mercrocker Posted May 26, 2018 Share Posted May 26, 2018 An Uncle of mine died from dementia a few years ago. I was his last surviving relative in the UK so it fell to me to absorb power of attorney. One of the things I battled most with him about was to stop him driving when it became evident that he was quite frankly a fucking menace. What's to grin about that? Today, I saw the Mazda 2 that was his last car which he bought new not long before his condition started. It still had the scrapes around the wheel arches where he graunched it on his brick wall at home. Almost everything about him has gone - the house, his stuff, his wife and he had no kids. Yet this little grey Mazda is still running round 11 years later with his handiwork etched down the side of it. Just made me smile.... privatewire, Rusty_Rocket, chodweaver and 21 others 24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest VicN Posted May 26, 2018 Share Posted May 26, 2018 image.jpegimage.jpegimage.jpeg Just checked and it's been off the road since 2013, the 2014 tax disc was a do it yourself photocopy because of nosey neighbour who used to comment about cars on the drive and Mrs N would then moan at me! Ten years ago the intention was to put the running gear from a 325/8 e36 in it , alas they've all gone and I quite like the idea of it being a PoV spec 316 auto now, any way. Hope you are aware that if that is a rust free, two door, non sunroof shell then it is worth quite a lot. NorfolkNWeigh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 An Uncle of mine died from dementia a few years ago. I was his last surviving relative in the UK so it fell to me to absorb power of attorney.....For bonus* points, did you end up as Executor as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roobarb Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 Just been to see Solo Star Wars movie. Great movie theatre - reclining pleather electric seats, beer, aircon etc. Been looking forward to the movie - especially as it has been 97F as the high today. Had a ticket for the 10:10pm showing. Was still over 80F outside. It was busy, but not packed, like it was for Rogue One, and of the 15 plus screens, only half of them were Solo. The Movie was a bit like watching a TV spin-off of an excellent movie. About 30mins in and there was a power cut. Black out - everything off, then emergency lights only. Someone at the back of the cinema mentioned 'there must have been a shooting' as a joke, but it put everyone on edge. Being English - sat next to two Russian guys by chance, the three of us got up and went to the lobby. I'm too stupid to be worried about guns and they seemed like 'the kind of gentlemen who don't pay tax...' Apparently the lecy had tripped due to the high demand for air con etc. 15mins later the movie has been reset and off we go again. Frankly, I'm now feeling tired and the movie isn't really ace. 10 mins (if that) and the power goes out again. I think bugger this and leave the screen and then walk to the lobby to go home. The manager is there, apologizes to everyone as they are leaving, shakes their hand and then hands them a 'raincheck' ticket for any movie in the future. . RESULT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercrocker Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 For bonus* points, did you end up as Executor as well? No, thankfully.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dozeydustman Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 Just noticed that the main picture on the Wikipedia Peugeot 205 page is a battered red pre-facelift 5 door, replete with both pogweaseling and lacquer peel. Much more representative of the model than a concours 1.9 GTI I reckon. Just in case some moron changes it back to a pristine model, here is said photo Ghosty, jumpingjehovahs, chaseracer and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 I've just assisted a wee Scottish Bee after it had an FTP and was lying on its back on the windowsill of my living room. Some sugary water on a spoon, and 10 mins later it flew off like a champ, most gratifying.[Matt McGinn]Was it an Effen bee?[/Matt McGinn] privatewire 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omegod Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 An Uncle of mine died from dementia a few years ago. I was his last surviving relative in the UK so it fell to me to absorb power of attorney. One of the things I battled most with him about was to stop him driving when it became evident that he was quite frankly a fucking menace. What's to grin about that? Today, I saw the Mazda 2 that was his last car which he bought new not long before his condition started. It still had the scrapes around the wheel arches where he graunched it on his brick wall at home. Almost everything about him has gone - the house, his stuff, his wife and he had no kids. Yet this little grey Mazda is still running round 11 years later with his handiwork etched down the side of it. Just made me smile.... That's really nice, on the flipside I saw my dear departed mum's Daewoo Matiz in the scrappy last year and shed a tear or two, every panel bore witness to her driving skills Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercrocker Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 That's really nice, on the flipside I saw my dear departed mum's Daewoo Matiz in the scrappy last year and shed a tear or two, every panel bore witness to her driving skills What a shame, I guess to shiters like us lot somebody has finally left this world when their cars are no more... Datsuncog 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fordperv Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 I saw my dad's Mondeo he had before he passed being driven around a few months after, I forgot myself and beeped and waved expecting dad to wave back purplebargeken, chodweaver and omegod 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fordperv Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 Saw this earlier, the driver looked happy and gave me a wave clayts450, Datsuncog, Roobarb and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
privatewire Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 [Matt McGinn]Was it an Effen bee?[/Matt McGinn]I actually saw the late great Mr McGinn perform the Effen Bee Keeper in a social club in Port Glasgow, many, many years ago! somewhatfoolish 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave21478 Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 I know there is probably a youtube thread somewhere but fuckit, it made me grin. Harry of Harrys Garage recently put up a vid of an ebay-bought slightly scruffy ex wedding car Rolls Royce that he drove up to the Arctic Circle. Well worth a watch. See also the shorter part 2 vid about the Northern Lights...some stunning images in it. STUNO, Conrad D. Conelrad, cort16 and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cort16 Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 It’s good init. It sounds like it handled it perfectly other than the mpg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave21478 Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 Aye, if my sums are right, it was over £1500 in pez there and back. Lacquer Peel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 I don't think I've ever seen lightning like this! Night 2 at ours, but there's no cloud tonight so it really is brilliant. We pulled eva out of bed and set her up on the lawn with my camping chair and the sofa duvet so she can see it too. I want to go out for a drive and find a good vantage spot but then remembered I really can't be arsed as the good place is 30 miles away... eddyramrod 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pillock Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 I briefly woke up at about 2am, there was a flash and some thunder. I remembered we were due a storm so figured I'd get up and watch it.However it was raining, and the sound of rain proper puts me to sleep. I literally closed my eyes for a second and then it was 9am. Missed the lot. lightningmaps has the archive of what happened, it looks amazing as it comes across the midlands. It was peaking at something like 400 strikes per second across the UK. chodweaver 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 The strikes were immense over Oxford way. 5 way forks, long twirly ones, lit the whole sky. Never seen anything quite like it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chodweaver Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 I'm voting GGG and Junkman at the next general and local elections, respectively. The climate is showing definite signs of improvement! Ghosty and Sigmund Fraud 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mally Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 Whizzed across the river at Fuengirola Castle last night on a zip wire. Been wanting to do it for years but never been working. Made me grin.D in Law did it as well, she is now officially as daft as me. AlabamaShrimp, Exiled_Tat_Gatherer, cort1977 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captain_70s Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 Gave the Rover back to Nisfan yesterday. Took three trains back, Inverkeithing to Haymarket, Haymarket to Glasgow Queen Street and from there to Anniesland. It was fairly miserable as the longest bit of the journey (the mid section) was on a packed train with all the seats full and about 20 people standing per carriage. I couldn't hold onto or lean on anything due to lack of space so by the time I got off the train I was exhausted from simply trying to balance. Why the grin? Total cost was £0. As I was running fairly tight on time I figured I'd buy the tickets on the train, didn't see a single conductor. No wonder the rail system in this country is fucked though... Lacquer Peel, Jim Bell, Eddie Honda and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Honda Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 Like for jooking the train. purplebargeken 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 When I used to get the train to school my stepdad bought me a season ticket... Used it maybe 20 times in 2 years! The last year when he was going to buy it I told him not to and just give me £30. I was a good boy and kept £20 of it in a hidden part of my backpack and just bought the next few tickets on the train, saved him a fortune! I also got all the way to London for free once... No conductor at Marlow where I go on, you can roam the platforms at Maidenhead without a barrier, so I got closer to London, a bit panicky about Paddington, so I got off at Ealing Broadway and just bought a tube ticket! That felt good clayts450 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aston Martin Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 I've just bought a car through the eyes of another forum member. It's the prettiest car ever made... And rough... But pretty... Also I don't need another car. But she's a pretty one. The Moog, Saabnut, Cavcraft and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymous user Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 I've just bought a car through the eyes of another forum member. It's the prettiest car ever made... And rough... But pretty... Also I don't need another car. But she's a pretty one.DB4 volante? Aston Martin, dave21478 and Craig the Princess 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplebargeken Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 Got in free Enfield pageant. Not many stalls left but I got everything I needed to finish off the Toledo and get it MOT'd. A great day for less than 28 quid including something to eat. clayts450, privatewire, cort1977 and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aston Martin Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 DB4 volante?maxresdefault.jpgLike the DB4 this has 4 wheels. The Moog 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 Might be worth hanging onto that shitter after all: Aston Martin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 Listening to Spotify and realised the cover of this EP features an R17: Lacquer Peel, Conrad D. Conelrad and Datsuncog 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clayts450 Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 Announcing my purchase yesterday on the 200/400 Owners Club forum and, rather than drooling over the rarity I had purchased, contributors therein entering into an interesting* discussion about the roof bars, which apparently are very rare these days. I may already have sourced some seat cushions, thanks to the power of the Facebook 45 Owners group. oldcars, Lacquer Peel, chodweaver and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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