How did you discover Autoshite?

[dollywobbler]

I seem to recall I was desperately trying to find a Renault 25 for a magazine feature, and Scruff (then working in the same office as Practical Classics) told me I'd definitely find one on here - that'd be 25V6Turbo I imagine, though logistics meant I used someone else's car in the end. That would have been in 2007, so I'm rapidly heading towards a decade on here myself...

 

I may have made an appearance on here before that, because earlier in 2007, I'd sold a brown Vanden Plas Allegro on Retro-Rides to one Mr Bollox. I was therefore probably part of one of his amazing A frame adventures (back when he had a stunning Audi 200).

 

Once here, I realised I was truly amongst brothers (and the occasional sister) and have felt no desire to leave. Attending meetings and actually meeting folk has only made me like this place even more.

[AMC Rebel]

He took the car and I came here for a look and been here ever since! It's the best old car forum going!

 

FTFY

[theorganist]

I was googling information about keeping old cars on your premises and I came across a link to Autoshite as it was the subject of a topic. I think Pete-M was part of the discussion, if I recall!

[sierraman]

Went right off AROnline when it became endless article about the Misunderstood Rover 213 or whatever, an endless 'making a case' for some bag of shit. Instead of saying 'yes they were fucking shit but hey it's fun and curious to save a few of them' it's several pages of defensive why the Montego was bloody brilliant and anything else on the market was a heap of shit.

 

I like the Ford Sierra, I'm not blind however to the fact it had some extremely coarse rough engines and the drivetrain wasn't that detached from something a horse would pull.

[wuvvum]

Regie Ritmo pointed me.

 

So long ago, few here will even remember him!

Ah yes, young Regie.  A sad story.  Such a promising young lad he was.  Then he discovered wimmin and it was all downhill from there. 

[wuvvum]

Peykan Hunter blog had a link to a short thread here about a Hunter Topaz. Don't remember whose car or what happened to it.....but I never left.

 

Edit: this very post.       http://www.paykanhunter.com/2010/11/hunted.html

That was my old Topaz.  LVG648P RIP.  Still pissed off about that to this day.

[fred]

I was told off on Retro Rides for swearing and said maybe I was more suited here Been here ever since

[vulgalour]

Pretty sure Seth was the reason I ended up over here initially.  I lurked for a while reading threads and enjoying the content as I didn't really have anything to contribute until I bought the Princess in 2012.  I like to make an entrance.

 

It was strange meeting other people in the real world that knew about or would recommend Autoshite to me on the strength of cars I was interested in and wanted to or did own.  I stick around because there's not really anywhere quite like this place and there's people here that I'd be unlikely to meet anywhere else.  Unless I joined Facebook again.  I'm not joining Facebook again.

[AMC Rebel]

A link from something on the Blue to something here - pretty much never went back.

[fraser.innes.3]

Was on RR and was intrigued by some UK bloke lacing the roof of a shitty UK car. Followed him here. I still blame you Vulg!!

 

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[richbraith]

I followed a link from a gold Renault 20 about 4 years ago at about 2am, then woke up the next day and got on with my life with no recollection of this.  Then I was abducted by Venusians and that was a year gone.  When they'd finished their probe and determined that Earth just wasn't worth the chew on, I joined the Facebook page and endured that until my eyes started to bleed from all the twattery.  Then I got online groomed by Trigger and met JohnK and was recruited into their ring and now I am an beige online bride.

*Some of the above may contain fantastical elements.

[scruff]

Genuinely can't remember, it may have been from a link or mention on AR Online or something like that. I lurked a long time before I joined up. 

[Twiggy]

I saw a comment by Sam Glover in craptical plastics and came to have a look.

 

So did I !

[Isaac Hunt]

I was following XBollox's tale on Retro Rides Readers Rides, he went a bit quiet and someone said 'he's messing with Lagooonas over on Autoshite' so I came for a look and have been here since.  

[adw1977]

I've been sharing photos of car "spots" and brochure scans for a few years on flickr, and autoshite was mentioned by some of my flickr contacts a few times. 

It was the saving of "Emma" the grey grille Sierra, already well known on flickr, that finally brought me here.

[lexi]

Somebody on another forum mentioned buying a car on Autoshite. I thought that was just a cynical way of describing Autotrader

    The thread then lead to here and I chuckled at my ignorance!

[RayMK]

My first post explains (in Matt the cat's Stellar thread)

 

Posted by RayMK on 24 October 2014 - 09:26 PM in AutoShite

I was looking for information about the Stellar's front wheel bearings and the search engine brought me here.  Glad it did!   Congratulations on a tenacious rebuild and it's so nice to see people showing enthusiasm for the Stellar.  Early in the thread someone posted a photo of a Stellar spotted at Stanford Hall (E591BRM).  That one is mine, and no, it has not been bangered, it's in daily use.  I have owned it since 2010 but bought it simply because I had one brand new in 1986, keeping it until 1991 and 100.000 miles plus.  That was an SL, no electric windows, fewer instruments and generally very Cortina underneath except for the engine and gearbox which were Mitsubishi of course.  My current Stellar is a 1988 GSL, bought with 32,000 miles recorded (seemed genuine), now showing 67,000.  All four electric windows are still in perfect working order   .  I have no idea why such a conventional, hum-drum car is so enjoyable to own and drive, but I love them.

 

The Stellar is still with me and in regular use.  Mr B's exercises in extreme human patience and perseverance on K series lumps, and his award winning thread on the other forum had me hooked.

[Timewaster]

Another from Rust in peace here.

 

That was always my favourite page in the magazine and to find an entire site of it here was brilliant.

 

Not so many spots posted up these days but I can't complain as I have never been arsed to do any myself.

 

I don't have time to photograph my own cars never mind anyone elses.

[overrun]

Kept reading WilsonnosliW's antics and lolled.

RE bollox, as mentioned before, I found his eBay feedback years back. I asked on here if it was definitely him, but he never replied iirc.

 

It was/is him.

[derskine]

FOAD mentioned it to me when we first met.

[UltraWomble]

B3TA.com

 

Totally arse about face - it was a link to someone ( no longer on ebay) called Mr_Bo11ox who was leaving utterly bonkers feedback for people. Dogpile linked the beige forum in the search history and the rest, as they say, is geography.

[mercrocker]

I was trying to find a pic of a Renner 12 to show the stepped roof to some wet behind the ear young colleague who thought the world began in 1996 (obviously some kind of Junkman nemesis).    After very quickly dismissing him with a stock photo I dug deeper (out of boredom when I should have been working) and it led me here......

[Timewaster]

Oddly I have spent far too much time in the pub with one of Bt3a's founders.

 

He only mentions it 2 or 3 times an evening.

[UltraWomble]

Oddly I have spent far too much time in the pub with one of Bt3a's founders.

 

He only mentions it 2 or 3 times an evening.

I used to enjoy B3Ta - like Viz, it used to be funny. Rob seems to have gravitated to Tw@tter now and TBH I cant get my head around Tw@tter. So I dont see anything vaguely amusing he may post any more.

 

Scarfolk is entertaining though.

[Negative Creep]

Friend had a card put under his wipers so I thought I'd pop over and see what the fuss was about

[M'coli]

I was an irregular on the Car Mechanics/Triple-M/Metropower/Fucking-arseholes-that-are-the-Avenger-club/Mk2CAV fora, but I'd seen it on Practical Classic's "Rust in Peace" feature when Electric Leyland was the host:  I looked in sort-of hoping it would be a bit like RetroRides but with less pretension, but wasn't expecting the forum to not have sections, i.e. it was all in one lump rather than having a tech area, a members' cars area, and a for-sale area.

 

The Metro's engine had gone poorly by this point and I was looking for something with which I could pick up a new one, so was a tad disappointed in Autoshite's lack of things for sale in a "bangernomics" style.  I bought a £95 mk2 Cavalier from mk2cav.com that would otherwise have been fragged instead.

I can't remember what made me sign up - perhaps it was the inclusiveness of the forum, its pan-vehicular and pan-manufacturer attitude as well as the love of the unloved that swayed me to eventually join.  I've always found the single-model loyalty just-about understandable, even the single-marque loyalty a bit odd, but I've never understood brand-loyalty to the point where people would buy their cars from one franchise even if that went, for example, Hillman->Chrysler->Talbot->Peugeot.

I didn't quite feel at home here to begin with, as I felt a bit overawed by the quality of the other forum members' cars, but hoped to fit in eventually.

Oddly enough, it's gone perhaps a bit too much towards bangernomics recently, but I have helped to send it that way...

[M'coli]

B3TA.com

 

Totally arse about face - it was a link to someone ( no longer on ebay) called Mr_Bo11ox who was leaving utterly bonkers feedback for people. Dogpile linked the beige forum in the search history and the rest, as they say, is geography.

I'd seen reference to Mr_Bo11ox feedback on Car Mechs or ARonline, too.

[pshome]

googling for Tagora i ended up here.

[scaryoldcortina]

Oh and I missed SOCs inspired posts featuring the use of an oscilloscope in diagnostics and singing on his Capri restoration thread.

 

I didn't realize anyone liked my singing!

 

Autoshite sort of found me, I'd been swimming against the flow on RR for a while and getting less and less out of it so someone suggested a move here.

[Spottedlaurel]

I'm another one from RR, way back in 2006. In those early days I remember discussion about trying to get in contact with Wuvvum, little realising that I'd seen some of his cars parked-up in Norwich and that he'd end up helping me out with a few collection missions.

 

Going back in time from that, I joined RR after meeting RWelfare after I visited him to buy some old magazines (off eBay IIRC). It might have been easier if he'd just mentioned AS straight off, but I'm not sure if it had started back in 2005?