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Matt · Show or Tell.

This thread is for either showing your face or just giving a brief intro.

This 'ere be me, from back in my student days.

Skyhook

Spent a lot of time in a cage did you?

Matt, any chance you can reinstate the Introduce Yourself and Show Yourself threads?

Matt

They've gone. Not even in the archive :(

Skyhook

How come?

I've noticed when you look up 'previous posts by...' a lot have gone; is there a time limit? Even for stickys?

Damn, what a waste of my genius... chortle

Matt

Stickies seem to disappear. I'm going to turn pruning off.

Skyhook

Okies, I'll start the new ball rolling - (Not vain, not vain)

Jase, Mechanical Design Engineer in Nottingham,

After my one and only ten mile run -

Me and Mrs S on the best day of my life. Juggsy. Note the speedo and fuel tank cufflinks.

Mrs S again, rubbish camera pic. (the pic, not Mrs S)

For Mike; the blonde in the black dress - if you look closely under my feet you can see the small of her back when she was my footstool in the Pit and Pendulum in Nottingham.

Pete

Well, I'll be entry number 3 then...

I'm Pete, a supermarket stacker monkey residing in Thames Ditton, Surrey. Originally from New Zealand

Me on my 21st birthday

Having fun with pedal power

And me in customary pose, with the bonnet up wondering what the fook is wrong with it now....

BeN

All my pictures are unflattering. I'm just not photogenic.

This is me then.

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Star69

I'm thirty-something, self-employed running a pet food franchise covering much of North Essex, and Suzanne is a dog groomer. We own a 3 year old SportKa, a Renault Trafic and a Renault Master which is shortly to be replaced.

This was taken about 5 years ago, don't really do photos of me!

kraftwerk

Me and Whistle - that's me on the right.

I'm Chris, from Glasgow, lived in London for 10 years. Acquire rights to movies, TV, sport, comedy etc for release on home video, for a big media corporation of whom you've almost certainly heard.

Have a 2002 Renault Avantime 3.0, a 1994 Honda CBR900RR FireBlade, a 2000 Honda CBR1100 XX SuperBlackird and a soon-to-be-written-off-and-replaced 1994 Honda NX650 Dominator.

woof woof

Sky - The problem seems to be that the white balance is out and there a bit of noise other than that the shutter speed may have been a little slow. Allow me to make a slight change -

Skyhook

BeN

You lot are handsome buggers. I'm so bloody jealous.

Racing

I'm a prolific buyer of second-hand cars and a sometime finance lawyer. I'm from Suffolk originally but currently live in Moscow.

To feed the stereotype about me, this is me in casual weekend gear last summer, with a usefully disguising pair of dark glasses:

Matt

Nice cut on the jacket, Racing. I'm after a long morning coat at the moment for wearing to work.

Racing

BeN

Oh my. We're supposed to talk about ourselves?

I'm so caught up with the whole photo thing that I forgot.

Anyway:

My name is Ben (as you can deduce). I'm nearly 21 (2nd Feb!) and currently lazing my arse off at home whilst awaiting enlistment to National Service in Singapore, which is where I am. Although I am interested in joining the Navy as a means of 'escaping' the silly military work and doing something different. I have an interview this coming Thursday so we'll see how it goes.

Parm

The missus and I...

I'm Parm, 32, an Engineer (Electronics) originally from the West Midlands and I now live in Oxfordshire. My car history is : '95(N) BMW 318is Coupe, '51 BMW 330Ci Sport, '53 Honda Accord i-CTDi, '05 Porsche Boxster (987), '56 Lexus IS250 SE.

woof woof

Alan. The only things that matter about me -
Mini 1000, Mini 1000, 1500 Square wheel arch and rubber bumper Midget, Lotus Elan SE, Lotus Elise, 1.6 MX5 MK1, 1967 MGB Roadster,
SLK 230, 1.8 MX5 MK2, Boxster 2.7, V8 Jag S, 1.6 MX5 MK2.

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Skyhook

It's innocent! It was for a dare - she was being my footstool and ashtray holder

Some bloke from the facesinplaces website was wondering around the pub and asked if he could take a photo.

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A dare?

When do I get to meet her then. Ha!

Sav

Me:

I'm Sav, I'm 17 years of age and currently at sixth form. Living in Berkshire and have done all my life.

scamper

I'm Dan, 36, live in Shropshire. Director in a Health, Safety and Environmental Consultancy. Currently pootle around in a 320d Touring.

Andy C

Me and Tara, my girlfriend of nearly 4 years:

I'm Andy, 19, from Coventry. I am currently training to be a Gas Engineer, aswell as working part time at the Hilton and Ebay.

I drive a tuned 306 D-Turbo, which I hope to replace around May/June time.

PR

Me. I'm antisocial.

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Me.

Sav

We have an animal on this forum???

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Blarno

Iain, 27, work in Petrochemical Fractional Distillation. (Playing with nasty explosive solvents). Metalhead, petrolhead, collector of small animals, and prolific car owner. Currently drive a 2003 Renaultsport Clio 172 Cup (Blue Beastie), currently ripping the hell out of a 1997 Vectra 2.5 SRi (Graham)

Me, far left, and my old band, Emotional Baggage, back in early '02.

2006 some time.

Onstage at my last, and biggest, gig with EB, June 2004. I have accumulated more tatts and bigger sidies since....

Dr. Hfuhruhurr

woof woof

"you can freeze time and shit"

I suppose once it's frozen it's easier to scoop up?

Pete

Hmmmm

I'm saying nothing, he's got a katana somewhere

Martin

PR

I just can't get enough of Land Rovers or blue jumpers!

I think maybe I was running over a rambler in that picture...

Here is Martin, although as you can see due to his enthusiastic driving, the picture is a bit blurry

Nice blue jumper!

BeN

Humphrey The Pug

I am struggling to post a picture I can't get it to work at the moment and I haven't a clue why.

I'm 33 and sell Renaults, for my sins!, and have done so for almost 6 years with a couple of short spells in between at MINI and Vauxhall, I hated both.

I have been in the trade for almost 12 years staring off in parts and have also worked for Suzuki Cars and VW.

I have two lovely daughters and have been with their mum, Tina, for 16 odd years and we are finally tieing the knot this year on New Years eve.

One last mention for Humphrey, my lovely Pug, who is six.

kraftwerk

My experience of parts department monkeys is that most of them spend their days 'staring off.'

Sorry, coudln't resist it.

Humphrey The Pug

On the whole Parts guys are wankers, they have no urgency in anything they do and delight in being as difficult as possible asking for info they don't really need etc, and old school parts guys who have done it all their life and are now in their fifties, the ones that wear brown stores coats, are even worse, they have no efficient form of communication, no personality and deliight in being miserable and akward.

However our guys are pretty good.

Martin

Nothing wrong with a bit of enthusiastic driving!!!

Was that before or after we found an obstacle that the Discovery struggled to cope with?

Don't tell Mike that we were let down off road by a Landrover.....!!

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Enthusiastic driving, it looks as if Martin is indulging in some off-road tail sliding action!!

And did Piers have a wardrobe change inbetween those pictures?

I'm not listening Martin...La La La La La La La.

BeN

Piers looks like Colin McRae...

Martin

M.

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He got upset once when I said he looked like Jason Plato. And no he doesn't look like Colin McRae either.

BeN

Skyhook

I'd imagine McRae's hairline is receding a lot more right now.

(With all due respect to Colin's memory).

Twelfth Monkey

Titting about in a wig a couple of weeks ago.

It's almost as though Kurt Cobain hadn't topped himself, but had devoted his time to eating instead...

kraftwerk

Lose the beard and I'd almost fancy you in that wig. But not quite.

Stuntman

So speaks the man who looks a lot like his dog! Or is it the other way round?

I'm another Dan. Live in Cheltenham, currently unemployed. Own a Porsche Cayman S, used to have an E46 M3 and a VX220 Turbo. Compared to those, my other former cars are less interesting.

Used to be a runner, and years ago a pretty good orienteer. Did them both pretty seriously, up to and including (Junior) international level. These days I just keep myself reasonably fit down the gym.

Twelfth Monkey

Scouse

I'm a mortgage broker/estate agent/rental agent/whatever shite job the company needs doing (who said rank doesn't have privelleges?) living in Scarisbrick in Lancashire.

Should drive a 96 Jag X300 but I've been to lazy to get the 'box/starter motor fixed so am bumming around in the company CLK230Kompresser (aka that horrible German thing). Mrs Scouse has a Renault Grand Espace 2.0T Privellege and two kids to put in it.

M.

I'm Michael, I do design, research and stuff like that. Currently drive a 156 1.6 Turismo and have previously had a Disco3, X5 3.0d, Punto Sporting...

scamper

kraftwerk

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Me. (Properly this time)

And what I like doing for fun at the weekends for those of you I haven't bored to death with it.

:-(

Me and Kid B sitting on a wall down the local pub

cbeaks1

Hello. Ross, 30, work in Vans at Ford.

Here I am standing next to a small lady at a wedding. Its not much of a hobby.

PR

My first car:

My second car:

With the F1 Safety Car at Silverstone a few years ago:

And the usual ones I drag up in the event of threads like these - animated discussion of kart handling with Louise Goodman:

And yes, I am wearing two watches...

Au volant in monaco:

Rodge

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[quote="Piers"]My first car:

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Is that Lousie Goodman in the driving seat? Already letting a girl walk all over you at that age!

PR

How dare you! As you can see, typically, the woman is gawping out of the car and not paying attention to the road ahead, whereas I am carefully negotiating the curve with a light touch on the steering wheel, making sure to keep a close eye on what the camera-toting pedestrians at the roadside are doing.

Mrs Skyhook

I'm Denise, nearly 38, the forum's token woman, recently married to the perfectly wonderful Mr Skyhook. I write for a magazine, am mum to Little Skyhook, and spend most of my day playing silly computer games, reading, baking, watching snooker or looking for a 'proper' job. I should be driving a late 50's Austin Healey Frogeye, but as I don't have a licence yet that's sadly impossible.

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Colin

I'm Colin, the Forum's Roving Reporter.

Apparently, I live in Bristol, but my job as an IT Architect, working for IBM, responsible for one global client, sees me spending plenty of time elsewhere in the world. This gives me plenty of opportunity to hop in and out of a wide variety of rental cars, and visit some of the more remote auto shows and museums.

My current car is a bright red 05 model Audi S4, but its lease expires soon, so a yet to be determiined replacement is in the offing.

I have been lucky enough to meet more than 30 of the other Forummers, and would be delighted to add to that tally during 2008!

Skyhook

A couple of Mrs S

At the Renault Word Series -

That time my beer was brought to me in front of the T.V. two degrees too warm...

Sav

So Mrs S has gone from learning to drive to an F1 driver.

woof woof

5 foot 7 of attitude.

BeN

You look younger than I thought you are, Alan.

Dr. Hfuhruhurr

Old photo?

woof woof

Thank you BeN. The picture was taken yesterday tea time by me, camera on a tripod. I'll be 47 this May BTW, the 19th if you're
buying prezies, but sometimes I feel much older.

LittleSwill

Piers looks more like Richard Burns (well in the hair department anyway)

Nice Guy Eddie

I'm Ed, Living in a Village between Farnham and Haslemere in Surrey. I work for one of the Large Banks doing corporate finance. I drive a Civic Type R or Type Chav as more popularly known amongst my friends. It'll have to do as I am currently on the lookout for my first 911 and hope by summer to have one on the drive.

Me and the GF at a wedding last year in Italy. (yes the waistcoat is struggling under the force of my belly)

BeN

You don't look too bad.

Crikey, this forum is populated with good looking people...

Jasper

Star69

Humphrey The Pug

Here I am:

The girls:

Tina, Me and Sas:

DradusContact · New person

Hi, im new to the site. Been one of the few struggling on autocar.co.uk and before that myautocar however ive finally given up and there has been alot of talk of this site so i thought i would igve it a go. I recognise a few faces from the even crappier myautocar, so hello to anyone who remembers me from there (my username was 'matthew')

Anyway, my name is mat, i live in the northwest, and i drive a puma. I could say i like mountain climbing and stuff but that would just be a pack of lies! I do a bit of cycling to stay in shape. Thats about it really.

Sav

Ah yes I remember you Matt, from Myautocar - great you could join us here.

Max Headroom

Hi. I guess I should say hello. I'm Alastair, I've come over here from Autocar where i have been serially humiliated by Autocars useless forums over the last year or more. I used to be Porcorosso and I'm big enough to admit I was wrong, wrong, wrong to stay there and let them waste my time.

My Golf has just gone and is being replaced by something that would suit a hairdresser rather than me. My Skoda is my work car.

kraftwerk

I wondered where the Red Pig had gone - nice to hear form you.

And welcome Dradus - 'a lot of talk', you say? That sounds good.

Post often, both.

Jasper · Re: New person

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Indeed, Welcome Boys.

PR

Welcome along, chaps.

Blarno

Welcome Alastair and Matt. I didn't realise you were only down the road, Matt.

Matt

Alastair, that was one fantastic looking Golf. Especially like the cooling ducts.

Stuntman

I think Twelfth's Beast has been shagging around and Alastair's ex-Golf was one of its hybrid (in the best sense of the word) offspring!

SpecB

Another one from the Autocar forum - fed up of all the political bulls**t that seems to be ocurring on there at the moment.

Matt

Nice car. Welcome.

D.

A big hello to DradusContact, Max and SpecB from me too. Great cars all round there.

If you need anything I'll be in the 'New cars and concepts' section!

Colin

Brilliant - three new members. Welcome chaps!

This is where all the life is............. and we now have a well established program of Forum meets (though I am well aware that they are somewhat biased to the southern half of the country!).

Oh, and don't forget the associated web-site. We are always looking for new contributors. Seems like I do most of the writing!

BeN

Now we're in business! Three new members at a go!

Welcome to all.

DradusContact

Jasper, i take it you too have got a puma? The pic you psted hasnt loaded, unless its my pc thats the problem. Nice to see another kat on here.

Stuntman

Might be your PC, Dradus - I can see it on mine. Jasper's Puma is the same colour as yours.

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But has the multi-spoke Pussy Alloys...

Rodge

Welcome to the forum lads.

I think Alastair's Golf has won the prize for shiniest car on the forum, ever. Looks great.

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Donk has something to live upto if he did the Megs 3 Stage on the Volvo at the weekend!

kraftwerk

A third new person! It's like a tsunami. Post often, all.

DradusContact

Ah, i can see it now. Excellent, excellent. I personally like my style of alloys as i think theyre quite unique, my pic is a little outdated ive added mudflaps to mine since then. Im trying to get rid of that big exhaust too i just want a standard one. Suppose i better venture out of this newbie post now.......

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