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crashcourse wrote:I have a 94 Toyota 22 RE

you cant have it

crashcourse wrote:my issue is rust

body not bad at all

had to weld the shocks back to the frame

but theres a lot of rust on the back end

I drive it 3-4 times a week --guess I could put lots of money in derusting the underneath , some body work, fixing some doorhandles knobs and levers
but those Toyotas were so notorious for rusting underneath --you really need to pay attention n to that--Its only a matter of time before I have nothing to weld to

aTm wrote:Summary.

This guy, mfbarnes82, or Mark F Barnes posted for years on texags and was kind of a know it all jack off who would post his detailed analysis of practices and shit and would participate in various discussions.

So yesterday he posts about a '54 corvette and posts pictures of a car he supposedly bought and was restoring. I guess somebody went and looked up '54 corvette on google to post a picture of what a finished one would look like and found these same pictures from 8 years ago on someones blog (and obviously not current as something he claimed to be doing right now). Someone else remembered how he posted his awesome garage in another thread, and people also found out that those were ripped off of the internet. Now people smelled blood in the water and began searching for this guys shit and he is all over the internet, and apparently always uses his real name and makes up outlandish shit.

I think some knew he was full of shit, but I don't think anybody ever put together all the crap that this guy claimed various place. He drove in a NASCAR race at Texas World Speedway in 1974 (and at a time when his most usually claimed age would have been 14 since he claimes to be Class of 1982 at A&M). He played football at A&M (not true). He was a strength and conditioning coach at A&M (not true, just a heads up nothing listed after this will be true). That he was a strength and conditioning coach on the Cowboys back to back championship teams. That he went to A&M. That he is a PE (professional engineer). That he has a masters degree. That he was an athletic scout or talent consultant or some shit.

He also posted some crazy story about his family roots in Brazos county, where his family showed up as sharecroppers in Mexican controlled Texas and got land from a Spanish grant, but they had to pledge to a republican militia to get the land (uh, wtf?). And his grandpa lived to be 118 years old.

So people started analyzing pretty much everything he ever posted. His nitrogen tank he posted in a nitrogen inflated tires thread? From the internet. His gun photos? From the internet. Etc.

From there someone got into his public photobucket and instagram and other things and post crazy pictures where he had photoshopped his head onto other people. One of which where versions had been photoshopped to have an aggie ring put on his hand and one without the ring. His head was on a bodybuilder and someone found the original picture on the internet. There was a picture of a tombstone that had been altered to change the date of birth from 1857 to 1811 (and thus, with the 1929 death date, give a lifespan of 118 years old). There were various photoshops of his texas drivers license. Bizarrely he appeared to try and change his height from 6-00 in some to 6-08 but I guess he fucked it up because most of them show his height as 6-80.

He also apparently has an oilfield consulting company. Website makes ridiculous claims, including a list of clients which he obviously never worked for. It also has an obviously fake "International Business" magazine cover that names him as the hardest working man in the oilfields. There are also pictures that probably document his music career, including a classic shitty album cover named "Barnestormer" from the 80s. Somebody found a copy of the plagiarized dissertation I mentioned before.

From there things went downhill. It turned out that a gofundme page that was created and posted on texags that was going to give money to an aggie rodeo barrel rider who's house burned down was actually created by this guy. People began to post his (extensive) criminal record, etc.

Also weird, like I said he always uses his real name, so you can find him reviewing stuff online. Someone found a porn review, which is amusing in itself, but his "review" was actually plagiarized from someone else's review online. He didn't even think up his own porn review.

Also his name is somehow associated with a 1919 A&M recruiting letter that espn recently posted on their website, I guess because he insterted himself in the story (I don't even think the guy who actually found the letter even knows him). During all of this it was also remembered that this idiot also tried to claim that he was the one who made up the name "Johnny Football" after he watched Manziel play at Tivy.

I don't know if I even remember all the bizarre shit that people uncovered.