Tattoo

Marquis 351 · 25-08-2010, 07:31 PM

Hey guys. Oh if this in the wrong place please feel free to move it.
Ok I was wondering has any body donated apart of their body to their passion [fords]? I'm goin in on sunday to start my sleave, consisting ot the internals of a clevo V8 and verious other ford related items and logos. I'm doin this because it means somthing to me, and I'm in the automotive trade. And when my Grandkids say 'Grandad' 'Whats that on ur arm?' I can say "Well, Way before you kids were born that is how real cars were were built. And have a story for them on how things used to be. As maybe by then ther will be no such thing as an internal combustion engine [never mind a V8] or even such thing as petrol to run them!!!!!
So if anybody has any pic's or storys feel free to share.

BOSHOG · 25-08-2010, 07:45 PM

once completed.............pics or ban

Marquis 351 · 25-08-2010, 07:50 PM

Wel i will do an on goin progerss. As I'm booked in on sunday then the saturday after. then money permitting after that. but it will be a top half sleave to start with. I really cant wait to get it started. I'm keen to hear of anybody doin the same tho!

**Falcon Coupe** · 25-08-2010, 08:33 PM

http://fordforums.com.au/showthread.php?t=42077

Mr Hardware · 25-08-2010, 09:21 PM

I can't think of any image, symbol, word or saying i like enough to have permanently imprinted on my skin

scollis · 25-08-2010, 09:33 PM

as much as i loooove fords there is only one thing i am passionate about enough to tattoo it on my skin, thats my footy team, being the first person in my family born outside of liverpool,uk, i was brought up following LFC therefore i only have one tat on my right calf i have the "european bird" a wild liverbird holding a liverpool fc scarf in one claw and a champions league ball in the other

xr6turbo2005 · 25-08-2010, 09:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Mr Hardware

I can't think of any image, symbol, word or saying i like enough to have permanently imprinted on my skin

I'm the same. thought about the Ford / FPV logo's, maybe a leprechaun given irish heritage or even Elmo, but just cant decide.

guess that means I dont really want one !!!!

AussieAV · 25-08-2010, 11:28 PM

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Originally Posted by scollis

as much as i loooove fords there is only one thing i am passionate about enough to tattoo it on my skin, thats my footy team, being the first person in my family born outside of liverpool,uk, i was brought up following LFC therefore i only have one tat on my right calf i have the "european bird" a wild liverbird holding a liverpool fc scarf in one claw and a champions league ball in the other

So I'm guessing long socks for this week considering the result against Man City

grandpa_spec_F6 · 26-08-2010, 12:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Mr Hardware

I can't think of any image, symbol, word or saying i like enough to have permanently imprinted on my skin

When I read that, the first words that came to my head in regards to you were "Ya Mum!" and "Let me put it to you this way....."

I will do my best... no no... make certain that is made into a sticker for your AU

While I love cars in general, there is only one thing I really want tattooed onto my body, and that would be my kids names (when I get round to having some)

Tattoo's to me are like people who look at black cars and say "Love to see them and let other people own them, would never get one myself"

fiery · 26-08-2010, 01:12 AM

I have the Tickford logo, XR logo and Ford logo tattooed on my left arm.. intend on finishing it off with something, just not sure what. Now I have an FPV as well I think something along those lines but maybe not.
I got the tatt because of what the XR meant to me (and still does).
Never have regretted getting it either, it is personal and only people I want to let see it, see it

**Bundy** · 26-08-2010, 06:29 AM

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Originally Posted by grandpa_spec_au

Tattoo's to me are like people who look at black cars and say "Love to see them and let other people own them, would never get one myself"

I've seriously got to get my butt in gear, been a cleanskin for far too long

TLC24 · 26-08-2010, 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by bundy

I've seriously got to get my butt in gear, been a cleanskin for far too long

Tatt2 probably has enough for both of you!!!!!

mytgxl · 26-08-2010, 03:03 PM

Well do what melts ya butter!

I have the ford oval wraped in barbed wire, on my arm!
I`ll never change my mind on what I drive! blue oval all the way buddy!

Iggypoppin' · 26-08-2010, 04:52 PM

Word of warning...my first tattoo was when I was 18, it's on my neck, a toxic waste symbol. Very much regret it now!
I must stress people, MAKE SURE you know what you want..
MAKE SURE
MAKE SURE
MAKE SURE
in case you didn't get it...
MAKE SURE
my tattoo looks stupid and embaresses me. My next one will most certainly be different in that it will mean something and not just be a spur of the moment choice.
My next is planned, a falcon with a cobra wrapped around it's talons. The animals not the cars!! But With obvious influence to the cars.

Marquis 351 · 26-08-2010, 07:14 PM

Tattoos are something you gotta think long and hard over. Didnt get my 1st tattoo untill i was 30. when my 1st born was born, and its an Irish Cross with my boys name and D.O.B just at the very top of my back/lower neck. So everything I want to get has to have a meaning to myself.

HLC · 26-08-2010, 09:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Iggypoppin'

Word of warning...my first tattoo was when I was 18, it's on my neck, a toxic waste symbol. Very much regret it now!
I must stress people, MAKE SURE you know what you want..
MAKE SURE
MAKE SURE
MAKE SURE
in case you didn't get it...
MAKE SURE
my tattoo looks stupid and embaresses me. My next one will most certainly be different in that it will mean something and not just be a spur of the moment choice.
My next is planned, a falcon with a cobra wrapped around it's talons. The animals not the cars!! But With obvious influence to the cars.

Post a pic. Please.

I got a star tattooed on each of my shoulders one morning after a MASSIVE night out in the city lol we stayed there I told my mates I was gonna get a tattoo and off I went. Pretty sure I was still off chops hahah I regretted it for a few weeks but now I love em and can't wait to get more. I do want the phrase "Arbeit macht frei" across my chest eventually!

KR1STO · 26-08-2010, 09:46 PM

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Originally Posted by HLC

I do want the phrase "Arbeit macht frei" across my chest eventually!

Isn't that at Auschwitz...?
"work will set you free".....????( i think)

What's the connection there....?

HLC · 26-08-2010, 10:49 PM

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Originally Posted by KR1STO

Isn't that at Auschwitz...?
"work will set you free".....????( i think)

What's the connection there....?

Yes that was a phrase that was put up at several camps in WW2. But the phrase was around a long time before the nazi's used it. Much like the actual swastika itself. A symbol that had been around a long time before the nazi's gave it the evil stigma that it has.

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The expression comes from the title of an 1873 novel by German philologist Lorenz Diefenbach, in which gamblers and fraudsters find the path to virtue through labour.[2][4] The phrase was also used, in French ["le travail rend libre!"] by Auguste Forel a Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist and psychiatrist, in the 1920, 2nd Edition, of his "Fourmis de la Suisse".[5] In 1922, the Deutsche Schulverein of Vienna, an ethnic nationalist "protective" organization of Germans within the Austrian empire, printed membership stamps with the phrase Arbeit macht frei. The phrase was adopted in 1928 by the Weimar government as a slogan extolling the effects of their desired policy of large-scale public works programmes to end unemployment. It was continued in this usage by the NSDAP (Nazi Party) when it came to power in 1933.

Anyway, I'm of German background, and I'm of the strong belief of being self made. Working hard can open up many doors and opportunities and set you free. I work my backside off to do the best I can, and I've just moved from Sydney to Perth leaving behind my family, my friends ad my girlfriend of 2 years to work, to open doors in the hope that one day it will set me free as well.

Not that I shoul have to justify my personal choices to anyone but that's my $0.02

KR1STO · 26-08-2010, 10:51 PM

That's an interesting fact..
Good to see some thought is going into it...
Well done mate...

Cheers

Marquis 351 · 26-08-2010, 11:03 PM

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Originally Posted by HLC

Yes that was a phrase that was put up at several camps in WW2. But the phrase was around a long time before the nazi's used it. Much like the actual swastika itself. A symbol that had been around a long time before the nazi's gave it the evil stigma that it has.

Anyway, I'm of German background, and I'm of the strong belief of being self made. Working hard can open up many doors and opportunities and set you free. I work my backside off to do the best I can, and I've just moved from Sydney to Perth leaving behind my family, my friends ad my girlfriend of 2 years to work, to open doors in the hope that one day it will set me free as well.

Not that I shoul have to justify my personal choices to anyone but that's my $0.02

Yes well done mate I'm Irish and my Granny was German which makes me 1/4 German, I left my country 5 years ago leaving all my family and friends 14thousand km's away to make Australia my home! I have found so many new love's, my partner , our new son, and of course aussie fords!!! Lol.

HLC · 27-08-2010, 03:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Marquis 351

Yes well done mate I'm Irish and my Granny was German which makes me 1/4 German, I left my country 5 years ago leaving all my family and friends 14thousand km's away to make Australia my home! I have found so many new love's, my partner , our new son, and of course aussie fords!!! Lol.

Mate well done to you. Sydney to Perth doesn't seem so far now!!

scollis · 27-08-2010, 10:55 PM

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Originally Posted by AussieAV

So I'm guessing long socks for this week considering the result against Man City

nah long pants work better

its all good we already have history and under roy hogson we will make more history not buy it like man city, ya cant spend the money man city have and not be successful, if mancini dont win the league or go close this year i guarantee he will b out the door, end of the day....

weve won it five times
weve won it five tiiiiiiiiimes
in istanbul
we won it five times

AUIIPURSUIT · 27-08-2010, 11:07 PM

tattoos dont have to have meaning. for me personally, im spending 2k on a back piece.. so ive spent a total of 7 years working through designs til i was happy.

if you are getting a design finalised.. draw it up (or have it rendered) and place it on your fridge, or somewhere u will look every day.. if you arent sick of it after looking at it every day for a couple months, then youll hopefully not regret it later.

Gambit · 28-08-2010, 08:56 AM

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Originally Posted by AUIIPURSUIT

tattoos dont have to have meaning. for me personally, im spending 2k on a back piece.. so ive spent a total of 7 years working through designs til i was happy.

if you are getting a design finalised.. draw it up (or have it rendered) and place it on your fridge, or somewhere u will look every day.. if you arent sick of it after looking at it every day for a couple months, then youll hopefully not regret it later.

true about the meaning bit. i have a few & one of them is the grim reaper on my leg. its always been a conversation starter with people asking why i got it but then when i tell them they don't know what to say..

some things are just personal & others are because i like them at the time. i have thought about getting my arm band removed but only so i could fill it in to match up with the rest of my sleeve, not because i don't like it. won't be happening due to the cost & i'll live with it.

I have most of mine i plan on getting done worked out except for my back. i've changed my mind a few times but will get there one day.. can't wait to start on my marvel sleeve tho!

BOSHOG · 28-08-2010, 02:11 PM

i agree about the meaning part. i like the art of a good freehand tattoo. i have 30hrs so far on my left sleeve, with another 30hrs to go. i fly to Brisbane to get my work done and i have 2 trips booked in before Xmas this year. my right sleeve is almost complete as well.

anyone that has ever attempted to draw on paper should be able to appreciate the skill involved to draw on living flesh with a heavy (and poorly balanced) piece of metal thats vibrating, not to mention the lack of an eraser lol

**ego gtp** · 28-08-2010, 07:35 PM

well each to there own tattoos are not for everybody i like them alot i have a guardian angel on each upper arm that symbolise protecting my daughters and grand daughter whose names are on my forearms a portrait of my late mother on right side of chest and hearts butterflys and roses for my wife on left side all have been done in 11 months you might say im obsessive compulsive i will post pics when i can work out how to make them bigger than a thumb nail cheers gary

Marquis 351 · 28-08-2010, 09:16 PM

Thats great to hear guys! I love Tattoos with meaning and that are as personal and indavdual as each person that has them!!! I'm in at 9am tomorrow, I will have to be 100% happy with what the artist an myself come up with before pen [tattoo gun]touches paper [skin]

latefordtragic · 29-08-2010, 10:55 AM

Guys im a mechanic, but i wouldnt mind getting into an industry where i can make alot of money , i mean an absolute ***** load of cash. I think i found my calling. I reckon in about 5 years time tattoo removal is going to make that load of cash.
Most dont mind the tatts that they have, alot look awsome. But there are quiet a few out there that are obviously a choice made in a drunken state