum and its members have enjoyed.

The sometimes gruff, grumpy hot rodder and his lovely wife Boots from Alstonville are true, genuine Aussie characters, the sort of characters that make this forum
……..and his enthusiasm for our hobby never waivers.

We have witnessed some really interesting projects displaying good workmanship, as well as JBJ showing great mateship via his helpfulness and interest in our hobby.

Our Nationals events are held to meet new forum members, and to renew acquaintances with members we have met at previous events. At the bi-annual vintage vans Nationals events, I always make time to catch up JBJ….. the man I first met at the 2006 Nationals in Morgan who has had an everlasting impression on me for his workmanship and enthusiasm on a little “Purdon” caravan he restored for the that event.
And I still have the memories of his and Boots “dancing antics” on the night of our 2006 Nationals dinner

His posts are sometimes are little controversial, alot of time interesting, many times helpful, but always from the heart.

I always take time to read his posts, because they have meaning and depth, they are not paragraph after paragraph of the waffling garbage variety that has been seen on this forum.

His projects are always constructive either restoring or improving a vintage caravan or period tow car, not projects building something of his own design that have little to do with our hobby.
His 3708 posts are “quality” material.

And, he has spent much of his time as a member of the moderating team, assisting where he could, and managing our memberships.

JBJ …..you need now to focus mainly on your health as well as your projects, coz we want you around for another 10 years at the very minimum .

Maybe one of our research and “link” specialists can follow on this thread with links to JBJ’s many and varied projects, ……. maybe Clyde can throw in some humerous pics of JBJ and boots from his large library of “forum moments”.

Onya JBJ !!

Mark

[sutcac]

Not to mention the unique skill of drinking hot SCOTCH while playing HOPSCOTCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sutcac]

......Sometimes he gets off the bourbon for a while...........................








and goes on a health kick for a few days !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!






.......but he's always happy to say Hi an d chew the fat for as long as you'd like.

[Franklin1]

Congratulations on achieving 10 years on the forum, JBJ! I think that entitles you to 6 weeks Long Service Leave, but I reckon you'd have to take it unpaid.

For some reason Proboards only allows a maximum of 40 pages of a members "most recent posts", so none of your posts prior to 2009 show up via a search through your member details. Quite a number of your earlier posts have also disappeared from the forum that were posted under your previous jailbarjuice monicker. Makes it a bit hard to find the threads about all the vans you've worked on over the years since you joined the forum (not to mention the cars as well).

I found the Purdon thread from 2005: Purdon .....Jailbarjuice's New Baby , but in one of the photos you've got a Sunliner under wraps next to the van, but I can't seem to find the story for that one. [Edit, it's here: Sunliner ....Jailbarjuice Restoration ]

In 2008, you started the story about the amazing result that became "Lucille": Homemade 1959 - Jailbarjuice new van , plus the story when you got the annexe fitted: Lucille gets a full annex

In 2009, we heard from neilncheryl about the DeeJay tandem van they'd purchased ( 1956 Dee Jay tandem ), which you subsequently bought and put your own mark on it in 2011: Deejays adaption to our style

Then in 2012, you told us about the little Olympic "Ethel": Ethel - Olympic 11'6'' Style Leader



Apart from the great threads above, there was the story back in 2005 of the work you did on your hotrod: Jailbarjuice Hotrod evolution

Not to mention the current thread you have going about the Dodge Kingsway rebuild that you've been progressively working on since 2009.


Fair dinkum!! - How in the world do you ever find time to do your paid work??!!

Congatulations again on achieving the significant 10 year milestone.

cheers,
Al.

[JBJ]

Hi,

Thanks for the comments, but as I'm a modest person I will happily accept the things said as being (probably) true.
Al the thread on my Sunliner is " Sunliner.. Jailbarjuice Restoration", & is presently on page 28 of members photo albums.

I deleted a lot of my old threads years ago, after a particularly nasty on line run in with a forgotten person. At the time I intended leaving the Forum, but just deleted my posts that could have offended people.

Its still fun

JBJ

[scootman]

Well done JBJ. dunno how long Ive been here, I know its a while. I did chuck a spack and leave for a week, then thought about it and rejoined . Dont contribute much due to work issues but still stalk here fairly often.

[firefighter]

Feb 2, 2015 14:32:56 GMT 10 scootman said:

Well done JBJ. dunno how long Ive been here, I know its a while. I did chuck a spack and leave for a week, then thought about it and rejoined . Dont contribute much due to work issues but still stalk here fairly often.

scootman you joined 23-9-2006 ...next year a 10 year veteran

f/f

[Roehm3108]

Hey f/f - our scootman is still wet behind the ears in that case

[scootman]

Yea Id say Ive been around a little bit longer as I said I chucked a spack and left for a while. But hey still been a long time and have gained a lot of help and knowledge from the people on this forum.

[JBJ]

Hi All,

I don't believe it matters much how long you have been a member, in my mind the important thing about being part of something is participating in it.

So no matter how long long you've been here Scoot, you've continuously ( even if it is irregular) been part of this Forum for a long time.

That's better than the 95% (minimum) who join & never do anything.

This Forum has less than 100 regular participants at best. But I guess every Forum is the same.

Funny I cant see any point me joining the (say) Needlework Association Forum & never participating. A bit pointless to me ( did you get the pun??)

I probably am reverting back to my old self with this comment, but its always been a moot point with me that a big percentage of the " supposed" membership numbers on here are either using invalid email adresses, duplications of membership by people that join & forget joining details, people that joined only to sell something, etc. In my eye there would be less than 1500 even want to remain on here, seeing so many have not logged in for more than 2 years.

I've been wanting to say this for a while now, since I stopped looking after membership details.

JBJ

[scootman]

I get the needlepoint thing. I only wish that my job left me more time to go and play. But that will happen eventually.