I love this forum!

[xtriple]

I'm a newbie so my views are probably not new to you 'seasoned' veterans, but I love reading this forum!

 

A lot of the cars featured are cars I had 'back in the day' as I was a car dealer and then a part timer for years. I used to love wrenching/faffing about with them and had great fun buing cheap, repairing, then flogging on after my divorce and subsequent skintness.

 

Nowaday, I'm pretty limited as to what I can do as I broke my back a couple of years ago so working on cars is a definite no-no! I struggle to even wash my own car now and while I want loads of old chod, I'm stuck with new(ish) and get them worked on by .... garages!

 

Dire!

 

Anyway chaps, please carry on buying old crap (which I love) and writing about them so I can live the life through you all.

[Lankytim]

A N00b! Get him!!!

[mouseflakes]

Just looked back at your previous posts - and by crikey! you have had some nice tat! Lots of it from car auctions by the look of it.

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/16402-has-anyone-been-to-a-car-auction-before/page-2?do=findComment&comment=548018

[tooSavvy]

Best I spamm you now....

 

Hi .... convention decrees you ignore me, so no RSVP.

 

 

TS

[DVee8]

Any old photos and or stories from back in the day?

[Jim Bell]

Post some pictures of cars please.

I bet your history is well worth a perusal.

 

Welcome in fng.

[dugong]

Vicarious enjoyment! HISS

[xtriple]

Unfortunately, no pictures of anything except motorbikes. I've never been very good at taking pics of cars and stuff and even though I've now got a camera phone, I still never take pictures of anything but my dogs!

 

I did spot an old Herald the other day and thinking of you lot, I took pictures. Of course, being a terrible techno-phobe, I have no idea how to get them from phone to computer!

 

I counted up about ten years ago (a friend was bragging about how many cars he'd had - he lost that one!) how many cars I'd owned personally, not just for resale and got to well over a 100 before I lost interest.

 

My first car was a Mini Cooper 'S' and my current car is a Mazda MX5... really practical and sensible motoring when you consider: a, I'm a cripple and can barely walk/bend over/get into ANY car, and b, I have two bloody great dogs!

 

Along the way there's been several 2CVs (which I adore), the odd Porsche (a 928S2 manual I bought with a chronic oil leak that Porsche wanted THOUSANDS to repair and I fixed for £25 and thrashed mercilessly for months [sideways across a bridge after an ill judged overtake]before blowing the engine in grand style and selling for a pretty decent profit over the original purchase price, even in that state!), a couple of Rolls Royce's that I loved but kept for hours before selling, loads of Sierra's XR4X4 a speciality!

 

Loads of stories....

[Guest Breadvan72]

This forum R GR9.   I only came in here by accident to ask about some broken bit of a broken heap of Italoshite, but I liked it so much that I was sucked in by the Tractor Beam of LERRRRRVVVE and have never left.  

 

I realise that this is a bit like saying "I went to prison for murder, but stayed for the Chili", but I will nonetheless say that I would rather be with you people in here than with the finest people in the world.

[Junkman]

A lot of the cars featured are cars I had 'back in the day' as I was a car dealer

 

You are Arthur Daley AICMFP.

[mercrocker]

Yeah,  it is great  here.  Better than the car club forums, infinitely friendlier  than the certain-hued Other Forums....

[Albert Ross]

I have also had loads of Sierras. I only have one now..... we share a fault.

[dugong]

Stay for the chod, take a coffee break when the inverted snobbery \ knee jerk reactions appear. 

For the most part, this place is decent. Other than the people who cut corners to save a few pence and seem proud of it. 

[RoadworkUK]

I've just maimed somebody with a crossbow. The fucker deserved it. Any tips on a bulletproof defence pleez?

 

Welcome aboard.

 

It's good in here.

[dieselnutjob]

this is the best site on the internet

[Junkman]

Certainly better than this one: http://hmpg.net/

[dugong]

I've just maimed somebody with a crossbow. The fucker deserved it. Any tips on a bulletproof defence pleez?

 

Welcome aboard.

 

It's good in here.

Buy a Golf and drive at 132 mph, watching your house and job disappear as quickly as the thrusty VR6 engine can accelerate.