Good points, all. However, let me clarify (and sorry for misleading), I view the individual posts as being purely an owner’s registry rather than build threads such as those found in the Member Rides file. To reiterate, one post per owner with very basic information about their car and the owner having editing privileges of his/her particular post. Using my car for example, the original post (representing when the car was first built) may have read something like this:
Manufacturer: Brunton Automotive
Chassis: #85, Classis Stalker
Title/Titled as: 1964 Lotus 7
Engine: L67 Supercharged V6
Transmission: 1997 Camaro V6 5-speed
Rear end: Solid axle with Torsen LSD, 3.45:1
Color: Red
Now that my car has undergone drive train changes, I could go back and edit the post to reflect the car’s current status, such as:
Manufacturer: Brunton Automotive
Chassis: #85, Classic Stalker
Title/Titled as: 1964 Lotus 7
Engine: LS6 V8
Transmission: Tremec TKO 5-speed built by Liberty Performance with .82 OD
Rear end: Solid axle with Torsen LSD, 3.23:1
Color: Red
Something you hit on, as well as others on this thread (and it makes really good sense) is to simply put all of these owner-specific posts (for lack of a better term) in a single thread labeled Owner’s Registry, or something to that effect. This could be placed in the General section as a separate folder or perhaps placed within, with a default to the top of, the Member Rides folder. Another idea within the thread would be to limit each posts title to simply read Birkin, Caterham, etc. (maybe chosen from a dropdown list created by the moderator). Once a post is placed, have the post to ‘post’ alphabetically (yes, yes, all Birkin owners to the top ). If two posts are placed on the same day, and each post is of like manufacturer, allow each post to ‘post’ alphabetically with respect to time and date of entry. However, the one place I could see the ‘manufacturer’s title’ idea posing a problem is if someone happened to own two Lotus 7 style cars with each car having been produced by a different manufacturer; case in point, DE in Kansas owns both a Brunton and a Birkin. In that case, the owner could request/receive permission from the moderator to place a second post within the thread (each post representing each car).
Here is a pretty good link to all/most of the manufacturers out there. Scroll about a third of the way down the page to view the manufacturers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Seven