I installed the first version of the software and set up the first user (me) at around 11pm on the 29th of December 2015, with a test user an hour or so later (the late great Suzie the cat). There must have been a couple more, and then at 8am the next morning Gilbertd rocked up and created an account. He's posted roughly ten times as much as I have over the years!

He was then followed by a bunch of refugees from The Other Site, and here we are nearly ten years later.

So, I don't know, zoom call and crack a beer at 23:06 on the 29th, anyone?

Sounds like a plan to me, it'll be like the days of Lockdown when nobody was allowed out so had to entertain themselves somehow.

To be honest I thought it was the previous December. It was July 2014 when I was up in Glasgow for the Commonwealth Games and we were sitting in a pub when the idea of a virtual pub came after 5 or 6 pints of a rather nice, locally brewed, Commonwealth Ale as an antidote to RR.net.

But being very sad, I've just gone into my 2015 email inbox and sure enough, there's the email timed at 01:53 on 30/12/2015 with a link and the suggestion of having a play and seeing if I can break it (which I did, a mere 16 hours later).

From that tiny start of half a dozen or so in the first week, the memberlist now shows we are up to almost 10,000 members. A shame a large proportion are spammers or bots. Equally a shame that some of the original members, Orangebean, dave3d and Ferryman to name just a few that I am aware of, are no longer with us.

10 Years!!!???
Seems like no more than 120 months ago to me!
As soon as I saw that in print, I had to really have a think about it.
I'm so glad that Gilbert invited me in from the cold, dark side!

All I can really say is:
Thank you so much for putting up the site and keeping it up!
Granted, one of the admins gets a bit grumpy at times, however he's got a long way to go to catch up
with the late, great Toad Hall.......
If I can figure out how to make zoom work on any of my devices, a meetup would be great!
Cheers for the last decade and looking forward to the next!
Best of the holidays to you as well!
Tom

it doesn't feel like ten years, i don't even think like i have owned the p38 for that long, it's gone very quickly. when i first purchased the rover and found the other R/R site it was really good, all the info that anyone could imagine and then it disappeared because of the stupidity of the owners, then Richard brought this site to my attention and i haven't really looked back. i have had a couple of , where are you messages from the other side but have ignored them basically. Its 8am here in Australia, if you were going to have a zoom meeting what time would that be here. i will look into getting a bloody camera that works and try and join in.

Isn't it +11 hours time difference? If you posted at 8am on the 7th Dec, the site shows it as 20:56 on the 6th. So 23:06 on the 29th December here would be 10:06 on the 30th for you as you are ahead of us.

What a landmark :) I certainly wouldn't have been able to keep my P38 on the road without the Pub and all you great people. Thank you!!

Also it wasn't as many as ten thousand members, maybe about three thousand. I've got that down to almost half, by removing all the people who created accounts but never activated them (probably because they had email addresses like r.y.x.ewrf.02934.ssdt.dr.u@totallynotascam.ru) and all the people with clearly spammy usernames (so many George<three letters> accounts like GeorgeTef, GeorgeBef, GeorgeToq) who had activated accounts but never logged in.

A while ago I took some steps to limit the number of signups from places that are not being terribly neighbourly on the Internet and that's quietened things down a bit.

and then there's those that have two usernames of course......

So I have a normal account that I try to do all my posts with and an admin account I try not to do my posts with, for "separation of concerns".

But I'm not always all that good at remembering to log out and back in.

Time flies, I've been a member just over 9 years yet never owned a Rangerover. Have converted many to LPG including for several owners who are members of this forum, swapped messages and spoken on the phone with many more.

Thanks for help and other offers of help over the years Gordon, particularly for around the time it was looking like LPGforum might be shut down.

Who plans on still running a P38 in 2035?

Lpgc wrote:

Who plans on still running a P38 in 2035?

My daughter reckons they will probably bury me in mine when the time comes.....

Gilbertd wrote:

and then there's those that have two usernames of course......

Not directly related, but there are also those using different user names on each side...

th.

ps. The quoted user has a very valid reason for multiple names

Lpgc wrote:

Who plans on still running a P38 in 2035?

I don't think I understand that question...

th.

Thorst wrote:

Lpgc wrote:

Who plans on still running a P38 in 2035?

I don't think I understand that question...

th.

I don't understand why you misunderstand lol. Straight forward question. :)

Possibly he is referring to the way that UK and EU regulators are slowly but surely coming up with reasons why
Big, safe SUV type vehicles are almost solely to blame for the Human Caused Climate Pandemic..?
(We need to hate carbon spewing dinosaurs and embrace terawatt sucking heat spewing data centers)
It's looking like rather than converting to Lpg, a new business plan featuring battery or fuel cell and electric conversion may
be a good career choice!
Oh, wait!!!! The French are implementing the new over 1600kg parking taxes which the UK regulators are salavating
Over.......
Heck, maybe you can claim "Climate change refugee" status for your Rangie and send it over here!
The current management seems to love gas guzzlers! And we have wide roads......

More like he's wondering how many of us will put up with the little quirks and foibles of a P38 for another 10 years. I know I certainly will. At my current rate of usage, in 10 years time I'll still be about 200k short of the million mile mark and it isn't going to be retired until I reach that at least.

Not too fussed about the French increasing parking charges as although I go to France quite a lot, the only place I park is at my mates house or in the underground multi-storey car parks and they charge a fortune anyway.

Plan A is to run mine until I get too old to drive. As I'm 71 now that should take me past 2035.

Far as I'm concerned the P38 pretty much ticks all the boxes. Lower fuel consumption and being able to load in a an 8 x 4 sheet of ply would be nice but thats about it. Anything more modern seems to be loaded to the gills with unfathomable unfixable electronics and lost of posh stuff that really doesn't work that well. Quirky or not at least a P38 is generally say to fix and most of the quirks can be worked out if you put your thinking cap on.

Clive

Clive603 wrote:

Plan A is to run mine until I get too old to drive. As I'm 71 now that should take me past 2035.

I hit 70 earlier this year, so I can look forward to renewing my driving licence at least another 5 times.....

being able to load in a an 8 x 4 sheet of ply would be nice but thats about it.

But it can, I've done it when we were refurbishing a house a couple of years ago. If you drop the rear seats and open the top and bottom tailgates, it will slide in on the diagonal until it sits on top of the front headrests. Then you can push it in and the edges will sit on the bits either side of the boot and at the front it will be level with the sun visors. Rear view mirror is completely useless but if you have the electric seats you can raise the headrests up so it isn't resting on the top of your head. If you don't, in my case Dina drove that one as she isn't as tall as me and I drove mine with all the smaller bits and tools in it.

You can fit an Ikea sofa in one too as long as it is in bits but I failed with a king size double mattress......

the mattress would have fitted on the roof, couple of ratchet straps through the windows, easy. i once saw a cop put a sheet of reo " thats 20' by 8' directly on his car, tied it down and drove away, i bet he never done that again after he saw the damage. i even said it would damage his car, he didn't seem to care, might have been his wife's car.

That's where the mattress went, strapped to the roof with the straps going in through the windows. Then put an old door on top of it and another strap from front to back attached to the towing eye on the front and towbar at the back. The idea was that this should stop it from lifting if the wind got under it. It did until a double decker bus went past in the opposite direction at about 60mph. I was following and though the car was going to take off!