svanderbilt
New member
Hello. my name is beau and I am the ghost of Autopias past. 1999 I think. The dreaded "sealant wars" drove me underground, where I have been detailing by candlelight. But surfing an Audi message board (luckily my cave is equipped with DSL) I saw a name that piqued my interest. A name from my past. The name was "neoprufrok". Where did I know this name from? What did it mean? Luckily for me, my brain is abnormally small, so it didn't take much time to locate that memory amongst my cerebral landscape littered with empty boxes where brain cells should be.
Autopia Dr. Ha, from back in the early days when I used to visit that forum. Damn, what was it's name? Oh yeah; Autopia!
So off to Autopia-carcare.com I go. And aww, it's Holly. So that means God is on his throne and all is right with the world. So after some registeration problems that David helped me with, and after a half-dozen reviews, I wanted to say hi to everyone.
And my, how this place has grown. Coming from a time when we were championing this new fabric called microfiber, an old German acrylic sealant called Klasse, and a closely guarded concours secret that involved layering a carnauba over a synethic sealant! It's nice to see these things are now apart of the detailing mainstream. The building blocks of contemporary automotive detailing.
Woah, what are all these acronyms? Wouldn't it be cool that when you typed in, say , "UPP" or "SSR1" an image would appear, or at least the entire abbreviated phrase? Might help those like me with dimished mental capacities.
So after $400 in new detailing supplies, I feel ready to start learning anew from Autopia, and maybe even pass on something I've picked up along the way, too. Hope to see some old faces in here, as well as meet plenty of the new folks.
Old detailers never die. They just fade away.
PS here is a picture that has absolutely nothing to do with automotive detailing, but Natalie Portman has always been a particular source of inspiration for me;-)
Autopia Dr. Ha, from back in the early days when I used to visit that forum. Damn, what was it's name? Oh yeah; Autopia!
So off to Autopia-carcare.com I go. And aww, it's Holly. So that means God is on his throne and all is right with the world. So after some registeration problems that David helped me with, and after a half-dozen reviews, I wanted to say hi to everyone.
And my, how this place has grown. Coming from a time when we were championing this new fabric called microfiber, an old German acrylic sealant called Klasse, and a closely guarded concours secret that involved layering a carnauba over a synethic sealant! It's nice to see these things are now apart of the detailing mainstream. The building blocks of contemporary automotive detailing.
Woah, what are all these acronyms? Wouldn't it be cool that when you typed in, say , "UPP" or "SSR1" an image would appear, or at least the entire abbreviated phrase? Might help those like me with dimished mental capacities.
So after $400 in new detailing supplies, I feel ready to start learning anew from Autopia, and maybe even pass on something I've picked up along the way, too. Hope to see some old faces in here, as well as meet plenty of the new folks.
Old detailers never die. They just fade away.
PS here is a picture that has absolutely nothing to do with automotive detailing, but Natalie Portman has always been a particular source of inspiration for me;-)
) and welcome you back!!!
