1957ford.com possibilities..

[JPotter57]

Thank you guys.  I plan to try to keep some of the original flavor of John's site.  I cant keep the complete look, as it was proprietary to the guys who built Johns site, and I am not interested in going there.  I would like to keep the basic look and feel though, colors, etc.  I believe I can make a decent looking site with some new software I have been playing with.  I dont want anything really heavy, so that it is a reasonably fast site.  I''ll just have to see as we go along, and get closer to being able to buy it.  Obviously, with the domain names, they will all point to here, so no matter which one you type in, they will all go to the same place. There are several variations of 1957ford.com, and I hope to retain all or most of them.

[Jerrys Kars]

JP, I have John's 57 blue and white supercharged Custom. Bought it from Tom Kitchen several yrs ago. I am more than willing to contribute to the fund for the site. Just let me know how and what. John had about 100 pics of the car as the signature page on his site. I would like to have a copy of them. Willing to pay. Hope John is doing OK. I know he's been trying to sell site for some time. Hope your plan works out. Pm me.
Jerry

[JPotter57]

John is doing well.  He is just tired.  He has kept this site up for 20 odd years.  He is retired and ready to move on at this point.  Hopefully, we will be able to get the money to purchase the site by Christmas or New Years.  Once we have everything at my place, I can begin assembling it on our webspace, and then we can see what we have.  Once I get them, I will make available ALL photos that John has, plus several hundred that I have taken myself. 

[JPotter57]

https://www.gofundme.com/purchase-of-1957fordcom-website

Here is the link to the GoFundMe page

[lalessi1]

Excellent job James. I will contribute and follow the page religiously.

[RICH MUISE]

How are the donations made to go-fund-me? Do they accept paypal, and if they do, is there going to be a double fee charged...one by go fund me, and one by paypal?

[JPotter57]

I dont know, I havent made a donation to the gofundme page yet..

[junior58]

Simple to do through the gofundme page, just loaded bank card (credit or debit) and away it went. Didn't see an option for Paypal, but if that is your prefered method of payment you could possibly just do it direct to James (if he has a Paypal account, which is also simple to set up).

[gasman826]

How are the donations made to go-fund-me? Do they accept paypal, and if they do, is there going to be a double fee charged...one by go fund me, and one by paypal?

As I read it, gofundme gets 5% and 2.9% for credit card fee.  100% of your donation goes to the fund raiser and the giver pays the 7.9%.  I know all of you can do the math but to be clear, $100 donation to 57fordsforever means JP gets $100 and you're billed $107.90.  If you send $100 PayPal, you get billed $100 and JP gets $100 minus the PayPal charge of 2.9% and $0.30 per transaction.  So either system is fairly safe and proofed.  If you have PayPal...use PayPal.  If no PayPal or you want to stay anonymous, use gofundme.  Gofundme does keep a running total toward the goal so JP doesn't have to do the accounting or get status updates.  For that reason alone, gofundme might be the way to go.

[lalessi1]

Thanks gasman826 for the info. The gofundme site is up to $650 as of now. I joined the AACA today and I am going o a meeting tomorrow, seems to me a buck here and there will add up, I will try to get it out there!!!

[JPotter57]

I also have 225 cash that I got in the mail to add to the pot.

[hiball3985]

Bump. I think this should go to the top occasionally so no one misses it.

[JPotter57]

We are now halfway to our goal.  Spread the word fellows, we still have $1543 to go.  A big thanks to everyone who has donated so far. 

[RICH MUISE]

To The Top
Payday finally got here and I sent my donation I had pledged back when this first came up.
2/3 the way there now.

[JPotter57]

Got 200 more in the mail yesterday, so we are getting closer still.  Cant wait to be able to cut a check to John.