Whatever happened to the 'old guard'?
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Whatever happened to the 'old guard'?
been out of the room for some time as living abroad but back for Christmas and ended up on Scoobynet, ah fond memories.... so where are Gossy, Harj, RSquire, MellowYellow, Richard Askew, MRK, Tony Quinn, Cossiekiller, John Felsted, Mike Rainbird, etc etc???
those were the days man, the Nurburgring trips.... memories I'll never forget.... how about another one? Just finished the GTFour and need to run it in!
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those were the days man, the Nurburgring trips.... memories I'll never forget.... how about another one? Just finished the GTFour and need to run it in!
Owbow
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Don't know about the rest, but Cossiekiller still posts quite often here and JF is still around on 22b.com
Although I can't talk for anyone, I suspect some folks have moved on because they got tired of answering the same questions again and again by people who can't be bothered to do a bit of searching.
SN also became more commercially orientated a few years back and was sold off about a year ago, so this may have affected things too.
Although I can't talk for anyone, I suspect some folks have moved on because they got tired of answering the same questions again and again by people who can't be bothered to do a bit of searching.
SN also became more commercially orientated a few years back and was sold off about a year ago, so this may have affected things too.
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Although I can't talk for anyone, I suspect some folks have moved on because they got tired of answering the same questions again and again by people who can't be bothered to do a bit of searching.
SN also became more commercially orientated a few years back and was sold off about a year ago, so this may have affected things too.
SN also became more commercially orientated a few years back and was sold off about a year ago, so this may have affected things too.
The commercial takeover of the site put loads of people off too, especially when the truth made way for ££££££££££££.
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Owain you Welsh tart!
Rich Squire is back in Oz, JF like most of us old guard is more often found over on 22b...Larj hasn't been seen since the stories got taller and taller. Last I heard of Arsecue he was playing around with Elises...Stinky disappeared not long after the last trip, and I mean really disappeared I'm sure Matt Oz will be along any minute and Rainbow will be on a cossie forum somewhere...Sal pops up from time to time, I think Chris is still around these parts
And that gives me an excuse for these:
Rich Squire is back in Oz, JF like most of us old guard is more often found over on 22b...Larj hasn't been seen since the stories got taller and taller. Last I heard of Arsecue he was playing around with Elises...Stinky disappeared not long after the last trip, and I mean really disappeared I'm sure Matt Oz will be along any minute and Rainbow will be on a cossie forum somewhere...Sal pops up from time to time, I think Chris is still around these parts
And that gives me an excuse for these:
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Just to add to the fun, on my first lap of the Ring it did this:
Mark who was following me and who's passenger took the pics, was less fortunate he tapped both the front and back ends of his then brand new Sti VI Type R
Mark who was following me and who's passenger took the pics, was less fortunate he tapped both the front and back ends of his then brand new Sti VI Type R
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Dunno really, lost my original join date from '98 when it was still in the Phil Dawe era I'm member number 30 over on 22b, which Anders started a Forum on when the plug got pulled over here for us to still have a place to waffle on, before Simon bought the rights to S'net and started it back up
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I was only discussing the "old days" with Felly a couple of months ago. People move on, but some of us nutters are still around.
Que for felly to re-write his past "experiences".
Que for felly to re-write his past "experiences".
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You missed off at least one mega character on a par with Harj which was Stef!!
I don't remember a track day where he did not do some serious damage to his car - tyre wall sideways through Craner (and continued the day once it was taped up!!), bonnet latch coming loose after the pit straight hairpin at Bedford while accelerating flat out...
I don't remember a track day where he did not do some serious damage to his car - tyre wall sideways through Craner (and continued the day once it was taped up!!), bonnet latch coming loose after the pit straight hairpin at Bedford while accelerating flat out...
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been out of the room for some time as living abroad but back for Christmas and ended up on Scoobynet, ah fond memories.... so where are Gossy, Harj, RSquire, MellowYellow, Richard Askew, MRK, Tony Quinn, Cossiekiller, John Felsted, Mike Rainbird, etc etc???
those were the days man, the Nurburgring trips.... memories I'll never forget.... how about another one? Just finished the GTFour and need to run it in!
Owbow
those were the days man, the Nurburgring trips.... memories I'll never forget.... how about another one? Just finished the GTFour and need to run it in!
Owbow
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MRK (Mark) moved to the dark side after getting an EVO VIII initially before getting a 1XMR which he modded to 500/500. He frequented the MLR of course, and works with myself and Stormy in organising trackdays and driver training days for Track Masters. He is also an Instructor at Silverstone and does some driving for Autocar road tests.
However he has sold his EVO now and bought a Porker 993
However he has sold his EVO now and bought a Porker 993
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I met the lad far right on quite a few trackdays but his name gone blank, did he later drive exiges... Danny Fisher??
IIRC. Stef, Harj, R Squire, Mellowyellow, blue, Matt TypeR, rick awskew, mike Rainbird, John felly, john buldock and Josh Levy to name afew . The last time I met most of these together was Feb at Oulton Park trackday 2001. but my memory is Famously bad
We stopped overnight at a very nice Hotel they even employed overnight Securityman to look after our cars My scoob
Rich used to live around worcester area. IIRC sold the Elise and bought a Scoob a few years back to do up, but not heard of since
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