Jalopnik circa October 2004

"CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever" (carsoffortlangley) 12/26/2017 at 22:33 • Filed to: None

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What were you doing in October 2004? I was in grade 6 (11 years old)

aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/26/2017 at 22:41

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I was 5

interstate366, now In The Industry > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/26/2017 at 22:41

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I was fresh out of high school and, having decided to wait a year before going to college, doing absolutely nothing.

for Michigan > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/26/2017 at 22:42

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I forgot that Fleshbot was a thing. Don’t think I ever knew what sort of thing it was for that matter…

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > for Michigan 12/26/2017 at 22:45

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Yeah, I forgot too

CB > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/26/2017 at 22:46

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I was in fifth grade and my parents were going through a divorce. And thus began the slow descent into how it all went wrong.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > CB 12/26/2017 at 22:49

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I’m sorry to hear that. You seem like a nice guy though, so not everything went wrong!

CB > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/26/2017 at 22:50

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Thanks! Do what I can with what I’ve got. Besides, life got a hell of a lot better once I moved out for university.

Nibbles > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/26/2017 at 22:57

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I was going through the worst, hardest, most tumultuous time of my young adult life. I was certain death was coming for me, or that I could usher his icy touch

Glad I was wrong. I survived (obvs) and now I spend my life shitposting

scoob > aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe 12/26/2017 at 23:01

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rip aperson

Ash78, voting early and often > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/26/2017 at 23:01

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Posting stupid stuff on Jalopnik, same as now.

scoob > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/26/2017 at 23:01

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I was 8

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/26/2017 at 23:02

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I was 19 and full of brainwashing and piss headed for my first unit and first deployment a few months later.

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/26/2017 at 23:03

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Three years out of college, working in high-end home A/v and automation sales and install in Stowe VT, nominally managing a retail space, daily driving a 1992 Alfa Romeo 164-S, doing my damnedest to be a ski-bum (mostly unsuccessfully) and smoking a shit-ton of weed. I had yet to discover the Gawker properties and was mostly living in the still-relevant glory of my <5000 four-digit Slashdot ID

shop-teacher > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/26/2017 at 23:07

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I was halfway through grad school.

f86sabre > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/26/2017 at 23:10

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I had been working in my field for 6 years, married for 2, owned a house and had an Eclipse GS-T.

Obligatory “get off my lawn”.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > shop-teacher 12/26/2017 at 23:16

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Wow! What did you get your degree in?

Clown Shoe Pilot > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/26/2017 at 23:25

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I was driving an RX-8

Clown Shoe Pilot > f86sabre 12/26/2017 at 23:28

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I’d been working in my field for 9 years, married for 3, and had recently sold my Eagle Talon tsi awd.

Nice lawn, neighbor. Fucking kids, huh?

lone_liberal > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/26/2017 at 23:29

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I was 4 years in to a job that would eventually shitcan me after 12 and two years away from meeting my wife.

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/26/2017 at 23:45

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First year of highschool

f86sabre > Clown Shoe Pilot 12/26/2017 at 23:46

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Whippersnappers the lot of them.

TSI AWD. Nice. I miss my Eclipse sometimes. I loved the Evo, but the Eclipse looked right to me. Too bad they messed it up with the third gen.

HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/26/2017 at 23:53

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Uhhhh....I was 1.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute 12/27/2017 at 00:01

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Lol. Christ, I’m old

BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/27/2017 at 00:02

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Then 6, almost 7 year old BlueMazda2 spent October 2004 hyped about buying this. I even managed to find a picture of the actual thing.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/27/2017 at 00:11

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My first child was almost 1. I turned 30 in November and was looking for a new job and a bigger house. I think I also adopted a cat.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/27/2017 at 00:24

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i was 6

Wacko > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/27/2017 at 00:27

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I was 25, single, and had 6 years left of payments on my 2003 protege5.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/27/2017 at 00:30

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I would’ve been going to college, working part-time as a head lifeguard and spending every penny I had to play with the racecar whenever I could scrape enough of them together. I was probably daily driving ye olde 92 F-350, crew cab, long bed, 4X4, IDI (non-turbo) 7.3l diesel.

pip bip - choose Corrour > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/27/2017 at 00:47

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2004?

Shit, I’m old

I was 31 then working hard

My car then is the same car that I have now just with an extra 600k km on it

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/27/2017 at 00:50

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I was a freshman in fall of aught four. I was dating a girl I called tits, because she had huge tits. I have no recollection of her actually name, but I remember that I broke up with her because a good friend of mine told me that in the fourth grade she ate a clump of kitty litter.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > CB 12/27/2017 at 00:52

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Sounds a lot like my wife’s story. Her parents both turned into self destructive monsters after their affairs/divorce. To this day that still blame/hate the other equally.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > interstate366, now In The Industry 12/27/2017 at 00:54

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That would have been a good idea for me. I went on to tech school right after highschool, and proceeded to put in minimal effort,nad get distracted by girls and skateboarding. Kind of wish I had giving myself a few years to grown the hell up before going to school I had to pay for.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > f86sabre 12/27/2017 at 00:57

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GS-Ts are for noobs. AWD for life.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo 12/27/2017 at 00:58

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Drug store toy cars! I hate them now, but as a kid I didn’t care. I think I was about 11 when I became a Hotwheels elitist. I remember a friend trying to show off his Matchbox and being distinctly unimpressed

pjhusa > HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute 12/27/2017 at 01:03

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Seconded

BahamaTodd > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/27/2017 at 01:16

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I was 19 and in my junior year studying mechanical engineering.

ttyymmnn > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/27/2017 at 01:40

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I had finished my doctorate 5 years earlier and was looking for work and working on starting a family. My oldest was born in 2005. I was 38 years old.

SmugAardvark > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/27/2017 at 02:08

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I was finishing up college and working full time as a 9-1-1 operator in Florida. That seems so long ago!

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > ttyymmnn 12/27/2017 at 02:22

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What’s your doctorate in?

PG; the scalpel wielder > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/27/2017 at 02:41

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I had just started Highschool and I think I started reading jalopnik that year too. The days of Ray Wert....

CRider > Ash78, voting early and often 12/27/2017 at 05:07

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#oppositlock

Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!! > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/27/2017 at 07:13

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I had been married for 4 years and had just bought a Beechcraft B58 Baron and started an airplane charter service. I drove a white 2001 Wrangler Sahara and my son was still 4 years in the future.

Wife still around, Jeep and airplane long gone.

shop-teacher > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/27/2017 at 07:18

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Technical Education. My Bachelor’s degree was in Architecture. I was in my Junior year of that, when I decided to become a teacher. It made way more sense to finish that degree, and go to grad school for education, than to transfer. I got a TA position, so I had free tuition, a small salary (VERY small!), and I thought the lab sections of an Introto CAD class, so I got some teaching experience. I didn’t even realize it when I made the decision, but teachers with a Master’s Degree get paid more too. It ended up being like a quadruple win to get my teacher training in grad school.

JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder! > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/27/2017 at 07:21

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I was 6; so I guess kindergarten?

punkgoose17 > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/27/2017 at 07:32

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I was 15 and had just started rowing on the new Crew team.

Chuckles > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/27/2017 at 07:55

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I was in my first semester of college, and I was without a car because my 1990 Honda Accord EX had just died. RIP Hobart.

Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/27/2017 at 08:28

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Just graduated from high school and was starting my first year of college.

interstate366, now In The Industry > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 12/27/2017 at 08:42

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I kinda wonder how I would have turned out had I gone to college straight out of high school.

HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/27/2017 at 09:22

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Meh. Only 5 years older than me, not TOO bad. You’re still like 19.

HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/27/2017 at 09:22

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Edit: I read that completely wrong. Never mind:)

Svart Smart, traded in his Smart > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/27/2017 at 09:31

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I was a boarding student in my senior year of high school in Chattanooga.

Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/27/2017 at 09:34

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I was 2 years old

Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner > HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute 12/27/2017 at 09:35

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2 here

ttyymmnn > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/27/2017 at 10:36

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Trumpet performance. I had planned on getting a job teaching at a university. Fortunately I didn’t, and now I play professionally.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/27/2017 at 10:51

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I was probably getting ready to take my two kids (one of which was less than a year old at the time) out for Halloween.

I was also oblivious to the divorce axe that was gonna come down on me less than 4 years later.

BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 12/27/2017 at 10:54

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Ah, but you see, I still like them. They’re just so neat. Maybe it’s nostalgia speaking, but I’ll buy one from time to time.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute 12/27/2017 at 11:11

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Sooo... you were probably sitting in your own shit then, right?

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 12/27/2017 at 11:15

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Well as long as it’s equal it’s okay, right?

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > pip bip - choose Corrour 12/27/2017 at 11:17

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I thought you stopped having birthdays at 30...

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly 12/27/2017 at 11:19

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Also of note... I was also driving a 1987 Honda Civic Wagovan at the time.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly 12/27/2017 at 11:24

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That’s what they seem to think.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo 12/27/2017 at 11:26

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That makes sense.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > ttyymmnn 12/27/2017 at 11:41

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Cool!!! I didn’t expect that!

f86sabre > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 12/27/2017 at 12:06

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That said why I went Evo.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > f86sabre 12/27/2017 at 14:14

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Nice. An Evo 9 is my “maybe some day car” I just cant bite the bullet on a 20 thousand dollar car that’s 10 years old. My Gvr-4 is good enough for now. But man owning a 27 year old DSM isn’t easy

f86sabre > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 12/27/2017 at 14:47

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03 Evo VIII. Owned since new. Love the thing. Needs some work after being rear ended last summer. It will live again.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/27/2017 at 16:56

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Yes Gramps, you are old...

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly 12/27/2017 at 18:26

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I feel old.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/27/2017 at 19:00

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You probably still remember AMC ads when they were new!

pip bip - choose Corrour > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly 12/28/2017 at 02:12

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you’re thinking of women

;)

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > pip bip - choose Corrour 12/28/2017 at 03:24

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YOU’RE NOT A WOMAN????

pip bip - choose Corrour > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly 12/28/2017 at 03:29

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:P

19JRC99 > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 12/31/2017 at 12:29

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I was in Kindergarten.

19JRC99 > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 12/31/2017 at 12:32

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Ah, a story of young love. Isn’t it a beautiful thing?