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Lots of folks send submissions to the Stovebolt Gallery - you can be one of them!  To make it easier (and FASTER), we have come up with some basic guidelines to help you accomplish this significant achievement. 

While our primary mission with the Gallery is to provide you a place to show off your old GM truck, we have found that the Gallery has turned into an excellent resource (the Gallery sections are some of the highest hits on the site!) for the other Bolters who have questions ... or are searching ... searching. It's all about helping others, remember?

 

We will need:

• Model Year (if unknown, surf the existing trucks in the Gallery and take an educated guess (and let us know), if you don't guess... we will!)
  
  
• Your first and last name.  We like to give credit where credit is due.  Failure to provide this information may create a failure on our part to post the submission (it is important for our filing system).  Also, please include your Stovebolt handle from the forum (if you have one -- it's not required). Now that the gang has grown pretty big, lots of folks want to know where you are from, too. So, please include that. Speaking of, have you see the Stovebolter Locator page?
    
• A description of your truck.  Stories that include: details about truck history, your tortured decision to buy the truck, any nights spent in the dog house / garage / truck bed as a result of the purchase, fantastic deals on parts for the truck, etc. provide good content for a great submission. The more information you provide, the better! We are Info Junkies!
  
  
• Images of your truck. Send at least one picture that shows the majority of your truck!  Acceptable formats include .jpg, .gif, .bmp, .pcx, etc. If you have a lot of pictures, you may want to consider getting an image hosting site (Webshots, Photobucket, etc. -- check the IT Shortbus for a run down on these). We will include the link to your "baby book" on your Gallery page. Our members really like to see LOTS of pictures. With an image hosting site, they can view them as thumbnails or slide shows. These web sites have really made it nice (on this end) ... and a video link is now the up and coming thing!

• A valid e-mail address.  We need to be able to contact you regarding your submission. Also, other members may want to ask you questions or send an "attaboy." If you prefer not to have your e-mail address / contact displayed, we will honor your request. And if that's the case, you might want to use your forum profile email contact as a way for other Bolters to get in touch with you.

• Send all that information to: Gallery Submissions

• And don't forget updates! If it's been a while since you first submitted your truck, be sure to let us know what you've been up to, with photos of course! If you've sold your truck, we'll mark your Gallery page (we have some nice "farewell" pieces with some of the Gallery trucks). We hope the new owners will take up where you left off on the history and sentiments of the truck! (So, if you've got someone's truck that's already in the Gallery, let us know so we can tidy that up!)

How long will it take?

As the site has really grown over these past ten years, we are now getting way over 30 gallery additions or updates in each month. So far, it's a pretty steady stream. We try to get between 10 and 15 additions up each week. Your's should be up within 14 days. If you haven't heard from us, drop us an email just to make sure your submission hadn't been sent to Farscape. (Thanks to Jim Blake for suggesting we give a time-frame here!)

 

These guidelines apply for the Alternative Gallery as well -- except for the time-frame. Those could take up to a few months to get in. In many cases, we have added an additional "Alternative Gallery" vehicle in with the write-up for the Stovebolt. That works like a charm! See all your goodies at once!

 

And, on behalf of the Stovebolt Collective -- thank you for your contribution and participation ~~ Stovebolt.com!