FABO Calender?

The last time this was bandied about I remember the contention between what to have and what not to have, as far as pics. (And I stand by my idea, then. Look it up.) but if I remember rightly one of the stated things which was holding up the idea was the upfront printing costs was making things prohibitable.
If that is the case, is there a way to overcome that? Would someone with the discretarionary income be able to offset the largest part of that, with an upfront investment and a return on that investment once the calendars started selling? Would the investor and Joey be able to work an agreement that once the investment was paid off then the site would enjoy the profits? Would the investor want a return of the percentage of the profits? If the number of calendars sold didn't equal the return on the investment would the investor be willing to chalk it up as a loss and move on with no hard feelings towards the site and it's membership?
Of course, there are other ways to get it done, financially. Pre-orders can be taken, but if the number of pre-orders didn't equal the number of dollars for printing would Joey eat the loss in hopes of making the money back with sales later in the year? And calendars are effective only for a little while. I mean we're almost in Dec, so who going to sign up for the site now and buy a calendar for 2009 if we had one? And if the pre-orders were so far off from the actually dollar amount would that make it a moot point and have those who want such a thing mad at Joey, or as Bill suggested, his representative?
We could ask vendors to chip in on the expense. But some of these vendors are already throwing major money towards advertising in a media that truly gets attention, like magazine ads. I applaud companies like PST for coming in here and advertising the goods they sell, and being a sponsoring vendor, but I'm sure if you asked them which is most effective for them, a half page spread in Mopar Action of Hot Rod gets them more business. And a calender sold to someone who's in the market for that particular calender isn't effective advertising dollars, in my opinion. Unless...there are those who would be willing to buy X amount of calenders extra and take them to car shows to sell along with the parts they have. It's an idea, but a huge "but." And convincing the advertisers would be the biggest sticking point.
Bill, I have the utmost respect for you, so I'm not trying to pick on you, but I keep seeing people say that we have 11,000+ members. Yes, we do, but we also have only a handful of people on here who could be called "regulars." I'm sure the regulars would chime in and state they would buy one, but convincing the others to buy would be the true idea. I've seen folks come in, ask a question, and not like the answers they are given then leave again, with just a few posts, and I've only been here since April. For those who have been here for longer I'm sure you've seen the same thing on a greater scale. And those folks are still counted as the 11,000+.