Kind of surprised that if they are uninterested in continuing with the site that they didn't sell to to one of those groups that are buying up forums such as these and bundling them them for resale.
In any case you might want to start printing the important threads, printing them in pdf and saving the info for later - info mining 
Done that at some older sites before the databases disappeared
Where would you start ?
I bet every thread on that site holds vital information for someone. It was unusual for a topic to come up that was boring or of little value.
I learnt so much in such a short space of time, My car would not be half the car it is now without the generous help of the people there.
I have saved lots and lots of info, and am now in the fortunate position to have collected all the missing rare parts I needed, that I would not have known about otherwise.
If the site were to miraculously re appear now, the membership will still be pretty cheesed off for a long while, and I for one will think hard before I give any more money over.
