The Epic Austrian owned R16 from Germany doing French things in a Parallel Universe near England Saga

[BorniteIdentity]

  On 08/01/2020 at 00:50, Ghosty said:

There's no chance you'll ever see Junkman on these pages again, or possibly even the Dark Wob: he's just a bit sick of fora in general. 

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My suspicion is the feeling is mutual. 

I really liked a lot of his content and of course his cars, but in the end he just became a parody of himself (ultimately a cartoon character anyway).

Still, we’re all fighting our own private battles I guess. ?‍♂️ 

[Kowalski]

  On 08/01/2020 at 08:17, BorniteIdentity said:

 

Still, we’re all fighting our own private battles I guess. ?‍♂️ 

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Against carburettors and exhausts in this case!

Great car though, nice to see it being used as it should be

[chadders]

By what I remember his is a 68, which is something like a one year only version so getting  some parts is horrendous.

I can sympathise with him on this as my T2 is a 68 which has a lot of one year only , or even 6 month only in the case of the rear brakes,  parts. 

[egg]

Eh bien, hopefully JM will one day get the TX of his nightmares dreams...

[barrett]

I really should have bought this one instead of paying double for an identical but rhd R16 that needed quite a bit of work before it could be used reliably. High 30s mpg!! How does he manage that? And an orange interior! I can't even remember why I didn't buy it now. Silly boy.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

  On 08/01/2020 at 12:43, barrett said:

....High 30s mpg!! How does he manage that? ....

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Coasting and using every bit of momentum?

[Ghosty]

  On 08/01/2020 at 07:32, barefoot said:

Will he be coming to Cannock for breakfast on the second Feb?

No chance I'm afraid. I don't think JM ever did Cannock.

[barefoot]

  On 08/01/2020 at 14:45, Ghosty said:

  On 08/01/2020 at 07:32, barefoot said:

Will he be coming to Cannock for breakfast on the second Feb?

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No chance I'm afraid. I don't think JM ever did Cannock.

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It's where I met him & his lovely Seize.

[Ghosty]

  On 08/01/2020 at 15:05, barefoot said:

It's where I met him & his lovely Seize.

Oh, I see. No, I'm not sure he would unfortunately.

[Heidel_Kakao]

Yeah the man of junk did Cannock at least once as evidenced by the December 2018 Calendar photo (taken by @dollywobbler December 2017) that was a good day!

[danthecapriman]

There’s a 1979 16 that’s turned up on a driveway round the corner from my house. It looks reasonably solid from what I can see but it looks to have been stood for some time previously to turning up here. 

The driveway and house it outside of belongs to the local banger racer though...

[alcyonecorporation]

Didn't JM ask for his threads to be deleted, mods? 

[strangeangel]

  On 08/01/2020 at 16:31, alcyonecorporation said:

Didn't JM ask for his threads to be deleted, mods? 

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That's an awful lot of work for whoever administrates the database, and would make loads of old threads nonsensical. If it was me I'm pretty sure I couldn't be bothered.

 

EDIT: Sorry, just read that again and saw you said 'posts', not 'threads', If it's that much of a problem he could always come back and delete them himself? He's not banned, after all.

 

 

 

[barrett]

  On 08/01/2020 at 16:21, danthecapriman said:

There’s a 1979 16 that’s turned up on a driveway round the corner from my house. It looks reasonably solid from what I can see but it looks to have been stood for some time previously to turning up here. 

The driveway and house it outside of belongs to the local banger racer though...

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Pics and more info, please!

[Spottedlaurel]

I remember a banger racer called Mr Reno back in the '90s who was a bit of a specialist at using older Renaults, especially 16s.

[Heidel_Kakao]

  On 08/01/2020 at 19:20, Spottedlaurel said:

I remember a banger racer called Mr Reno back in the '90s who was a bit of a specialist at using older Renaults, especially 16s.

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They seem a bit flimsy to use as a banger or are they stronger than they look?

[danthecapriman]

  On 08/01/2020 at 20:11, Heidel_Kakao said:

They seem a bit flimsy to use as a banger or are they stronger than they look?

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They didn’t seem particularly well used by the banger boys. Maybe that said a lot? There’s an old video on YouTube I was watching of racing in the early 90’s I think and there was one on track. Pretty sure it was Surrey Street squad (white with red spots paint job).

 

  On 08/01/2020 at 17:39, barrett said:

Pics and more info, please!

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I’ll try to get a sneaky pic of it in the next few days. It turned up just before Xmas and has been sat there unused since but it’s often blocked in by a van making it hard to get a pic, or the number plate, but it’s a T reg. from what I can see it’s been badly painted in a flat blue but there’s patches of it peeling off and it looks to be silver underneath. I’ve no idea what spec it is either. Could well be a good source of spares if nothing else though?

Leave it with me...

[bangernomics]

  On 08/01/2020 at 08:17, BorniteIdentity said:

My suspicion is the feeling is mutual. 
I really liked a lot of his content and of course his cars, but in the end he just became a parody of himself (ultimately a cartoon character anyway).
Still, we’re all fighting our own private battles I guess.  

I for one have missed his hilarious eBay advert comments, not sure I get how he became a cartoon character, opinions are subjective I guess, I know he could appear blunt but surely that to me was his charm. I am also aware of the whole debacle that was the genesis of TDW and the loss of some really entertaining content generators as evidenced by holy thread resurrection Junkman.

[brownnova]

 

  On 08/01/2020 at 16:31, alcyonecorporation said:

Didn't JM ask for his threads to be deleted, mods? 

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The sheer man hours that would entail makes it an entirely unreasonable request. We all work full time jobs too you know! 

[garbaldy]

How much time does it take to look at his profile see his threads and press delete?

I personally wouldn't like to loose them but they are full of his pics and they are his work making them his,  unless of course there's some small print saying they  now belong to the forum to do whatever you like with them then his request isn't an unfair one.

[Skizzer]

  On 09/01/2020 at 07:47, garbaldy said:

How much time does it take to look at his profile see his threads and press delete?

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There are 47,000 of them.  If it takes 3 seconds to press delete and press confirm and wait for  the screen to redraw then that’s over 39 hours of non-stop deleting.

Or we could all pay for a SQL developer to build and test some scripts to do it without screwing up the integrity of the database. A couple of grand should cover it. It might even work.

 

Or we could just forget it and move on.

[garbaldy]

  On 09/01/2020 at 08:13, Skizzer said:

There are 47,000 of them.  If it takes 3 seconds to press delete and press confirm and wait for  the screen to redraw then that’s over 39 hours of non-stop deleting.

Or we could all pay for a SQL developer to build and test some scripts to do it without screwing up the integrity of the database. A couple of grand should cover it. It might even work.

 

Or we could just forget it and move on.

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What junkman has 47,000 threads  ?

I'm shocked he even had time to do anything else.

[strangeangel]

  On 09/01/2020 at 08:13, Skizzer said:

Or we could just forget it and move on.

 

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Most people seem to have done just that. But there's always someone who can't resist picking at the scab...

 

[Cavcraft]

  On 09/01/2020 at 08:13, Skizzer said:

There are 47,000 of them.  If it takes 3 seconds to press delete and press confirm and wait for  the screen to redraw then that’s over 39 hours of non-stop deleting.

Or we could all pay for a SQL developer to build and test some scripts to do it without screwing up the integrity of the database. A couple of grand should cover it. It might even work.

 

Or we could just forget it and move on.

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Amen.

[Kowalski]

  On 08/01/2020 at 19:20, Spottedlaurel said:

I remember a banger racer called Mr Reno back in the '90s who was a bit of a specialist at using older Renaults, especially 16s.

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I'm surprised there were many left to race by the nineties. I only recall seeing one in the wild during the whole decade, most had long since rusted away! I still remember it. It was a pale green one with patchy paint, somewhere in Birmingham

[wuvvum]

  On 08/01/2020 at 16:09, Heidel_Kakao said:

Yeah the man of junk did Cannock at least once as evidenced by the December 2018 Calendar photo (taken by @dollywobbler December 2017) that was a good day!

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Bloody hell, is it really over two years since you bought the Cedric? 

[Eddie Honda]

  On 09/01/2020 at 08:25, garbaldy said:

What junkman has 47,000 threads  ?

I'm shocked he even had time to do anything else.

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Of course he doesn't. Posts do not equal threads.

[Heidel_Kakao]

  On 09/01/2020 at 18:01, wuvvum said:

Bloody hell, is it really over two years since you bought the Cedric? 

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Hard to believe I know but yeah, god knows where the time goes.

[dozeydustman]

  On 09/01/2020 at 18:01, wuvvum said:

Bloody hell, is it really over two years since you bought the Cedric? 

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  On 09/01/2020 at 21:40, Heidel_Kakao said:

Hard to believe I know but yeah, god knows where the time goes.

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Is that the Cedric I picked the pads & discs up for?

[Heidel_Kakao]

  On 09/01/2020 at 22:17, dozeydustman said:

 

Is that the Cedric I picked the pads & discs up for?

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The one and only Thanks again for that, the old discs were wafer thin as I think they had been previously machined.