• For all members (past, current, and new)

    THANK YOU ALL FOR HELPING TO GET THIS CLUB OFF THE STARTING LINE !!!

    To begin your membership with Gateway Cobra Club please submit your vital information to our club registrar/Treasurer: Paul Proefrock

    Please include your:

    Name, address, phone numbers (work, home, cell) e-mail, etc. Also, tell us about your Cobra (make, model, year, colors, engine, options, stage of build, etc.), where you bought it, any other particulars. Also include other vehicles, birthdays, your occupation & company, and any other details about you and you significant others. BTW - this info will not be posted on-line (EVER). It's just for us - to make the club better. We will eventually create a database for internal club use only.

    We will begin collecting dues soon to enable the activities that we have planned for the year - so stay tuned for that.

    FINALLY - get involved. Attend the meetings, schedule some cruises, and have some fun. We want to make this club fun (for the whole family). We're small (for now) but we're going to make a big noise here in St. Louis. In the end - this club will only be as good as our members participation.

    Thanks for joining us - see you in the fast lane!

who are you?

PaulProe

PaulProe

TREASURER & Web Administrator, Member # 019
Staff member
Paid Member
Location
Manchester
First Name
Paul
Last Name
Proefrock
There are multiple reasons to join the Gateway Cobra Club. One of them is the fellowship. This ZeeMap shows the distribution of our current 43 members.

There's a lot to GCC but more importantly, you're a part of it

Paul
 
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Mark
Got the list, will try to do a compare to see who left, who joined and update the map.

How about a link on the home page? Sure would like to encourage more to join our group. There are probably 20 more prospects out there.

Paul
 
Thanks, Paul. That's cool. While I agree it could help potential new members, from a nefarious point of view it could also help the bad guys to fill out their shopping list. Not that it would ever happen.
 
TBULL said:
While I agree it could help potential new members, from a nefarious point of view it could also help the bad guys to fill out their shopping list. Not that it would ever happen.
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Although Pauls purpose was with the best of intentions....Dan makes a very legitimate and IMPORTANT point that should not be minimized. Since street addresses are provided on these maps...this is a stolen Cobra or home invasion waiting to happen....!!!

Doesn't anyone besides Dan and I see this risk???

I do NOT want this information posted on a public map and ask that our entry be removed ASAP. None of us agreed to have this information posted on a public venue and many of us go to great lengths to keep our information private from those with bad intentions.

I would also advise other members to think long and hard before allowing such detailed information be posted on where to find "Cobra's available for the taking"...

I thought we were smarter than that...

Kerry and Kathy
 
I have moved this thread to the Paid Members ONLY area. However, the map is still public. This came up on the FFCars forum last year and that map has been modified to show what city the person lives in, not the actual address. Paul, we all have a member list with names/addresses on it, not sure if a public map is the right thing to have out there. Per Kerry's request, please remove his entry asap. As for me, I ask you remove the address.

As for your concern Kerry - I have my garage door open a lot. Many times to just sit in the driveway to drink a beer or to talk to neighbors. I live on a corner lot. A lot of people see my car in the garage. I feel that if a person wants to steal it, they would resort to easier methods than searching on the web for a map that shows the locations of replica cars. I'm sure a baddy could follow me home, find my pictures on Facebook or other public sites and figure out how to track me down much easier. JMO though.
 
Purple Venom said:
As for your concern Kerry - I have my garage door open a lot. Many times to just sit in the driveway to drink a beer or to talk to neighbors. I live on a corner lot. A lot of people see my car in the garage. I feel that if a person wants to steal it, they would resort to easier methods than searching on the web for a map that shows the locations of replica cars. I'm sure a baddy could follow me home, find my pictures on Facebook or other public sites and figure out how to track me down much easier. JMO though.
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Tim,

You might think differently if two of your homes had been broken into four times in a six year period at a loss of over $12,000 in personal property...of which insurance covered less than half.

BTW, The second break-in occurred after the first thief communicated the details to one of his drinking buddies who not only stole guns and ammunition but trashed the house looking for more.

The third break-in I thwarted when I caught two guys in Jeep at 1:45 on a Saturday morning after they had cut a lock and chain to gain access to our farm. I chased them on an atv until they outran me on a county road.

The forth break-in occurred in Hoene Springs ( 6 miles South of Marks house and two miles North of Dan's house) where my ex-wife came home from a Christmas Cookie party to walk in our front door and come face to face with two men going out the back door dropping rifles as they ran... Jefferson County Sheriff's Dept couldn't even find a neck knife left at the scene where they broke a basement window for entry. I tracked the two ass holes for 1/4 mile where I found where one had gotten into a parked car while the other continued on foot to a house I reported to the Sheriffs Dept. Turns out the house had two felons living there. A father and son. Yet Jefferson County would do nothing without probable cause...which meant they had to see one of the two wearing Hob nail boots which was what was worn at the break-in and left the trail I followed.

I once had the same attitude you have...but I learned a very expensive lesson that the less information available to the bad guys, the better. You can't totally eliminate the risk...but you can help to minimize it.

Kerry
 
Map is gone

All data from map has been removed
 
Kind of related. One of my best web clients had their site hacked last night. The group has hacked thousands of sites for no other reason than destruction. It's gonna cost my client about 1000 dollars to get back up, and the lost sales for the week. There's nothing they (or I) could have done to prevent it. It was just people looking to destroy something, and the hope of gaining access to some credit card numbers and e-mail addresses.

I found them. Luxemburg. Our site here gets hit every single day by hackers from all over the world. I can track their IP addresses. I've done my best to add some security features, and to prevent many IPs from getting access. But still many get on to the public areas. Just part of modern life I guess. But it sucks.

I would add that anything you do on-line, browse, e-mail, searching, typing, clicking - anything and everything is never ever private. It can (and is) tracked, hacked and exploited.
 
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