My One-Year Oppo-versary!

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro) 07/22/2016 at 16:30 • Filed to: oppo-versary, oppoversary, oppositelock, ama, ask me anything, discussion, community

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Are we still doing year-in-review “Oppo-versary” posts?

I never really introduced myself, but you’ve probably seen me commenting and throwing a post out there every couple of weeks or so. So AMA , I guess.

I discovered Jalopnik a few years ago, but in 2014 I finally decided to create an account for commenting. I was lifted from the grey a few weeks later, and found Oppositelock through some shared posts. In 2015, I was granted permission to post on Oppo. It’s been about one year since then.

(To be honest, I’m not sure exactly what day my Oppoversary falls on. I didn’t put my first post together until some time after I gained Oppo authorship. Kinja’s notification log is acting up right now, and won’t let me look up the exact date, so “sometime in July” will have to do.)

I started out occasionally posting what I like to think of as random “automotive shower thoughts”. The topic could be anything related to driving or cars, hopefully something out of left field that had’t been discussed very much. Once I picked up my cheap beater truck, I decided to start logging my progress on it right, from the get-go.

I was pleasantly surprised to see a !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! of my Oppo !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! make their way to the front page, but last month I had the opportunity to do an actual !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! for Jalopnik. The response has been amazing! You guys are awesome!

During the past year, I also had a chance to meet some fellow Detroit-area JalOppos like David Tracy, Steve Lehto, and K-Roll (shameless name drops lol), and if you stop by the Concours d’Elegance in Plymouth next weekend, maybe I’ll see you, too!

Anyway, now that I’ve got the “’Murlequin” restored (well, mechanically, anyway) as a beater workhorse, those truck posts are going to become less frequent. Instead, I hope to share more about my Mustang, which I am kind of surprised that I haven’t mentioned hardly at all. (Spoiler alert: I plan to give it a brake system upgrade hopefully in the next couple of months...) And maybe some more car-related “shower thoughts” will come to mind now and then, too.

Here’s to the next year!

E90M3 > Urambo Tauro 07/22/2016 at 16:34

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Congrats, or something. I wish all the pre-Kinja comments weren’t deleted I’ve always wondered exactly when I started commenting on oppo.

Nibby > Urambo Tauro 07/22/2016 at 16:39

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Back in my day, we didn’t even know when we started using #off-topic

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > Urambo Tauro 07/22/2016 at 18:15

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See you in Plymouth :D

shop-teacher > Urambo Tauro 07/22/2016 at 18:31

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I’m surprised it’s only been a year. My favorite post of yours is the recounting of the horrendous fleet truck you had.

Urambo Tauro > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 07/22/2016 at 19:15

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I’ll be there! Still haven’t picked a day yet, though. Forecast is expecting rain on Saturday and Sunday. :( I hope that changes.

Urambo Tauro > shop-teacher 07/22/2016 at 19:23

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Oh, that thing was awful! You know, I labelled the post “pt I” because there were other trucks in the fleet with stories of their own. It was easier to just focus on the one I spent the most time with. If I ever do put a “pt II” together, it’ll probably just be a collection of disjointed anecdotes spanning other trucks in the fleet.

Hmm... To be honest, that POS probably had a lot to do with inspiring me to get my own truck (one with a proper V8) and restore it to good running order.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > Urambo Tauro 07/22/2016 at 19:41

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Well I’ll be there for all three, and will also probably make a visit to the Henry Ford.

shop-teacher > Urambo Tauro 07/22/2016 at 20:59

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I’d love to read part 2, disjointed or not.

Urambo Tauro > shop-teacher 07/22/2016 at 22:02

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Hmm, I’ll try to remember some of those stories and post it up sometime.

shop-teacher > Urambo Tauro 07/22/2016 at 22:36

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Please do!