Richard

It used to be pretty much any car that wasn't new when registered. I think now it means the car's age can't be determined.

I can confirm that was true for me. I can't speak for the other six people who "liked" your previous post but I would guess it applies to them too.
 
I'm genuinely impressed that you managed to break down Freebird's rant and address the points individually. I was trying to do that last night and it's harder than it looks.

Way ahead of you.

I can confirm that was true for me. I can't speak for the other six people who "liked" your previous post but I would guess it applies to them too.
 
I'm genuinely impressed that you managed to break down Freebird's rant and address the points individually. I was trying to do that last night and it's harder than it looks.

1:He is a grown up, who, having relocated all the way across the World for personal reasons, kept Autoshite as on of his "constants" and is always welcome here.
2: Yes, actually, that would be a very good idea in this case.
 
3: It figures really, that you have contempt for the feelings of others. And "dicking about" with people like me? All I did was type what other people were thinking, after the event, as I too, was busy with my life outside the internet.
 
4: I actually said "people like you" but you admit to "not really reading" any of my posts. That, has come across quite well.
 
5: Well, you admit that, at least. Is it an apology?
 
6:Forum.  I looked it up. "a meeting or medium where ideas and views on a particular issue can be exchanged" which this indeed is. Except when you jump down someone's throat for asking a question, and subsequently just keep on at it, rather smugly I might add. Did you sit back and smile to yourself at any point, thinking, "Heh, that'll piss him off..."?
 
I am not about to share intimate details about someone's life. That's not my business to discuss openly. But obviously you know nothing because you never read posts, nor care about the people posting.... I know little. It makes neither of us superior, but imagine how he felt.....just think for once, that someone's feeling might be important to them.
 
I guess you're going to do one of two things now. Respond with the vitriol you have openly displayed, or go quiet for a while, and then try to browbeat us with some other sniping bollocks. Well anyone who has actually met me in real life will tell you I am exactly like this in real life. I'm the sort of person who intervenes in street fights. I collar motorbike riding cretins in my local park and rip HT leads out... I accost would-be thieves breaking into neighbours' cars and sit on them until help arrives... Yes, I am like that. Care to try me out? I don't just type my mind, I speak it and act it.

*ignore*

Freebird is talking out of his backside for sure, showing remarkably little understanding of how intellectual property rights work. All that matters is WHO took the photo, not what it was of. If I see a car, I can take a photo of it and then I can sell that photo where I like. It's a courtesy to tell the person who owns the vehicle of my intentions, but not essential. 
 
On some magazines I've worked on, we've had complaints that their car has been featured, even if it was a photo of it taken before they owned it! 
 
So, Fotorabia is ENTIRELY within his rights to seek some sort of remuneration for the use of his photo. It was probably unintended, but it happened. 

Once again, we see a well liked, ever knowledgeable, and helpful member "shown the door" by an argumentative twat who can't fucking stop when he should. Well cheers Freebird.. you really showed your true colours. He's not in the best of frames at the minute, and you maybe helped push him over the edge. Give yourself a fucking great big gold star. You utter cunt. Next time, read the drivel you spout, just before touching the "post" button, to see if you're going to come across as a cunt. I do it, quite a lot as it happens, and what you lot see is the edited me. Perhaps I should go back to how I was, when people like you called me a bully.....

My usual strategy with ball joints is to remove the nut, then put it back on a few threads, lever the bottom arm down and keep some pressure on it, then hit the side of the arm (the bit that goes around the ball joint pin, can't think what you would call it) very hard with a hammer.

YAY! IT WILL BE JUST LIKE TOP GEAR!
 
You can drive it really slowly with a long line of traffic behind it whilst someone plays the soundtrack from the traffic jam in the Italian Job to make it sound like everyone is really angry.
 
In the meantime Richard (wearing clothes for someone 20 rs his junior) can start setting up his expensive state of the art tent, looking at it wide eyed and confused as to why it is slumped over at one side and sagging in the middle before he decides that its meant to look like that.
 
gdhaydock will still be driving really slowly with his caravan causing much 'hilarity'. 
 
KruJoe will be finding Richards pathetic attempt to put up the tent offensive, comparing it to his own, perfectly erected creation. He suggests that he is going to sort it out, asking Richard to move the Rav4 to the other end of the field for no apparent reason. However Richard suddenly forgets how to drive and somehow puts it in reverse, driving into the tent and nearly hitting KruJoe. Apologising he puts it in a forward gear and drives off, catching the corner of Joe's perfect tent with the rear bumper and dragging it half way through the campsite with all its contents trailing out of it before he notices, much to Joe's annoyance.
 
However, his berating of Richard is cut short when gdhaydock arrives with the caravan, turning too soon after entering the field, bashing the corner of the caravan on a fence post, knocking down the fence and putting a large hole in the front of the caravan. Krujoe is annoyed with this idiocy and Richard just keeps uttering 'Oh no, what have you done'. The hole in the caravan is suddenly overshadowed by the sheep that has now escaped from the neighbouring field and got into the campsite. All 3 then spend 20 minutes chasing the sheep but not really trying to catch it, making sure that they lunge at it only when it is stood right in front of a muddy puddle, so that they can miss the sheep and land in the dirt which is obviously 'hilarious'. 
 
With the sheep back in the field, Joe puts up his tent again. Just as he finishes and he steps back to check it is all perfect, gdhaydock suddenly reverses the caravan right over it which gets Joe even more annoyed. 
 
Later on, with the tents up, the caravan parked they all sit down and have a beer. Sadly, the conversation suddenly turns to banger racing in brand new Vauxhalls (which are shit) and things get out of control when Joe beheads Richard with a samuari sword and puts his head on the roofrack of a slammed VW Passat along with an old suitcase, a Raleigh Budgie and a pineapple. gdhaydock does not even notice as he is too bust selling the format to some Americans in the field next door.

Let it lie man! Put him on ignore if he bothers you.

Insignias are deffo the new BMW MENACE on the roads, 100% of the time driven by maladjusted idiots.
 
If there's a car at the front of 3 dozen cars up the right hand lane of the m1 doing 0.7mph more than the middle lane, it's definitely an Insignia. Halfway overtaking you down a motorway sliproad then just staying in the fucking way for miles after? Insignia. Towing a caravan at an inappropriate speed (fast or slow 25mph wrong either way). Insignia. Parked across three disabled bays with the driver on the phone? Insignia.
 
Atleast BMW and Audi drivers are aggressive enough to just push people out of the way and fuck off into the distance, they are a brief inconvenience.

The silver car isn't hogging the outside lane of the A90 at 66.5mph on cruise control and getting in my fugging way, therefore it isn't an Insignia.

The silver car isn't hogging the outside lane of the A90 at 66.5mph on cruise control and getting in my fugging way, therefore it isn't an Insignia.

The silver car isn't hogging the outside lane of the A90 at 66.5mph on cruise control and getting in my fugging way, therefore it isn't an Insignia.

Would a Herald bonnet fit on your GT6? You could pretend to have three cars.

The release bearing will be chewing through the fingers. Best course of action for one of those Escorts is to have it delivered directly to the crusher.

The release bearing will be chewing through the fingers. Best course of action for one of those Escorts is to have it delivered directly to the crusher.

If it's got six cylinders it isn't a proper Capri. The whole point of them is show without go.

There was copycat styling in the 60s and 70s too. The Hillman Minx/Hunter was so similar to the Mk2 Cortina that I bet you could fit one with panels from the other.
 
What has become very generic is the engineering. If you were buying a small to medium family car in the 1970s you could have front wheel drive with the engine facing any of four directions, you could have the gearbox in the sump, below the sump or bolted onto the end of the engine. With rear wheel drive you could have the engine at either end. You could have two to four cylinders in several arrangements with 2 stroke, OHV or OHC. For suspension you could choose struts or wishbones, leaf springs, torsion bars, coil springs, rubber blocks, hydragas or hydropneumatic. Most of these features could be had without buying anything too outlandish.

There was copycat styling in the 60s and 70s too. The Hillman Minx/Hunter was so similar to the Mk2 Cortina that I bet you could fit one with panels from the other.
 
What has become very generic is the engineering. If you were buying a small to medium family car in the 1970s you could have front wheel drive with the engine facing any of four directions, you could have the gearbox in the sump, below the sump or bolted onto the end of the engine. With rear wheel drive you could have the engine at either end. You could have two to four cylinders in several arrangements with 2 stroke, OHV or OHC. For suspension you could choose struts or wishbones, leaf springs, torsion bars, coil springs, rubber blocks, hydragas or hydropneumatic. Most of these features could be had without buying anything too outlandish.

There was copycat styling in the 60s and 70s too. The Hillman Minx/Hunter was so similar to the Mk2 Cortina that I bet you could fit one with panels from the other.
 
What has become very generic is the engineering. If you were buying a small to medium family car in the 1970s you could have front wheel drive with the engine facing any of four directions, you could have the gearbox in the sump, below the sump or bolted onto the end of the engine. With rear wheel drive you could have the engine at either end. You could have two to four cylinders in several arrangements with 2 stroke, OHV or OHC. For suspension you could choose struts or wishbones, leaf springs, torsion bars, coil springs, rubber blocks, hydragas or hydropneumatic. Most of these features could be had without buying anything too outlandish.

I believe the rozzers just refer you to the council if you complain about noise.

They have introduced a limit of 1TB for all accounts, which is basically the same as unlimited. It's no use to anybody though, because you can't easily browse through older pictures.
 
One of the reasons I had to give up on Flickr was because I used to look at it on my phone quite a lot and mobile friendly sites can't be viewed on a mobile phone- and even if they could I don't want to waste my data allowance on downloading content that I didn't ask for.
 
I am very close to giving up on the internet altogether, more and more sites are becoming unusable thanks to improvements*.