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"RotaryLover" (rotarylover)
11/05/2019 at 09:00 • Filed to: None

How’s everyone? Heard about the situation and felt like writ ing a little something as I sip some 7up laced with some Sailor Jerr y at midnight . I’m glad I’ve stumble on Jalopnik back in 2010 and joined Oppo in 2011 I believed . T his platform got my creativity going and I felt that I could write anything I wanted. Sorry for the times I’ve made posts that made ZERO sense but it was my attempt to vent at life and try my own akward comedy.

All the posts will gone soon but the memories won’t. I remember when I kept preaching about m iatas, r otaries and odd ball cars like the SC430 and people hated some of my posts ...but them some of you guys stood up and supported my ideas. I’m gr ate ful of this. The og’s will remember the struggle I had with girls and you gave me the best advices I could get! I’m still single, but I’m no longer affected by this hahaha. Or the time my parents were coming back from vacations and I wanted to make an awesome recipe for them and you all gave me recipes to try according to my situation.

Vince-The Roadside Mechanic ...hopefully you’ll see this despite being gone since 2014 . W ell you’re the reason I corrected my english on texts. For those who don’t know, I’m french. Vince got pissed at me because I used to open up my texts with AM instead of I’M . Glad he told me because if it wasn’t for him, I wouldn’t have known. So Vince...thanks man!

I still laugh at the fact that I was agains t the Fiesta ST when it came out because day after day there was more Oppo members that bought one. The day Brian Silvestro got one I snapped since I was pushing him toward a Miata. Here’s the post I did if you wanna laugh a bit.

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4 years later...who would had thought that I’d get a FiST!?? Still got my NA Miata for almost 7 years!

Supreme Kiwi Zorro... I miss this guy. Called me Helmut and we had that strange WWE like storyline where he was my father on Oppo. He had great articles...but he deleted everything and left. Hopefully I’ll be able to see that bakery you have in NZ someday.

I’ve meet some people face to face from here and learned how many of you we’re actually near me the whole time. Y’all hella cool.

I’ll be saving my stuff soon and probably post a few Keep Oppo Weird posts here as a proper send off. So Kinja Oppo , it was great knowing you and all the awesome peeps in it.

DISCUSSION (13)

71MGBGT Likes Subarus of Unusual Colors > RotaryLover
11/05/2019 at 09:11

There are a few efforts going to keep the community going. There’s a subreddit, a discord, and one of us now owns https://oppositelock.com/

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > RotaryLover
11/05/2019 at 09:55

Hey man, thanks for checking in. Hope you’re doing well.

That SKZ reference brings up a lot of old drama - ha! His VW articles were great, though.

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > RotaryLover
11/05/2019 at 10:12

i remember the day brian silvestro took his fist racing on a frozen lake and it ended up in a snow bank...good times haha

CaptDale - is secretly British > RotaryLover
11/05/2019 at 11:55

Man talk about old days. Glad to see people checking in and seeing what is up. There are plenty of other oppo resistance groups (other places for oppo). The discord is by far superior at the moment and the oppo 2.0 looks to be promising . I can’t recommend the FB group, but it is there and I enjoy maybe 30% of it.

RotaryLover > CaptDale - is secretly British
11/05/2019 at 15:43

Same here for the FB group. It was so good at first...then came everyone that never showed up on this platform. It changed a lot. I’m not used with discord yet, but I’ll probably join!

CaptDale - is secretly British > RotaryLover
11/05/2019 at 15:45

The discord is good. Platform I really only used for gaming, but it works well. all the Sub Oppos are there. It is nice.

But yeah the FB group is like 95% shit posting and 5% people posting good Oppo stuff

RotaryLover > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
11/05/2019 at 15:46

Hahaha yeah that guy brought trouble! I’m doing good! Getting a life changing job in less than 2 weeks! What about you?

RotaryLover > 71MGBGT Likes Subarus of Unusual Colors
11/05/2019 at 15:47

Wth we have a Subreddit??????????????? This is too good!!!

RotaryLover > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero
11/05/2019 at 15:49

I may have been gone when it happened hahaha. I still remember all his Miata Life or Fiesta ST life gifs he posted every now and then depending on the post. Miss that shit.

RotaryLover > CaptDale - is secretly British
11/05/2019 at 15:55

Last time I talked about rotaries , I got blasted with crap. It sucks man. I know it’s not serious and they wanna be edgy, but man...really. Anyways...

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > RotaryLover
11/05/2019 at 16:25

Congratulations! Happy for you. I got my own life-changing job a few years ago. =) Just keeping busy with work, family & life - never enough hours in the day, but that’s okay.

CaptDale - is secretly British > RotaryLover
11/05/2019 at 17:35

Ugh, that is lame. One thing I really love about Oppo is that doesn’t really happen here you know? Anyway, do the Discord.

SlideshowOhNO - Fixit Union, Chapter of Kinja > RotaryLover
11/13/2019 at 11:17

Welcome back from your hibernation fellow Mazda fiend.

I was against the Fiesta ST at the start as well, but I warmed up to it after driving one, and a FIAT 500 Abarth. They taught me that, while a RWD roadster is hard to beat, a FWD hot hatch is still a riot, and may fit into people’s lives better than a 2 seater.

So far it seems we are in a holding pattern with OPPO’s future, but that could change at a moment’s notice. If you havent already, give a look at: https://oppositelock.com/ — and maybe even the OPPO Discord group, if you are into that sort of thing.