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Spiny Norman

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  1. Surprised there's nothing but glass between them and the local thieving gits.
  2. I can't tell where the dog stops and the blanket starts, what a wee cracker! ❤️
  3. If the J72 or Excalibur didn't appeal you could always have plumped for this back in the day. a Sbarro 328. A BMW 328 re-creation fitted with the 2.8 straight 6 this was pretty restrained compared to his other work. There was a convertible version of the De ville too. Did they modify the Land Crab doors or are they from something else I wonder?
  4. The individual model names don't always follow from one generation to another but you've been able to buy a BMW 520 every day since early 1972.
  5. The two cunts with the Land Rovers sitting there are raking it in towing them out, they'd probably chase anyone daring to rob them of their loot. Surprised that Aldi Q-whatever died, I'd have expected better from a posh SUV. Must have its snout at ground level. Many years ago I had a diseasel Citroen CX. Old school tractor motor, no turbo, no electronics and the wonderful Citroen suspension that enabled me to let the old girl lift up her skirts and wade through a flood that had a Ford Fiesta stranded in it with water up the tops of its wheelarches. Compare that to a couple of weeks ago when I had squeaky bum time in my Saab which has its air intake down in the front wing as the water got to about 9-10 inches.
  6. Mine has 'rain sensing' wipers which are so hopeless it effectively mean it doesn't have an intermittent setting. I've got wipers off, slow or fast.
  7. Had a great one the other night. I was getting a Renault 16 fully restored and was in the paint shop choosing the colour scheme and for some bizarre reason I went for a snazzy* two tone combo of green and beige with cream leather seats.
  8. More annoyed than I should be that a new double CD album I'd been looking forward to listening to tonight turned out to be 20 minutes a disc! I mean WTF, where's the rest of it?
  9. I can beat that. I once took my absolutely filthy Clio to a local petrol station jetwash and bought two tokens because it needed washed twice. (I'd been hooning around on a red ash car park and my white car was orange) So not only did the people waiting behind me have to wait while I went through two complete wash cycles, I then managed to lock myself out of it and had to leave it parked in the bay while I got a taxi home for my spare key. I was not popular that day and never had the balls to use that particular car wash again...
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    Complete with tasteful* headlamp appendages...
  11. Is a few minor lighting faults and a knackered seat the only things you've had go wrong with it? I asked about these recently and got the impression if I bought one it would eat my wallet, my house and my children and still be nothing but an immobile pile of rust in the corner. You're giving me fresh hope!! 😛
  12. Mine arrived today also, no pics yet because I don't have a waterproof camera.....
  13. Suitably miserable thread opener, looking forward to more of the same. 😛
  14. It's got a Vauxhall Vectra in it, not sure how much more poo you require. Good thread, good read, maybe the next one will be a £4k Maserati Quattroporte.
  15. "This car is unique. Apart from the one in front of it which is identical."
  16. Superb. Monies should be incoming for a couple, will PM details.
  17. Can Can I double check, these are sticky backed to go on bodywork rather than soft vinyl that got pressed onto the inside of windows like the old oblong AS stickers, yes?
  18. Didn't know the LCC was still on the go, I used to do some navigation rallies with them back in the day.
  19. That all sounds a bit shit Eddy, but if it's any slight consolation my buddy at work has just had his second hip replacement and is already up and about, albeit on sticks after a couple of weeks so it might not be as bad as you think. We're expecting him back late October. Hope Mrs RR has a speedy recovery, you can worry about the cars later.
  20. Customer came into our place in this absolute stunner this evening. 1977 Daimler 4.2 Vanden Plas with a genuine 42k miles on it.
  21. Cunningly disguised as a Humber Sceptre, I like it. 😛
  22. I was going to say 26% sounds way off. I use eBay all the time to sell my cameras and the total take is about 15% which I reckon is fair enough given the audience you reach and the relatively smooth transaction. Old cameras probably don't attract the same kind of dregs of society as cars but I'm happy paying that to avoid the great unwashed coming to my door. Most eBay sellers just jack the price up to compensate.
  23. Next time, take him a nice biscuit and explain how the biscuit shop he saw you going to earlier didn't have any nice biscuits so you had to go to the other biscuit shop to fetch him a nice biscuit so you weren't empty handed when you visited him. He's a good boy, he''ll understand. 🐶
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