Check out this website!

BrianD3

www.autosh ite.com with no space between the "h" and "i"

I've only just found this site and spent a few enjoyable hours browsing it. A site about owning and spotting old bangers, nostalgia, scrapyards etc. It's along the lines of bangernomics or Jalopy magazine. I love this sort of stuff and I know there are others here that do too! The site is written and laid out in quite a bizarre way which is offputting at first but maybe it's deliberate.

edit: damn the boards swear word filter! Anyone know a way around it?

greglo23

link not working !!! got it now. very interesting site and some real classics there all right. i wish i had the space some of these guys have to store some old cars.

BrianD3

Oh it's a great website Many of the posts in the auto****e forum are from posters who have taken pics of random tat (as they call it) while they were out and about. In one of the theads someone posted pics of a mid eighties Daihatsu Charmant, other posters then commented on it and shared their own experiences of these cars.

This sort of stuff would horrify a classic car snob! Also the site is a refreshing change from the "must have a new car" frenzy and badge snobbery that we have in this country.

I also found another somewhat similar forum called retro-rides. Here is a thread about a Renault Fuego turbo that needs saving from banger racers
http://retrorides.proboards86.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=1165476188
This site is mainly about modding which I'm not into but better to see old cars saved for modding than scrapped

corktina

ta 4 the link...gonna njoy that site.

mike65

Jalopy ruled! whatever happened to it? And more to the point whats a SM doing on that site? :eek:

http://www.sniffpetrol.com/

Mike.

corktina

SM stands for ****e Machine maybe?:rolleyes:

Lyre61

Ooh Nasty.... shall we start the ford ones?
Fix Or Repair Daily!
Found On Rednecks Driveway!
Found on Road Dead!

Nah its too easy

BrianD3

corktina wrote:

SM stands for ****e Machine maybe?:rolleyes:

Or Sh*trun Maserati?

corktina

oooh I like your one best.....you kinda get the image of the Maserati engine disappearing into the distance leaving behind a car-shaped pile of rusty bits....:)

They did make a bit of an error on that site though, there seems to be a LOT of Cortinas on there....schum mistake ....

BrianD3

corktina wrote:

oooh I like your one best.....you kinda get the image of the Maserati engine disappearing into the distance leaving behind a car-shaped pile of rusty bits....:)

They did make a bit of an error on that site though, there seems to be a LOT of Cortinas on there....schum mistake ....

Ah, but it's a compliment that there are Cortinas on there. Referring to cars as "Autosh*te" may seem like a insult but in fact is used to describe cars that are rare, unloved by the masses, weird, forgotten, ugly, elegant, eccentric, characterful or all of the above

BrianD3

Here's a post from the forum about what autosh*te is and about whether the Renault 25 qualifies

It appears to me that Auto****e may be rare (the Tagora that's got everyone here steamed up), ugly (ditto), useless (err..ditto?), beautiful (Fiat 130, Lancia Gamma, R25?), cherished (your R25 by the look of it), down at heel (my R12 for example) they can be any of these things. What is common to all is that they have become somewhat marginalised (some of them even when current) and have never become cosy, instantly recognised cl*ss*cs, that people in string-back driving gloves and flat caps are likely to have picnics behind at outdoor car shows.

This makes them affordable (R25s have to be one of the best 'bang for bucks' choices out there), interesting, enjoyable modes of transport - the types of car the users of this forum want to see and hear about, be they mint, well worn or positively disheveled.

Another definition of what autosh*te is

In a nutshell, I would define auto****e as:

a) a terminally bad car - they just aren't built any more these days, but I'm thinking of 1980's Eastern European or Korean kit here

b) anything mainstream from the 1960's-1990's which isn't judged as a classic, either subjectively (because it's not a Mini/MGB/E-Type/Beetle etc etc zzzzzzz) or because it's not concours

c) something that is/may be defined as a classic, but is in dodgy condition

unkel

Wow, amazing site. Have only browsed the ebay section for a few minutes, but the rare fully mot'd cars that can be had for a couple hundred quid :eek:

greglo23

Lyre61 wrote:

Ooh Nasty.... shall we start the ford ones?
Fix Or Repair Daily!
Found On Rednecks Driveway!
Found on Road Dead!

Nah its too easy

best ford one i reckon is backwards ( Driver Returns On Foot ):D

corktina

to own an SM presumably implies willingness to wear dog leads and gimp masks I guess.......to DRIVE one implies willingness to make OTHERS wear said gear...:)
.there used to be a lovely one parked in the street all the time in Kinsale....don't know if it's still around.

Lyre61

You might have a point
they all seem to be hidden away!...that kinda goes with your thoughts too!
They are probably in the same place as the Dog colllars