I was in the passenger seat of my buddy's 90 Miata, flying down some back road in Northern California like 14 years ago now. I was looking ahead and letting him know what was coming up. I saw what I thought was a Winnebago and called it out. When we actually got to where I saw the "RV," we just about ran into a semi. I yelled "That's no Winnebago!" and we both cracked up. It's been an AOL screen name and various forum handle ever since.
Edit: 17 years ago. Ouch.
In reply to barefootskater :
I owned a big skateboard shop for 25 years. Kept hundreds of decks in stock and up to 100 completes. Sold everything imaginable for skating. Held huge skate contests with hundreds of competitors. I've never seen anyone skate barefooted.....
RossD said:My name is Ross. Last initial... wait for it... is a D.
What he said.
I generally live in rural areas and adopt broken german cars
Hasbro (Forum Supporter) said:When GRM first started this forum I had an Iguana. I had rescued him when he was almost dead and had lost his tail from malnutrition. Eventually I wound up rescuing a whole bunch of other lizards, long story short. He was very friendly and fun* so I named him Hasbro for the toy company. Anyway, a couple of rock Iguanas got a hold of him and tore him up pretty badly to the point where he eventually died. For a dumb tree chicken he was a really cool animal, knew me and my cats, even recognized my cars and truck and I was mourning him at the time of this forum's inception. So my moniker is in honor of a very cool three foot lizard.
*Iguanas can become very aggressive if direct sunlight hits their parietal "third eye", iirc. They're little teeth are like razor blades and can cause severe laceration injuries.
Whoa! I had no idea they got that big!
My first Challenge car was a Subaru SVX. We called it the "SV REX".
Unfortunately, it renders in text like something you should go to a dr to get penicillin for after doing the wild Thang with a dirty prostitute.
Just my initials. My dad was the only one who ever called me CJ and he wasn't doing great. He had been a hot roder in the late 40s to early 50s.
He taught a twelve year old mechanic (me) everything I knew about wrenching making a $15 1956 165cc Harley two-stroke, three-speed, hard-tail run.
I still have that bike. Lost dad about five years ago.
I had a few folks mention they found my previous user name unsettling. Instead of jumper cables they read it with a capital BALLS.
Also I always felt awkward meeting folks in meatspace with a user name so ...
I was the first mechanical engineer in our company and was hired to get them going with CAD software, hence...Cadman...but when I started using it as a forum name somewhere, there were evidently 4 "cadmen" before me, so I adopted cadman5.
It's Finnish. As for my avatar, I resemble the Michelin Man.
I never liked nicknames, so what you see is who I am and where I'm from.
When I set up my first email account my friend Ganesh help me do it he asked me to think up a name I said use mine Braden Mccredie. I can't remember why but he told me not to use my whole name he suggested pilot McCredie but it was already taken so we used my first name I'm pilot Braden. I use pilot because I was a pilot at the time flying as the chief pilot for an air charter company. I don't fly any longer due to losing my medical certificate but I have kept the name I probably should change it to weldor Braden
When I joined the forum, I was so broke that the only alcohol I could afford was bottom shelf boxed wine. My friends (and now racing buddies) and I would chug gallons of this terrible swill and cause automotive mischief under the cover of night. Hence, boxedfox.
I'm sure no one is wondering since I am not very active on here but all my cars have burned oil and my truck leaks every fluid it hasn't run out of already so I'm an environmental (and all other forms of) disaster.
Antihero was the name of the first song I ever wrote. I was also told I was the guitar antihero in a very complementary way because I didn't dress in the cliche lead guitarist way, played guitar strangely, didn't use the right equipment( apparently Les Paul's weren't guitars that lead guitarist used according to some, who knew) and didn't do drugs but I "destroyed the other guitarists that see you". Their words, not mine.
My avatar should be the album cover of our first album, because.....I mean.....doesn't that picture really say Interstellar Sledgehammer to you? But I can't get ahold of the artist to get permission
DJ are my initials. The car I had when I got my first email account was silver, so DJsilver. The truck I got later was silver and our S2k is silver, so I'm still DJsilver.
I was reading alot of Masamune Shirow's Appleseed manga. Never liked car specific handles, as tastes change. The avatar is from VG Cats, an online comic centeredaround anthrophmorphic cats and video games (VG.) There was a comic where Leo, the blue cat, uses a rat like a flail. That's the story.
RAT FLAILS FOREVER !
Due to life, there was a period of time I didn't have any projects to work on and I drove boring sensible cars. Things changed and I wanted something with torque and exhaust again. I decided to get a used late model Mustang. Cheap, simple, fast, loud - just what I wanted. Little did I know my wife REALLY disliked this idea. The phone rang one day at my office and my wife said she had gone by the Porsche dealer but 911's were a little out of her price range, but she drove by the Chevrolet dealer and fell in love with a Corvette. Could she come by the office and show it to me? After I hung up I turned to my business partner and said "This is not a phone call you want to get from your wife!" I wanted to trade in a CX-5 on a used Mustang, not spend 75K on a car!
She drove up a few minutes later in a new C7 Corvette - it was Shark Gray in color. Of course I babbled I liked the car - what else could I say?! We decided we wanted one in Shark Gray, with gray interior, manual transmission, with the Z51 package and black wheels. There were three in the nation with that mix of options. The closest to us was in South Carolina. A week later my wife did the entire deal over the phone, and the tiny little Chevrolet dealership had it sitting in their showroom. We drove up on Saturday, signed the papers, chucked the two dogs and luggage into the 'Vette and away we went in 30 minutes.
So, my wife has to name our cars. She decided the C7 was "Shadow." Shadow was taken by our DMV so we went with "Shaduex." My photo is the car parked in front of the now-defunct Lincoln-Mercury dealership in town.
Trent (Generally supportive dude) said:I had a few folks mention they found my previous user name unsettling. Instead of jumper cables they read it with a capital BALLS.
Ohhhhh... I was definitely reading it as Jumper Kay Balls. I feel silly.
In reply to NOT A TA :
It's not so bad if you're a ramp rat and don't have any use for flip tricks. At least that's what I'd tell folks when I was 17.
For years my race car # was 49, so when I needed to set up my email, I used don49 as it was simple. Now my racecar# is 47, but after all these years there's no reason to change. My avatar is my current car.
I managed a toy and hobby shop for 12 years. Every kid that saw me around town would say "Hi Toyman!"
The 01 is because Toyman is always taken.
Old, not accomplished, autocrosser. Late apexing was a big topic in the early sixties.
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