I've enjoyed his posts and his encyclopedic knowledge. Has he moved to China to make billions on used Kias? Is he the automotive board equivalent of Keyser Soze or Vito Corleone? Does he write for TTAC or Jalopnik? If not, why not?

Can I move overseas and get him to do "Top Gear: China" with me? I can be the James May-type that doesn't really know cars and can't drive very well, but gets to hang out with cool cars, cool stuff, and cool guys and get paid vast sums of money for doing so.

Serious and non-serious replies only.

He's Asian, that answers most questions

Yet, he's American so that's why he loves his Ferds


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I'm not saying he's Batman. I'm just saying you've never seen 1Ags and Batman in the same place at the same time.

GTKYN: Auto Board Edition

he's also owned more cars than the whole board combined i think

Some say that his breath smells of magnesium, and that he’s scared of bells. All we know is he’s called 1ags

I've never met him but I like to think of him as the God of autos. Its like he is the leader of the mensa group of autos if there was one. He could have very well invited the automobile.

Any guy who can accurately diagnose a problem through a computer screen by someone attempting to give an accurate description of a sound, or other problem that half the time is a horrible description is a god in my book.. I'm just saying, 1ags is one of the greatest people to ever type on texags and shouldn't be doubted.

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I like to think of 1ags like with giant eagles wings, and singin' lead vocals for Lynyrd Skynyrd with like an angel band and I'm in the front row and I'm hammered drunk!

He's a ten-foot tall beast man, who showers in vodka, and feeds his baby shrimp scampi.

To 1AGS!

1. He's an Ag and, therefore, the motherfriggin' bomb.

2. He's a Texan, see #1.


3. He's owned and/or fixed every car known to man and some that are actually known to women. Why they have cars in the kitchen is beyond me.

4. 'Mericuh.

+1 to the GTKYN Auto board edition.

He's our Chuck Norris.

I like to think of 1ags in a Tuxedo T-Shirt, he's formal, but he's also here to party.

I do not get his blatant Ford fanboy-ism.

But he is nearly all-knowing on most things service related. Most impressive.

He's like the maintenance version of Top Gear's The Stig.

He da man!

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He maintained a Ford commercial fleet when he ran his own shop.

I can forgive him for that and buy non-Ford vehicles.

But he DOES have a superfragalistexpcalidous hookup at the Ford House.
Got me in my first Ford in 30 years!!

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I don't understand how maintaining a fleet of Ford Escapes for an insurance company could make someone a Ford fanboy. I think 1Ags has been a Ford guy for a long time.

1ag's is a vehicle fanboy, just so happens he mainly drives Ferds.

silverado_lover, he must be going through withdrawal right now because he has nary a Ferd in his stable right now!!

I almost spilled my coffee all over my desk reading these.

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◾Some say that he once killed a giraffe with just his feet and that he has a black belt in paper maché...all we know is he's called 1Ags!

◾Some say he is 5 foot tall with lead in his feet, others say 6 feet with tall with air in his head....but he doesn't care what you say. You'll only know him as...1Ags!

◾Some say He's contracted every STD known to man, and that he has inflatable breasts to get him out of speeding tickets. All we know.. is he's called 1Ags!

◾Some say, that he is one of the protons in the Large Hadron Collider, AND that he creates miniature black holes every time he sneezes. All we know.. is he's called 1Ags!

He has never had an acceptable answer for me.

Wow...a lot happens when you sleep!

Haha!1

I'm flattered guys, but I'm just a general car dork.

Thanks for the compliments and non compliments. LOL.

I'm really humbled by everything, but I'm glad to help and add more useless knowledge and time wasting hours to everyones day. Being 8000 miles away, Texags is sometimes my lifeline of sanity.

As far as being a Ford fanboy, I guess I grew up with them. My dad always drove large sedans as a kid, as he was in sales in the oil & gas industry. My earliest memory of cars was my dads Oldsmobile 98 Regency, blue on blue with "Ultra Seal" coating, wire hubcaps and rear wheel skirts. Actually my favorite car brand used to be Oldsmobile as a kid. Then in the 80s when they all went badge engineered FWD, that kind of killed it for me. Later he moved on to Ford LTD Crown Vics and thats where I started to like Fords.

I've always liked MOST of Fords products. Looking back, growing up, they had some cutting edge stuff, but the problem that they had (and still have in some cases) is that they develop something really great, invest nearly nothing into it for 10 or more years, and then let it turn into a rental fleet queen, then die on the vine and replace it with something 'better' and then repeat the cycle. This can be said with a lot of their bread and butter products. Their high profit trucks and SUVs did not get this mostly. Heavy refresh cycles, new products and innovation, but they let the cars fester.

Look at the Ford Tempo. In 1984 it was the predecessor for the jellybean shape of future cars. It had fuel injection available, a diesel option, good MPG. Fast forward 10 years later. Same body shape, some new headlights, no standard airbag, a 3 speed automatic transmission, and automatic seatbelts. Replaced by a Americanized Mondeo (Contour) that was an afterthought because Ford needed a car in this class. The first generation Fusion that replaced it was a good effort, and the second and current generations are pretty damn nice. Finally.

Ford Taurus, the car that replaced the Midsized LTD. Aerodynamic, cutting edge, and ran on the same overall platform from 1986-2007. Same Vulcan V6, same transmission, and same overall suspension. They did a good job in 92 with the refresh, and failed in 96 with the Frog/Oval theme. 2000s refresh was better but by that time it was a rental/fleet car. Not exciting, not fast, but reasonably reliable and safe. Again, by this time, Toyota and Hondas products had evolved, and Fords stuff was stagnant. In 2005, the Five Hundred was introduced, as a half hearted attempt at a replacement for the Taurus and Crown Victoria. While a nice car, was just not competitive in the class. Again, Ford does a half-assed refresh in 2008, renames it the Taurus, and then again, Fleet queen. 2010 comes around and theres an all new car. Much different, much better, and I liked what they did with the product. Ford still has some things they need to fix, but I like how they realized this and improved it. Look at GM's W Body Lumina/Impala....

Same goes with the ranger. But I can sit here and write all day about this crap, but I guess my 'like' with Ford products is because its what I grew up with, and Im familiar with maintaining them, and I like their new products and innovation.

Sorry about the long post.

Whats GTKYN?

Thanks and gigem guys!
1ags

Get to know your neighbors=GTKYN

He's like a young Vince Carter. Half man, half amazing.

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Interesting. I used to drive a 1998 Contour, and I really liked and kept it until 2004. Perhaps I have a soft spot in my heart for the Contour because it was my first new car / first post-college kid car.

Some say he's going to overthrow communism with only a spark plug removal tool...and that he made a fortune stateside selling Chinese motor oil simply by renaming it "Sriracha".

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I liked them too. Had a 2000 SVT model.

The cars in the class at the time were the Malibu, Stratus,Nissan Altima, Alero, GrandAm
626, and some what the camry and accord.

Ford was sufficient but not cutting edge at the time.

when i first got started in the car business (2000), we used to joke that ford came up with the contour by telling their engineers, "we need something bigger than an escort and smaller than a taurus. you have 10 minutes to design it... go!"

example of a gtkyn:
http://texags.com/main/forum.reply.asp?topic_id=1877664&forum_id=38