I thought I joined this site a few years ago, but registered today with my typical user name.I had fever in the winter, but because there was no day really what I would call "warm", I can't say I do. I do hope that in 2 weeks time I will be sitting enjoying the "Schickeria" with a Weissbier in the hand.
Anybody got spring fever yet?
Ciao Bugace,
welcome to Autopuzzles!
I thought you were a Bugatti fan ;D!
This place will help to lighten you days and you'll find a lot of nice people here...
Have fun,
PJ
I wish I could use your talent with the words to express what I found here...Both of you are putting some of us to shame by doing it all in a second language.
Well, I am not a new member any longer. In fact, today is the 1st anniversary of me joining AutoPuzzles.
Now about 3000 posts and 347 points later, I feel like, AutoPuzzles has become an integral part of my life.
Excuse my personal ramblings, but if I look at back to the Summer of 2009, it's incredible how life changes. Last Summer I felt truly and really miserable. Too much work was taking its toll on me.
And then I thought I'd need something to take my mind off of all these troubles. I knew about AutoPuzzles but never had the time to really look at the puzzles here. So a year ago I took a deep breath to typed in www.autopuzzles.com
As they say, the rest is history...
Today I have turned my company around, became a succesful university lecturer, found new goals (e.g. decided to try my luck on getting a PhD) and life settled into a new, rather more pleasing rhyme. And solving puzzles here still gives me thrill. I am truly grateful for the community's support, whether it is ideas for new articles (Estonian hybrid minivans), helping out with my new site (automuseums.info) or just being a nice, helpful bunch of people here.
So thank you AutoPuzzles and thank you AutoPuzzlers. Onwards and upwards.
Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Joe Gertler Jr. I found this site after seeing of some of my late father's custom cars in the puzzles. He built some 200 racing, sports racing, and custom cars, including many for major auto shows. Everything from his restoration of 1938 Adler Rennlimousine Grand Prix car, to the famous Bluebird work. Many midget and sprint cars, and many very exotic and radical customs of U.S. and foreign sports cars. I joined him in 1969 and we built and restored a lot more pre-WWII type racing cars, for the next 20 years. I see so many interesting cars on this site, and lopk forward to learning more, and perhaps sharing some history and photos of same.
Another Ray has arrived! A warm welcome! May Otto get a qualified counterpart. ;DI'll try to get my friend Otto Cycle to join us then. 8)
Another Ray has arrived!;)
You Monte Carlo guys are a tight bunch!
Another Ray has arrived!;)
A warm welcome Ray.
If it's any consolation, I've laboured under the misapprehension most of my life that I knew a thing or two about cars. Then I joined AutoPuzzles and found out I know NOTHING!
I've sure learned plenty since coming on board though, most of which I've forgotten again..!
You Monte Carlo guys are a tight bunch!
Heh ... MOST of us are.... ;)
Cort
You Monte Carlo guys are a tight bunch!
Heh ... MOST of us are.... ;)
Cort
Well, I try not to "get tight" if ya catch my drift. :) I've known Cort for a long time. A REAL long time, it seems. We've visited one another and I've offered him a ride in my race car if he can drag his butt out to the salt flats (and I can get the thing running after the little issues of 2011.)
HelloA warm welcome Jerome from another member based in France (Antibes).
first of all thanks for this great site
my name is Jerome i am french and live in Le Mans
I have allways been interested in the automobile
history and motoracing history
I've never been to France, but my 6th Grade school teacher drove a Pontiac LeMans
Welcome to AutoPuzzles, frederick59!
Hello threespires and welcome to this splendid time-sponge ;D: as I remember a motor club of the same name and it was in Coventry, am I right that you are from there?Close, Lichfield with it's Cathedral of Three Spires. Shenstone Car Club was my club who run Curborough.
Lots of people there worked with cars to the extent that I'd say it was our Motor City - even got a Coventry car myself, see left!
Hello, my name is José Antonio.
First of all, congratulations for this wonderfull site!
I'm from Terrassa, a City near Barcelona (Spain), the company Inducar S. Coop was sited in Terrassa, and was the company that designed and built some of the special Seat cars of the past, like the Seat 1200/1430 Sport.
Hello goseatonio and a warm welcome to AutoPuzzles - the home of where things are rarely quite what they seem to be!
We look forward to seeing you solve many puzzles..!
Happy New Year!
Olà y bienvenido José!
Hi José. I think that just about everyone who comes here finds that they might have thought they knew something about cars, but that thought is soon crushed. Some have done quite well initially, but speaking for myself...well, I'm humbled by the vast array of knowledge that's found here.
Welcome to you and I hope you enjoy the fun and games. :)
After two very enjoyable months on Autopuzzles I think it's high time to say hello to all the puzzlers on this wonderful website.
I live in Northwest Italy and I am interested in transportation in general, I like trains,cars,lorries and trolleybuses. My favourite period is from just pre II WW to 1965. I have to admit that I know next to nothing outside this timescale. I love everything streamlined and my nickname Hiawatha is coming from the gorgeous 4-4-0 steam locomotives of the Milwaukee Road designed by Otto Kuhler. I find researching to solve puzzles extremely stimulating and a lot of fun at the same time.
All the best to you all,
Luciano
Seeing as how I've fully dived into the puzzles, I figured I probably should introduce myself. I'm an engineer working for one of the automotive Big 3 in the Detroit area - if only I could post some stuff from our corporate archives, I bet I could stump all you pros out there. I've loved cars for as long as I can remember, and as a history buff, I've always loved discovering long forgotten and obscure cars. I actually thought I knew quite a lot about old cars, but then I found this site and realized that's not the case. I'm excited to expand my automotive knowledge.
Seeing as how I've fully dived into the puzzles, I figured I probably should introduce myself. I'm an engineer working for one of the automotive Big 3 in the Detroit area - if only I could post some stuff from our corporate archives, I bet I could stump all you pros out there. I've loved cars for as long as I can remember, and as a history buff, I've always loved discovering long forgotten and obscure cars. I actually thought I knew quite a lot about old cars, but then I found this site and realized that's not the case. I'm excited to expand my automotive knowledge.
I seriously doubt it.
Welcome to the AutoPuzzles team!
I have been a member for a few years but hardly ever go on to this now because having got over 20 points i am defined as an expert, and that means I am stuck only answering really obscure one off cars etc which is no fun as I never know any of those.
Frankly the site is attracting too few people, as it relies on a small handful of people keeping it going because the whole premise is that it is only for an elite few who know every little obscure car and are called experts. If they get good enough to earn 200 points then they become even more rarified and never get a chance to answer anything ever again except the most extreme obscurities.
I am no expert - I did manage to answer one car from the 'black hole' but generally have little knowledge of the cars in the expert pool, and without cheating - which defeats the whole object, and I don't want to do that - there is little point in going on the site.
Clearly I am not the only one as whenever I do go online - I've tried to do so more of late as my work hours have changed for the moment - O'm generally one of two or three people on the expert pages and it feels like the site has virtually no traffic.
This thread is supposed to be welcoming new members and was started in March 2010 - it has a total of 71 replies (72 now with this) and in five and a half years that must be worrying.True, but we never 'forced' new members to present here first and they seldom do...it's their choice after all and not a measure of the new arrivals.
I belong to another forum group elsewhere and that just invites people (including me) to post pictures and others to answer the - no points, no banning people from responding to other answers.Me too, but I ...don't see the point (pun re-intended ;D). I see a picture of a Stanguellini on a website and I write down: hey, it's a Stanguellini! Then everyone moves to the following picture. That's just my opinion, but I can't see not the challenge in reporting just what you know, nor the improvement in my knowledge on the subject. These websites are fun, but in a different way.
It is mostly Americans, and I'm British, so I tend stay back if an easy British car is posted, to give them first go, but we deal with (postwar) production cars from everywhere ...
Not sure who will read this - it isn't a thread that attracts much traffic - but this site is only attracting a few people and I can't help feeling this is because the rules automatically preclude people looking at the rookie cars, and because not all of us have the time to trawl through everything that has ever been posted over the years to make sure it has never been posted before.Don't worry about reposts, we exchange PMs with the posters to advise them and he'll decide if keep it running or replace it.
1500 members!!!!! I've been waiting for this moment for some weeks now. Watch out Mark Zuckerberg, we're on your tail......Good one! :lmao:
Hey, I'm Jari Becker, Nice to meet you all
Hope this is the right area to introduce myself! Glad to be here :)
Is being able to post a new topic a privilege locked from new members until they have a certain post count? I couldn't find the aforementioned SMF button to post a new car puzzle. Any help/insight would be much appreciated, thanks!
Thank You. Any rules about photo sizes and numbers? As I see my Krupp has broken a page (There's a system-implemented limit of 12 images per post. As for size, the system permits you to upload enormous images, but I generally try to limit the width of mine to no more than 1000-1200 pixels so that mobile users and users with smaller monitors won't have to scroll horizontally to them.
Okay. I will resize them to 1024 )Looks fine to me. ЗИС-42?
I've made autoresize on my galleries but that's not implemented here as I see.
If someone will need them in 4K - always welcome )
This one is OK?
BTW, name the truck? ))
Hopefully you will take the time to introduce yourself here.