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Post by bryan on Sept 17, 2019 7:39:00 GMT
I have not met any of you yet but hope to. Taking Bess to another garage test next week so perhaps will be better placed to travel to a meet sometime. Mike, not strictly true....I think we met when you kindly gave me a nec classic ticket at Tamworth services many years ago!!
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Post by bryan on Sept 17, 2019 7:40:29 GMT
^^^ Stephen Guckel was his name, he did used to be a chauffeur at Nationwide. He went under the handle of 'G' for a while. I seem to remember that he went to one of the forum meets (was it at the Haynes motor museum) and met Colin, Piers, Blarno and Bryan. The deluded Monaro chap was called Tom. He lived (or claimed to live) very near where my Mum lives (and also close to Simon P) and I had a couple of PM exchanges with him during his time on the forum but perhaps unsurprisingly he didn't commit to an actual meeting-up! I was on the original Autocar forum as well, I joined in the Autumn of 2005 having lurked for a good six months or so. I think it was the national motor museum at gaydon, and seem to recall we spent a long time talking outside in the rain!!
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Post by michael on Sept 17, 2019 7:53:20 GMT
I was there! I remember your Audi A3 and the dodgy plate you had on it. I also remember G who had an Ignis at the time. I'd met him in advance at a pub with Piers. G struck me as an utter prick. He thought he was very amusing making homophobic jokes about Super Stevie who was also on the forum at the time.
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Post by bryan on Sept 17, 2019 7:56:58 GMT
The dodgy plate is now on the Merc😂😂😂
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Post by PG on Sept 17, 2019 8:27:50 GMT
I remember about the Tom guy. He also claimed to have gone to Afghanistan, but later it came out that the photos he put on line were actually stock photos.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2019 9:33:19 GMT
I have not met any of you yet but hope to. Taking Bess to another garage test next week so perhaps will be better placed to travel to a meet sometime. Mike, not strictly true....I think we met when you kindly gave me a nec classic ticket at Tamworth services many years ago!! Well, there go a few more grey cells, completely forgot that. Mind you, it was before last Tuesday.........
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Post by bryan on Sept 17, 2019 11:20:22 GMT
And I'm not that memorable 😂
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Post by Ben on Sept 17, 2019 12:49:22 GMT
I was there. Remember they had the “from the forums” section in the magazine? Yeah, think I got mentioned once or twice. Proud moment that.
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Post by Ben on Sept 17, 2019 12:56:26 GMT
We've had lots of great moments over the years. Can't believe it's been 15 years(!) since the first of us gathered over on Autocar...
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Post by Alex on Sept 17, 2019 16:57:43 GMT
I have not met any of you yet but hope to. Taking Bess to another garage test next week so perhaps will be better placed to travel to a meet sometime. I've met Chris M, and also the driving instructor from Scotland who ended up in prison for sexual assault (that whole episode was interesting, wonder what he's up to now, I guess still protesting his innocence!), who's name escapes me. I thought we’d quietly agreed not to mention that again. Of more concern to me was his family, that must have been very difficult for them.
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Post by rodge on Sept 18, 2019 1:29:33 GMT
We've had lots of great moments over the years. Can't believe it's been 15 years(!) since the first of us gathered over on Autocar... Wow. I didn’t think it had been that long ago but I remember posting my daughters birth on the old old forum, and she will be 15 in february. How time flies...
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Post by grampa on Sept 18, 2019 18:09:56 GMT
I joined the Autocar forum in 2004 when my Megane 225 was pretty much brand new.
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Post by Eff One on Sept 18, 2019 21:24:09 GMT
I joined in 2003, I think. I've never been a very prolific poster, but the forum in its various forms has been around for more than a third of my life.
I've met ALF and Piers a few times, and recall nearly breaking Stuntman at Thruxton kart circuit about ten years ago.
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Post by michael on Sept 18, 2019 21:49:54 GMT
It has been overall a great thing. I’ve made some good friends and even attended a forummers wedding. One of the quirks of the Autocar forum used to be the swear checker that took issue with 5 litre engines and Cumbernauld. There was also that fault that allowed users to create unnamed threads that could only be accessed if you know how.
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Post by ChrisM on Sept 19, 2019 7:03:20 GMT
One of the quirks of the Autocar forum used to be the swear checker that took issue with 5 litre engines and Cumbernauld. You also could not "be a very" good anything......
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Post by bryan on Sept 19, 2019 9:31:56 GMT
Seem to remember you were also unable to go to Scunthorpe either!
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Post by Tim on Sept 19, 2019 9:33:17 GMT
Cockpit! I think it disliked 'rim' as well, not so handy on a car forum.
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Post by racingteatray on Sept 19, 2019 15:59:13 GMT
Was trying to think...I first met Colin, Chris (Kraftwerk) and Piers (I think it was just the four of us) at a classic car show at Alexandra Palace in 2006-ish. Then ALF once when he gave me a spin in his GTA which led me to buy one. Then a number of you at Prescott in I think 2009 but I'd need to look back at photos to remember who. Pretty sure Dan and Michael were there. I also saw Kraftwerk a few times - he borrowed a book off me once and a friend of mine eventually bought his SL500. Apart from that, I've met Colin on I think three other occasions (always classic car shows but none recently - I've a feeling someone else also came to one near Bristol when I had the black Z1 but cannot currently remember who - apologies!), I met up with Piers once to flog him some winter wheels when he got his M135i, and BB several times, including by chance.
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Post by michael on Sept 19, 2019 16:52:39 GMT
Then a number of you at Prescott in I think 2009 but I'd need to look back at photos to remember who. Pretty sure Dan and Michael were there. Not sure if the year is right (I think it'd have been a year or two later) but I remember meeting you at Prescott - the Z1 owners club had had a get together the previous day, as I recall.
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Post by racingteatray on Sept 19, 2019 17:51:10 GMT
Pretty sure it was 2009 as it was the green Z1 and I wrote that off in 2010.
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Post by LandieMark on Sept 19, 2019 17:57:45 GMT
Pretty sure it was 2009 as it was the green Z1 and I wrote that off in 2010. I've not met you, but I was stood next to Piers when you rang him to let us know that you would no longer be coming to Prescott as the Z1 was upside down.
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Post by bryan on Sept 19, 2019 20:01:18 GMT
As was I, I think!, I was there the year the year you came in the z1 too
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Post by Roadsterstu on Sept 20, 2019 8:12:34 GMT
Pretty sure it was 2009 as it was the green Z1 and I wrote that off in 2010. I've not met you, but I was stood next to Piers when you rang him to let us know that you would no longer be coming to Prescott as the Z1 was upside down. Yes, i remember that too.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2019 8:19:23 GMT
Wonder what year it was that I first went to Prescott? I think that may have been around then as I got shot of the Clio in 2010, I think and definitely took it one year...
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Post by bryan on Sept 20, 2019 9:29:24 GMT
I've not met you, but I was stood next to Piers when you rang him to let us know that you would no longer be coming to Prescott as the Z1 was upside down. Yes, i remember that too. I recall you were particularly pleased to have rescued your tortoise bonnet mascot from the wreck. Henrietta I think? Is she still knocking around?
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Post by racingteatray on Sept 20, 2019 9:51:06 GMT
She is. But not on a car. For ages, the problem was that the bolts had rusted on and de-threaded. I eventually found someone who managed to remove them, so now I could have her put on the GC but haven't ever got around to doing so. Two reasons really: (a) I was advised to check first that the bonnet wasn't aluminium, which I still need to do (simple really - just check with a magnet but I keep forgetting) and (b) to fix her on properly really requires two holes, not just one, which would then need filling and repainting as and when I sold the car.
The other option is to put her on the Fiat, but because she is bronze-finish rather than the more usual silver, I'm not sure that will look right on a white car, plus my wife isn't that keen and the car itself is starting to be on borrowed time after nearly six years. Currently my wife is commuting to and from Newbury in it, and while I offered her the use of my car, she prefers to use her own because she finds mine large and she worries about damaging it. But she has already commented that it's not the ideal car to spend 1-2hrs on the motorway in.
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Post by Blarno on Sept 20, 2019 10:27:21 GMT
I've only done Prescott twice, in 2007 and 2008. First time round I was racing young Mike out of the car park and nearly buried my Clio in the mud. Second time round, I remember standing at the start line next to Kraftwerk whilst the Veyron was waiting to launch, and after a particularly timid launch, Kraft shouted: "C'mon gayboy, give it some beans"
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Post by racingteatray on Sept 30, 2019 22:07:38 GMT
Look what I found: Sundry forummers’ former wheels!
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Post by bryan on Oct 1, 2019 5:52:28 GMT
Cool pic, I really liked my E30 cab, and always coveted your Z1
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Post by Stuntman on Oct 1, 2019 19:08:05 GMT
I've met Jonny at Prescott, and also at the thing near Bristol which I seem to remember was 'Caring With Cars' at Downside School I think - with Dan G and maybe Colin.
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