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[rantingYoof]

Thanks I hate it. 

[Wibble]

2 hours ago, Wibble said:

Oh shit, hopefully it will stop soon. Not too bad so far:

but still snowing at the moment, good luck!

Reckon you’ll be ok @bramz7 as seems to be turning to rain/sleet and disappearing.

[reb]

2 minutes ago, rantingYoof said:

Thanks I hate it. 

Not a fan of neo-brutalism* then?

 

*I just made this up, neo-brutalism is just what happens when you hire an architect with no imagination 

[somewhatfoolish]

1 hour ago, 320touring said:

A bit more spottage on a traipse round that there Lunnon..

Just down from the hotel was someone with a weakness for old Merc coupes..

The R107 was badged as a 560SL

 

The burd was particularly taken with this early 500, with a modern 5000 behind it🤣

 

Saw this abomination, and laughed at the fact the Berlingo behind has a better plate...

 

Lastly, some proper "fuck the aesthetic" planning decision - I reckon even @rantingYoof would struggle to justify this block of flats was in keeping with the area🤣

It blends in so well. 😬

[mat777]

As the slow stripdown of the part-out P38 continues, I removed the ECU and fusebox today to be greeted by this absolute abomination. What the fuck is that supposed to be about?! There goes being able to sell on the engine loom.... 

[Barry Cade]

Just watched "Nobody". Kept me amused for a bit, but.... white 1972 Dodge Challenger in it.. Vanishing Point vibes, nearly  . BUT, they  made a couple of references to a 4.9 litre . Dodge never made a 299 cubic inch engine, smallest V8 in the Chally was a 318, or a 5.2 litre.. and that was considered a bit shit.

This film had a 16 million dollar budget. If they'd asked, for a couple if million, I could have saved every Mopar fan worldwide from choking on their Budweiser. FFS...

[reb]

I've just realised I'll have been on here for a decade this March.

How the hell did that happen?

[Metal Guru]

58 minutes ago, reb said:

I've just realised I'll have been on here for a decade this March.

How the hell did that happen?

A similar thought came to me. When I used watch football as a kid in the 70s, if the commentator says something like “Chelsea haven’t won away to Aston Villa for 35 years “, I’d think , that’s before the war, ancient history. Now I think, “Oh yes, I remember watching that in 1990.”

I think whoever controls the world, is bored and has pressed fast forward.

[reb]

15 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

A similar thought came to me. When I used watch football as a kid in the 70s, if the commentator says something like “Chelsea haven’t won away to Aston Villa for 35 years “, I’d think , that’s before the war, ancient history. Now I think, “Oh yes, I remember watching that in 1990.”

I think whoever controls the world, is bored and has pressed fast forward.

I have been on this godforsaken site for fully one third of my life.

And elsewhere on the internet I have 18 year olds telling me what things were like "on the old internet"

Bitch I've been online longer than you've been alive.

[PhilA]

7 hours ago, Barry Cade said:

Just watched "Nobody". Kept me amused for a bit, but.... white 1972 Dodge Challenger in it.. Vanishing Point vibes, nearly  . BUT, they  made a couple of references to a 4.9 litre . Dodge never made a 299 cubic inch engine, smallest V8 in the Chally was a 318, or a 5.2 litre.. and that was considered a bit shit.

This film had a 16 million dollar budget. If they'd asked, for a couple if million, I could have saved every Mopar fan worldwide from choking on their Budweiser. FFS...

318 was anemic with the stock 2 barrel carb, for sure. 4 barrel with tuned intake and better breathing exhaust, the decent heads and a halfway decent cam was still not a 383 but it was starting to be a spicy engine for its size and weight.

[auntiemaryscanary]

Woke up to only slightly more than a dusting of snow which is now being rained on. Media going into overdrive about it all.

Maybe they should go and visit my brother in Bergen

They had 18 inches fall Friday night into Saturday morning.

 

[Metal Guru]

17 minutes ago, auntiemaryscanary said:

Woke up to only slightly more than a dusting of snow which is now being rained on. Media going into overdrive about it all.

Maybe they should go and visit my brother in Bergen

They had 18 inches fall Friday night into Saturday morning.

 

Yes the “Wall of Snow” predicted by the media seems to amount to the first layer of mortar in most places.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

7 hours ago, reb said:

I have been on this godforsaken site for fully one third of my life.

And elsewhere on the internet I have 18 year olds telling me what things were like "on the old internet"

Bitch I've been online longer than you've been alive.

There’s another forum that I’ve been on since I turned 16.  I’m now 36.  20 years.  And I DO remember the early Internet as I was first online in 1995…

[EyesWeldedShut]

3 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

There’s another forum that I’ve been on since I turned 16.  I’m now 36.  20 years.  And I DO remember the early Internet as I was first online in 1995…

How about Viewdata? 1986  (OK so not, strictly speaking 'Internet' but with a smokin' 1200/75 modem we thought we ruled the world  )

https://www.viewdata.org.uk/index.php?cat=31_The-nbsp~Gnome&page=05_Introduction

[tooSavvy]

8 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

I think whoever controls the world, is bored and has pressed fast forward.

*Fast-forward BACK to 1914 😕 .... We're not bored just forgetful @11.11

🚙💨

[andyberg]

30 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

Yes the “Wall of Snow” predicted by the media seems to amount to the first layer of mortar in most places.

Did we get predictions * of a ‘wall of snow’ in the 80s/90s? Or are we being scaremongered now. I remember walking to school with many inches of snow on the ground, now it seems schools are closed with the mearest dusting ‘ for the safety of the pupils’

[Metal Guru]

15 minutes ago, andyberg said:

Did we get predictions * of a ‘wall of snow’ in the 80s/90s? Or are we being scaremongered now. I remember walking to school with many inches of snow on the ground, now it seems schools are closed with the mearest dusting ‘ for the safety of the pupils’

Several years ago , one of the buses serving our local High School crashed on an icy road along one of the valleys. No one was badly hurt but since then the Council just shuts the schools down at a hint of snow. 
Seeing as everyone has a tablet and the majority can walk to the school , it wouldn’t be impossible to arrange for the kids that get the buses to log in from home, but it seems everyone prefers a day off (apart from working parents).

[artdjones]

52 minutes ago, andyberg said:

Did we get predictions * of a ‘wall of snow’ in the 80s/90s? Or are we being scaremongered now. I remember walking to school with many inches of snow on the ground, now it seems schools are closed with the mearest dusting ‘ for the safety of the pupils’

It's part of the feminisation of society. Every activity has a risk assessment performed by people who don't really understand what a risk assessment is.

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

There’s another forum that I’ve been on since I turned 16.  I’m now 36.  20 years.  And I DO remember the early Internet as I was first online in 1995…

Ah yes, the cheerful beeps and squarks of the dial-up modem connecting to AOL for 1p/minute on your phone bill. I think 92 or 93 for me.

[Split_Pin]

I'm fairly sure Autoshite turns 20 at the end of this year. I think there must be less than 5 members still posting who joined before 2006. @wuvvum must be the longest serving member surely?

[Minimad5]

Sold 4x4.

Planned MOT cancelled by garage due to overbooked / too busy. No cars road legal.

Next day it shows 😅 

Synopsis of Minimad5 luck 🙈😅

[reb]

1 hour ago, Split_Pin said:

I'm fairly sure Autoshite turns 20 at the end of this year. I think there must be less than 5 members still posting who joined before 2006. @wuvvum must be the longest serving member surely?

My dad ( @Richard) would have him beat by a month, if it wasn't for the slight inconvenience of being a little bit dead.

[wuvvum]

1 hour ago, Split_Pin said:

I'm fairly sure Autoshite turns 20 at the end of this year. I think there must be less than 5 members still posting who joined before 2006. @wuvvum must be the longest serving member surely?

Nah, there's still several on here who have been here longer than I have.  @Spottedlaurel, @r.welfare, @Mr_Bo11ox, @outlaw118 to name but a few.

[SiC]

User list with joined first at the beginning. I believe there was incarnations of the forum that were lost before this current setup started. 

https://autoshite.com/search/?type=core_members&joinedDate=any&group[4]=1&group[8]=1&group[3]=1&group[9]=1&group[12]=1&group[6]=1&sortby=joined&sortdirection=asc

I joined 9 years last month for me. 

[reb]

5 minutes ago, SiC said:

User list with joined first at the beginning. I believe there was incarnations of the forum that were lost before this current setup started. 

https://autoshite.com/search/?type=core_members&joinedDate=any&group[4]=1&group[8]=1&group[3]=1&group[9]=1&group[12]=1&group[6]=1&sortby=joined&sortdirection=asc

I joined 9 years last month for me. 

The current incarnation of here is older than Twitter!

[Heidel_Kakao]

1 hour ago, Split_Pin said:

I'm fairly sure Autoshite turns 20 at the end of this year. I think there must be less than 5 members still posting who joined before 2006. @wuvvum must be the longest serving member surely?

I make it @Mr_Bo11ox

I joined 24-05-2006 after one of the founders left an Autoshite business card under the windscreen wiper of my Viva HC at a Retro Rides show

I guess we should have a 20th year celebration party in 2026, anyone good at making cakes?

Edit actually that photo is watermarked 2007 so not sure how I found this place now maybe from Retro Rides but the business card thing definitely happened.

[reb]

1 minute ago, Heidel_Kakao said:

Viva HC

A couple of years before I joined I was dead set on my first car being a Viva HC, back then you could still get a usable one for £500 if you knew where to look. Unfortunately by the time I passed my test (over a year after I joined) they'd all been squished.

[SiC]

Those that post too much on here:

https://autoshite.com/search/?type=core_members&joinedDate=any&group[4]=1&group[8]=1&group[3]=1&group[9]=1&group[12]=1&group[6]=1&sortby=member_posts&sortdirection=desc

 

Autoshite back in Jan 2006

https://web.archive.org/web/20060110193421/http://www.autoshite.com/

 

[Heidel_Kakao]

5 minutes ago, reb said:

A couple of years before I joined I was dead set on my first car being a Viva HC, back then you could still get a usable one for £500 if you knew where to look. Unfortunately by the time I passed my test (over a year after I joined) they'd all been squished.

Mine was a piece of shit but it looked cool and went fairly well as the previous owner had swapped a 2 litre Pinto into it.

Nowadays if I were to have another it would need to be an estate.

[reb]

Where does Original Tin fit in? I have a copy of issue 2. It definitely exudes Autoshite Cinematic Universe vibes.