Found this site again in a google search.
Find it hard to believe that once upon a time I was berated for "posting too much" with my 6,000 posts, as top poster.
There seems to be plenty more saddos now
Nice to see you all again
ATB
steve
Hello steve
Nice to see you pop up, hope you are keeping well.
Deja vu
http://locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=107682
Hello again Steve, too. I was wonderingthe other day where you were, how you doing etc. I presume life and family ok.
JGG/Clive
quote:
Originally posted by loggyboy
Deja vu
http://locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=107682
Now there's a name from the past...... Welcome home.
Thanks Jon
I should try and visit a bit more often than 3 years - might even be able to remember some useful experiences from nearly building a car
atb
steve
How weird is that....I was thinking about you just the other day and wondering whatever happened to you???
You were the king of posts back in the day
Did you ever finish your scratch built?
Yep, and you now have 1000 more than me
I guess when you have a boring job (a that time) posting at work helps you through the day.
Sadly, I didnt finish my scratch build, but got close - see above
ATB
steve
Hey Steve...nice to see you around again....
Blimey Steve - I did a search for you on here recently only to find you hadn't visited in a while. I'd also noticed your website address is
now available
Good to see you on here again and shame about the project; still now you're back you can start another
ATB
Simon
Ah, Mr Gusterwotsit, welcome back!!
There's a lot of us still here
quote:
Originally posted by stephen_gusterson
Yep, and you now have 1000 more than me
Great to hear from all the old guys, thanks for remembering me
I will try not to stay away for too long again.
Bob gave me a poke 3-4 years back, but it didnt kick me into action re positng then. I found one of my posts in a completly random google search this
time.
Yeah, I gave up the website address a couple years back, a little before the car. When it had my bio as being 44 and im now 53, it needed a bit of
updating!!!! I had changed, the car hadnt much.
I started the car in may 2000, using a ford granada E reg (when did you last see one of those) as a donor. Lots of furious work for 2-3 years, a lot
in the final year, then about 2005, when I got redundant and moved jobs, run out of time. Car sat in a rented garage costing me £30 a month (£35 by
the end) , and that all added up. I just thought its never gonna get finished and at £400 a year storage, something had to give, and it was the car.
The scrap guy apparently showed interest in it, perhaps he sold it on. I wasnt there to see it go, it was sometihing i didnt want to see... tho my son
tok a photo of it on the truck. At least I didnt have to cut it into bits, which in the darkest coldest winters I could see myself doing! I didnt
want to sell it as i though it was so deviant from a locost, i would get too many tyre kickers.
Still, learnt a lot along the way. And of course had great fun on here, i guess also too much time on here didnt help - its much more comfy in front
of a PC than in a single garage cramped to heck freezing in january. If I did it again, it would have to be a simpler project, and not in a friggin
single garage! I go on hols sometimes and rent villas in Florida, what I could have done in a 20ft plus square garage!
Also showing the passage of time is that phelpsa was 13 I think when I used this board a lot, I guess hes 21 or so now, and still a fairly regular
profile looking at his history.
Im risking sounding like someones grandma
ATB
Steve
PS
Forgot to ask..... couple of questions
now sierras are about as rare as the mk2 escort was when 'the book' first came out, whats peoples preferences for donors? My Mk1 MX5 looks
just the ticket, 115hp, rear wheel drive, even wishbones all round....
Second question :
A couple years ago I noticed 'the book' had been re-published, written by a Chris Gibbs - I was suprised - the Chris Gibbs ex this forum?
Which is the 3rd question - what happened to get him kicked out - if thats not like skeletons in the family closet.... I always liked Chris's
humour
[Edited on 5/7/12 by stephen_gusterson]
quote:
Originally posted by stephen_gusterson
Forgot to ask..... couple of questions
now sierras are about as rare as the mk2 escort was when 'the book' first came out, whats peoples preferences for donors? My Mk1 MX5 looks just the ticket, 115hp, rear wheel drive, even wishbones all round....
Second question :
A couple years ago I noticed 'the book' had been re-published, written by a Chris Gibbs - I was suprised - the Chris Gibbs ex this forum?
Which is the 3rd question - what happened to get him kicked out - if thats not like skeletons in the family closet.... I always liked Chris's humour
[Edited on 5/7/12 by stephen_gusterson]
Thanks for the update
Something pretty similar happened on the old "TOL" (the other list) yahoo groups for the locost early 2000's - it blew up one day and
the group basically died and most moved over to here.
I think Chris had health probs some way back, and I think it was related to his car falling on him and causing crush injuries.
I do remeber ChrisW owns the forum too...
Shame in a way that MX5 had become a popular donor as it will deplete the cars still out there. Still, might make my 1990 (im 2nd owner) 44K genuine
miles G reg worth a fortune if its going to be more rare. Used to have a crappy Mk1 cortina in the 1970s, and a hillman imp, both of which were £100
then, and over £3000 now. Quite a while to wait for return on investmenrt tho!
ATB
steve
[Edited on 10/7/12 by stephen_gusterson]