Topic: Echos of The Past... (Read 5725 times)

KJetron · « **on:** February 22, 2004, 01:30:05 pm »

I wonder if anyone rememebers me?Have all the faces changed?
I used to be a more regular frequenter of this place.

Heavily into cars, with a Swedish Girl friend, Living in the UK, drove a Porsche and a BMW, worked for Jaguar?
Well things have changed somewhat.Anyone?
No longer with My Swedish ex.
Just came back from an "epic" 5 week road trip across the USA,where I covered 10,000 miles at the end of last year, which spanned from Thanksgiving to New Years day!
WHat ever happened to Redshift?
Or Smithy_2K1
Don Dawson?

Iceman · « **Reply #1 on:** February 22, 2004, 03:48:03 pm »

RedShift I believe still lurks, although does not post so much.
Smithy_2k1 is now James_Smith (there was a server problem and many lost accounts, including Smithy and Sirgod.)
DD was banned, left, and might be back. I'm not sure, I don't keep track honestly.

But I'm still here!

Sirgod · « **Reply #2 on:** February 22, 2004, 04:46:32 pm »

Once I read that Jaquar part, It clicked. Yep I remember you Man. How are things going?

Stephen

Dash Jones · « **Reply #3 on:** February 22, 2004, 04:53:40 pm »

I believe I remember about the Swedish G/F, and thus I guess I remember thee, but do you remember me, or us, or we?

EE · « **Reply #4 on:** February 22, 2004, 05:08:02 pm »

Hey bro, long time no see. Welcome back and I hope you enjoyed your time in the US. Did you find your way into So Cal?

KJetron · « **Reply #5 on:** February 25, 2004, 05:40:06 pm »

Hey folks!

Thanks for remembering me!
I of course remember you all, Iceman,
Stephen, had any local Oklaholma meets recently?

And Dash, weren?t you either from Ireland, or didn?t you visit there and contribute to threads about there once?

Hey EE how?s the Honda Prelude? In fact my US road trip took me all over the place. As stated I covered 10,000 miles in 5 weeks. From Thanksgiving to New Years eve. The car wasn?t the best, I had to pick a Dodge Intrepid, because I knew I was to drive through some snow-and wanted to avoid rear wheel drive.
I flew into Ohio, to see a lady friend of mine, at first things were rosy between me and her and we had some fun, but she soon fell ill with that nasty flu affliction that was going around the USA at the time. So I left her quick smart, and luckily didn?t catch anything myself. I made it to West Virginia, and stayed with another friend for 4-5 days, before heading up toward Seattle , Washington, as my other friend had a party there. I left W Va on Monday morning and had to be on the West Coast by the weekend. I drove up through the mid west and through Missouri. I had to stop off at a BMW specialist in Kansas, who I bought some rocker arms that will allow my BMW back home to rev to 7500 rpm plus. I made it to the West Coast on time, had a blast! Was a great party. I was let down by my friend Jianna (whom I?ve known for years upon years) but that didn?t matter too much later when me and her friend who was hosting the party got along well.
I hopped across the border and stopped off in British Columbia (where I once lived for a year) and saw some old friends and met up with the creator of a Trek chat room/forum I?ve gotten to know.

Other places of note I stopped off were Ashland Oregon-which was great fun and friendly, and of course I stopped off at San Fran and later further south in LA.

I had never before been to Texas but I just HAD to see the folks who put together Starship Exeter at www.starshipexeter.com and did so. Jimm Johnson (Capt Garrovich) is a home loving family man with a newly born kid. He gave me insight into their episodes and some of their props and even offered me a part as an extra when they do their next episode shoot. I was most impressed at their improvisation of Sci fi effects. Perhaps I shoud cover more about starship exeter in a separate dedicated post. Anyway, lots more happened, Unfortunately on my trip back up to Ohio for New years, my ?friend?-who was il and who I?d originally gone to see let me down. Such is life and people. All in all quite an amazing road trip where I met some interesting and wacky people! My favourite part ?and where I had the most fun is STILL Seattle

Until later-see you all around!

Lurker · « **Reply #6 on:** February 25, 2004, 07:05:05 pm »

Heh, I'm Redshift now

I thought the new handle reflected my posting habits more accurately.

Glad your keeping your pecker up as you seemed quite down after your split with space kitten. Heck, there's nothing like a good road trip to get to know the world and yourself at the same time. So, you went cruising around the US and you met the guys from starship Exeter...you lucky jammy bastard!

Just kidding mate, hope your well. Any luck with finding work in the US?

KJetron · « **Reply #7 on:** February 26, 2004, 12:17:13 am »

Lurker-good to see you again:Naaah, no luck at all.
Just some "nearlys", Mercury Marine in WI were very interested and then they had a reshuffle as were Honda Raciing USA.
I've so much had it with the house prices here and qualified engineers being paid the same as train drivers or chefs, in comparison to other countries, I've even been looking toward Australia now. Alot of my collegues have moved over to Holden down under...
The good news is that the American economy is picking up..
I'm confident something will come up. How are things on the woman front for you?
Space Kitten no longer talks to me, she won't have anything to do with me, unfortunately, I still miss her, but what can I do?
The starter motor on my Porsche gave up the ghost last night outside Tescos and there was this aweful gringing noise. I realy hope the flywheel is still ok. Now I have a busy weekend ahead of me!

James_Smith · « **Reply #8 on:** February 26, 2004, 10:04:26 am »

Hey mate! Long time and all that.

Hope you haven't knackered that flywheel, don't like the sound of grinding coming from that area of a car....still the same 928?

KJetron · « **Reply #9 on:** February 26, 2004, 12:56:11 pm »

Quote:

Hey mate! Long time and all that.

Hope you haven't knackered that flywheel, don't like the sound of grinding coming from that area of a car....still the same 928?

Hi ya James, how's the course going?
Still want to be an engineer over here after what I've written? *LOL*
Yes it's still the same 928
I did alot of resserch and found out that it was highley unlikely I'd damaged the ring gear. The fly wheel has so so many teeth over a large diameter where as the starter pinion is much smaller and less tough. I think in fact the armature is not being engaged to the flywheel prpoerly by the solenoid.

So still the same 928-I didn't want to spalsh out £40,000 on a Porsche 911 and then find out I have gotten a job abroad, because the car would be harder to sell to a more select market.

Iceman · « **Reply #11 on:** February 26, 2004, 02:40:08 pm »

If I had a knife, I could slice through the nostalgia in this thread right now. lol, good to see you're back K. Did you make it up north to Boston at all? lol.

KJetron · « **Reply #13 on:** February 22, 2004, 01:30:05 pm »

I wonder if anyone rememebers me?Have all the faces changed?
I used to be a more regular frequenter of this place.

Heavily into cars, with a Swedish Girl friend, Living in the UK, drove a Porsche and a BMW, worked for Jaguar?
Well things have changed somewhat.Anyone?
No longer with My Swedish ex.
Just came back from an "epic" 5 week road trip across the USA,where I covered 10,000 miles at the end of last year, which spanned from Thanksgiving to New Years day!
WHat ever happened to Redshift?
Or Smithy_2K1
Don Dawson?

Iceman · « **Reply #14 on:** February 22, 2004, 03:48:03 pm »

RedShift I believe still lurks, although does not post so much.
Smithy_2k1 is now James_Smith (there was a server problem and many lost accounts, including Smithy and Sirgod.)
DD was banned, left, and might be back. I'm not sure, I don't keep track honestly.

But I'm still here!

Sirgod · « **Reply #15 on:** February 22, 2004, 04:46:32 pm »

Once I read that Jaquar part, It clicked. Yep I remember you Man. How are things going?

Stephen

Dash Jones · « **Reply #16 on:** February 22, 2004, 04:53:40 pm »

I believe I remember about the Swedish G/F, and thus I guess I remember thee, but do you remember me, or us, or we?

EE · « **Reply #17 on:** February 22, 2004, 05:08:02 pm »

Hey bro, long time no see. Welcome back and I hope you enjoyed your time in the US. Did you find your way into So Cal?

KJetron · « **Reply #18 on:** February 25, 2004, 05:40:06 pm »

Hey folks!

Thanks for remembering me!
I of course remember you all, Iceman,
Stephen, had any local Oklaholma meets recently?

And Dash, weren?t you either from Ireland, or didn?t you visit there and contribute to threads about there once?

Hey EE how?s the Honda Prelude? In fact my US road trip took me all over the place. As stated I covered 10,000 miles in 5 weeks. From Thanksgiving to New Years eve. The car wasn?t the best, I had to pick a Dodge Intrepid, because I knew I was to drive through some snow-and wanted to avoid rear wheel drive.
I flew into Ohio, to see a lady friend of mine, at first things were rosy between me and her and we had some fun, but she soon fell ill with that nasty flu affliction that was going around the USA at the time. So I left her quick smart, and luckily didn?t catch anything myself. I made it to West Virginia, and stayed with another friend for 4-5 days, before heading up toward Seattle , Washington, as my other friend had a party there. I left W Va on Monday morning and had to be on the West Coast by the weekend. I drove up through the mid west and through Missouri. I had to stop off at a BMW specialist in Kansas, who I bought some rocker arms that will allow my BMW back home to rev to 7500 rpm plus. I made it to the West Coast on time, had a blast! Was a great party. I was let down by my friend Jianna (whom I?ve known for years upon years) but that didn?t matter too much later when me and her friend who was hosting the party got along well.
I hopped across the border and stopped off in British Columbia (where I once lived for a year) and saw some old friends and met up with the creator of a Trek chat room/forum I?ve gotten to know.

Other places of note I stopped off were Ashland Oregon-which was great fun and friendly, and of course I stopped off at San Fran and later further south in LA.

I had never before been to Texas but I just HAD to see the folks who put together Starship Exeter at www.starshipexeter.com and did so. Jimm Johnson (Capt Garrovich) is a home loving family man with a newly born kid. He gave me insight into their episodes and some of their props and even offered me a part as an extra when they do their next episode shoot. I was most impressed at their improvisation of Sci fi effects. Perhaps I shoud cover more about starship exeter in a separate dedicated post. Anyway, lots more happened, Unfortunately on my trip back up to Ohio for New years, my ?friend?-who was il and who I?d originally gone to see let me down. Such is life and people. All in all quite an amazing road trip where I met some interesting and wacky people! My favourite part ?and where I had the most fun is STILL Seattle

Until later-see you all around!

Lurker · « **Reply #19 on:** February 25, 2004, 07:05:05 pm »

Heh, I'm Redshift now

I thought the new handle reflected my posting habits more accurately.

Glad your keeping your pecker up as you seemed quite down after your split with space kitten. Heck, there's nothing like a good road trip to get to know the world and yourself at the same time. So, you went cruising around the US and you met the guys from starship Exeter...you lucky jammy bastard!

Just kidding mate, hope your well. Any luck with finding work in the US?

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