Do any of the long term members of Moparts know what happened to Mopar Jamie? I know he caught a lot of flak from members here. Just wondering if anyone has kept in contact with him, and how has he been doing? It was sure entertaining while he was on the board.

Was he from Southern CA ?

No. Midwest, Missouri area I believe.

Jamie's last Moparts thread post link:

https://board.moparts.org/ubbthread.../re-318-block-stampings.html#Post2553352


https://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/users/34/mopar-jamie.html



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Yea I remember Jamie. Kind of miss his posts. Hope he’s okay and doin well.

I found him on youtube, and he's still at it...looks like he is making good with his '78 Fury.

Agreed, he was really fun, people gave him crap almost constantly and he took it all in stride.

jamies440@yahoo.com

https://www.facebook.com/ksfreebird...mp;show_follower_visibility_disclosure=0

https://myspace.com/moparjamie

Tire explosion and body damage at 1:35

Thanks Rich! Jamie has got to be close to mid 30's-40 years old now? He was just a teenager 20 years ago. Looks like he's doing the same stuff now, as he was then. LOL. I subscribed to his channel. Should be good for some laughs.

His job must not offer dental insurance.

Are you employed as an 'Internet Bully' or do you do it by choice?

Could be making up for "short"comings elsewhere.

Seems hes having much more fun then some of the ill, negative types here. Gotta love the haters for there shortcomings.

LOL

Just an FYI, that # must be from when of the "new versions" was launched as moparts was around long before 2003 Like 1996 or so ?

Shortcomings....Tough crowd!

At least nobody can ever accuse him of lying through his teeth. Lying through his tooth maybe, but never teeth.

I just remember that dude being a complete train wreck. We all know the type. Asks for advice; receives "Advice-A". Completely ignores it and does "Something Stupid-B". Then asks "What went wrong?" I have no amount of tolerance for those types.

He was entertaining. "On another episode of: As the Flat tire turns."

I do hope he's doing well, and happy though.

I think he got a taste of sex and after that he dumped Moparts.

LOL!!!

I remember him posting and people giving him crap, seemed like i recall he had alot of projects and wasn't sure what direction he was going at the time.

I remember him going in all the directions

Wow, he doesn`t even post here anymore and he still stirs up the crowd. LOL

I admit I was of the same mind and was infuriated more than once.

Later on I asked myself "What if his goal was to be a trainwreck?"

If that is his goal, then maybe things worked out, and it doesn't matter if I can relate to it.

After that... he became more entertaining and I liked his posts more, and would sometimes encourage him to take even more shortcuts.

Jamie never made fun of me, or called me names or hurt my feelings and I can't recall where he did those things to anyone else here on Moparts. I took him as just another person and happy to be a Moparts member that ask those "there are no stupid questions" and enjoyed the MOPAR hobby as he saw it. I started to think or feel he may have some disability issues like maybe Asperger's or autism spectrum if so why would anyone make fun of someone. He seemed like a young enthusiastic Mopar lover and I'll leave it at that. If you don't have something good to say about someone than....................................................

Mike

If someone posted a picture of me and I was missing some teeth, I'd expect to be teased about it.
Quit being a bunch of triggered wimps.

Maybe missing some teeth is what you need to straighten out your attitude.

Yeah...threats from an anonymous internet tough guy.... I'm not afraid.

I seem to recall when he disappeared he was having woman problems. That'll do it to anybody.

LOL!

It was a colorful time on Moparts back then. He has a love of Mopars, and found quite a few of them. They just happened to be the ones 99.9% of most people, didn't care for.

It's common practice to date your cousins in that area. Maybe that was part of the problem.

Always enjoyed that guy .Back when Moparts was fun and not just a bunch of angry old cranks.

There have always been the curmudgeons on these forums but there also were fun and entertaining members in equal amounts to drown them out. Too many guys don't know how to have fun anymore. Being sarcastic and silly is somehow out of bounds for these people. They can go ahead and be angry and sad all the time. I laugh and smile frequently and am much happier for it. There is a direct correlation between a happy soul and good health. I'd bet that the biggest critics here have multiple health issues. It seems for some, as the color fades from the hair, the humor goes with it.
I don't get offended by most things. That is why I am happier than most people.

I don't get on here much, but being a member circa 2000-ish, I am busting up reading this post and it's good to see some old, familiar feces... er faces. I saw "Mopar Jamie" and had to give it a click. No disappointments. People's memories fade. People were just as offended then as they have been in this post. Or do we need a post entitled, "Who from 2000 is no longer here and why."

I think this site would still be rocking it if there was a mobile version AKA FBBO, FABO etc. No slight to Tom, but the computer is in our pocket now. Has been for a decade.

It's hard to discern the difference between sarcasm and banter vs someone who is a genuine [censored] in this medium. The guys that got me into this hobby are into their 70s now - none of their humor has been lost and still roll with the punches.

Tough crowd!
Reminds me why I never post pictures of myself. I have a missing front tooth as well. It got broke off back when I was about 8 years old. The biggest problem was, about 6 months before that one got broken off, I broke the other front tooth off as well. The 1st tooth mom & dad got fixed properly, and it was expensive even way back then. They were still making payments on that one when I broke off the 2nd tooth. The 2nd tooth wasn't properly fixed, I'm sure money was involved, but the fix the dentist did lasted until I was in my early 20s before it failed. By then I was the person on he hook to pay. Money for my family was pretty tight then, so we opted for another less then perfect fix. By the time that one failed, the tooth was starting to self destruct. The "proper fix" then involved the teeth on both sides of the self destructing tooth. My dentist at the time insisted that the other front tooth needed to have a route cannel (which was done when it was fixed the 1st time, and then done again about 5 years before that appointment by my dentist, when the original stud pulled out and had to be replaced). He kept telling me that tooth was a natural tooth! His estimated bill was over $20 K, and that was after the estimated insurance payment. No thanks.

At 65 YO, replacing that pretty much missing tooth isn't a very high priority.

He was the one guy who made everyone else feel as though they had nothing to complain about. Hope he is doing well.

That is the most polished and diplomatic way of stating that he was SO messed up, everyone else looked like geniuses by comparison.

Some of those my now be worth some $$ so who may have been the smartest of all ? One thing I have always had a low tolerance for is bullying, and i feel some here did exactly that to him

Sad but true. Some would probably like to take another shot at him.

Having fun and enjoying yourself is one thing but when it is at someone else's expense then it is not so cool. Obviously if he enjoyed being here then most likely he would still be posting.

That is the most polished and diplomatic way of stating that he was SO messed up, everyone else looked like geniuses by comparison. [/quot

Well damn, as far as I know he didn't die, just lost a couple teeth.

Why are you so down on him?

In the good old days, when he much younger, he came here asking for ideas/opinions, he didn't (doesn't) have to do things my way (or yours).

Now that he is older he has gone his own way, whatever direction that is, still playing with mopars, but apparently had enough of Moparts.

Sometimes I think maybe he is right, in the meantime I linger here.

I thought about it some more and remember I was daily driving most of the same type of "normally thought of as non-enthusiast class" vehicle (for instance 84 5th avenue, 72 Polara, 78 Fury Wagon, etc) during that timeframe in the '90s....but our plans for the vehicles were different.

I got the Polara, put new exhaust on it, pulled the gas tank and soldered a pinhole in the float so the fuel sender would work, pulled axle shafts to grease the dry wheel bearings, got rid of the plastic timing gear at 75,000 miles before it failed, advanced the cam a few degrees for more grunt, etc...then drove it everywhere. In fact I still have it.....

Jamie was not super concerned with stuff like whether the gas gauge worked or if the wheel bearings were dry. He was much more into running them as hard as possible until major issues surfaced, doing burnouts until the tires blew and tore the quarter panels up as seen in the embedded video, and stuff like that.

I always saw his activities as almost a "demo derby minus three".
Once I thought I understood where he was coming from, one time I tried to convince him to poke the exhaust through the hood on one old thread, but
he wasn't having it (too much work, I guess).

I also vaguely remember him saying either he, or his GF, got a job at an Amazon.

No ill will here, people are just people.

Some people aren't going to be happy until everyone else is just as miserable as they are.

Same ones would complain if you hung them with a new rope


Life is simple.
Just because someone likes something you don't . It doesnt mean you have to. If we all liked the same thing.
The world would be boring as he77.

I love stories of redneck engineering. I have a buddy that lived in a tee pee for almost 3 years while building his house.

I'd have thought the exact same thing but there's one major problem with that line of thinking: Dude was just NOT that clever. But if that were the truth, then he should sue Larry the Cable Guy. Larry done stole his act!

It had nothing to do with the fact that he was into "alternate" Chrysler vehicles. Most of us here appreciate pretty much everything Mother Mopar made.
It wasn't the fact that Jamie was malicious. Quite the opposite. He had a heart of gold like most simple, country-folk do.

I too believe he has some sort of learning disability, comprehension issue or perhaps that all-important missing chromosome. He was (and may still be) his own worst enemy.

If a fella had the wherewithal to come on here, fill out the forms to join and ASK QUESTIONS for advice.... you would think that at least ONCE.... that person would actually TAKE that advice.

But no. No sir. Time and time again it was "Hey guys, I didn't put wheel bearing grease in my wheel bearings because I couldn't afford any and had to get to the Piggly Wiggly before it closed so I could get a gallon of YooHoo for the missus. Now the front wheel bearings are powder. What should I do?

Several people would reply with good advice on how to replace bearings, how to pack them, what grease to use; step-by-step instructions....

Two days later: "Hey guys, I've been driving on dry wheel bearings for three days now and the noise is getting intense. I'm going to keep driving though. I think I'm through the worst of it!"


I began ignoring his posts. It was a waste of time to try and point the kid down the right path. He'd never take your advice. He'd never consider logic, or reason or the fact that he's asking a place with a collective knowledge of several thousand years. Like.... why would WE bother anymore? Literally beating a dead horse.

But people like him survive by praying on the heart strings of those "bleeding heart" types....

Thank you, AMC.

I think you are probably right, or at least I can see it that way as well.

It doesn't seem worth the real estate in my mind anymore, and those entertained by his antics can see him on youtube.

He thought up projects and then did them. All details aside, that was admirable.

^^^ Funniest crap I've read on this site in a LONG time. Thanks for the laugh AMC!!! Haha!!! "pigglywiggly for yoohoo for the missus." Haha!!!

Jamie was the younger generation of Red Green.

What’s next? Mark Nixon…. Dead or alive?

Mark is doing just fine....those two guys just did not have the right "look" for most people on moparts. One thing I noticed was both sold parts, and sold them cheap, real cheap, and then got trashed because the part did not have a lifetime warranty. Mark sold a ton of my stuff, never a bad deal with him, and I still offer a lifetime warranty on anything that came from me.

Remember Oz Hemi? That guy used to post a LOT.

Who?


https://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showmembers.html

He hasn't posted here is over 5 years.

I guess because the other guys he used to jaw jack back and forth about meaningless stuff don't post anymore either. Another guy that comes to mind that would rag on guys like Jamie was Billy B Bad or Bad Billy? Guy had a silver Super Bee, nice car but he'd always rag on anybody who discussed C bodies or trucks. Seemed like he had issues as eventually he started airing his own personal dirty laundry here and didn't post much after that either.

My experience was the opposite of yours.

I kinda miss guys like Oz Hemi, and the dude from Venezuela .... was that the real Diego? Can't remember....

Always liked hearing stuff from another perspective. The Mopars from Oz are incredible cars and I loved Diego's enthusiasm for the old American Iron. Crazy to think our old junk is now on another continent being loved-on harder than if it were at home.

Perhaps DiegoTed was who you were thinking of out of Chula Vista CA. He had the red Duster and later the 40something coupe La’ Pautita (?). He posted a long time ago about getting the cars back out, but never heard a thing after that. He’d run at Barona Dragway.

Are you talking about the guy from Peru that made the Mopar scoops, pistol grip handles, and torque boxes? Used to be Scott Smith's partner in Mopar parts? He is on Facebook nowadays...

I hope Jamie and some of the others mentioned do see this posting so they know that not everyone looked down on them. We are not all alike but should be treated with respect

You seem to have me confused with Domingo.

While he receives kudos here for his appreciation for old iron, I tend to receive consternation.

Does DOC have any information where he is ?

An arrogant attitude will draw that type of response. Try being a bit humble sometimes.

Who was that guy that would post charts and constantly jaw jack about global warming? Iron Yuppie?

Jamie could write and spell better than several of the regulars who piled on him constantly. Sometimes I wondered if he was playing a dufus on here just to get some all worked up...

Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to Frankenduster, otherwise known as Angry Internet Man.

Just an observation but this is neither funny, true or even clever.

Never claimed it was funny or clever.

But it's spot-on.

And you quoted it for double the visibility, so thank you.

That's the guy! Domingo!! Thank you for stirring my memory.

Yes i remember Jamie. He was interesting. Remember rocco? Guy always poking the bear.

Going w-a-y back......anyone remember this guy?

OH yeah, I loved his command of the english language and responses

As long as were are remembering folks, our resident mad scientist Hemi Greg comes to mind...

It isn't that hard to understand.

That's because you always come across as a self righteous know it all pr*ck who thinks his opinion is the only correct one.

Does that explain it simply enough for you?

^^^^ Another guy who's insecure about his own opinions.

Who knew there were so many snowflakes here?

Seems that you are not scoring any points here or with women.
I suggest "fresh tactics".

I'll be sure to ask my wife for some.

Or maybe yours can give me a few?

Sarcasm is great but when mixed with pure arrogance, it annoys far more than it entertains.
Chew on that for a moment.

So not married?

Not surprised.

This is some great discussion for a car related forum.

You two want to knock it off??????

It's always a pleasure to get others to display their idiocy for us to see.

There really can't be any irony that it happened in this thread, one dedicated to a bumpkin who didn't give a @#$ how others treated him. Some of his posts were cringe at times, but he always stood tall when others tried to tear him down. He's got my respect.

oh he's not insecure, quite the opposite IMO
Snowflake

Well, I sure didn't want this thread to turn into a sh!tshow, but some members decided that is what it should be. So much for finding out if someone is doing well. Ted, just lock the thread...