Forum User Ranking and Licence Plates

Centallica · Post by **Centallica** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 10:48 am

I just noticed that one of the Mod's change my user ranking of "Vic Newbie" or something of that nature to "Pinballer". AKA "Pinhead"

Got me thinking of a friends licence plate here in Ontario that reads "PINBALLR".

Was wondering if any other forum users had Vic-20 related licence plates and if so what are they and if not what would yours read?

Let's hear them!
Brian

Schema · Post by **Schema** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 1:17 pm

http://www.csixty4.com/car.php

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 1:28 am

That must be Jeff. I have not found anywhere that I can change the "ranking"...

/Anders

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 1:30 am

Seems he changed mine too, to "Musical Smurf"!!! Heheh

Thanks!

/Anders

Post by **Jeff-20** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 12:13 am

I changed it a while ago. I am suprised you just noticed.

Post by **Jeff-20** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 2:29 pm

Schema wrote:http://www.csixty4.com/car.php

That's commitment. Did our commodore company have anything to do with the auto industry? Or is it just a coincidence?

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 3:36 pm

Isn't Holden part of the GM family (i.e. Opel, Vauxhall etc in Europe) ? At least I know there used to be an Opel Commodore in the 1970'ties:

http://www.medial.com/opel/commo.htm

Don't forget the song group with Lionel Richie too!

As far as I know, fortunately "our" Commodore, both before and after Tramiel, kept themselves in the electronical industry; first typewriters, calculators and watches, then computers for all the money.

Leeeeee · Post by **Leeeeee** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 5:35 pm

Jeff-20 wrote:I changed it a while ago. I am suprised you just noticed. :lol:

People have died for less ... but I noticed yours and felt that you had probably suffered enough already.

Lee.

Schema · Post by **Schema** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:26 am

Jeff-20 wrote:That's commitment. Did our commodore company have anything to do with the auto industry? Or is it just a coincidence?

Apparently, Jack Tramiel got the idea for the company name when he was stopped at a traffic light behind an Opal Commodore car.

http://www.commodore.ca/history/people/ ... w_jack.htm

Schlowski · Post by **Schlowski** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 11:56 am

Just a short correction: it's Opel, not Opal, from a german car engineer and later car brand name

I believe the name was Ferdinand Opel - but to be honest this is totally irrelevant to the thread

Sorry, couldn't resist...

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 2:25 am

Let's see.. Jack Tramiel moved from Germany in 1947 to the US, and founded Commodore in 1955. According to Answers.com, the first Opel Commodore model was built in 1967. I don't know how common - or at all - the Opel brand is in the US, but maybe Tramiel was extremely far-sighted to spot a car ten years in advance and on a different continent.

Possibly there was some other US car called Commodore that was not an Opel, and later Tramiel thought it was an Opel Commodore he had seen in 1955?

Post by **Jeff-20** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 7:06 pm

idrougge · Post by **idrougge** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 5:29 pm

carlsson wrote:Let's see.. Jack Tramiel moved from Germany in 1947 to the US, and founded Commodore in 1955. According to Answers.com, the first Opel Commodore model was built in 1967. I don't know how common - or at all - the Opel brand is in the US, but maybe Tramiel was extremely far-sighted to spot a car ten years in advance and on a different continent.

Possibly there was some other US car called Commodore that was not an Opel, and later Tramiel thought it was an Opel Commodore he had seen in 1955?

According to an interview I read, he came up with the name in a taxi in Berlin, where Opel is a domestic brand. The reasoning behind the "Commodore" brand name is that military grades were commonly used for typewriter company names.

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 1:48 pm

Yes, Berlin fits but not the year, if I have understood the Opel history correctly. Around 1954, Opel sold Kapitän, Olympia and Rekord. Maybe there was a pre-war Opel Admiral or Kadett that had survived in Berlin.

Opel model history: http://www.histomobile.com/histomob/int ... /somm1.htm

I wonder if it was not something like this Jack Tramiel once saw, but later misplaced in his mind as an Opel:

Hudson Commodore: http://www.chooseyouritem.com/classics/ ... 64230.html