Does anyone have a history of Pistonheads

[saabstudent]

Righty, along the same lines as my other post regarding my dissertation - i'd like to do a small article about PH. Now i know that it was started by Ted (/waits to be told otherwise )- but thats about all i know. Would anyone be able to give me a brief history (pref including dates and maybe membership numbers) of the PH site? Is there a brief readme or history anywhere on the site that i should have looked at?

Cheers people
G

And no i haven't gotten up early (i'm a student remember) i just haven't gone to bed yet - bloody dissertation

[joesnow]

From what I have picked up from comments in other threads, this forum started up as a place for TVR owners to meet up (Ted has owned TVRs so started this?). It has grown from there.

Feel free to correct as nessacery...

[anonymous-user]

Why dont you drop Ted an email? I'm sure he'd be happy to help you.

(In return for some pies of course. )

[_Batty_]

IIRC it started as 'PetrolHeads' and was to get other TVR owners to get in contact with each other.
M

[Trooper2]

unrepentant said:

Why dont you drop Ted an email? I'm sure he'd be happy to help you.

(In return for some pies of course. )

Or a donation to his PiePal account....

[Bodo]

_Batty_ said:

IIRC it started as 'PetrolHeads' and was to get other TVR owners to get in contact with each other.
M

The legend says, an IT-geek starTed it in his spare time

[gorvid]

LMAO @ "PiePal"...

[Trooper2]

gorvid said:

LMAO @ "PiePal"...

Thats Ted's joke but I love it so I use it....

[saabstudent]

Thanks for the replies lads - i had remembered this morn it was all started from a TVR point of view. Whats the best way of contcacting Ted then - hadn't planned on this as i reckoned he'd be a busy man!

G

[minimax]

best off emailing him for permission first

[thinfourth]

Sod off lets have this in the open i want to know where this site came from.

[Plotloss]

thinfourth said:

Sod off lets have this in the open i want to know where this site came from.

Well, let's see. First the earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil. And then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes. And Prince Charles started wearing all of Lady Di's clothes. I couldn't believe it.

[Obi wan]

Plotloss said:

thinfourth said:

Sod off lets have this in the open i want to know where this site came from.

Well, let's see. First the earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil. And then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes. And Prince Charles started wearing all of Lady Di's clothes. I couldn't believe it.

Do I detect a hint of sarcasm

[craigw]

when I 1st came on, the gassing station was just one long thread & the porsche guys were all on the sister site, porkers.com

[Bodo]

This is supposed to be the first thread with the new forum software, which an IT-geek coded himself Pistonheads is a bit older though.

A certain craigw posted in there too

Edited by Bodo on Tuesday 29th August 15:20

[Dee Cee]

I'm guessing it was started 91 months ago?

[vixpy1]

Plotloss said:

thinfourth said:

Sod off lets have this in the open i want to know where this site came from.

Well, let's see. First the earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil. And then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes. And Prince Charles started wearing all of Lady Di's clothes. I couldn't believe it.

I watched that film last night .. Top quote!

[FourWheelDrift]

Petrolheads - January 24th 1999

http://web.archive.org/web/1999012510www.petrolheads.co.uk/

You have to copy the whole URL into a browser as a click splits it up and doesn't work

Edited by FourWheelDrift on Tuesday 29th August 16:27

[saabstudent]

Just ends up crashing my firefox whenever i try and look at that link. Bu99er.

Anyone else out there with more info?

G

[Trooper2]

saabstudent, if you quote FourWheelDrift and copy the link from quote then paste it in the address box it will work, I just tried it..