Xander Wildeisen Posted May 3, 2019 Share Posted May 3, 2019 You should be able to piece together the Xander Wildeisen. I have always thought that most problems with the internet would go away, if people had to use their real name, for their user name. Might cut down on a lot of harmful things that are said, and traffic to websites that should never be able to operate. The "Highly Questionable Member" I put there because I am a custom car guy on a classic/restored forum? Why this forum? A lot of very knowledgeable people on here, and that knowledge covers all areas of the auto industry. And it reaches into all corners of the hobby/industry/trade. Growing up in Idaho, we just do not have the type of cars out here that you see on this forum/club. It is a real treat to see pictures of peoples Duesenbergs. Cords, Packards, Stutzs, Pierce Arrows and so on. It is also a good forum to slip in a comment about things related to small businesses within this industry. While this is not the biggest platform to voice an opinion. I think it reaches a lot of the eyes and ears, of people who could do or say something about it. I joined SEMA, and looked at the people running for their board/committee. There are comments about paying attention to small businesses in some of the write ups. A lot of attention should be paid to what people are faced with in this industry. The health and future of your hobby/industry/trade depends on it. You have lost a lot of talent with what goes on. The picture I have right now is of Panzer and his watering bucket. He along with his partner in crime Sadie, guarded the shop. You would have to be wrapped in bacon to be in any danger. Sadie was very smart, but Panzer was very intelligent. I always said "sadie's nose knows, but Panzer knows". He had a lot figured out up there. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_Mack_CT Posted May 3, 2019 Share Posted May 3, 2019 (edited) It has since been suggested I retire "Old World Shepherds" Sorry, VL, this thread seems to have gone to the dogs... 😁 Edited May 3, 2019 by Steve_Mack_CT (see edit history) 1 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMoneyPit Posted May 3, 2019 Share Posted May 3, 2019 My Avatar is Moose, he was a rescued mutt and my favorite. I would start any car and he would jump right in, once or twice over a closed door in an open car I had. I miss having him as my copilot when the wife didn’t want to go. I wish I had a picture of him on my phone, but our next dog just turned 12 and is OK with rides but needs a boost even with running boards. Time does have a way of going by too quickly... 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BearsFan315 Posted May 3, 2019 Share Posted May 3, 2019 well my handle is pretty simple and self explanatory to any / most football fans I am a Die hard Chicago Bears Fan since around 1980, wee young lad at the time. then the number 315, well that was a pick, since BearsFan was taken, and of course they give you the next available number as an option it was some crazy number in the 100's, so I chose a number, 1, 3 & 5 being my favs, so did 315 !! been using it for years, however my very first handle back in the early 80's was cbears, as most know everything on a pc had to be under 8 characters, i thought this was simple and self explanatory till everyone thought it meant carebears.... so next round solved that issue 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Bond Posted May 3, 2019 Share Posted May 3, 2019 I could have gone with something 007ish of course, but having it on our license plates and getting asked all the time if I'm related to James Bond was enough. Decided to just use my name since everybody knows me anyway. Maybe someday I'll make up something different - like Spark Plug Collector, or Sparky, or Fouled in oil, or... Terry 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xander Wildeisen Posted May 3, 2019 Share Posted May 3, 2019 1 minute ago, Terry Bond said: I could have gone with something 007ish of course, but having it on our license plates and getting asked all the time if I'm related to James Bond was enough. Decided to just use my name since everybody knows me anyway. Maybe someday I'll make up something different - like Spark Plug Collector, or Sparky, or Fouled in oil, or... Terry Use running rich. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlLaFong Posted May 3, 2019 Share Posted May 3, 2019 Besides old cars, I love the old comedies, Laurel And Hardy, Our gang, WC Fields, hence my handle here, which I use on quite a few other boards. BTW, my real name is Mahatma Kane Jeeves 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trimacar Posted May 3, 2019 Share Posted May 3, 2019 (edited) …….and if I DID know Carl LaFong, I wouldn't tell ya......WC is one of my favorites, I could do a 10 minute monologue of his lines and asides (you have to pay attention in his movies, a lot of the best lines are said under his breath)…. My handle should be obvious, when I was younger I apprenticed in upholstery at a well known Virginia restoration shop, after two years there I decided to get back into engineering, my degree. After retiring, I started doing a "little" trim work, which has now kept me busy "trimming a car" for 6 years. Time to quit and do my own projects, while there's still a little time left! Edited May 3, 2019 by trimacar (see edit history) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hupp36 Posted May 3, 2019 Share Posted May 3, 2019 (edited) 36Hupp, Charter member of the Hupp club started in 1970.My 36 Model N in out of a thousand cars in our club, my 1936 N is the only registered and running on the road. Plus its 1 of 21 produced. But since I was gifted with a 1927 Pierce Arrow I may have to change it . Edited May 3, 2019 by Hupp36 (see edit history) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zepher Posted May 3, 2019 Share Posted May 3, 2019 My handle is a purposeful misspelling of the word Zephyr. I had read that the word zepher, with the 'E' instead of the 'Y' meant troublemaker or miscreant. I've used it many other places before and after joining this site. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brass is Best Posted May 3, 2019 Share Posted May 3, 2019 2 hours ago, alsancle said: I mostly agree, except when you have small dogs that don't like anybody (including most of the people in the family). That truck isn't going to be stolen anytime soon. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broker-len Posted May 3, 2019 Share Posted May 3, 2019 I spent over 30 year in Real Estate Business Residential and commercial and appraisals for seconds BR 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JACK M Posted May 3, 2019 Share Posted May 3, 2019 WELL-DUHH !!! Its the license plate on my motor coach. But I wont show it because those guys that cover up their plates may be onto something. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexRiv_63 Posted May 3, 2019 Share Posted May 3, 2019 When I joined AACA and this forum back in 2007 I had just bought a 1963 Buick Riviera so I created my handle and avatar from that. I sold that car a few years later and there have been many more as reflected in my signature but I still check the Riviera ROA forum every day. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunsmoke Posted May 3, 2019 Share Posted May 3, 2019 Growing up in the 50's and 60's and with the last name Dillon, the conversation invariably turned to everyone's then favorite TV Western, Gunsmoke and Marshall Dillon (James Arness). I got "Matt" Dillon often, and a couple of my friends were nick-named Chester. Anyway, the username pays homage to a great TV show. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
padgett Posted May 3, 2019 Share Posted May 3, 2019 Just been "Padgett" since before there was an Internet. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lozierman Posted May 3, 2019 Share Posted May 3, 2019 I have a 1913 Lozier and have been interested in Loziers for more than 50 years. I have other old cars too, but Lozier hold my prime interest. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bhigdog Posted May 3, 2019 Share Posted May 3, 2019 (edited) Longish story but when I bought my first Dodge PU some of the locals let it be known that the name should be pronounced with the D and E silent since they were all "Big Dogs". Of course I wanted a vanity plate to razz them all but BIGDOG was already taken hence the BHIGDOG spelling. I've had the plate and used it as a handle ever since. BTW, my current 2500 Cummins diesel is the best truck I've ever owned.......Bob Edited May 3, 2019 by Bhigdog (see edit history) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hudsy Wudsy Posted May 3, 2019 Share Posted May 3, 2019 (edited) "Hudsy Wudsy" was the appellation that a very good friend gave my blue '49 Hudson 2dr sedan nearly fifty years ago. He called my car Hudsy Wudsy, not me, but the name holds warm memories for me. It's an obvious corruption of the Rudyard Kipling rhyme about British troops fighting in the Sudan in the 1890s: Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy, was he? Far, far more than anyone would ever want to know about this episode of British Colonialism and the history and origin of this brief little rhyme here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy-Wuzzy Edited May 3, 2019 by Hudsy Wudsy (see edit history) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Wetherbee Posted May 3, 2019 Share Posted May 3, 2019 3 hours ago, Hupp36 said: 36Hupp, Charter member of the Hupp club started in 1970.My 36 Model N in out of a thousand cars in our club, my 1936 N is the only registered and running on the road. Plus its 1 of 21 produced. But since I was gifted with a 1927 Pierce Arrow I may have to change it . Id leave it as Hupp36, PA could also stand for pain in the Ahhh - you get the point... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plymouthcranbrook Posted May 3, 2019 Share Posted May 3, 2019 My first old car in the modern era.(that is to say not when they were just used cars) 1952 Plymouth Cranbrook 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plymouthcranbrook Posted May 3, 2019 Share Posted May 3, 2019 4 hours ago, JACK M said: WELL-DUHH !!! Its the license plate on my motor coach. But I wont show it because those guys that cover up their plates may be onto something. And of course we will never figure it out now. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
58L-Y8 Posted May 3, 2019 Share Posted May 3, 2019 58L-Y8 is the model designation for the 1958 Packard sedan, hardtop and station wagon. Oddly enough, I've never owned one. Elsewhere on-line, I go by 58L8134 which is the serial number of the last 1958 Packard built, the end of the line. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt G Posted May 3, 2019 Share Posted May 3, 2019 Like TerryB I wanted something easy for people to figure out who I was and with everything else out on the internet to have a name for and remember ( ebay, passwords for everything, etc.) my location is listed like everyone else so I feel that helps too. Keep it simple , it is about the message not the name for me. Also I won't list the cars/vehicles I have owned that are sold ( in the 55 years I have been collecting cars , who cares what I owned 40 years ago) and won't put the word GONE after it . when I see that it makes me think , Gone where? Did it get lost? 🙄 4 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 In 1930 Fisher bodies were in tin and my daily driver for 59 years was/is a Pontiac, hence my car became Tinindian. It seemed appropiate that an AACA handle could/should be Tinindian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
61polara Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 It's my first car, a 1961 Dodge Polara 2 door HT that my Dad bought new. Still have it and hope to have it back out in the next few years. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryB Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 3 minutes ago, Tinindian said: In 1930 Fisher bodies were in tin and my daily driver for 59 years was/is a Pontiac, hence my car became Tinindian. It seemed appropiate that an AACA handle could/should be Tinindian. My first car was a 1951 Pontiac Chieftan which I called a “Tin Indian”. Your username always makes me smile and think Pontiac. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFitz Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 I picked a name that I stood a chance of remembering. Paul 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laughing Coyote Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 One night in 2007 sitting at the computer trying to come up with a name for my business I heard a pack of coyotes in the dry wash in the back of the property doing their yelping and caring on. I said that it sounded like they were laughing, so the name Laughing Coyote came to be. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozstatman Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 Back about 20 years ago my son was signing this Luddite up for the Internet and email and wanted to know what "name" I wanted to be known by. Not knowing, or caring, I said I leave it up to him and promptly ended up as Ozstatman. But what does Ozstatman mean? Well part of that goes back even further because years previousy I'd score his, and his brother and sisters, games of cricket, manage their soccer and basketball teams, etc. At one stage one of the coaches involved asked me to do the "stats" for one of the basketball teams. After that, and being able to demonstrate some mental arithmetic skills which seem to be generally lacking today, I was then labelled Statman! My son thinking he'd use that label for my internet/email found, like others have recounted, that the "name" was already in use. So he applied the suffix Oz(as in Oz-tralia) to statman and lo and behold no one else was using that name. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylormade Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 My film production company is Taylormade Productions. My last name is Taylor, so... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maok Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 When I was in my 20's I was travelling around Europe, I sent post cards to friends and family. I signed them with my initials and OK, to my surprise, no one knew who the post cards were from....lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Bruce aka First Born Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 First Born. Self explanatory. Seven afterwards. Ben 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brooklyn Beer Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 Besides having a life long interest in old cars,.. Since I can remember I have also collected antique brewery advertising from Brooklyn, NY where my relatives worked for many of the old breweries in the 40's and 50's. A hobby that started with my father and continues to today over 40 years later. My Ebay handle since Ebay started as well. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curti Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 My given name is Curtis. An old friend at work nicknamed me Curti. This was back in the 60's It stuck. Even my mother called me Curti. My eBay handle is Curti. Can't get those short user-ID's anymore. There are lots of Curt's and Curtis's but not many Curti's 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dosmo Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 (edited) Dosmo is the name of one of the lead characters in the 1996 film 2 Days In The Valley. Danny Aiello plays "Dosmo Pizzo". He is one of my favorite actors. Edited May 4, 2019 by Dosmo (see edit history) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
95Cardinal Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 Mine isn't automotive - or pet - related. Completed my Master's degree at Stanford in 1995 = 95Cardinal 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JACK M Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 14 hours ago, Walt G said: Also I won't list the cars/vehicles I have owned that are sold ( in the 55 years I have been collecting cars , who cares what I owned 40 years ago) and won't put the word GONE after it . when I see that it makes me think , Gone where? Did it get lost? 🙄 What he said. WAY to few fingers and toes. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digger914 Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 (edited) The short version is I got a little hurt the last year of the Viet Nam war and couldn't do my regular job for a while, Digger got stuck on me by the guys who thought I had life really easy during my part time foray into an unrelated career field. The numbers at the end of my handle are my birthday, there were a couple of Diggers here before me and I went for a number that wouldn't need to be entered again. Edited May 4, 2019 by Digger914 (see edit history) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipdang Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 Mine is my somewhat phonetic spelling of a Monty Python nonsense word from one of their skits. Surprisingly I’ve heard from folks unhappy that I had it ahead of them. Guess I’m special... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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