What is Autoshite?

[Braddon81]

33 years Separates the 2 copies of Autocar above, and it amply demonstrates what Autoshite means to me. Yes its a site for the unloved and forgotten about,but it also celebrates the great and the good about old cars that 'were' celebrated from when they were new too. Cars for the everyman today are derided...far too pedestrian and boring to be written about for front page copy.It's all mega power,fast lap times etc etc. Autoshite takes me back to the time when you could stick a 1 litre Nissan Micra on the front cover of Autocar and not an Aston Martin or Porsche Cayman.

[Alexg]

Cars that are obsolete, undesirable and illogical to own, use and maintain.  

[egg]

Human beings just can't help being tribal can they?

 

Every group needs to define what (and who!) Is 'in' or 'out', that's why l think these threads pop up from time to time.

 

I think we're at our best when when we rise above that.

[The Old Bloke Next Door]

After two Buses, three Trains and a Taxi ride, I now own this

 

 

Collection fred later when I have bought this.

 

 

That's Autoshite.

[drum]

Not sure what's provoked this thread, maybe I'm not reading the forum often enough. The day there's a strict definition of autoshite will be the beginning of the end of this fine place.

 

What defines the forum and its members is the mix of mad endeavour, obscure car fact knowledge and a healthy slice of humour and wit. We like the unconventional, save cars others would scrap and get pleasure from not driving shiny moderns on payment plans.

 

I love reading about others enthusiasm for their chod. Doesn't really matter what the chod is.

[cros]

When I was a kid there was a bloke in the village with a red Austin 1100. Every year he had it up on axle stands outside his council house and gave it a thorough painting underneath. Most people thought he was insane.

Once when he was watching the TV with his wife and kids something came on that he objected to so he grabbed a pair of scissors and snipped through the wire. The following night he turned the TV on and waited several minutes for something to appear before remembering and then laboriously joining the cables back together.

This has been a somewhat irrelevent reply to the topic as everything worthwhile has already been said but what the fuck.

[STUNO]

That 1100 probably still exists

[brownnova]

What is autoshite?

 

Easy...

 

We are autoshite.

 

 

So its whatever we want it to be. And that's probably slightly different for each of us.

[bub2006]

I like older cars but could not afford to buy and Run a 70s or 80s car so I use unloved or undesirable 90s or early 00 cars. They are cheap to buy,parts can be bought easily and they are on the line of being still easy to work on without needing coded alternators and a degree in computers but yet won't rust away overnight either. I have the Audi at the minute and hopefully having a Picasso soon. Both are well known reliable cars but only the strange folk here understand why I won't go out and get a car on finance that would cost twice as much in payments over a year than buying,insuring and running these sort of cars.

[Laseraligningfoofooflanges]

 

 

Anything that causes modern car owners to turn their nose up can be classed as shite. Only recently I was kindly informed by someone who owned a white Peugeot 308 coupe on finance and using a deposit they also borrowed the money for from a family member that my Rover looked shit and should be put away in a shed.

 

Was he almost blind 308's are beyong gopping, sort of like a painted toad.

 

Least the 75 is a handsome design (IMHO) But some people's heads are just vapour right..

[Junkman]

If I say it's shite, it's shite.

If I say it isn't, it isn't.

 

Simples.

[bub2006]

To be honest I like the strange folk here and the meet ups. Everyone limes different things.

[billyboy406v6]

Shite is in the eye of the beholder.

[Cavcraft]

Good point about the money, the story of the Bentley is one of the best threads on here, I love reading about it.

[purplebargeken]

I actually like Scruffs thoughts on the subject.

 

For me it is a place that I can go to after a hard days mindfuck and have a giggle, drool or whatever.

 

The Golf is autoshite, because cost, non-sceneness (mostly) and ease of keeping it going, also the Mitsu as it is cheap, a bit ugly but does exactly what is needed and I love it!

 

The Amazon might not be Autoshite but it is not pristine, it's modified and it is a bit different.

 

The Sable. It's a mid 90's Yankmobile, most people seem to like it. It's a bit of a laugh. It's also a 3.0 litre auto, which is quite nice.

 

Some threads I give a swerve, some I don't . Bit like life. However. I can honestly say that the folk on here that I have met/not yet met are amongst some of the most decent, honest and generous ever. Long my that continue.

[BorniteIdentity]

I think the Sierra bASe thread epitomised it all perfectly for me.

 

5 blokes who'd never met literally RACING to buy a car that 95% of the population think is extinct and 99% wish was.  A heap that had 4 months left to live, that we gladly gave the vendor a 1500% mark up on and then proceeded to spend well earned time and money on.  Never once did anyone consider whether we were doing the right thing, it just had to be.

 

I've said it before, but that day will live with me forever.  Not because I always wanted a cardinal red Ford Sierra - but because of everything around it.  

 

The place is what you make it... so make it good.

[pshome]

neither age nor value matter, somebody doing a live collection of a brand new Saipa Tiba (new and costs 10000$ )would be a star here.

[oldcars]

Haddaway! That's the sort of shit that's in my speakers!

Found my Robert Miles tape and had it on Sunday in the Shuma. Tape players are for winners.

[sierraman]

That magazine comparison speaks volumes. People don't want achievable these days, years ago people aspired to a Sierra GLX, now people aspire to a Range Rover or a Porsche Panamera.

[fatharris]

 

 

Tape players are for winners.

 

You're damn right.

[purplebargeken]

^^ That was ace!!!

[castros_bro]

Autoshite is just about people doing stuff, putting in time and effort, rather then sitting on their fat arses watching Eastenders, you just know someone has put time and effort hitch hiking across Europe and pitiching a tent in a wet field @ postcode SF16 just to say hello to and share a square sausage with someone else who has (slowly) brought their own inconspicuously yellow double decker along and none of them are shouting "look at me I'm the fucking best" all over their social inadequacy media. The range and depth of knowledge of some of the contributors is astounding and possibly unique also the only place to use "Robin Reliant" ironically rather than ignorantly.

[trigger]

I haven't got much to add to what's already been said, it is just an appreciation of unloved cars for me (which over the years of being on here now seen to be cool to own, ironic or what?!) and a majority of thoroughly nice people to chat shit with.

[sierraman]

It's about being a bit of an oddball really.

[mercrocker]

That magazine comparison speaks volumes. People don't want achievable these days, years ago people aspired to a Sierra GLX, now people aspire to a Range Rover or a Porsche Panamera.

 

Probably partly because years ago our football idols drove 3 litre Capris and pop stars had Mini 1275GTs........These were only a trim level and carb away from what our Dad's drove.

[BorniteIdentity]

It's about being a bit of an oddball really.

I prefer idiosyncratic.

 

(!)

 

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[chaseracer]

Autoshite is just about people doing stuff, putting in time and effort, rather then sitting on their fat arses watching Eastenders, you just know someone has put time and effort hitch hiking across Europe and pitiching a tent in a wet field @ postcode SF16 just to say hello to and share a square sausage with someone else who has (slowly) brought their own inconspicuously yellow double decker along and none of them are shouting "look at me I'm the fucking best" all over their social inadequacy media. The range and depth of knowledge of some of the contributors is astounding and possibly unique also the only place to use "Robin Reliant" ironically rather than ignorantly.

 

Nailed.

 

[Richard]

That magazine comparison speaks volumes. People don't want achievable these days, years ago people aspired to a Sierra GLX, now people aspire to a Range Rover or a Porsche Panamera.

I noticed it with toy cars in the 80s. In the 70s toy cars were mostly everyday cars and working vehicles, from the mid 80s they were mostly supercars.

[Skizzer]

It's about being a bit of an oddball really.

 

I think we're very, very normal.  It's everyone else that's completely batshit.

[cros]

That 1100 probably still exists

I have a feeling the 1100 outlived him which probably endorsed peoples opinions; personally I think he was ahead of his time. In those pre-RCD days he was taking a chance with the scissors though.