If You Renew Your Membership, Here’s All The Cool Stuff You Get

Thank you. That really should be the first thing any of us here say to any Autopian members we encounter, unless there’s, say, a pack of angry weasels in mid-leap behind you, in which case the first thing we should say is “GET DOWN! WEASELS WEASELS OH GOD SO MANY WEASELS” and then we should say “thank you,” after we’re certain the weasels have overshot their target and are scrambling for cover. This is because, weasel emergencies aside, the first thing on our minds is how much we appreciate your support as members.

Ideally, your membership will be a perpetual thing, something that stays with you throughout your life, continuing to enhance and enrich it, like an STD. To accomplish this, though, you need to renew your membership, again like an STD. But unlike most STDs, Autopian membership renewals come with some real, exciting perks, and I’d like to go over those with you now, if you don’t mind!

Here’s what you get when you renew (for Vinyl and above, as Cloth members forgo the many pleasures of the physical world, and we respect their choice), broken down by your Membership Level. Sure, higher-level members get more stuff, but you’re all beloved by us, from the lowliest, filthiest Cloth Member to the most exalted and regal Rich Corinthian Leatherite.

– New (Yellow) T-Shirt

– Murano CC Pin + Taxi Pin

Those are fantastic, right? They sure are.

And, of course, there’s still all the old 8-bit-generated cars you’ll get on your birthday, with hand-made graphics and BASIC coding from me! I need to figure out how I’m going to mix it up this round, and I better get started soon, because that stuff is tedious. Crap, what am I going to do this round? I’ll think of something.

Oh, and I’m very excited to make the hand-painted Candylab cars for our RCL members: I’ll be taking blank wooden Candycars and painting them by hand, each one as unique as your car’s own oil drip patterns!

And, of course, when you renew, you’ll be eligible for all of our events and giveaways and trivia nights and no ads on the site and, well, you overall quality of life will improve dramatically. 

Thanks so much for being members! There’s so much more to come! And if you’re not a member yet, you can fix that right here.

[Publisher note: Our membership season is basically 12/8-12/7 of the next year. So we are in season 12/8/24 to 12/7/25. If you are a current member and signed up in November or December pre 12/8, you should still get your orange shirt/one of last year’s pins (or alt pin, depending on timing).

If you become a member before 12/8, you will probably still get last year’s orange t-shirt and then, in late November/early December next year, you should get the above. We have printed a bunch of the orange shirts, but when we run out, we’ll start transitioning over to the new one for new signups. This is, you’ll be surprised to know, the least complicated way to do this. The theory of this is… OH NO, MORE WEASELS. THEY’RE BACK. DUCK! – MH]