Are we the car masons?

[grogee]

We've got our own code, and generally we've got each others' backs. 

Do we need a special handshake? 

[Dobloseven]

What about an initiation ceremony?

[EyesWeldedShut]

Feels a bit more like Fight Club to me?
 

[Dobloseven]

31 minutes ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

Feels a bit more like Fight Club to me?
 

First rule of Autoshite?........

[garbaldy]

1 hour ago, Dobloseven said:

What about an initiation ceremony?

It used to have one back in the day,   it took me over a year and a half to get in and that was only approved because another member sorted it out with owners for me. 

[Macscrooge]

We’ll need a foundation story which dates back to King Solomon. Though in those days we were known as ‘Chariotshite’…

[PicantoJon]

24 minutes ago, Dobloseven said:

First rule of Autoshite?........

Don't tell the wife? 

[Blunderguts]

2 hours ago, Dobloseven said:

What about an initiation ceremony?

I suggest that we create something in the manner of the Ministry of Silly Walks around something rusty and French. You must be wearing a welding mask and oil stained overalls. The shape of the stains denote your rank and the number which chapter you are from.

[Dobloseven]

17 minutes ago, Blunderguts said:

I suggest that we create something in the manner of the Ministry of Silly Walks around something rusty and French. You must be wearing a welding mask and oil stained overalls. The shape of the stains denote your rank and the number which chapter you are from.

We could have a little case with spanners in,we take to the meetings.

[chaseracer]

8 minutes ago, Dobloseven said:

We could have a little case with spanners in,we take to the meetings.

A hammer and a (bigger) socket, at the very least...

[Blunderguts]

I found office chairs for this guild....

[Dobloseven]

Just now, Blunderguts said:

I found office chairs for this guild....

Imagine sitting on that naked!

[mintwth]

14 minutes ago, Blunderguts said:

I found office chairs for this guild....

Chairs that are good for your nuts

[Dyslexic Viking]

If members seriously break the rules, I suggest that they must participate in the Peking to Paris rally in an Invacar as punishment.

[barefoot]

I think a password might be appropriate.  Known autoshiter could ask suspected autoshiter, 'Shiter?' To which the correct response would be,  'Fuck off'.

[mintwth]

3 hours ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

Feels a bit more like Shite Club to me?
 

FTFY 

[Rocket88]

Membership 20p……. Wedged somewhere…

[Blunderguts]

Possible mascot...

[grogee]

Our Grand Electric Lettuce (leader) must drive a Citroen, preferably a CX. 

Headquarters based at Longbridge. 

[EyesWeldedShut]

22 minutes ago, grogee said:

Our Grand Electric Lettuce (leader) must drive a Citroen, preferably a CX. 

mais non - C6 shirley?

[vulgalour]

Rather than an actual initiation ceremony it's more like a calling.

Attempting a fix/buy all seems to be going well until a moment very much like a personal epiphany occurs.  You realise the gravity of what you have just done a moment too late and you realise you have now set foot upon a path which you have no control over.  Destiny has determined you are to be its Knight in Lightly Oiled Heavily Patinated Armour.

You utter a swear suitable for the occasion.  This seals the deal, the contract has been signed, as it were.

No matter your efforts to aspire to greater things - a BMW on lease hire, a sensible Toyota, a vehicle that actually meets the needs set out - Destiny will ensure you find yourself at a backstreet garage attempting to steal your own car that you've already paid for (ExplosiveCabbage: Letters to the Peugeot Sellers), or acquiring another obscure Japanese car (Schaefft: Corona Things), and you must resign yourself to this fate, infecting others and persuading them to rescue hopeless old heaps.

Thus spake SixCylinder: For what is money if it is not to be spent?

[MiniMinorMk3]

All Leyland Shitters must wear one of these, at all times.

[eddyramrod]

Do we still have anyone in Leyland?  (Lancashire, rather than British...)

[LightBulbFun]

2 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

If members seriously break the rules, I suggest that they must participate in the Peking to Paris rally in an Invacar as punishment.

close enough?  

[PicantoJon]

23 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

Do we still have anyone in Leyland?  (Lancashire, rather than British...)

Is Blackburn close enough? 

[ETCHY]

24 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

Do we still have anyone in Leyland?  (Lancashire, rather than British...)

I was brought up there & my dad worked at Leyland Motors in Leyland making trucks if that counts ?

[grogee]

2 hours ago, ETCHY said:

I was brought up there & my dad worked at Leyland Motors in Leyland making trucks if that counts ?

That'll do. Looks like you're in charge now. 

By the way, the gents is blocked. 

[Noel Tidybeard]

11 hours ago, grogee said:

We've got our own code, and generally we've got each others' backs. 

Do we need a special handshake? 

Yes, Yes we do!

[Noel Tidybeard]

9 hours ago, Macscrooge said:

We’ll need a foundation story which dates back to King Solomon. Though in those days we were known as ‘Chariotshite’…

D701 SWL

[puddlethumper]

I think we need symbols like the Masons. A golden 10mm socket that legend says you can never lose. A holy grail that could be searched for. Much like a normal 10mm socket.