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We Found Hundreds Of Random Autopian Shirts And We’re Going To Give Them To New Members – Tales From The Slack

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Normally, Tales From The Slack is a post only for members. Today, we’re opening that post up to non-members because it turns out we have more than a hundred random shirts someone found in a back room at Galpin we need to give away. So if you sign up to become a Vinyl or above member you’re going to get all the normal member gear, plus a bonus t-shirt in your size.

Obviously, if you’re a returning Vinyl+ member you’re going to get the new t-shirt, a limited edition custom Autopian pin, and perhaps a little more. If you’re a Cloth member, you’ll get the sweet sweet $50 annual price. But if you’re a new Vinyl, Velour, or RCL member (or, hell, if you upgrade to Vinyl/Velour) we’re going to send you one of these shirts.

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In fact, we don’t just have these shirts, we also have a few random ones from Syd that she made and forgot to send us for a year. These arrived a couple of weeks ago and we’ve added them to the pile. It’s kinda amazing, I gotta show you how this happened since this is Tales From The Slack:

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That “all mediums” reference is because Jeff, the man behind the curtain for a lot of our adventures, ordered t-shirts when the site was launched. Most of these shirts got stuffed in a corner somewhere. One day the nice folks at Galpin Auto Sports found a box of shirts and they were, as you guessed, all medium.

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I assumed that some of the shirts David found were just those shirts in other sizes. And It’s true, those were some of the shirts he found, but then he found a bunch of other random stuff.

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Here’s the video, btw:

These were, indeed, the print-on-demand shirts we made two years ago for Black Friday. Here’s what they look like:

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We sold some of these shirts via Print-On-Demand, but it turns out we needed to price them too high in order to make actual money and we felt bad charging that much. Eventually, we’ll have a new setup to sell shirts with Galpin, though that process has been a little slow and it’s on my list of things to do next year.

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I’m going “uhhhh” because I worried that we printed $5,000 worth of shirts. After doing a forensic accounting analysis we found… no evidence we paid for these shirts. This sent me into a panic because I thought maybe people ordered them and they got sent to us by accident, so then I had to go back through all of our shopping vendor receipts and order data to make sure that wasn’t the case. Thankfully, it wasn’t.

The reality is we have no idea why we got these extra shirts. My guess is we decided to order some back in 2022 to display or something, and they got lost in a backroom. Our mistake, your benefit.

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Here are some piles of shirts:

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And here are some more:

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In spite of David’s initial enthusiasm, it turns out there were roughly 165 shirts, not including the shirts we got from Syd and a few other places. I think we have about 200-300 shirts in total.

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That is still a lot of shirts. So here’s how this works:

  1. Become a new Vinyl, Velour, or RCL member, and in addition to all the stuff you’ll regularly get (including the new Autopian member shirt) you’ll get a bonus t-shirt in your size. You can’t pick the shirt, we’ll just randomly pick it and toss it in.
  2. We will do this until we run out of shirts in specific sizes. I don’t know what sizes we have, but hypothetically if there are 18 mediums then the first 18 people who sign up who are mediums get the shirts. The 19th will not. Everyone else will get shirts until the sizes are out.
  3. I do know that we have sizes from S-3XL, though, again, I’m not sure of the exact ratios.

Here are some answers to questions I’m sure you’ll have:

  • Couldn’t you just sell these? It turns out that there’s such a huge variety in random colors and individual sizes that it would honestly be more work than it’s worth to us and we’d sell out of stuff individually rather quickly.
  • What if I upgrade from Cloth to another level? Would that work? Sure. If you upgrade from Cloth to Vinyl+ then we’ll also send you a shirt. New Cloth members are not eligible for this deal.
  • Can I see what the shirts look like? No, even I don’t know. But the video above gives you a sense of what we have, as do the photos.
  • How long do you think this deal will last? No idea.
  • I signed up last week, does this apply to me? Yes! If you signed up after we posted the new shirt design and haven’t been shipped anything yet we’ll apply this to you as well.
  • Does this apply to gifts? Yes, it does, here are the gift links: Please note that, for practical reasons, we’re only doing annual subscriptions as a gift. If you’re a commenter these should be able to be activated by you and tied to your current commenter account:

    By the way, if anyone actually gifts RCL we will send an extra member shirt for whomever made the gift as a thank-you bonus.

Membership is super important and helps keep this place running. If you can support us, it means a lot. If you’re a renewing member, we promise you’ll get a bunch of great stuff as well.

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Stef Schrader
Stef Schrader
3 days ago

Okay, but real talk, how do I buy a medium Lumiere Rouge shirt? Are these still on the merch page?

The Nightcap Posters must know!

Last edited 3 days ago by Stef Schrader
Camp Fire
Camp Fire
4 days ago

I was on the fence about upgrading, and this successfully pushed me over the edge.

P.S. – I know I’m not allowed to pick a shirt design, but the “Buy now, Think later” shirt deserves a second chance at life. As does the “Please let me tell you why this is weird” shirt.

Keep being weird, Autopians!

Parsko
Parsko
4 days ago

I am a medium if you need a destination for any mediums.

Otter
Otter
4 days ago

Can’t believe I slept on the Renault 4 shirt and now I’m going to miss out again! Hope the new members know what they’ve got.

Frown Victoria
Frown Victoria
5 days ago

Bummer we can’t pick, because I do have a favorite, but I understand. The logistics of sorting who wants what is just too much.

Last edited 5 days ago by Frown Victoria
Banana Stand Money
Banana Stand Money
5 days ago

Damn, I’m seriously considering vinyl if I could get a Lumiere Rouge shirt. Maybe you guys could do a Mack Hardigraw special sometime.

Totally not a robot
Totally not a robot
5 days ago

So you never “paid” for these items and yet you’re getting rid of them. Sounds suspiciously like a fencing operation.

SolamenteDave
SolamenteDave
4 days ago

They…uh…fell off a truck.

Dodsworth
Dodsworth
6 days ago

Maybe you kids aren’t interested in seeing the world’s second biggest pile of shirt.

TheCoryJihad
TheCoryJihad
7 days ago

So I literally signed up for a Velour membership a week ago and now you lay this shit on me?

Mechjaz
Mechjaz
6 days ago
Reply to  Matt Hardigree

Man. Why people so mad about signing up to support the site (and also not reading the site they signed up to support)?

TheCoryJihad
TheCoryJihad
6 days ago
Reply to  Mechjaz

See above….it was meant to be a joke.

TheCoryJihad
TheCoryJihad
6 days ago
Reply to  Matt Hardigree

Apparently I cannot read. Also, that was supposed to be a line from Step Brothers but the intonation didn’t come out the way it was supposed to.

Mechjaz
Mechjaz
6 days ago
Reply to  TheCoryJihad

Ah. I’ve never seen Step Brothers. Sorry to be snippy and welcome to the club!

Col Lingus
Col Lingus
7 days ago

No swag for the new Cloth members?
That’s discrimination boys.

Time to call Jackie Chiles, once again…

Freelivin2713
Freelivin2713
4 days ago
Reply to  Col Lingus

“It’s lewd, lascivious, salacious, outrageous.”

Geoff Buchholz
Geoff Buchholz
7 days ago

Good to see the Aztek is being put to use as the official Autopian delivery vehicle.

Cars? I've owned a few
Cars? I've owned a few
7 days ago

What a great insight into the charmingly chaotic organization The Autopian seems to be on occasion.

My old Peugeot mechanic, Marcel, who had parts strewn everywhere throughout his shop was a far more interesting person (and his shop, a place) to hang out with than the operating room sterile Honda dealership with the computer-managed parts inventory which always seems to have what they need.

That’s not a knock on the dealership. They are efficient, thorough and thus far, do good work. Not that I see them often. Oil changes, when they have a special and recently a scheduled maintenance service on the transmission.

My Honda is 7 years old and only now has the mileage (~60K) my ’71 Peugeot 504 (gas) had when I bought it used in 1978 (when it was also 7 years old). My guess is that the Honda will be less quirky in what it needs to soldier on for however long I choose to keep it.

Bob Rolke
Bob Rolke
7 days ago

Man I wish you guys were selling these. I understand why you’re not, but I’ve always been disappointed that I didn’t get a Lumiere Rouge shirt.

TOSSABL
TOSSABL
4 days ago
Reply to  Matt Hardigree

I’ll definitely buy one of those to keep my collection expanding.
btw, if one (theoretically, of course) wished to roll dice on size & design, would you be willing to grab one at random & ship it off?
—I’m still renewing as usual in some weeks, but would like to up the chances of getting one I don’t yet have now

Stef Schrader
Stef Schrader
3 days ago
Reply to  Matt Hardigree

YES

(…can it not be a white shirt? I am a walking dirtbucket. Also, sometimes I order red wine at that taillight bar.)

Urban Runabout
Urban Runabout
7 days ago

Did you know that *Autopian* T-Shirts make great seat covers?

(At least for the upper part of the seat – I have no idea what to use for the lower seat cushion…)

Mechjaz
Mechjaz
7 days ago
Reply to  Urban Runabout

A Porsche diesel particulate filter heat shield or insulating wrap should cradle and support nicely.

Col Lingus
Col Lingus
7 days ago
Reply to  Mechjaz

COTD here.

Rad Barchetta
Rad Barchetta
7 days ago
Reply to  Urban Runabout

Autopian pants?

Stef Schrader
Stef Schrader
3 days ago
Reply to  Rad Barchetta

slap the Galpin rainbow parsh on it and I’m sold

1978fiatspyderfan
1978fiatspyderfan
6 days ago
Reply to  Urban Runabout

The Autopian booty shorts

Urban Runabout
Urban Runabout
6 days ago

I do love me some Chubbies…

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