So, Tell Us About Your Avatar.............

Bender is now gone, and my new avatar is my old modded Mini cooper, which I enjoyed immensely at shows and track days....

The avatar is a cover from noise artist Masami Akita's (aka 'Merzbow') thirteen disc "Japanese Birds" set. I like birds, and I like noise, so it seemed like a good choice.

Some may have noticed I have changed my Avatar - its a collage of my favourite albums from this year and a larger version is hot linked via my forum signature, or viewable here;

http://www.bluedive.co.uk/avatar/collage.jpg

My current avatar is a Vanden Plas Princess 4r. This lovely vehicle sports an all aluminium straight six 4 litre Rolls-Royce FB60 engine and had a top speed of 112mph which was not at all bad for a car first produced in 1964. It majored on luxury and sported an interior every bit as plush as any Rolls of the day. I am lucky enough to have traveled regularly in one of these beauties as my uncle owned one for six years back in the 1970's.

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Originally Posted by synsei

This lovely vehicle sports an all aluminium straight six 4 litre Rolls-Royce FB60 engine .

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Wasn't that the 'inlet over exhaust' lump also used in the Champs?

(think I'll change my avatar too seeing as everybody is at it)

Its a lenmobile. I know a lenmobile when I see one! :)

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Wasn't that the 'inlet over exhaust' lump also used in the Champs?

(think I'll change my avatar too seeing as everybody is at it)

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Yup, that's the puppy Geoff :)

Yer well, my avatar is a Beetle wiv a massive horn on it! :ner:

Horny Beetle

A stag beetle, in fact!

Ah, venison. My favourite...

Dave - I swear that Avatar of yours is a Lenmobile (pronounced Len Mow Beel). At school we had a French Teacher known as "bender Len" due to his appearance in a naturist magazine, who drove an Austin Cambridge. The original Lenmobile. However, we used to "lenmobile spot" and extended the genre to include the Morris Oxford and Peugeot 404. I'm sure this Vanden Plas would qualify as a posh one. I wonder where I could get an official ruling?:scratch:

I believe Wolesley and Riley also made Lenmobiles Richard :)

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Dave - I swear that Avatar of yours is a Lenmobile (pronounced Len Mow Beel). At school we had a French Teacher known as "bender Len" due to his appearance in a naturist magazine, who drove an Austin Cambridge. :

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Lol

We had science teacher who was known as 'Everard' after the Larry Grayson character. We also had an RE teacher called Jonny Beanhead (not his real name..). He drove an Austin Maxi. The gas suspension went on one side giving the car a 45 degree tilt but for reasons best known to him alone he didn't get it fixed and continued to drive around in it. Aside from being an almost certain MOT failure it looked absolutely ridiculous and would have us crying with laughter everytime we saw it.

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I believe Wolesley and Riley also made Lenmobiles Richard :)

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I'll see if I can get a ruling ...;)

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He drove an Austin Maxi. The gas suspension went on one side giving the car a 45 degree tilt but for reasons best known to him alone he didn't get it fixed and continued to drive around in it. Aside from being an almost certain MOT failure it looked absolutely ridiculous and would have us crying with laughter everytime we saw it.

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I just love these little little tales of peoples youth, they brighten the day up....

:cool: Alan

The username derives from my second fav band {First two albums}

The Avatar: The only surviving Class '71' loco built late 1950's at Doncaster railway works for mixed traffic duty on the southern region.The one pictured then is 'E5001' {TOPS scheme renumbering later to '71001'}

My Avatar is from Caister May2013, ( which l recall very little of:cool:) and was our banner on our caravan, this was a last hurrah for my ex shift and l, as we all were made redundant on 28/06/13, and we are really tight knit bunch so as good a time as it was there was also some sadness as people who were soon to be going in different ways:(:):comatose::comatose:





Dance yer pants off!

Hi,

Can someone tell me how to change my avatar from the default image? When I click on it in my profile, nothing happens (and I can't find any obvious links for editing the avatar).

Thanks!

Mike

Look at the links along the top of the page, below the AoS banner.
Select 'Settings'
Look at the links on the sidebar running down the left hand side of the page.
The third box down is 'My Settings'
Select 'Edit Avatar'
Make sure the 'Do Not Use an Avatar' switch is not highlighted.
Work with 'Option 1' or '2' from 'Custom Avatar'

Good luck!

Thank you, Chris!

You made that very easy for me!

:)

You're welcome, Mike.

My Avatar refers to things l would rather not disclose on a public forum:eyebrows: