NICOclub (Nissan Infiniti Car Owners) was founded by Dr. Rex Birkmire, a prominent Florida psychiatrist and longtime Datsun/Nissan/Infiniti enthusiast.

Dr. Birkmire decided early on that NICO would have a key difference from other car forums: Dedicated subject matter experts that are currently active technicians at Nissan or Infiniti dealerships to guarantee competent answers to members' technical questions. This recipe was very successful and within months more and more Nissan and Infiniti owners joined our boards.

As traffic increased, so did the knowledge base among the membership as a whole. This resulted in technical information that made us attractive enough for new members to want to stay and not go elsewhere once they joined.

Within a year of our founding, a merger of NICO's 240SX sections and The 240sx Car Club of America (www.240SX.org) occurred. This allowed that large and vibrant community to stay alive, and enriched NICO with an influx of new members and a welcome spike in youthful energy.

About the same time, a longtime member of the Yahoo Infiniti Owners Club was dissatisfied with the format for its online boards. Since many members of that board shared their frustrations, it was easy to convince them to join NICO. Within a just a couple of weeks, they moved to the NICO Infiniti sections, preserving the friendly community atmosphere that had existed before. Yahoo Club member Greg Childs was brought on as an Administrator soon thereafter.

In 2003, Greg Childs took over and began a driven effort to establish NICO as the premier resource for Nissan and Infiniti information on the web, and began developing an entire network of sites. Rounding out the Administrative team in 2006 was Matt Moody, a long-time member and gifted web designer, who gives NICO its unique and impressive look.

Over the past few years our membership has grown exponentially. NICO has incorporated forums for owners of all types of Nissan, Datsun and Infiniti vehicles, and the result has been an active, thriving community of enthusiasts who are passionate about their club. Due to our explosive growth, NICO attracted advertisers eager to cater to the membership of such a large forum.

Despite our size, a friendly sense of community permeates NICO, with many members developing lifelong friendships based upon shared enthusiasm.

We like to think of ourselves not so much as an automotive forum, but a family-owned and operated car club that just happens to have a website.