Autoshite Community - Honest opinion

[Guest]

I dip in and out. I don't think the place is on a particular high at the moment. Sorry to piss on everyone's chips. I still like it and everything.

[Split_Pin]

I don't feel I quite fit in here because I don't and haven't owned cars that are considered shite. However I am a massive fan of them and always have been. Maybe one day I'll have the gonads/space/funds to treat myself so!

 

However that's far outweighed by the fact that every day there is something interesting, funny or that I didn't know about before, car related or not appearing on the Brown Forum.

 

Today it was farm hacks, yesterday it was Murder House in Roseangle, Dundee amd the day before that was a Rover 800 diesel.

 

Long may that continue.

[CreepingJesus]

At the last count I'd 'left' three times. Something always draws me back in tho'...

Says it all. I quite like Autoshite.

[dollywobbler]

I dip in and out. I don't think the place is on a particular high at the moment. Sorry to piss on everyone's chips. I still like it and everything.

 

Well you can just piss off then.

[skoda_fan]

Love it! Like what I said when I first posted a short while back, feels like I've found a spiritual home. Don't think I've ever owned a car that wasn't shite!!

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

I dip in and out. I don't think the place is on a particular high at the moment. Sorry to piss on everyone's chips. I still like it and everything.

 

Well you can just piss off then.

 

+1. By the way, I can't believe that we got to 3 pages of posts without anyone stating the obvious fact that VAXHAULS R SHIT!!1!!1!

 

Maybe we should hammer a smaller forum over AS.

 

I'll get my coat...

[dollywobbler]

I wasn't being serious about Wat pissing off. I'd miss his photos and grumps too much! Just as I miss Hirst's observations on the world, and heroic oddball-taxi purchasing missions.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

I wasn't being serious, either.

[Pete-M]

Pah. It's bollocks in 'ere. Better than the real world though, more Tagoras.

[Wilko220]

Yeah, what everyone else said.

I only stumbled across AS because, with the slow and gradual demise of AROnline which I always enjoyed, I was looking for an additional place to idle away my rare bits of spare time chatting about cars. Now that forum has gone altogether and this turns out to be much more lively and hilarious.

 

It's a shame to have lost members from the forum over the last few years, I do still feel if the forum was moderated we would still have them here but there you go,

 

I take the point Trigger, but moderation brings its own problems and it's a question of whether the benefits outweigh the drawbacks. Having seen a few examples of ridiculous moderation elsewhere, I'd be rather worried if AS was to go down that road.

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[Polystratus]

Yeah, what everyone else said.

I only stumbled across AS because, with the slow and gradual demise of AROnline which I always enjoyed, I was looking for an additional place to idle away my rare bits of spare time chatting about cars. Now that forum has gone altogether and this turns out to be much more lively and hilarious.

 

It's a shame to have lost members from the forum over the last few years, I do still feel if the forum was moderated we would still have them here but there you go,

 

I take the point Trigger, but moderation brings its own problems and it's a question of whether the benefits outweigh the drawbacks. Having seen a few examples of ridiculous moderation elsewhere, I'd be rather worried if AS was to go down that road.

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That's what I like about this forum, minimum moderation, having seen examples of over the top moderation ( a certain forum comes to mind, not a car one though) know what you mean.

 

Joined AS after the original Prac Classics forum was constantly down plus you got a lot of 'if it's not an MGB it's not a classic' idiot, so was fed up with that too.

[Pete-M]

Joined AS after the original Prac Classics forum was constantly down plus you got a lot of 'if it's not an MGB it's not a classic' idiot, so was fed up with that too.

 

I came here from PC. I think they got pissed off with me saying "If it's an MGB it's shit, and generally winding them up a tad".

[Mr_Bo11ox]

[outlaw118]

That picture's been used before, but I've never worked out what it actually means....

[skoda_fan]

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"If it's an MGB it's shit".

 

What's wrong with that!! I should know, I own one!!

[pandamonium]

"Horse and Train"

 

This 1954 work was inspired by two lines from the poet Roy Campbell:

 

Against a regiment I oppose a brain

And a dark horse against an armored train.

[skattrd]

I've not been around for a while, I kind of forgot about this place, what with work and a constantly broken Alfa keeping me busy. I remembered about it when I was talking to the guy I bought my last motor off. We were regaling stories of epic road trips in old chod ... He took a shitter to the "le mans classic" and got frowned upon by everyone there, so I told him he should get on here, maybe an idea for a future AS roadtrip

Anyway like others have said, it's a friendly place here, the ebay thread alone is worth a laugh and AS makes me feel less weird about my obsession with cheap old shite.

 

Long Live Autoshite.

[Polystratus]

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"If it's an MGB it's shit".

 

What's wrong with that!! I should know, I own one!!

 

Just edited your quote there ... right at one time I had no thoughts against them but it's the way certain classic car magazines hype them up as 'OMG its the ultimate practical classic, everyone has to own one, and it's every man's classic car wet dream..'

then there's the owners, not saying every owner is like that but they use to rant on forums on how they didn't want to see 80's cars at classic car shows (or any other..), and at classic car shows themselves don't get started on that one!

[Wilko220]

'OMG its the ultimate practical classic, everyone has to own one, and it's every man's classic car wet dream..'

 

Did someone just mention the Hillman Hunter...?

[Albert Ross]

Surely a LWB Land Rover Diesel has to be the ultimate Practical Classic? No?

[Craig the Princess]

Beige Austin Ambassador?

 

Anyway I think autoshite is ace, ok winter is a bit quieter and a few arguements have cropped up but I'm met some ace shiters, driven a Renault 14 (thanks theorganist) and read some great stuff.

[eddyramrod]

'OMG its the ultimate practical classic, everyone has to own one, and it's every man's classic car wet dream..'

 

Did someone just mention the Hillman Hunter...?

 

No, it's obviously a reference to the FSO Polonez....

[Split_Pin]

Having been a forum moderator for many years on my local VX site I am certain that the Hirsts, Barretts and Pogs would still be with us.

 

It's not about telling people its this or its that. My style was simply to let people get on with it and only intervene when posts got personal, or the thread was dragging on and pissing eveyone off. By intervention I mean simply to state 'this thread is shit for x reason' close it amd move on.

 

Trolls were simply banned.

 

When the other mod started acting like a cock and I got no support from the Forum owner who I thought was my mate, that was when the Club went downhill and I told him to shove it up his ring.

[fiatdaft]

Next month i will have been here 6 years, i signed up because i love old shite cars,bought my first car at 13 ( a series 1 mirafiori basic) and by sixteen i had space for 3 on the drive and 1 on the street and i was breaking trevi's and beta saloons through the free add papers.Been through the skint times aswell driving whatever shed i could afford to drive 6 days a week to work then fix the shit heap on the sabbath to get to work for another 6 days.Got the local newsagent to reserve jalopy every month when i was 15 my mates that read custom car/street machine and chrome and flames thought i was daft.

 

Worked the hard way through the motor trade and after 21 years i do ok ,get to drive flash stuff everyday etc but i haven't forgotten my roots,not all modern cars are boring you know,just like some autoshite qualifiying cars can be shit!

 

When i first found this place i thought wow a website for folk that like similar cars to me,6 years on there have loads of excellent threads but also personal abuse because i sell cars!

 

I haven't thrown my dummy oot the pram like some others and i am still here 6 years on and will be until the end !

 

Cheers for reading this far.

 

Scott

[theorganist]

I think a small amount of moderating for when things get really personal would not be a bad thing! The other forum I frequent (a trainsim forum (I am very sad)) has quite heavy moderation but there is an age range from children to pensioners using it. Sometimes people leave if they feel slighted but they come back very quickly and it is generally a pleasant place.

[Wilko220]

I think a small amount of moderating for when things get really personal would not be a bad thing! The other forum I frequent (a trainsim forum (I am very sad)) has quite heavy moderation but there is an age range from children to pensioners using it. Sometimes people leave if they feel slighted but they come back very quickly and it is generally a pleasant place.

 

This isn't intended as a personal criticism to anyone who has "spat" - I don't know most of them, and the only one I did meet (Rootes_Arrow1725) was a bloody top bloke who helped me out a great deal...

BUT, we are all adults. If someone says something you that find offensive or pisses you off, is it really too much to expect for people to just ignore it, or have their say back and then move on? I'm sure there are people who would moderate very fairly, but moderation isn't really necessary if people just grow up a bit.

[Split_Pin]

The thing is, typing on the internet tends to bring out the worst in people.

 

Heated discussion is 100% fine in my opinion, but when you start to get great big massive ranting posts on the topic, sweeping generalisations and strong views, people find it harder and harder to just ignore it. I am not immune to that.

 

However, if shit threads like that are just locked or even if the dull/pointless posts are removed, life for everyone becomes much simpler.

 

If you have a mod that cant tell the difference between an opinion and a dogmatic rant, or exercises unreasonable authority for their own personal satisfaction, then it will kill the forum.

 

I really do think we lost some members who had something valuable to say but felt they had no option other than to leave due to their frustration with the forum.

 

Right now though, I think AS has improved 100% since last summer, more spotting, shite saves and general rammle, together with some very funny posts! Hell even the Proton posting fiasco was turned into something humourous!

[fotorabia]

I used to photo-hunt wrecks and send the photos off to posh car mags and get paid...upon going digital and discovering Autoshite...i have now photographed 1000s of cars and given it all away for free a long with a number of Photo competition retro car mag prizes....and now have a splendid backlog of all shiny n rusty archival material..geographical isolation has meant all ive met is STUNO...and VW John in France has turned out to be a very loyal interweb friend-guide.Ive utterly failed in every context of being a classic car fan...but Autoshite has been a great source of inspiration...and bad tempter of trying to keep up with the Jones...when i can hardly afford one Mercedes...im still dreaming on acquiring the next which is on the last island before Antarctica..Ive spat the dummy...ive read to much into things....actually none of my business..but im a grumpy old ex-pat....now im back in 'my' own country again...and the fact that i live in chod heaven..Autoshite makes sense to me..and its actually really all about photography..cheers guys n gals..u made it worth it..

[Split_Pin]

I really enjoy your NZ scrappy threads

[trigger]

Me too, one issue i do have is that i wish people commented more on the actual shite car related threads instead of just chipping in on unrelated boring threads which have nothing to do with the forum and instead bump all the decent threads down the page.

 

We've lost to many decent threads like this, especially the spotted threads, which is one of the reason we've lost a few of our best spotters.