Bucketeer

On 5/20/2021 at 10:15 PM, barrett said:

Blimey! Two Athenas. I think there are only two on the road. Is that a recent pic?

Yeah, I took it an hour or so before posting on here. They're living near the Surrey/Hampshire border.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/228444698834934/?_rdr

How's the Joy Machine treating you?

I thought of you, and it, the other day. I see this one around and about sometimes, driven by a very old boy.

What I hadn't previously noticed was the side exit exhaust. Grandad does custom.

Tempted?

This is the kerb the MX5 couldn't handle without snapping it's suspension.

It's hardly the bloody north face of the Eiger. Just further proof that this bastard car absolutely detests me.

10 hours ago, Broadsword said:

Aaah, I see that all makes perfect sense and isn’t convoluted at all.

I'm confused by it too, and I'm part of it.

I got a little video of the CUL8R BAL moment, but that's as far as he got before turning round and complaining of funny suspension noises and potential sharp broken spring to tyre interface worries. Wuss.

After dropping the purple throbbing Honda off with you I started to think that you just never see HRVs about anymore.

Then this happened.

It's great to see you're enjoying it. My fingers, legs, toes and eyes are crossed for the forthcoming MOT.

On 2/21/2020 at 9:38 PM, snagglepuss said:

 

Then theoretically I will

 

A) drive the noisy car home to a pre-booked MOT

 

B ) like A but with many water stops

 

C) Like A and B but end journey on the big yellow truck

 

D) other - well come home in the micra.

I'm not going to spoil the surprise but I can confirm that this afternoon none of the above happened. And that cars are rubbish.

6 hours ago, ruffgeezer said:

Anyone near Leicester able to snag a set of Citroen C5 alloys for me please?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/233473662782

Ending v soon on eBay but I haven't time to collect before my new job starts.

@Bucketeer @snagglepuss and @jumpingjehovahs have all mentioned Leicester recently, am I too late in asking?

I can grab them for you Tim.

If you trust anything I've touched to get you home then you're more of an idiot than I am.

1 hour ago, NorthernMonkey said:

Nope, it’s Mr Fluffyballs who’s the current transport manager, though he has been known to subcontract, apparently.

Yeah I just go wherever the little prick tells me to.

On the plus side, he did give me my first wage packet today.

I'm not sure if it's an industry standard, but I know with BCA that after something has been through one auction and not sold they can tell you what the reserve is and you can buy it for that, or get them to send a derisory offer to the seller.

Thanks for the offers of shitelying me back southwards but it's easy enough just to squeeze myself into a sticky seat aboard the brandy bus or whatever. I can walk it if need be, I've nowt better to do for the next month or two.

6 hours ago, Tickman said:

@Bucketeer

I have sent this gentleman money before and he certainly knows where Scotland is...

Yeah, I can run it up the road no worries.

Now if Stanky could do the decent thing and buy a car in Scotland, that would save on BFH.

On 1/18/2020 at 8:44 PM, cobblers said:

It's -2 outside, and I'm in the van with the heater set to the lowest it will go, and I'm really warm. I'm sat here in my underpants with the roof vent half open.

That has sparked much jealousy.

This was the ceiling of my home yesterday morning.

I really liked that 850. I bought it in July-ish for about £700 with the intention of tinting the windows and using it as a (much needed) mobile home. Of course a few weeks later I agreed to swap it for an equally practical MX5 with Snagglepuss. It then did a tour of Scotland on the way up to Accrington, in utter comfort.

Here's a few pics from my time with it (August). As Snagglepuss says, the alloys (knackered) are no longer with it but I reckon it looks grand on the steelies and winter tyres he put on it.

That used to be such a pretty little AX.

1 hour ago, loserone said:

It looks so much less hateful here

@davehedgehog31 @Saabnut

I presume you mean the 205?

It was a grand little companion for me. Never let me down, that I can remember. Nothing broke on it either, but then I think pretty much everything was already broken long before I borrowed it.

Poor little unloved thing. I really liked it. Well, I really liked the cherry bomb exhaust anyway.

4 hours ago, Inspector Morose said:

Handbrake trick with pandas. It sounds a bit brutal but try reversing then stopping the car as quick as possible using the handbrake alone. It seems to re-align the drums chakras somehow and might squeeze you a pass on that front. (IIRC it was an old fiatforum trick)

Only  had mine twelve years so far (from new) so I can’t tell you what they’re like.

Attempted.

That's a belting offer Huw, thanks. I'm completely fed up with it tonight so I'm just going to get it pushed somewhere marginally less dangerous when my friend gets here, then get a lift to the warmth of my AX where I can try and forget about it all until tomorrow.

However, if by any small chance you had some free time tomorrow that you wanted to waste having a look at a broken green van and helping shift it half a mile up the road to a garage or whatever, that would be awesome. 

Yeah FWD. The gearlever feels normal in operation but no matter what gear you select there is no gear engaged, just the scrapy noise when you lift the clutch.

I'm just outside Storrington. In the South.

I've had a good look round, and nothing obvious is jumping out at me, and it hasn't miraculously fixed itself when I've restarted it.. I have a friend about an hour and a half away who has kindly volunteered to come and get me. Hopefully I can use her car to push my van out of the way of the drive at least.