Announcement - Dave21478

[Keymaster]

Very sad news indeed, RIP Dave

[Jim Bell]

I hope Dave's family and real world friends understand that Dave brought real light to this international troop of car enthusiasts. Some of us struggle with mental heath issues and it may be that some of us come here to escape the pressures and pains of real life. Dave always went out of his way to make us smile. He made us giggle.

He dragged laughs out of us and made our days better.

 

We are all poorer without him and we were lucky to have him.

[Felly Magic]

Well said there JB, we've lost a good un

[Slartibartfast]

 

... but why?

[loserone]

Saves a few minutes time in the morning.

 

[mrbenn]

We ought to get his "best bits" together. There'd be a lot of them.

[tonedepear]

Unbelievably sad news. RIP Dave numbers.

[Felly Magic]

A very apt song for Dave Numbers is this, and it is from the year of his birth

 

[davehedgehog31]

Can I also add this for those who may not have seen it. Just one example of fantastic engineering ingenuity, amongst probably hundreds you could choose from.

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/29949-dave-does-a-diy-cylinder-head-pressure-test-and-skim-back-together-with-video/?p=1339870

That is tremendous.

[Felly Magic]

A true engineer, with some pretty awesome skills, cap seriously doffed to him, as many have said already, he summed up what is Autoshite, another case of you don't know what you have got until it has gone, we are going to miss him deeply

[Guest Hooli]

Indeed, his posts were a highlight of this place for me.

[The Moog]

I am proposing that I pull together all his posts into some form of ebook or similar.

 

Then make it available on here and if people wish to download a copy they could donate to an charity (tbc)

 

It won't be anything fancy but perhaps creating relevant chapters around his key musings.

 

Will have time to do it next week I think.

 

Is this of interest to people?

[bezzabsa]

OMG, was trawling through his many posts, having a good chuckle the other night...

as DW put it's amazing how much a death like this can effect you even though he wasn't a 'close and personal' friend...just someone with a head older than his body and skill overflowing everywhere!!!

 

RIP 

[Braddon81]

Awfully sad tragic news. R.i.p. Dave numbers.

[loserone]

Definitely of interest, but I think it needs some curation; some chapters on tools, fiats, pickups, girls with three children, france, etc.  There can then be some select 'conversation' - the posts alone, out of context, will miss some of the humour.

 

Happy to help work on it, if it could be a collaborative effort in O365 or similar?

[davocano]

The toothpaste on toast pic was one of the first posts of his that I looked at; I giggled a bit at the time and I just giggled a bit again.

[The Moog]

Definitely of interest, but I think it needs some curation; some chapters on tools, fiats, pickups, girls with three children, france, etc. There can then be some select 'conversation' - the posts alone, out of context, will miss some of the humour.

 

Happy to help work on it, if it could be a collaborative effort in O365 or similar?

I think for speed it just needs 1someone to do it. More than happy for someone else to do it (I have no real skills, was just going to busk it a bit).

 

In my head I was thinking chapters on things like that love, work, cars, fixing, France, food etc.

[vulgalour]

Happy to create the cover artwork if required, probably of a Panda (or other Davenumbers car/motorised conveyance) on its side as suggested earlier in the thread.

[Arthur Foxhake]

I've been on various internet forums for about 15 years now and I've never been so upset over a member dying before.

I've thought about a man I never physically met before, all day.

A very sad time for anybody who cared for him.

Dave's Dismantling Blog was one of my favorite threads. Gutted there will be no more entries.

[Psycho Charlie Knobcheese]

Terribly Sad. Rest in peace Dave

[mrbenn]

Link to Dave's YouTube channel with some clips of his projects:

 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxSyHp1ScUhngrA2nS6-YRg/videos?shelf_id=0&view=0&sort=dd

[chaseracer]

Happy to create the cover artwork if required, probably of a Panda (or other Davenumbers car/motorised conveyance) on its side as suggested earlier in the thread.

 

Or an MGF with two steering wheels...

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Chapters or topics proposals:

 

'Dave on the French'

'Dave's dating escapades'

'Dave's exciting engineering'

'Dave swearing at inanimate objects'

'Dave's anger management technique'

 

Etc.

[JeeExEll]

A quick link to 66 threads started by DaveNumbers.

Does not include lots of content posted in other threads.

 

http://autoshite.com/index.php?app=core&module=search&do=user_activity&search_app=forums&mid=17837&sid=f3f015836e9abef451801fc5401f81f9&search_app_filters[forums][searchInKey]=&userMode=title

[Timewaster]

I can't help but wonder...

 

(Speculation removed)

I guess we will never know.

 

Please everyone, take good care of yourselves.

[HMC]

I remember reading that he almost single handedly depleted rhd c15 stocks by buying em up, moving them over, converting to lhd and flogging them to the French. A shiter genius.

[SiC]

Could be anything and could speculate on anything. Oil/diesel on the road, blacked out, sedatives not worn off fully from the hospital, swerve to avoid someone/something, shunted from the rear and other party drove off, mechanical failure, blow-out (he did repair one of the tyres on his truck) or just plain bad luck. Could be anything.

 

We do all talk about driving older vehicles, but it's something we have to be careful of. They're not quite designed to protect their occupants than ones designed in the last 15-20 or so years.

 

Please all drive safe and be careful out there, especially with the number of idiots on the road nowadays.

[scaryoldcortina]

Or an MGF with two steering wheels...

 

Gassing moles with a MGF?

 

Bye dave, it was a pleasure meeting you.

[Supernaut]

I'm still in disbelief over this.

 

Just waiting for him to turn up in the grumpy thread having a rant about how terrible his weekend was.

[Volksy]

Sad times.,

Was reading one of his posts out to a work colleague when I saw the pinned thread.

 

I hope there is somewhere to post grumps in the afterlife...