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Andreas Petros

@petrospect.bsky.social

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i like cars! i’m on YouTube: https://youtu.be/a6xbh20ntfg jalopnik featured commenter (once) ;) full time enthusiast, weird car devotee lemme borrow your cars! here’s mine: 1991 BMW 316i with 394k kilometers, oil appetite: high Former: 2007 VW Golf TSI

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Andreas Petros @petrospect.bsky.social · Nov 12

Special thanks to all new followers I got last night, seems we’re finally in the right place!

As a thank you, here’s a few extraordinary encounters I’ve had and of course—my beloved E36.
Vids coming soon! Appreciate it!
youtu.be/a6xbh20ntfg?...

A lineup of Jaguar E-Types I saw and filmed a video of, check my bio for it!

My E36 next to an all original ivory 356 Speedster owned by Alastair Caldwell, former 1970s McLaren F1 team manager.
The only Speedster I’ve ever seen in the wild!

Me sitting on the right fender of my E36 next to a heart shaped floral statue looking wistful on the car’s 33 year birthday.
This is a tease for a thumbnail of a vid I’m working on :)

Me doing a thumbsup picture at a trackday I was invited to ride along with my friend’s red 2008 Nissan 350z Nismo!
Thank you for reading all of these, I appreciate you.

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Andreas Petros @petrospect.bsky.social · 5m

Amen to that!

Andreas Petros @petrospect.bsky.social · 3h

Didn’t know my first article would be so lethal 😝

Andreas Petros @petrospect.bsky.social · 4h

LMFAO

(With lots of love)

This is young me incidentally to older me, too 😂

a young boy is standing in front of a basketball hoop .

Alt: “The future is now old man”

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Andreas Petros @petrospect.bsky.social · 5h

I’m glad you liked it! Thank you!! 🙏
That’s what I like to hear 🫶

Andreas Petros @petrospect.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah this is pretty much gonna be a bog-standard base model as far as blogs go but yeah, this is gonna be a great backlog!
Think that if I manage to write enough variety it’ll keep it interesting to keep going as is. Who knows in the end!

Thank you though—means a lot you checked it out! 🙌

Andreas Petros @petrospect.bsky.social · 5h

Eyyy thank you 🫶

Andreas Petros @petrospect.bsky.social · 7h

Really appreciated! Thank you 🫶

Andreas Petros @petrospect.bsky.social · 7h

Thank you man—I think your entire approach about approaching things a bit lighter but with the right amount of care got me here.

You know it! I will definitely let you know 🫶

Andreas Petros @petrospect.bsky.social · 7h

Absolutely: right now it’s genuinely gonna only really be the ideas I have about stories I can write so that’s heartening at least for the beginning!

The deadlines makes a lot of sense—cannot leave anyone hanging!

This is invaluable though. I hope I find a way! THANK YOU for reading it 🙏

Andreas Petros @petrospect.bsky.social · 7h

Hey lean eras happen! My YT channel has been left stranded since last June 🤪

Andreas Petros @petrospect.bsky.social · 7h

YOOOOO that'd be amazing!! Cheers! ❤️
You've been an OG of mine on here and that's amazing, thank you!!

Andreas Petros @petrospect.bsky.social · 7h

LMFAO I certainly will 😅
Hope the shoutout wasn't too much on the blog too but that message means a lot to me. Ti is a huge inspiration!

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Andreas Petros @petrospect.bsky.social · 7h

I hope you enjoy it! It goes way back to the beginning to where I am now. Thank you!! ❤️

Andreas Petros @petrospect.bsky.social · 7h

I even dug up a few pics of me as an embryo so you know I'm serious. This is a new beginning!

An assortment of pics of me around car object things: the first pic of me is with a Megane RS on the bed of my parents, me playing with a Thrustmaster Ferrari wheel Gran Turismo 4 on my PS2 and me as a wee lad with a small Ferrari 360 Spider next to a bookcase with all sorts of interesting cars--a new Beetle and a TT and a Citroen rally car for short!

A candid pic of me being creative in 2017 taking pics that my sister took!
I'm wearing a blue dress shirt, I'm skin and bones and my phone is in my hands, listening to music. Probably the On Her Majesty's Secret Service soundtrack as we were in Lake Como once in my lifetime!

Andreas Petros @petrospect.bsky.social · 7h

First off--I need to thank @davidgaunt.bsky.social whom without that message I wouldn't have gotten a firm smack to start one of my own.
@creatinglightly.art for discovering me here and putting me on in front of you all.

And everyone who's followed me here: it wouldn't have happened without you.

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Andreas Petros @petrospect.bsky.social · 7h

I have an announcement to make: I'm launching an autoblog!
Cat's out of the bag, it needed to happen.
This is my first article about my journey as a person and enthusiast so far, I hope you enjoy it!
Here's to more of this to come! #weirdcarBS, #carbluesky
petrospect.blog/2025/10/15/w...

Welcome to Petrospect! My new autoblog.

You’ve heard correctly, I am starting an autoblog! How did we get here? Buckle up!It’s been quite a journey so far which I think is essential to the core of what Petrospect is. If you d…

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Andreas Petros @petrospect.bsky.social · 10h

HAH, that's a very very cool one to be thought of at all and it counts so much for me.
It went VERY well!! Have a great one, too! 😎

Andreas Petros @petrospect.bsky.social · 11h

And you got some motion and the shape of it too so bang on—this is a very good piece!

Thank you yet again, this is everything.

Andreas Petros @petrospect.bsky.social · 11h

I was hoping to share a pic of a cake and candles but that’ll have to come later—LOOK AT THIS!!
This is so dang cool. This is better than that… 😝 and I had no idea!

Juanma, you are amazing!

Juanma is Creating Lightly 🎨🖌😬 @creatinglightly.art · 14h

Today is @petrospect.bsky.social's birthday!

Andreas is probably younger than you (unless you're @danielcars05.bsky.social) but not less passionate about cars. One of the nicest guys I know and lucky to be able to call him friend.

In a very #PSQuickie fashion, here's one I drew for you last night!

Stylised illustration of Andreas' (@petrospect.bsky.social) almost 400k km BMW 316i being thrashed/drifted/donuted around. Enjoying it as one does.

Specially done by Juanma Tastzian (@creatinglightly.art) October 14th 2025 in celebration of Andreas' birthday on October 15th 2025.

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Andreas Petros @petrospect.bsky.social · 11h

Yoo, thank you but HOLY— I wasn’t expecting that, that’s amazing!
It is very much in spirit of #PSquickie and it *has* been slid around in the dust 😝
Am genuinely amazed, I can only tell you I have a silly grin on my face and this is so damn sweet. You rule.

24’s not looking too bad now 🙌

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Andreas Petros @petrospect.bsky.social · 11h

Thank you! 🫶

Andreas Petros @petrospect.bsky.social · 20h

I wonder if they changed the layout—I was actually surprised it wasn’t back in ‘21!

Andreas Petros @petrospect.bsky.social · 22h

SLR, 300SL for sure I think are shocking cars to behold that are supercars.

The Viper is an exotic for me in that same vein, million liter engine, more than 8 cylinders, exotic engine note, the shock of seeing one..

Andreas Petros @petrospect.bsky.social · 22h

I think if you saw a 250 Testarossa or Bentley Blower you could argue both were also supercars and that just adds to the list.
The most brazen one is the Bugatti Atlantic for me.
*That* is a supercar. Miura is the first one to be called one and the MR layout is certainly it...

A Bugatti Type 57 Altantic at Pebble Beach

Andreas Petros @petrospect.bsky.social · 22h

Well--300SL Gullwing gets you "mother of god what IS this thing" in spite of it being front engined.
So to me it's something that shocks you to qualify.
Modern car wise--exotic powerplant, mid engine, wild looks.
Not a 911, not a Cayman/Boxster, not an Evora/Emira--those are sports cars.

A picture of me next to a 300SL Gullwing in the Mercedes museum, one of the coolest pics I have of me to go on honestly.

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