Friends

[Tonz]

for the sake o anonimity I will not mentions any names in this...

a while ago I was following a particular thread and learning a lot. Then few months ago realised I had not seen the posters name pop up and sent him a PM hoping he was OK.

Turns out he moved country and now living overseas in a country I was planning to visit myself.

One thing led to another and last night I spent a very enjoyable evening with you G. (if your reading this)

Strange to think that 2 supposedly mature guys with a passion for their cars, can then meet up in a very foreign country and carry on like old friends.

[.:4:.]

If your on an even playing field with similar interests, then regardless of the way you started contact who cares? A mates a mate. Face to face contact isn't always practical if there's a distance involved. I have mates I grew up with who moved away and I keep in contact with . I wouldn't consider that weird at all.

[Feathers]

In 2015 I flew to Finland to take part in a 2 week, epic "Top Gear" style road trip from Helsinki to Oslo - via Nordkapp, as one of two girls, with ~20 random men from another forum I frequent. I'd met a couple of them briefly on my first trip to Finland the year before, but didn't really know them. People told me I was crazy...

They opened their homes, let me drive their cars, and after travelling almost 7000km in 10 days, we joined another much larger group of people from the same forum (53 of us in total), at the Nurburgring in Germany for a weekend of camping, tourist drives and drinking, and I made many more friends there.

I came home with a bunch of life-long mates. Couches to crash on throughout Europe (and the USA, Brazil...) whenever I'm in their towns.
It was such a good time - better that any trip I'd taken with "friends" previously, that I did it all again last year in the UK. Planning to join them again next year for a similar trip through the Balkans.

It blows people's minds when we explain how we all know each other when they ask, once they notice all the different accents among our group.

Who cares how you meet, friends are friends.

2015 trip: https://www.flickr.com/photos/123408...57656970375258

Nurgurgring meet: https://www.flickr.com/photos/123408...57655550417113

2016 trip: https://www.flickr.com/photos/123408...57672687625966

[FAS33]

Met my friend on E Harmony. Pity wasn't into cars.

[.:4:.]

Originally Posted by FAS33

Met my friend on E Harmony. Pity wasn't into cars.

I'm pretty sure the op wasn't after someone to bang.

[Blue Roo]

Lets all share a group hug.

[Pedro]

I've had similar experiences.

Bought my first classic (70 Mach 1 M code) on line in 2008 from a guy in Temecula California. Kept in touch and was invited to stay with him and his wife when I visited in 2013.

Similarly, bought my 66 Park Lane on line from a Mercury tragic in Minnesota and kept in touch and he picked me up at MSP airport when I went over for the CarCraft Summer Nats two years later, loaned me a daily driver and made me welcome with all his Ford/Mercury friends at the Show.

Bought my blue 70 GTO from a guy in Phoenix and during negotiations, I asked who rebuilt the engine and he gave me the guy's name and phone number in Minneapolis. I got in touch with him and contacted him again when I was over there again for the Nats and we met at a bar and became great mates. He has a huge collection of GTO's, Firebirds and other rare Pontiacs and drove me around to his friend's private collections. We keep contact frequently.

I think genuine car people recognise each other and feel at home in car guy company.

[mike_nofx]

Is it possible that this forum is blocked in his home country? I know when I try and view this forum through a VPN that I’m often told the country I’m visitong from is blocked from viewing this forum.

Originally Posted by .:4:.

I'm pretty sure the op wasn't after someone to bang.

Haha but it’s more fun if you read it as though he was!

[Sioso]

Originally Posted by .:4:.

I'm pretty sure the op wasn't after someone to bang.

Really?
From the OP
"for the sake o anonimity I will not mentions any names in this..."
"One thing led to another and last night I spent a very enjoyable evening with you"
"Strange to think that 2 supposedly mature guys with a passion, can then meet up in a very foreign country"

[Tonz]

Originally Posted by mike_nofx

Is it possible that this forum is blocked in his home country? I know when I try and view this forum through a VPN that I’m often told the country I’m visitong from is blocked from viewing this forum.



Haha but it’s more fun if you read it as though he was!

Your pathetic... or is it possibly jealous that some people can have genuine friendships through similar interests...go back to your kindy class.

[roddy1960]

G'day , Made some good friends through Forums including this one . Also a less than friend or two .Any friends outweigh that though. Same on my model rail forum and due to that I'll be visiting Baltimore ,Maryland in the USA in a year or so to meet Louis and Angela face to face because of that friends hook -up greeting four years ago.
I spend about an hour every Saturday night talking (sometimes Skype) to Louis , Angela , Thomas , Nikki , Ayden , Grace and Jameson and they are like family now even though I've never actually physically met them yet.
Friends are cool ... Cheers Rod.

[FAS33]

Originally Posted by Tonz

Your pathetic... or is it possibly jealous that some people can have genuine friendships through similar interests...go back to your kindy class.

you must be parties at fun.

[mike_nofx]

Originally Posted by Tonz

Your pathetic... or is it possibly jealous that some people can have genuine friendships through similar interests...go back to your kindy class.

Oh come on, lighten up. I wasn’t even the first or the worst poster to hint at this!

I was going to be really tasteless and reply to another member with a Confucius quote of “Confucius say, girl who go on car trip with 20 men come home with glazed bores” but no, I won’t do that!

[Jack91]

Originally Posted by Sioso

Really?
From the OP
"for the sake o anonimity I will not mentions any names in this..."
"One thing led to another and last night I spent a very enjoyable evening with you"
"Strange to think that 2 supposedly mature guys with a passion, can then meet up in a very foreign country"

Hahaha.
Well done sir.

[roKWiz]

I had lots of friends when I bought a boat but after I told them I needed help with maintenance on said boat, I discovered I no longer had friends. !

[marty351]

I think it's time for another group hug.

[Feathers]

Originally Posted by mike_nofx

I was going to be really tasteless and reply to another member with a Confucius quote of “Confucius say, girl who go on car trip with 20 men come home with glazed bores” but no, I won’t do that!

That's the most creative way of insinuating that I've heard; though of course you aren't the first to make a similar comment, but all of the girls who are part of this group are very much treated as "one of the guys".
We're there because we like cars and driving, and going on ridiculous adventures with great people.

[The Yeti]

Back in 08 a now one of my close group of friends / best mates and I organised a garage crawl on another forum, we haven't met we organised it all on the forum via PM's and we finally met the night before to do a final run through on our plans.

The next day we had about a dozen people attend and of that we remain friends of various levels up to one guy who is now also one of our close group.

After this the 3 of us had regular working bee's I each other's shed and over time we invited others to join in. To the point now where we have formed an incorporated car club

We do several working bee's a year we catch up for drinks and we have a club car for events





(ok it's not going ATM as I rolled the last one at the mud run so now we're building the next one)

[The Yeti]

This was the race cam of the roll over https://youtu.be/uqIukfGNFEE

This is what we're building now



This is sort of what we hope it will look like

[.:4:.]

Originally Posted by The Yeti

Back in 08 a now one of my close group of friends / best mates and I organised a garage crawl on another forum, we haven't met we organised it all on the forum via PM's and we finally met the night before to do a final run through on our plans.

The next day we had about a dozen people attend and of that we remain friends of various levels up to one guy who is now also one of our close group.

After this the 3 of us had regular working bee's I each other's shed and over time we invited others to join in. To the point now where we have formed an incorporated car club

We do several working bee's a year we catch up for drinks and we have a club car for events

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(ok it's not going ATM as I rolled the last one at the mud run so now we're building the next one)

The alignment on the rear doors of the commer looks better then the job the smash repairers did on my old work car I gave back 2 years ago that one of the young blokes smashed not long ago. How the passengers door sits is comedic.

[JC]

I've met 3 good friends through this forum/associated car clubs - GK, MO & ZH. They're the only ones the understand mu car addiction....