The Best of OPPO, Hyphen Edition

[davesaddiction]

Continuing the great work of @DasWauto , and the work several of us carried on under his banner at OppoBlog on Kinja, sifting through the fire hose of OPPO posts to find diamonds among the shitposts, here is the first in what I hope will be a long series of compilations at our new home:

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The Best of OPPO, Hyphen Ed.

(1st edition - November 18th, 2020)

I suppose something as stubborn and indestructible as Oppo demands respect. Cantankerous Oppo, offered an honorable, merciful death on a platform that has gone to absolute shit since I left but decides instead to take the dying hoopty to an abandoned parking lot to do 20mph loops until the wheels fall off. - Ernie

OPPO mods: Eat Shit Oppo

Jordan: This isn't my goodbye post, it's a thank you. (Kinja crosspost)

mtdrift: The Lost Porsche - Part 3

Mark Tucker: Dad's Fiat

sony1492's Potentia (Locost) Build Thread and he went to Arizona

Old Busted Hotness' guide to light restoration

doodon2whls visited the Swiss Air Force Museum

Ranger Smith's Big Cat Rescue

SilentbutnotreallyDeadly: The Art of Breaking Down in your own Driveway

WhoIsTheLeader's town's absurb taxi fleet

CarsOfFortLangley: What Video Game Car Defined Your Youth?

RacinBob's SAAB 99 Ice Racer back in 2000

sn4cktimes' goings on in his garage

Wrong Wheel Drive's Miata workshop

ItalianJob53's C5 Corvette Review (repost)

RallyDarkstrike: The FIAT 500, Italy's Cheerful Jelly Bean (repost)

Just Jeepin's Why Jeeps Matter (repost)

ttyymmnn found airplane stuff on the internet and documented TDiAH

Skyfire's Flightline: 75 (more on his profile)

Urambo Tauro's favorite JRiTS posts

jminer's got stats!

RallyDarkstrike made a userguide and shared the OppoMap

and your humble correspondent, davesaddiction compiled a Kinja post leaderboard

For any of you who have been featured here, thank you for making OPPO awesome. Please feel free to add this image below to your post, with a link back here, if you'd like. My hope is that this small token of recognition from our community will encourage others to put in the time for long-form articles or high-quality photography, or to start great conversations or take more trips and share them here, and maybe, possibly, to get a few more aspiring writers and photogs their start on a career in automotive journalism, like several OPPO alums have done in the past decade.

If I missed your article/photos in this edition, I apologize (thumbnails and good titles help a lot) - please feel free to send me a private message with the link, and if it "passes muster", I'll add it to the next edition.

Stay excellent,
Dave

[ClassicDatsunDebate]

Solid start for the hyphen. #blessed

[sn4cktimes]

I like this idea.

I feel @Skyfire77, @ttyymmnn and @Just-Jeepin are gonna be on this list a lot, and rightly so!

[WhoIsTheLeader]

Thanks for doing this! I know it isn't easy to sort through the mountains of sheepposts to find the good ones (to offense to our farmer friends). I've found the amount of community engagement to be perhaps better than it ever has been before so there is a lot of motivation for making good posts.

[jminer]

@davesaddiction Thanks for putting this together!

[DasWauto]

@davesaddiction Tidy, I like it.

[CarsOfFortLangley]

@davesaddiction thanks as always! Glad you are here and a part of our community!

[Skyfire77]

Thank you!

[Exage03040]

We should do our own #COTD

Edit: We could also make it Comments of The Day so it's a poll, and people vote for the best one.

[Chariotoflove]

Good stuff. Very good indeed.

[Mark Tucker]

Woohoo! Thank you!

[SilentbutnotreallyDeadly]

@davesaddiction holy cow...this has only been going a week or two and there's tonnes of stuff I've clearly missed already!!

Thanks for the recognition too.

[HammerheadFistpunch]

@exage03040 Im not going to discourage you from trying, but I and others have tried. It sucks.

[ttyymmnn]

@sn4cktimes said in The Best of OPPO, Hyphen Edition:

I like this idea.

I feel @Skyfire77, @ttyymmnn and @Just-Jeepin are gonna be on this list a lot, and rightly so!

Aw, shucks....

[doodon2whls]

@davesaddiction Excellent work ! Thank you for the recognition ! I have been on COVID quarantine, so I had a little time to play... I hope to contribute more than I have over the past 5 years...

[Dr. Zoidberg]

Nothing I did made the list. This is proof that things are running like the old days

[A Former User]

@classicdatsundebate Still we rise

[RallyDarkstrike]

Thanks for doing this @davesaddiction ! Just added the 'Best of Oppo' image and a link to this thread to that FIAT post.

I'd reposted that FIAT 500 post on DriveTribe as well, and John over there just messaged me to tell me they have it scheduled to be on the Global page on the 22nd, so that's pretty cool!

[RallyDarkstrike]

@dr-zoidberg said in The Best of OPPO, Hyphen Edition:

Nothing I did made the list. This is proof that things are running like the old days

As weird as it sounds, you've had the Longboi for forever...would love to hear a writeup on your history with it!

[davesaddiction]

@rallydarkstrike

Cool! Add the image and link to your DT post as well!

[davesaddiction]

@daswauto Thanks! Means a lot coming from you.

[davesaddiction]

@carsoffortlangley Thanks for the kind words!

[Dr. Zoidberg]

@rallydarkstrike Someday, it is definitely my favorite.

[Jordan]

Yay, I made it!

[Wrong Wheel Drive]

I see there is a suggestion to add the best of oppo Pic to our articles but there is a one hour edit limit error. Is there a way around this?