In memory of John (dontellhimpike)

[Onne]

Hello all,

Hopefully this is taken in good spirit, from a good man with a great taste in cars:





A small selection of Johns (as taken from his different threads on here)

[dbizzle]

[rysz]

John let Dean (Benzboy) and I take this out for a spin one damp evening at a Papplewick meet whilst giving me the opportunity to own this at an amazing price, I wish I had taken him up on it but a really good memory. Thanks John!

Rysz.

[hairnet]

[akku]

OK, this set of pics are from when I owned it but i bought it off John

Hillarious story - the guy who went to pick it up didn't know John's surname and the seller insisted on having the V5C completed in full before the car was loaded so then when I got it the previous owner's name was "John Laurel". Which I kinda referred to him as for a while LOL.

[tonka12]

and heres johns cedric after I rebuilt the motor we had a run down to the retro show in this a few years ago we had a crackin day I will miss you buddy

[Bozwell]

friend traded the CRX (B452YRO) for the Celeste. the Celest has been used as a daily after the respray early this years but now is in storage for the winter.

i also owned the CRX for a number of years and for only 1500cc it went like a little rocket.

rest in peace John

[mdh]

I hope someone finishes that van, velour ftw!

I can't even remeber when I saw a Sapporo on the road.

Rip John.

[BenzBoy]

Whenever I think of John, I always smile. Every time I saw him - right up until the last time, at Newark Autojumble before he went into hospital and he was suffering the effects of his cancer treatment - he was always cheerful, always had time to say hello and chat, and always took an interest in what I was doing with my cars.

It just doesn't seem possible that I won't see him again, that he won't roll up to the next Limes meet in another retro he'd bought blind off eBay and was roping Russ into doing some work on.

John was one of the most generous, friendly, enthusiastic and genuine people I've ever met and I will really miss him.

[mauricewalsh]

well done OP. i for 1 take this tread as a fitting tribute to john, also may i add that the VAG peeps are going to miss out on a imo a super audi 80 that would have been , well done again ONNE .............

[carlb1970]

i never met john, only ever read his posts on here, but a good friend of mine, Dan now owns the celica. was chatting with him on thursday night. this months Retro cars has a feature on the Celica and the Datsun 100a. the mag came out on thursday, i read it, finished work and logged onto RR, and read that John had died. same day his old car was featured in the mag

i have this picture of the celica which i saved to my hard drive a few years back, it was taken by john, i think there was some sorta pnoy express thing going on with a set of police lights and he had put them on the celica for a quick pick. looks spot i reckon.

RIP matey

[kevfromwales]

yeah, I tat hauled the police lights from john - I knew I'd been up to his place for something but coudn't remember what it was - iirc they went down to will datman

kfw

[fungirlslim]

HI first my I say thank you again, for kind words, and to those who have made donations to Johns fundraising. Incase you havent seen this elesewhere;

For those of you who are local, and may wish to attend any part of the day, we will be saying our final goodbye to the big man on Friday 25th November (the day Johns dad died).
St Helens at Selston Church Lane at 12:45,
Mansfield Crematorium Derby Road at 14:00 and then
the Derbyshire Hotel jnct 28 M1 from 14:45, to celebrate his life, friendship and love.
Feel free to join us at any part of the day. No flowers but if you wish donations to www.justgiving.com/JohnCottingham

Thanks again Jenny (Johns sister)


PS when I can I will be adding some of my photos of Johns cars (and boats??) just cnt figure out how to add photos yet!!

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[caddygaz]

Set up a photobucket account, upload all the picks you want, then hover over the image. Click the IMG code, then paste that in your post...

[retrowagen1234]

Nov 11, 2011 20:14:09 GMT tonka12 said:

and heres johns cedric after I rebuilt the motor we had a run down to the retro show in this a few years ago we had a crackin day I will miss you buddy

Is this the same laurel rich owned? /owns? Chucked some gold alloys on it?

If so i saw this going thru Eastleigh the otherday... totally caught me off guard

[retrowagen1234]

For those of you that havnt seen this...


retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=pfsw&action=display&thread=112830&page=3

Nov 21, 2011 17:07:47 GMT fungirlslim said:

HI first my I say thank you again, for kind words, and to those who have made donations to Johns fundraising. Incase you havent seen this elesewhere;

For those of you who are local, and may wish to attend any part of the day, we will be saying our final goodbye to the big man on Friday 25th November (the day Johns dad died).
St Helens at Selston Church Lane at 12:45,
Mansfield Crematorium Derby Road at 14:00 and then
the Derbyshire Hotel jnct 28 M1 from 14:45, to celebrate his life, friendship and love.
Feel free to join us at any part of the day. No flowers but if you wish donations to www.justgiving.com/JohnCottingham

Thanks again Jenny (Johns sister)

[st182]

Seems a good time to put up a recent pic (last weekend) of john's old celica. Still going, not much has changed from how he did it. Just a few st182 "must haves."



miss ya fella, wish you could have seen your work in the magazine

thanks for the link, don't get on here often enough, only just seen it.