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The one I really remember was the twin engined escort wonder if it ever got finished. I helped move that from one place to another at least once. I am fairly sure it ended up scrapped, unfinished. I've not seen Steve (Street) in such a long long time. I remember going clubbing with him and Vee (Violet) in Leicester not long after I was split up from my wife. Must be like 12 years ago. I still keep in contact with his brother, Dean (Benzboy), and I often wonder what happened to his Mercedes V8 project car.
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1937 Austin Street Rod - 1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1976 Rover V8 - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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I still keep in contact with his brother, Dean (Benzboy), and I often wonder what happened to his Mercedes V8 project car. BenzBoy is still around, whatever is going on with his Merc I'm sure it will have a lovely interior as Dean has been running www.trimworks.co.uk/ for a few years
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Seth
South East
MorrisOxford TriumphMirald HillmanMinx BorgwardIsabellaCombi
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Seth’s Oxford was what got me here about 2003 I guess, come on Seth we need an update Would have been later than 2003 as it was on the road between around then and 2007! While many people were able to steam into projects during lockdowns life didn't work that way for me and I've still not got back to doing regular work on cars. Still trying to rebalance Work/Life/Cars.
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Follow your dreams or you might as well be a vegetable.
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Photobucket f-ked up literally thousands of build threads, and a lot of people got the ar$e on with forums because of it. I saw what was happening and bulk downloaded all my PB images before it hit the fan, so there not ‘lost’ like a lot, but they’re sat on an old laptop and it’s very unlikely I’ll ever repost them as it would take weeks to fix all the links and most of the cars are long gone. Same happened with me. I originally hosted my own images in a hidden folder behind my website and went to quite a lot of effort to re-link everything when I wound up my website. Then I did it a second time when whoever it was I used stopped allowing hotlinking or something. Then that site began pruning images after an amount of time had lapsed and my threads started losing images as time went on. I couldn't face doing it all a third time. Like yours, my images are just all sat on a hard disk at home now.
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I was VERY close to pulling in all the Photobucket images for this forum, and rehosting them, then updating the links in the threads dynamically to point at our own mirror of the images. I ran into a couple of technical problems with it not always finding an image and then not knowing what to do, which is something I could have handled relatively smoothly eventually, but most of it was working a-okay. However I was also told in no uncertain terms that it was a violation of multiple terms of service, including Proboards own. This meant that I had the choice between potentially killing the entire forum with a ToS violation, or hoping that the Photobucket thing sorted itself out in a reasonable way. Which it did not. Sadly.
So much of the internet went up in smoke over the few weeks that Photobucket imploded, not just car stuff. It accelerated a decline for online communities, which a lot of sites couldn't weather. If they had though they would have found there was another side to come in time. I could rant for MONTHS about why the move to facebook for online communities was going to be the death of discussion and the rise of clickbait and low-quality content, but I don't need to rant, it has happened.
Ultimately if we don't resurrect non-corporate owned* online communities it is going to push many many hobbies onto the periphery and leave a bland malaise of acceptable mainstream interests. Which is pretty much how things were I guess before we had the brief flare of greatness. Niche groups with low discovery potential. Thanks Zuckerberg.
AAAAAAANYWAY...
I thought of another, chap over Ipswich way (I think) very big on the Manta A scene, built an awesome black Manta A and was working on his next project. I can't bring his name to my mind, maybe one of the Opel/Vaux people will know??
*spoiler alert: you don't own your facebook group, the content, the membership list or the power to decide what and what isn't shown there.
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I thought of another, chap over Ipswich way (I think) very big on the Manta A scene, built an awesome black Manta A and was working on his next project. I can't bring his name to my mind, maybe one of the Opel/Vaux people will know?? Simon Peckham / Suffolk County Mantas / MantaA16V
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smellyferret
Posted a lot
Back in a retro after 7 years!
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You can occasionally find xbo11ox on the brown forum (Autos h i t e) when he puts his toys back in his pram - his projects now tend to be a bit too new for this place - I try to meet up with him at the Le Mans Classic for a beer but "covid" means it's been a while...... Bruce Mystery Machine is busy being a global trotting entrepreneur - he delivered some artwork he'd created to me earlier this year and we caught up over a couple of cups of tea That thread gets mentioned in despatches on a regular basis on quite a few forums as the ultimate cliff hanger www.carandclassic.com/magazine/distance-no-object-fiat-126-adventure/?
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Last Edit: Oct 7, 2022 16:43:40 GMT by HoTWire
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I could rant for MONTHS about why the move to facebook for online communities was going to be the death of discussion and the rise of clickbait and low-quality content, but I don't need to rant, it has happened. Most FB groups suck for knowledge these days. Forums you have threads that stay there for years, people read them and add to the knowledge. Facebook is full of the same stupid questions asked twice a week, with no knowledge base to break the cycle.
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Last Edit: Oct 7, 2022 19:55:59 GMT by joem83
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thebaron
Europe
Over the river, heading out of town
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Oh just remembered CrazyOctopus Of course, wow that had dropped out of the memory banks, crazy octopus was awesome.
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braaap
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Are these banded steelies that he brought that 126 home on?
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braaap
Posted a lot
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So much of the internet went up in smoke over the few weeks that Photobucket imploded, not just car stuff. I wonder if something similar will happen again when pinterest will go down the road? They seem to have taken over sooooooooooooooo many pictures by now that were available without registering to them before. And just like farcebook I will neverever join them!
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jimi
Club Retro Rides Member
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The history of the internet is littered with photo/image hosting sites that started out free then either disappeared or started charging, I can't even remember all the names. I've lost track of all the ones I've seen come and go, every time it happens people switch to the next greatest thing and so on "ad infinitum" We (as an owners club) decided many years ago that all tech articles & images for them, would be hosted on our server, we also added an image uploader (similar to the RR one) and provided the facility for members to upload their images to their own albums on our servers, all this to try and prevent threads being ruined by image hosting site shenanigans and remove the reliance on third party image hosting. Even then we have still lost many images from threads over the years. The recent photofuckit fiasco being the worst. Seems you can lead a horse to water ........
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Black is not a colour ! .... Its the absence of colour
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philsford
Part of things
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Club RR Member Number: 100
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Last Edit: Oct 7, 2022 19:30:31 GMT by philsford
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bstardchild
Club Retro Rides Member
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Club RR Member Number: 71
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wow - completely forgot about that one................. Excellent it was
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bstardchild
Club Retro Rides Member
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vulgalour
Club Retro Rides Member
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Club RR Member Number: 146
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The ridiculously low yellow/primer grey Triumph GT6 with massive camber. I can't remember the username or any specifics beyond that. Another I can't remember the username of was the customised Standard Vanguard that involved a large amount of commissioned body work. Think that one was either pale blue or grey. I'm hoping kevbarlas some day gets chance to finish his Thames campervan: forum.retro-rides.org/thread/89224/thames-campervan-resto-sleeper-project
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Last Edit: Oct 7, 2022 22:59:53 GMT by vulgalour
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ChrisT
Club Retro Rides Member
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Club RR Member Number: 225
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vulgalour
Club Retro Rides Member
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Thank you! I thought I had it bookmarked, turns out I didn't, that would explain why I hadn't caught any updates. Got some reading to look forward to now
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