Please provide your links in the comments section below and I’ll get them to the AutoTempest team. We’ll also be keeping tabs on their progress, and will let you know when they’re ready to share the new tool with the world. Oh, and you Hoons will get the first chance to do so when they are. Bonus! AutoTempest is an awesome tool for anyone looking to buy a car, determine values on the ones you already own, or just to stoke your automotive dreams, the least we could do is to help ’em make it even better.
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40 responses to “Help A Hoon – AutoTempest Needs Your Help”
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Be sure the Hooniverse Marketplace is represented in the search results.
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I've been using AutoTempest a lot since it was mentioned here as well. It really is an incredibly useful tool. I'll happily help out with some of the ones I can think of. Unfortunately one of my personal favorites, TurboBricks has their classifieds set to private, so it won't work for searching…
GTO Forums:
1) http://www.ls1gto.com/forums (NOTE: at the bottom of the page on this site is a MASSIVE list of the associated forums on the same network of forum sites!)
2) http://www.gtoforum.com/forum-index.php
3) http://www.newagegto.com/forums/
BMW Forums:
1) http://forum.e46fanatics.com/
2) http://www.e90post.com/forums/
3) http://www.e30tech.com/forum/
RX7 Forums:
1) http://www.rx7club.com/
2) http://www.nopistons.com/
Volvo Forums:
1) http://www.brickboard.com/CLASSADS/
2) http://brickspeed.net/forum/index.php
Edit: Hopefully fixed Intense Debate's shitfucking of my formatting…
I'll try to add more as I think of them.-
TB is going to open their classifieds to Google, or so sayeth Dana. Plus one for Brickspeed, though!
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I love AutoTempest, it's great for searching for those vehicles where you expect 5-50 to be for sale in the entire country (Alas: that seems to include all of the 1970s AMC compacts, so that's what I use it for these days). I'm still surprised at how well they're doing with the CL aggregation (unless CL has let up on that arms race a bit).
Anyway, to answer the question: JeepForum.com has a pretty decent For-Sale section. It's mostly TJs and Grand Cherokees, but there's a few YJs and a smattering of older, rarer Jeeps. (I don't know how often it's updated, just that it's there and has a decent number of recent postings. I own the Jeep I want. 😉 -
Well, those of you who, like me, are into less, er, obvious cars, or indeed less desirable ones; and who live in or near England, could do worse than visiting <a href="http://www.Autoshite.com” target=”_blank”>www.Autoshite.com and looking on their message board. All kinds of miserable old rubbish ends up for sale on there. It's great!
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What a great site, thanks!
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alfabb.com, the alfa and omega of the online Alfa community.
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Jaguar:
– http://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/private-sale-tr…
G8 Forums (guess what I've been looking to buy recently):
– grrrr8.net
– http://www.g8board.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=…
LS1Tech of course:
– http://ls1tech.com/forums/marketplace/cars/search…
Mustangs:
– http://mustangforums.com/forum/mustangs-for-sale-…
– http://www.stangnet.com/mustang-forums/#mustang-c…
– http://www.moddedmustangs.com/forums/vehicle-clas…-
RX7:
– Norotors.com
Toyota:
– http://www.clublexus.com/forums/lexus-vehicles-cl…
– http://forums.club4ag.com/viewforum.php?f=26&…
– http://www.toyotanation.com/forum/65-vehicles/
Nissan:
– http://zilvia.net/f/cars-sale/
– http://forums.nicoclub.com/classifieds.html
– http://my350z.com/forum/cars-for-sale-81/-
Sorry, you got caught in the spam filters (dropping a bunch of links does that)
Things should be better going forward.-
No worries, thanks for the response. Figured that's what it was with all the links 🙂
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preludepower.com http://www.preludepower.com/forums/forumdisplay.p…
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<a href="http://www.ratsun.net” target=”_blank”>www.ratsun.net <a href="http://www.nicoclub.com” target=”_blank”>www.nicoclub.com <a href="http://www.rx8club.com” target=”_blank”>www.rx8club.com http://www.zcar.com/ http://www.cadillacforums.com/cadillac-classified… http://www.naxja.org/forum/ http://www.cherokeeforum.com/ http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/ http://www.s14.net/forums/forum.php http://zilvia.net/ http://forums.fourtitude.com/forum.php
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Somehow, I hadn't noticed the For Sale section of Pirate 4×4… That is exactly as entertaining as I would have expected. Probably should be off limits for the CL Crapshoot.
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Given the sheer amount of sub sections on that forum, one can't be blamed for their scroll finger getting exhausted before reaching the classified section…
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Yes, but it also means there's always more magic to discover at Pirate 4×4. I love lurking there, because it's a level of wackiness that I don't think I actually want to attain, but it's there, it's glorious, it's wonderfully uncouth and thanks to the huge numbers of sections, there seems to be more magic to discover all the time.
Hey, you could try to sell your BMW there! This guy managed to sell his X5: http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/vehicles-trailers-…-
Hey! That's not an BM…. oh, hey… kidney grille. Whaddaya know…
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Beat me to it!
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For Peugeot, http://www.505turbo.com/forum/index.php?/forum/15…
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My favorite auto classifieds site is http://www.racingjunk.com
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Nasioc.com and miata.net. Subaru and Miata!
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jeepsunlimited.com (All Jeeps)
nagca.com (Grand Cherokees need love too… they just gotta pay for it)
bmw2002faq.com-
I saw a lifted WJ this morning and was very tempted.
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As someone who just bought a ZJ, I approve. A WJ was my second choice (I don't like the round/bulbuous front-end treatment, but the flat floor and 4.7L V8 sounded nice…).
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The search method of Autotempest makes it hard to use for the rare, odd cars that I want to search, because it insists on very specific model names in the search that the sellers may not have listed in the same way. A few variations on the text of the search can easily find examples that won't show up with a Autotempest search.
Also, I'm mostly only interested in Craigslist ads, so I just use searchtempest, The last two cars I bought were from craigslist ads, and in both cases I used searchtempest to find the listings, not craigslist's own interface and not Autotempest. I'll probably be buying another car in the next month or two, and I expect it will go the same way.
But here's an idea for Autotempest: an option to list only the oddball cars in a given radius and price bracket. I usually dredge through craigslist directly for hours on end to find out what weirdness is available, and if a search engine could cut the say 200 most common vehicles from that search, I would use that engine several times a week and probably buy a vehicle that way. I don't need to sift through hundreds of tahoes and camrys to find that someone has listed a Comanche Eliminator, but I probably won't think to search for the Comanche every time either. Or a turbo Saabaru. Or a Peugeot 505, etc.-
An obscurity engine would be both
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It isn't necessarily that difficult. It's a culling problem. CL provides RSS feeds. If you just parse the RSS feed, and identify the entries that have common words in the titles, you'll be able to build a DB of common makes/marques. You may need to do some uniqueness testing (ie, pull the actual add and check for identical ads between two entries). Then you just return the stuff you cannot identify as common.
Also, anything that makes SEO consultants curl up and wet themselves has to be a good thing.
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Totally understand why a lot of people prefer SearchTempest to look for cars over AutoTempest. That said, tons of people prefer using AutoTempest, so luckily we've got both so we can appeal to as many people as possible!
Hmm… looking specifically for weird cars is an interesting idea. Not exactly sure how that could be pulled off, but it's definitely something to keep in mind. Right now, we're focused on a few other features (like this forum search and a mobile site), but it's something I'll definitely keep in mind for the future!-
The oddball search could be an "I'm feeling lucky" button.
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If I hit their 'I'm Feeling Lucky" and got this:
<img src="http://assets.hemmings.com/uimage/7582144-620-0.jpg" width=500>
I would ball up in the fetal position for several weeks before starting an AutoTempest religion. <a href="http://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/dealer/detomaso/unspecified/1237015.html” target=”_blank”>http://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/dealer/detomaso/unspecified/1237015.html
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Also, if you do want to search odd cars on AutoTempest and we don't have them in the drop downs, just leave it on Any Make/Any Model and just use the keywords to search!
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Thanks for all the suggestions folks! Keep em coming!
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This is where I found my Land Rover Disco. I'm not sure I'm doing anyone any favors.
http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/forums/96-F…
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Autotempest. I love it; my wife hates me for it.
So, forums?
http://www.lincolnsofdistinction.org/vbulletin/fo… http://www.taurusclub.com/forum/86-sale/ http://fordification.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=12 http://www.fordification.net/forums/viewforum.php… http://www.lincolnforums.com/forums/forums/15-Lin… http://www.astrosafari.com/viewforum.php?f=30&… -
Here are the model specific forums I frequent.
E30:
r3vlimited.com
e30tech.com
bimmerforums.com
Mustang:
corral.net
foureyepride.com
stangnet.com
Mazda3/Mazdaspeed
mazdaspeedforums.org
mazdas247.com
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It's possible I missed this one somewhere up above and it's already posted, but in case it isn't:
http://coloradok5.com/forums/
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For Mopars with fins: http://www.forwardlook.net/forums/category-view.a….
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http://www.galantvr4.org
I lived on this forum for a while during my second stint of VR-4 ownership, before selling the car through its Cars For Sale page. You can imagine that people interested in such an obscure, twenty-something vehicle also post other interesting rides in the used car listings.
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