As you may remember, we’re currently giving anyone who renews their membership at least one of these cool, limited edition Autopian pins (as well as a t-shirt and a thank you note!). If you’re Vinyl you get one pin, if you’re Velour you get two pins, and if you’re RCL you get all three pins.
Many of you renewed! More than we expected. It’s awesome. This also means that we’re starting to run a little low on pins, so I want to make sure we’re staying ahead of it this time.
In theory, this means that we should just order a few more of each of the designs we’ve already done. Or… we could get a new pin done, which is what I’m leaning towards. BTW, as a reminder, we currently have the Changli, an RV, and the Berkeley:
And here’s what they look like completed:
These are made by Leen Customs if you want to get an idea of all the cool work they do. What would you like to see as the next pin? The Jeep Wrangler? The Pao? An i3? A Phaeton? An E39? A Boxster? We have too many cars, we need your help.
I found a stash of old pins in my in-laws’ basement (vote Mondale, that period). None of them are car related but most are rusty, which feels Autopianish.
The PAO gets my vote. I would also like to see a rusty holy grail jeep. Maybe a smart car?
This! I got the Changli, but I’d love to get the Pao or a rusty Jeep next year!
Late 70s Era Malaise GM B-Body! Slow boat pins FTW!
I didn’t know I was supposed to get two?! No biggie, but my Berkeley is on my daughter’s backpack because she wanted the swag to show her PreK3 classmates.
Project Cactus would be sweet (or another project car that ties this community together).
Was the selection randomized, or was the Changli only for the richest of the rich Corinthian folk? I got the RV and Berkeley, both of them wonderful by the way.
Those are the two I received, as well. Maybe RCL is being changed from “Rich Corinthian Leather” to “Rich Changli Level.”
I think it was random. I got the Berkeley and the Changli.
It makes the most sense to be random. Be weird to make such a limited number of one pin. I mostly saw an opportunity to make a stupid joke about the meaning of RCL.
I enjoyed the joke, even if it was maybe a bit Dadish…
Same. I didn’t even know about the RV. When I renew next year, hopefully I’ll get that one. My Berkeley is collecting dust but I wear my Changli all the time.
Perhaps Adrian could draw up a non-retro hot hatch of some sort. The important bit would be either a generic human bent down into the engine compartment or wedged underneath and waving a wrench wildly
Additional votes here for a Smart car, a J10, and/or a Mondial (unless that would incur the wrath of Modena).
M. Congeniality: Pao
Not a car: the Autopian logo or a 10mm socket
Initially I was thinking Torch’s Beetle would be good, but that would be another yellow car in addition to the Berkeley.
Great, I haven’t even received it and I’ve already lost the damn thing.
Just some obscure tail light
The GREEP JEEP would be fun. The Mondial would be great. A Smart would be good, but it might be too similar to the Changli? The Cugnot Steam Drag would be a nice way to start conversations on automotive history. A Jeep Cherokee with a cat in the window would be a nice reference.
The Cugnot is my official nomination, since I think the rest have been mentioned. But I need you to save one for me for my next renewal, because it is exactly the car I would pin to my lapel.
Whatever it is, I’d like to see it have the Autopian logo on it. The Berkeley was a little bit of a disappointment because it didn’t have the logo (I also received the RV, so it wasn’t like I was completely sans logo). Maybe it’s just me, but I prefer them to be identifiably Autopian pins.
How about a changli with a canoo and chainsaw on the roof rack getting head-butted by a deer? 🙂
Skip the pin. Make a kei car-themed key chain . . . An Autopian kei chain. I’d sign up for that.
Pao chain
but, damnit, key chains are going away. Still, this group will have traditional keys for a long time, so this is a great idea
Key chain, for sure!
An Autopian logo’d 10mm socket key chain. I’d buy one.
Then another.
Then another.
Shower spaghetti
Trying to visualize that. All I come up with is a disembodied hand holding the plate with another hand twirling a fork full, then the shower head above at an angle connected by the streaming water.
this is why I’m not a graphic designer
Perhaps the spaghetti itself is being extruded from the shower head into a colander.
For the sake of simplicity.
Disembodied hands are already an overused trope of graphic design.
Honestly I’d rather y’all save the money and instead put it towards collaborations with tool companies either for discounts on tools, unique variants of tools, and or custom made tools that members can order before non-members and or discount codes.
I got plenty of things that don’t do anything, I don’t need any more of them
Well, since Torch got one of the Changli in there already, I love the idea of Tracy’s ZJ with kittens. Maybe Mercedes’ Smart Car? Perhaps Adrian’s Mondial. Potentially the Project Cactus Ute?
Oooh, Project Cactus would be a good one.
3rd the Cactus
Yugo GV
I see once again Evil Matt neglected to mention my suggestion, which would be fit to grace the lapel or scarf of anyone of taste and distinction who happens to renew: a 1983 Mondial QV
I agree with Adrian. It should be a Mondial.
Mondial would look cool in profile as a pin, I could go for that. With a black mohawk sticking out of the sunroof perhaps?
Apple polisher!
😉
Came here to request the Mondial.
Eccellente signore….
Matt also neglected to mention any of my 15, er 17…20 or so vehicles. HOW DARE
Quality over quantity.
I’d wear a hazelnut coffee mate container pin unironically.
Deep cut for the secret membership levels. Like Amex Centurion, only shit.
Pao facing a deer
Pao with deer head mounted on hood?
At this point it’d be a deer with a necklace made of Pao badges
Ha!
Cherokee full of cats
I second the idea of some Jeep product with a kitten inside. Maybe the Holy Grail ZJ, maybe the Golden Eagle, maybe the Wrangler.
Kitten driving the ZJ. Maybe the kitten is wearing a cowboy hat?
Cherokats
Cherokitty
XJ with kittens
ZJ of course
The Pao would certainly make for the most charming pin. Perhaps also the Phaeton billowing smoke?
I got the RV and I prefer to believe it is an Ultravan.
I would also love to have a ChangLi or Berkeley. Are those actual size?
As for new ones, I vote for a Citroen, any Citroen.
How about Mark’s Forest Service Truck?
Also a good choice and an excellent color
Maybe something commenter, rather than author, idiosyncratic this time?
I hate to say it (b/c ugh from my pov), but how about some sort of vintage brown station wagon?
1983 FERRARI MONDIAL
rosso corsa please
Clearly the correct answer.
Naso marrone.
It’s not what you think but I can see why you’d think it!
A toilet with the saying “ode to the morning dump”
I like this one.