TheOtherStu

I'll take your Beverley Hills Cop and I'll raise you the Terminator and Total Recall. For a modern twist, I'd recommend John Wick movies.

You're right. That's my kind of bag. Was following a completely debadged Golf R32 yesterday that looked like a baSE. I always wanted an old skool debadged BMW M3 with hidden tailpipes.

I can't lie. If I had 4k burning a hole in my pocket, there would be worse things to spend it on. Would you all disown me if I turned it into a turbo rep?

Another one though. I've done the majority of the 12,000 miles my wife's 2007 Panda has done. That's been difficult enough. I'll be fucked if I'd wanted to do 130,000 miles in one of these frankly underpowered pile of shites. The radiator pipes are made of chocolate. I can imagine this will be an absolute nightmare for overheating.

There is something definitely alluring about a C6. I couldn't bring myself to own one, but they're definitely in the "I know I shouldn't fancy that bird, but boy, does she have a nice pair of bristols" category.

I was thinking that looked like a lovely car that's probably done no miles and a decent price. Then I saw the mileage. Fuck sitting in something like that for 150,000 miles. I'd rather put a cocktail stick down my japs eye!

The "1 year's MOT" is doing a bit of heavy lifting. It's got 7 months. Reading the current minors on it, that's going to need welding before the next one too. "Nearside Rear Inner Seat belt anchorage prescribed area is corroded but not considered excessive sill (7.1.1 (a) (i)) Offside Rear Inner Seat belt anchorage prescribed area is corroded but not considered excessive sill (7.1.1 (a) (i))"

🤣 I'm sure someone told me it's called something gold. However, Toyota MR2s have a colour called "Beige Metallic" (4N3), I think you might have hit the nail on the head 🤣 I definitely need to get him to join this forum.

The story was one I'm sure you've heard before. One would fail the MOT, so he'd buy another with an MOT in the hope that he could get the previous one fixed.

Yup. We had a whole weekend based around him and many of our oldiewonks didn't make it to the end. This was in Blackpool 🤣

Aye. Depending on which Saturday as I'm away at the end of September. Talking of pubs.... another suggestion is the recently reopened George and Falcon in Warnford. One of the co-owners (it's not a brewery owned pub) is an MR2 owner and keen shite collector of cars. He keeps on at me for setting up a meet there as it's a lovely part of the world and he has a car park. His food is also ridiculously cheap!

So in my own news, I spent the weekend at Carfest. Lovely. I'll put some pictures up of the various McLarens that were enjoying their 60th anniversary at some point. And the Ferraris in the stand up from ours. But that's not really shite. What was amazing was the Car Club next to ours. They were from a mile up the road in Overton. A mixture of everything from the 1950s up to moderns (and genuinely, everything in between including a lovely old Volvo, a Bedford camper and a Fiat Barchetta!). I'll find some pics. What I loved about them was that they allow absolutely anything to join them. They basically said they're a drinking club that collects cars. That sounds up my street. In addition, was one of the guys on our stand. They "acquired" (for very few tokens) a Mk1 MR2 that had been sitting in a garage for nearly 30 years. At first glance, you'd think it was absolutely rotten. It had been sat under tarps, with all manner of sailing gear, lawn mowers and all sorts, gathering damp. But it's just damp that's caused the paint to lift. Despite Mk1s being absolute rust buckets (and I genuinely expected to be using a dustpan and brush by the end of the weekend), the car is absolutely rock solid. It needs a teeny tiny bit of welding on one of the sills, but the wheel arches are as solid as I've ever seen a Mk1 and they've never been touched! I really need him to join this place too. Apparently at home he has a large selection of vehicles, none of which work (including the transit that he towed this from Cornwall to Basingstoke which apparently doesn't like to start if the filler cap is fully closed). Including 9 (NINE) Land Rovers. He's also a Mini fiddler, has bikes and other stuff, some of which is quite rare. At least I don't think he's a member, but he'd definitely fit in here well.

When I first got my MR2, I tried to sign up for the "introduction to Mechanics" course and found it almost impossible to get a place. I ended up following a YouTube channel that taught the basics (how to properly jack up a car and so on - a few years on, I'm happy to have a go at anything now). I'd absolutely love to do one of these though. I'm hoping my MR2 never needs it, but it could mean that I could get a project car (I'd still love a Mk1 MR2).

So here's a thing. Back in the early 90s, I worked in the entertainment industry in management. Used to work a bit with him, Chubby Brown and Jim Davidson, other comedians known for their racist diatribe. Manning was weird. Off stage, he was one of the nicest blokes around. Owned and ran the Embassy Club in Manchester, where he was very popular with his staff and the like apparently. Would ensure everyone he was working with had a beer and used to insist on meeting all the junior folk in my team, because he used to say that they were the people doing the actual work. I never saw him personally with a drink in his hand or had an arsey manager hanging off him asking for stupid demands. Always very respectful and never heard a rude word out of his mouth (except when he was on stage). Never hung around after his act, because he had to get back to put his Mum to bed (He was her carer for many years). The other two were absolute arseholes who I wouldn't piss on if they were on fire. Both arrogant who would treat people like shit unless they could get something out of them. Weird innit. His timing as a comedian was in my opinion the best I'd ever seen. The problem was, in the 70s and 80s, to make it, you were expected to be a racist with a potty mouth. Even Bob Monkhouse's stage act was like that, but most people will remember him as being a clean comic on TV, Royal Variety etc. Manning said he hated TV because they always wanted him to travel to London and then he couldn't look after his Mum.

If anyone is visiting the musical grave that is Carfest this weekend (or is considering it), please come say hello to the MR2 stand. We're behind the Ferraris 🤣 I'm the fat bloke with the beard running the stand.

In fairness, as above, they get everywhere. So Uber aren't (or weren't) allowed in Coventry. So all the Uber drivers get their plates from Wolverhampton. Apparently, the black cab drivers hate them, so they do childish things like block them in, shout expletives and toot them. All whilst customers are in the car. Certainly, this was the case back in 2019.... https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/uber-black-cabs-coventry-16793740

You don't need to be a member to view Twitter folk (although it helps if you want to follow them and see their regular output) I've posted elsewhere, but this fella is ace. He posts a new one pretty much every day. Appears he has a huge library of them. I've discussed various brochures with him in the past and he's super knowledgeable. If there's something you want, ask. He'll almost certainly have it (including weird foreign ones too!) In fact, he really should be a member here if he isn't already? I've invited him in 🤣

Pizza cutter. It infuriates me. We buy them and leave them in AirBnBs. My Mum's was the first 🤣

I mean, other than the fact that it's a) too new b) the wrong model and c) it's far to bloody clean and tidy, it's got everything going for it. I reckon this could be a battle of the knob ends, so I'm going with £2995

Darwin award nominee, surely?

I had a Prius. I dunno why, but it worked really well. Am I the only person in the world that found have a Prius was a positive experience?🤣

This is a huge problem. Most people aren't actually carrying any cash and since Covid, some businesses have decided that money is dirty and carries germs. Then, like the huge sweet lorry (traveller type) that was at an event yesterday, they had a sign telling people why they were cash only. Most of the reasons said "tax dodging" to me. Things like "Little jobs that are done as cash-in-hand" (not relevant to a business that's clearly turning over thousands of pounds a day at an event like this). Saying that the Government wanted to see where money was being transacted. Because I'm an office worker, I pay a shit load of tax, because loads of other people don't. I keep saying, if everyone paid 20% on everything they earned over a certain amount, we wouldn't need 40 or 45% tax rates and the thresholds could be raised.

My experience of Scotland is that nipping to the shops is 2 hours 🤣 I guess when they're not clogging up with Camper vans, it's clogged with snow?

Is this your part of the world? I think this could be a proper bargain. The engines on these go on and on and I don't remember seeing a rotten one. Yeah, they look like a box and have the aerodynamics of a brick, but this is Autoshite and we do things differently here.

Ooh that's lovely. Although Electrical gremlins are common in these (you know that - I'm not teaching my Granny to suck eggs). It's what really put me off having one when I was looking at replacing my MR2 a couple of years ago. Plus despite having lots of horses, apparently they're not the best at handling, particularly in the wet.