Changes at allpar again

We’ve been talking about adding to our single staffer for a long time, and we’re finally doing it. Amusingly, the impetus is not as much the workload as medical costs - to get any sort of “real” insurance (as in “insurance that actually covers you in case of catastrophe”, versus the more common “no-actual-payments” plans) we need to form a group, and a group can be a husband-and-wife team. Therefore, my wife has started working 25 hours a week at Allpar, starting with working on the 1994-2001 Ram 1500 pages, and, incidentally, including coverage of the Washington, DC Auto Show. Hopefully, eventually, we’ll be able to clear out some of our massive backlog now - especially since I’ll be done with my own radiation treatments on Wednesday, and should be fully recovered and back to my usual long work-day by the start of February.

Those of you who frequent the forums may have noticed the new banner ads, courtesy of AdsDAQ. I’m still of mixed mind about those, but they do pay fairly well; the allpar ads are backups and we’ll be adding to those in an attempt to get people to new or underviewed sections.

We’ve now technically passed 1,400 pages but I’m still holding the counter at 1,383 to account for “doorway” pages — that is, pages that don’t really have information but list other pages that do (e.g. the main engines page).

Coming up soon is an excellent series on squad car ownership and collecting - I think you’ll find it fascinating even if you don’t own one. It’s something I’ve always thought of doing, but never actually did.

Anyway, stay tuned this afternoon or this evening (I’m not quite sure when coverage will start) for the Washington DC Auto Show!