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

 

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.

 

Harj was hounded out by Dingy after he bought a Ferrari....
The rest probably have better things to do!

 

This is right on both counts: Experienced tuners, enthusiasts and knowledgeable people just get fed up of being shouted down by newcomers, crying, "just go for it mate, it worked on my RS Turbo"

The commercial takeover of the site put loads of people off too, especially when the truth made way for ££££££££££££.

 

add greasemonkey to your list too.

 

hes still here, just inder a different username, as some of the others are also im reliably informed (i dont know the new ones sorry)

james

 

I'm still here

Dan

 

gossy befriended me on face book last week lol not seen him in a while

 

yo you guys! nice to see some familiar names popping up.... just goin Gossy hunting on facebook! haha

 

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:

 

You're no oil paintings, are you...

 

Oh, and Floyd is still a regular both here and on 22b!

A few more pics to add:

 

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

 

Tim.

How did you manage to retain a 1999 join date? Most got reset to 2003 back in 2003 ... something changed back then, can't remember what though

TX.

 

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

 

and that was seven years ago!!lol
martin

 

floyd also hangs round on northloop
is that a pic of karl with hair!

 

No, that's Felly and Faye

 

ahh look very similar lol
martin

 

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".

 

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...

 

Stef=Cossiekiller aka Colliekisser (as we changed all his stickers, doted around the various bars in Nerburg, to) as Owain already mentioned

 

Hi Owain, old Skool ????? Those names are all new school compaired to the XR days

 

mike Rainbird is on passionford

 

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

 

Terry, next time you see Mark can you ask him if he still has the video from my first ever lap of the 'Ring when he followed me?

 

PMSL........................ didn't Harj use to lend "his" 22B to RSquire LOL

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

Tony

 

nooooooo none of the pics work and i bet they're great!

 

Colliekisser..... just HAD to be done once I'd realised it could be done

 

There were also others like Andy tang, and Trout who seemed to have dropped away.