Hello from north shore of Massachusetts! 79 2000

[MrClancy]

Hello all! Just got my first Spider and very pleased to find this site! Will be doing a complete interior restoration over the coming months. Would be great to find some fellow enthusiasts up here north of Boston or in Southern NH...anyone out there? There's a very cool place in Rye, NH called 'Brit Bits'...they sell and service all the old British stuff; MG's, Healey's, etc. Anyone know of an equivalent cool place for Fiats up this way? Not sure how to post a picture just yet, but I'll get some pics ups at some point when I figure that out. Anyway, looking forward to enjoying the car and meeting some other enthusiasts.

[steve8462]

welcome aboard! i'm familiar with your neck if the woods! my brother used to own a restaurant in Marblehead, MA called "the sandbar & Grille" and he lives in Lynn, MA

rroller will post info on how to put pictures on this site. he has worked out an easy system to do it.

[RRoller123]

Welcome aboard from another local enthusiast! I am in Foxboro and my wife used to live up In Ipswich. Beautiful part of New England.

This is a procedure that I have been developing for a little while on how to post pictures here in the Forum. Hope it is useful, and comments are always welcome.

HOW TO POST PICTURES IN FIATSPIDER.COM REV: B

Well that picture-posting thing sure is confusing. Took me forever to figure it out. Here is what I do:

First, you must post your pictures on photobucket.com or one of the similar competing websites. You can't post pics directly from your computer. So set up a free account there first. The instructions here reference photobucket.com.

Then in your FS.com post, look for the "Img" box at the top of the post, #9 from the left in the row of command icons.

Put the cursor where you want the pic to appear in the post (leave a few spaces after text is a good idea) and click the "Img" button/icon above.

Then go to the photobucket.com site (or competitor) and find your pic. Hover the cursor over the pic and a drop down menu will appear. Then click the "Direct Link" or similar button. In Photobucket, it will respond with a "copied" indication.

Go back to your FS.com post and make sure the cursor is EXACTLY in between the 2 Img boxes: [img](cursor%20in%20here)[/img] then right click and hit "paste" and the web link for the pic will show up in between the 2 img boxes. DON'T hit the IMG button a second time. MOVE your cursor out of the IMG info you just created before you hit enter.

Now when you post the post, the pic will be there!

Remember that if you delete the photobucket "master" pic, it will no longer appear in the posting here on FS.com

Also: there is a size limit to the pictures that can be displayed here, I think it is 750 pixels in width, someone correct me if I am wrong. So you may need to resize (typically downsize) the pics so that they fit properly and all of the pic is displayed and not cropped.

This can be done in MS Office Picture Manager, where your pictures can be cropped and resized. Do this resizing before you load the pictures onto Photobucket or competing site. Remember to resize them to be no more than 750 pixels in width, or they will be truncated.

Another approach, which is what I usually, do is pretty simple but requires some emailing effort. I email the original picture to myself embedded within an AOL email. AOL will automatically prompt you to see if you want the picture "optimized". Say "yes" and send this new pic to yourself. I then save it with a "small" addendum to the picture name and put this optimized picture up on photobucket. It works every single time like a charm.

[donm]

Hi MrClancy. Where on the north shore are you? I'm in Hamilton and would be happy help. I've reached the point on my car where I think I've done all there is to done and I'm getting bored waiting for something else that needs fixing.

[aj81spider]

Hi,

I'm in Chelmsford, just west of Lowell. Welcome aboard.

[wikkid]

Wikkid!
(I grew up on south shore)

Welcome.

[kd1wo]

Yes, Welcome aboard.
I'm in western Mass. (Springfield)
I'm fortunate, My 1979 Fiat 2000 came from Gloucester and I have exclusive rights to an Engineer, my brother-in-law, who is the previous owner.

[MrClancy]

Thanks, all! I'm in Georgetown, up by Rowley and Byfield. Don, you're in Hamilton, thats not far at all, and Chelmsford is about 30 or 40 minutes I would think. Some great roads around here, 1A is a great one, and 133 goes through some great countryside from Gloucester into Ipswich and beyond. Would be fun to get all these Spiders together for a run and get some breakfast somewhere.