Those of you who have been around for a while know that come spring time, the demands from my other business activities really start to intrude into my CC addiction. I’ve been especially concerned about this year, because I have to scale back here, and get a house built; two actually, one for rent-paying humans and one for egg-laying chickens. As well, there are on-going remodels, maintenance, and other demands. But a solution has miraculously appeared, in the person of Tom Klockau.
Life-long auto enthusiast, long-time CC reader and prolific Contributor, Tom has agreed to take over the reins here at CC, while I do what I need to do, as well giving me more time to hopefully monetize CC more effectively. Tom is currently unemployed and looking for a job. My goal now is to find enough money to make it worthwhile for Tom to stay at CC; our first employee. Here’s how you can help.
There are going to be more google ads at CC, so do feel free to click ads at your leisure. And I’m looking at other advertising possibilities. Monetizing a not-quite-huge site is tough; I’m exploring any and all options…. And as much as I hate “begging”, but if any of you are able and willing to pitch in on a “Keep Tom Klockau employed at CC Fund”, please contact me via the Contact Form on the Menu bar. I really can’t keep up what I’ve been doing, and having Tom write, edit, and attend to the myriad of daily details necessary to keep the CC ship afloat is a vital step towards keeping this site sustainable and growing. If your daily dose of CC is worth it to you, here’s your opportunity to show it, and help make sure it keeps on coming.
But you haven’t gotten rid of me yet, though. I’ll still be writing at least one new piece each week, and come the rainy season next fall, that will undoubtedly step up. And I’m still shooting new cars almost daily, which I’ll make available to Tom and the other Contributors. Speaking of, I’m overjoyed that we have cultivated such a fine flock of regular CC Contributors. Want to join the party? Just send us a text and pictures (don’t embed them into the text), and as long as it’s compatible with our format and standards, you too can be a CC author. Or just send a text and point us to pictures you’ve posted to the CC Cohort Flickr page.
My deepest appreciation to Tom (and all of you) for keeping CC rolling.
Welcome to the CC garage!
Looking forward to reading your posts more often as I always enjoy what you write. Best of luck in your job search. I hope this turns in to a full time job here.
Well you have been here for a while so welcome wouldn’t be appropriate. Hope your new position works out well. You certainly have my best wishes.
I believe that congratulations are in order here!
Who would have thought a year ago that CC would grow to the point that there would be ads and a staff!!!
All the best to you Tom.
-Richard
The site is definitely growing and Toms writing fits right in congrats Ill continue to try to shoot interesting subjects for you to write about if I can and of course click the ads. I too am job hunting but have finished up with an agency casual truck driving I begin night trailer swap run tonite.
congrats!
Congrats, Tom!
Congratulations, fellow Volvo-phile !
Looking forward to more of your work!
But who is going to guess all of the hard clues? 🙂
Worse we now have the cluemaster posting them they could become seriously difficult instead of just really hard
Cheers! More Volvo content!
Pretty sure Im driving a Volvo tonite Im not too keen on syncromesh truck transmissions but hey its a job.
Good luck, Amigo. I mean that sincerely. Will the contact email still be the same if we’d like to submit something? (Asks an infrequent and unpredictable submitter who writes rather unusual things.)
Congrats! You never know what doors your work here may open!
Good luck Tom. Maybe Paul will have time to focus on bus and truck postings!
BTW, is an Amazon affiliate link possible? Might be good source of revenue.
Yay! Now I feel less guilty about not submitting enough stuff!
Congrats, Tom!!
My thoughts exactly. I’m heading back to Eugene soon, and hopefully I can find some more inspiration.
My congrats also, Tom! I enjoy reading your articles.
Congrats from NZ Tom! As an aside, CC is so good I’d be happy to pay an annual membership fee – just a thought!
I’ll second the membership fee. I’m in and out of here all the time because this site never fails to make me smile.
+2
We’ve just added that capability, via a PayPal Donate button on the right side.
Excellent, donation made 🙂 It’s not much, but I hope it helps.
“And I’m still shooting new cars almost daily”. Paul, aren’t the people who drive new cars in Eugene going to get angry with you. Look, I know we all like classic cars here, but I think shooting new cars is taking things a bit far 🙂 Seriously though, congratulations Tom.
Congratulations, Tom and Paul. Who’da thunk it this site would have grown into what it has become in just over a year?
I’ll keep sharing my stories and experiences, depending on the cars featured.
Tom; your articles really are good. I look forward to more, for sure.
Tom, I really enjoy your contributions to CC and look forward to more!
Congratulations to the both of you, this has become a really cool community of car people.
Congratulations, Tom! I think some inside-joke shwag would help generate some income. How about a t-shirt with a Volvo circle-bar logo but it says “KLOCKAU” across the middle? There’s no end to the copyrights we could infringe! 🙂
I have been seeing so much content from you, Tom, in the last days that I’m not totally surprised at the announcement. Congratulations!
– Pete
Welcome welcome. From my own meagre contribution of CC’s I know how much work it can be, so well done on the output!
Hopefully both you guys can get to a point where you’re doing this because it’s fun AND profitable…
Welcome aboard Tom! As an ex Volvo driver I look forward to more content from you.
I also kicked in some money to get things going. Maybe in the future you and Paul might roll out subscription option that automatically charges a debit or credit card monthly? I’ve seen this done on some other sites.
Here is a good example of an enthusiast website in my other hobby (photography) that manages to support its editor/publisher: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/blog_index.html
Thanks for the donation and I’m going to look into something like that for CC.
Welcome Tom,
I like your posts as like Paul, they are insightful and interesting – from another part of the world, I mean, country. 🙂
After all, CC’s tend to live just about anywhere besides Eugene, even in rust country.
Good luck with the job hunt!
re: yellow 245 in Eugene Oregon: we thought this was our car!!
We bought this one in 2011 here in Corvallis and are still amazed we found one in such great shape to replace our zillion mile 1979 245. When we came across the Eugene photos of the yellow 245 you posted, we went “is that ours?! How could it be? How could it not be?”
It certainly could be the same car. While this post was written in 2012, Paul took the photos. It could have been two or three years earlier when he spotted it.
Tom… I understand that you like triple-yellow Cadillac Sevilles (first generation).
There is a ’79 triple-yellow Cadillac Seville on Rhode Island Craigslist, for $2,0000. It’s in Northern Rhode Island.
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