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The FinalGear.com Forums

TechZ — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:53:27 +0000

Yes FinalGear devotees, we not only have this (now rather dated *hint hint Viper*) homepage, we also have forums!

Chock full of threads and posts by others like YOU making the site a very handy resource. We have sections on Fifth Gear (RIP), Top Gear and a few other interesting shows. Not to mention all the shows that the hosts do when they aren’t making episodes of some our very favourite series. Heard a tune in one of the episodes you really like? We have a section on that too!

Even with so many (expected) sections, we have threads on food, entertainment and tons more, guaranteed to waste your semi-precious time from work or home or simply taking the train (wtf?) to work.

A lot of you already know about the forums, but you’d be surprised as to how many don’t, so those of you who don’t have no excuse not to sign up.

The FinalGear.com Forums originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Tue, 3 November 2009 at 22:53 GMT.

FinalGear Meet At LeMons Ohio 2009

Viper007Bond — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:05:47 +0000

For any of you who are in the Ohio area, LeMons Ohio is this weekend and we’ll be having a car there. Our team is hoping to do even better than our previous outings and they’d love it if you’d drop by and say hi.

You can find details about the event on the LeMons website and details about our LeMons history our forums. The guys also have a Twitter account where they’ll be posting updates.

If you’d like to help our LeMons team out, donations are greatly appreciated as they guys going are sinking their own money into this.

Pictures of our team’s 1999 Buick LeSabre:

FinalGear Meet At LeMons Ohio 2009 originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Wed, 30 September 2009 at 06:05 GMT.

New FinalGear T-Shirts Now Available In Our Store!

Viper007Bond — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:48:03 +0000

[The shirts have sold out! Thanks to everyone for ordering and making it a big success!]

Our third batch of shirts are now available for pre-order in our new store (orders will be shipped starting October 12th). We also have a couple leftovers from the first and second batches, so get them before supplies run out.

Here are the four new shirts:

New FinalGear T-Shirts Now Available In Our Store! originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Wed, 9 September 2009 at 02:48 GMT.

New FinalGear.com T-Shirt Design Contest

Viper007Bond — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:40:38 +0000

Since the previous two sets of T-shirts were so successful, we’ve decided to do some more designs.

As like before, it’ll be a contest where anyone and everyone can submit their ideas for a design. Winners will get a free shirt or two, some swag, and major props and gratitude. :P

If you’re interested in entering, you can find the full contest details on our forums.

New FinalGear.com T-Shirt Design Contest originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Fri, 7 August 2009 at 23:40 GMT.

FinalGear Mini-Meet: July 11th In NYC With Garage419

Viper007Bond — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:52:10 +0000

Garage419 will be returning this Saturday. They’ll be participating in the 2009 BullRun Rally from New York City to Austin, Texas and will be posting a new episode from the road every night as well as tweeting their progress. They’ll be participating in a 2010 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor, a street legal Baja truck:

Since we host Garage419’s official forums, we thought this would be a good opportunity to have a mini-meetup of FinalGear’ers. So if you’re in the New York City area and aren’t doing anything this Saturday morning, please consider showing up at the Hotel Gansevoort to meet the Garage419 gang and fellow FinalGear’ers. UPDATE: Be there by 8:30am!

Details and discussion can be found at this forum thread.

FinalGear Mini-Meet: July 11th In NYC With Garage419 originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Tue, 7 July 2009 at 02:52 GMT.

Server Troubles… Fixed?

Viper007Bond — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:58:59 +0000

You guys sure love your Top Gear, don’t you? We managed to break our server today due to the metric assload of traffic (we broke all of our old traffic records, even with the downtime), but PacketCollision and Quiky managed to sort it all out, we hope.

So apologies for the downtime, but we should hopefully be good from here on out. Now go watch Top Gear — it was a great episode!

UPDATE: Things are looking quite good. The drop in traffic plus the tweaked server settings seems to have done the trick. Oh, and for future reference — if the site ever goes down again, make sure to check the site’s Twitter account as I’ll post status updates there.

Server Troubles… Fixed? originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Sun, 21 June 2009 at 23:58 GMT.

FinalGear Meet: October 3rd/4th at Garrettsville, Ohio (LeMons)

Viper007Bond — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:44:23 +0000

Yes, we’re going LeMons racing yet again!

This year we’ll be entering a car in the Garrettsville, Ohio race at the Nelson Ledges Road Course. It will be a true 24 hour race rather than the more common two 12 hour races. We’re also turning into a FinalGear meet, so we hope to see you there! All the details about the day and a sneak peek at our car this year can be found on our forums.

FinalGear Meet: October 3rd/4th at Garrettsville, Ohio (LeMons) originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Thu, 18 June 2009 at 21:44 GMT.

FinalGear.com Forums Passes One Million Posts Mark!

Viper007Bond — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:16:43 +0000

I’m proud to announce that a little over 24 hours ago, our forums passed the one million post mark! Thanks to everyone who has participated on our forums. To the rest of you, I hope to see you help us toward the two million mark. There’s lots of great stuff on our forums including stuff in future Top Gear episodes that I don’t post on the front page (as many people don’t like spoilers).

FinalGear.com Forums Passes One Million Posts Mark! originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Fri, 12 June 2009 at 06:16 GMT.

FinalGear Is Now The Official Home Of The Garage419 Forums

Viper007Bond — Fri, 01 May 2009 11:26:30 +0000

You may or may not have heard of Garage419. For those who haven’t, they’re an online automotive review show. Here’s a one of their episodes:

Click here to view the embedded media.

Anyway, until now they’ve relied on YouTube comments and their own video commenting system to gather feedback from their viewers. However they recently approached us with a proposal for us to host their forums. They’re big fans of our site and especially our forums and were looking for an existing community to become a part of. We happily agreed as this means more exposure for us via promotions on their site and in their videos and it benefits them too by spreading the word about their great little series.

So, starting today, you can discuss their episodes, make episode suggestions, and more all via a new section on our forums.

FinalGear Is Now The Official Home Of The Garage419 Forums originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Fri, 1 May 2009 at 11:26 GMT.

E-Mail Working Again

Viper007Bond — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:34:30 +0000

If you tried to contact me over the past week, your e-mail didn’t come through. Please resend it. It didn’t occur to me that our e-mail wasn’t working due to the server issues, otherwise I would have disabled the form and posted a message saying why.

Just re-send your message now and I’ll get it. :)

E-Mail Working Again originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Sun, 19 April 2009 at 07:34 GMT.

FinalGear: Back To Normal

Viper007Bond — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:27:16 +0000

Just a quick note saying everything is back to normal server wise as of a day or two ago. Nice and fast as before (if not faster). Thanks for your patience during the past week.

FinalGear: Back To Normal originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Fri, 17 April 2009 at 11:27 GMT.

Server Hardware Troubles Will Result In Downtime

Viper007Bond — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 02:53:49 +0000

This is just a quick note to let you know that the site (including the forums) may be offline sporadically over the next couple days. One of the hard drives on our server failed, so we’re only running off one drive at the moment. Backups are currently taking place and we’re moving the site and/or forums to temporary hosting until the new drives arrive on Tuesday. We’ll then reload everything on the server (might as well since it’ll be offline for the drive swap) and we should be fully back online on Tuesday or Wednesday.

During our downtimes (or anytime really), feel free to join us in our IRC channel: #gear on irc.finalgear.com. If you don’t have an IRC client such as Chatzilla, you can connect using Mibbit (bookmark that link).

Thanks for being patient and for using FinalGear.com. :)

Server Hardware Troubles Will Result In Downtime originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Sun, 12 April 2009 at 02:53 GMT.

FinalGear Shirts Available for Purchase!

Quiky — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:38:14 +0000

That’s right, the Spring 2009 FinalGear shirts are available for purchase!

The shirts ship international starting on April 26th, and are $16 each+shipping. Check this forum thread for details.

FinalGear Shirts Available for Purchase! originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Wed, 25 March 2009 at 18:38 GMT.

FinalGear.com Shirts 2009 Edition, Design Contest

TechZ — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:26:41 +0000

Now, with prizes!

Think you have what it takes to create a winning design that will be printed and sold to 100’s if not 1000’s of FinalGear.com fans!?

FinalGear.com is holding an open competition until March 10th, 2009 where you have just under a week to submit your designs which will be put to a vote and yes, there are prizes!

If you’ve not already signed up to the forums, do so and submit your design.

FinalGear.com Shirts 2009 Edition, Design Contest originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Thu, 5 March 2009 at 20:26 GMT.

Site DNS Issues

Viper007Bond — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:48:40 +0000

Update: Everything should be working entirely normally now.

Just a quick note to say that we’re aware of the issues we’ve been having with the site for the past 24-48 hours and that we’re working on it. The website should be fine for everyone, but our IRC hostname is probably still pointing at an old IP address. If you’re having trouble connecting to our IRC channel ( irc.finalgear.com #gear ), please try connecting to 81.171.42.235 instead.

Site DNS Issues originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Sat, 10 January 2009 at 13:48 GMT.

Chat Widget Fixed

Viper007Bond — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:04:40 +0000

Just a quick note to let you know that our chat widget is working again, although I still recommend connecting via mIRC or Chatzilla.

Chat Widget Fixed originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Wed, 17 December 2008 at 01:04 GMT.

Top Gear 12×07 Released

Viper007Bond — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:27:43 +0000

Today’s episode of Top Gear is out now. As usual, it’s also available via HTTP (free forum registration required) if you prefer not to use the torrent.

Top Gear 12×07 Released originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Sun, 14 December 2008 at 22:27 GMT.

Top Gear Airing Time; FinalGear IRC Chat Room

Viper007Bond — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:25:59 +0000

Just a reminder that Top Gear is airing an hour later today, i.e. it’s on the air now instead of being over 20 minutes ago. Since I don’t have a time traveling device, this means the release will also be an hour late today.

Second, due to boring technical issue that I won’t bother explaining, our chat widget is essentially broken. You’ll need to use a real IRC client such as mIRC or the Firefox extension ChatZilla for the time being if you want to connect.

Top Gear Airing Time; FinalGear IRC Chat Room originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Sun, 14 December 2008 at 21:25 GMT.

Server Trouble

Viper007Bond — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:41:34 +0000

UPDATE: All fixed now. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Hmm, looks like our static.finalgear.com subdomain that serves all of the site’s images and CSS is down meaning that the site and forums probably look like crap to you right now. Sorry about that, but I’m too big of a server noob to know how to fix it. We’ll have to wait for Quiky to come back to his PC. Hang in there meanwhile.

Server Trouble originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Sun, 21 September 2008 at 23:41 GMT.

Top Gear Spoilers

Viper007Bond — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:31:12 +0000

This is just a reminder that I don’t post spoilers on the front page, so if you’re wanting to know where they’ve been and are currently filming, make sure to check out the spoilers section of our forums. Lots of great stuff there right now!

Top Gear Spoilers originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Fri, 19 September 2008 at 03:31 GMT.

FinalGear.com Twitter Account

Viper007Bond — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:18:53 +0000

I started using Twitter about a week ago and figured it’d be nice to have a Twitter account for FinalGear.com where notifications of new news posts would be posted. So if you use Twitter, feel free to follow FinalGear.com’s account to stay up to date.

FinalGear.com Twitter Account originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Thu, 11 September 2008 at 11:18 GMT.

FG.com Meet: Melbourne/Victoria Australia On October 26th

Viper007Bond — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:43:05 +0000

Our Australian forum members are having another Melbourne-area meet. If you’re in the area, they’d love to have you come. The previous ones have looked to be quite fun and I’m sure this one will be too.

FG.com Meet: Melbourne/Victoria Australia On October 26th originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Thu, 4 September 2008 at 01:43 GMT.

FinalGear.com Finland Meet On September 16th

Viper007Bond — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:45:42 +0000

If you’re in Finland (or near by), a bunch of our forum members will be going to a track day at Ahvenisto Race Circuit on September 16th. If you’re interested, check out our forums for further details.

FinalGear.com Finland Meet On September 16th originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Fri, 29 August 2008 at 10:45 GMT.

LeMons South 2008: Incar Footage

Quiky — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:38:33 +0000

It took us quite a while to sort out the video and get it web-ready, but we finally have a good chunk finished and ready for you to watch.

We had HD cameras in two cars; the #91 Saabs Gone Wild 900 Turbo, and our own #42 Ford Crown Victoria.

The first two videos are from the Saabs Gone Wild team.

The audio from the cameras is VERY loud, so please turn down your speakers before starting the clips.

Click here to view the embedded media.

(118MB)

Unfortunately, the camera failed during day two and caused broken video clips, so here is all of them slapped together in one long shot.

Click here to view the embedded media.

(413MB)

Now in the Crown Victoria; First up is Chris on Day 2:

Click here to view the embedded media.

(135MB, no audio)

Nick on Day 2:

Click here to view the embedded media.

(288MB)

LeMons South 2008: Incar Footage originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Mon, 18 August 2008 at 02:38 GMT.

FinalGear.com On Facebook

Viper007Bond — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:22:38 +0000

I personally don’t use Facebook much, but there are many people on our forums who do. As a result, I figured it was time for FinalGear to have a Facebook page, so I created one: FinalGear.com on Facebook. Feel free to fan us if you’re a Facebook user.

FinalGear.com On Facebook originally appeared on FinalGear.com on Sat, 16 August 2008 at 08:22 GMT.