Kikbak66,
I can tell you that there is nothing cliquey about the UK OC. All this stink has arisen from the actions of a particularly nasty troll on the forum just over a year ago. That troll nearly caused the meltdown of the forum at least, but the club remains as strong as ever. The three main complainants in this thread are from the same area of Scotland and are connected, innocently or otherwise, with the troll.
It is a great shame that this unpleasantness has lasted so long.
Cheers R
this is the second time you have mentioned this...i just want to put the record straight re:connections between scottish members.
i joined the club after the well publicised banning of dallara turbo, but was intrigued enough about the ongoing situation which was regularly referred to on the club forum at that time to enquire about what had happened. i never really got a straight answer on the subject. i approached cha40, whom i did not know at that time, to give my fiat 20vt coupe a service...and he did such a good..and cheap..job, that i have allowed him to look after it, and all the other cars iv owned since. so, its fair to say that i have, as a result of the x1/9 forum, met, and befriended a fellow fiat nut...cha looks after several scottish members cars and other vehicles as disparate as an 800hp skyline, my own m3 evo bmw, various old classics etc..etc..its always a pleasure going down to his wee garage to see what might be in that day!!..it seems though, that the scottish members are to be punished, or at least permantley have the cloud of suspicion hanging over their heads just because they choose to use a cheap, competent, knowledgeable mechanic..??
as for dallaraturbo...cha told me their side of the 'situation' regarding her banning from the site when i subsequently enquired, and, as ever, iv always assumed that the truth is bound to lie slap bang in the middle of both parties claims...i have never taken sides in this debacle as i dont know the ins and outs of the situation so dont feel qualified to comment. only thing i can remember posting on forum is that i was now using cha to service my cars and i couldnt see what all the fuss was about as he certainly seemed to be a very likeable guy who is passionate about his cars...
so, there is the timeline. as a result of my friendship with cha and of my posting of pictures of his and a brace of other members x1/9s outside his house, i am immediately banned with no warning or reasonable explanation, other than unfounded alegations. i am genuinely perturbed by this state of affairs , so have attempted to find out on another, welll respected fiat forum, ie this one..if any one else has had such treatment..and, by the sounds of things..they have, be it by similar bannings or intractable and archaic rules governing the sharing of information about our belved wee exxies..
last thing i wish to say to you is that i find the suggestion that i may be a puppet, or acting on behalf of ANYONE never mind a woman who i have met about twice and spoken less than a handful of words to incredibly laughable..what kind of person is this dallaraturbo that she can control and manipulate the minds of us mere mortal men with such ease,and presumeably by esp or other similar psychic powers!!??..jesus, im a 20st weightlifter and martial artist with scars all over his head and hands like shovels who runs a very succesfull security company...im not the kind of person who does what he's told with ease or alacrity..im a member of very many forums, car related and otherwise, and, at the risk of bein repetitive, am my own man...i genuinely have no interest in cha, or dallaraturbos problems with the x1/9 club... their problems with the club are, just that, their own...although i will admit, since my immedate banishing to the fiat hinterlands by these faceless internet bullies, i am more inclined to believe, well, ANYONE, rather than accept official reasoning from the don curlywurly x1/9 plastic gangster mafiosa..
.jeeez, iv never been banned from a club since the incident with the baseball bat in '98 haha...
