adw1977 Posted April 6, 2021 Share Posted April 6, 2021 GRD was certainly above GLD in 1984: HarmonicCheeseburger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puddlethumper Posted April 6, 2021 Share Posted April 6, 2021 16 minutes ago, NorfolkNWeigh said: I may be wrong but I’m pretty sure GR is above GL, at least it was on 405s. The base 405 around that time was the GE. In 88 I was fully invested in company car hierarchy and I know my 1.9 GRi was only bettered by a GTX. The 1.6 GL was on the same list as 1.6 L Cavalier, Sierra, Montegos and the GR was the GL equivalent. I'm pretty sure mine is a Base because in Portugal, where it came from, all the cars and vans I had there were base spec because they didn't want to pay the extra. Back in the 80's it was only ten or so years after a dictatorship and people didn't have much so paying for 'luxuries' was wasting money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorrisItalSLX Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 Someone must be in a spot of strife today, given I found a brake pad and retention spring in the gutter outside work. BorniteIdentity and Cord Fourteener 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownnova Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 Right, which one of you drove past my house, saw the Pontiac and left this all over the road outside.... You dirty buggers you... Cord Fourteener, Ghosty, richardmorris and 9 others 1 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerzy Woking Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 Received my EU driving licence this morning, which I put behind my residency card in my wallet. No longer will I have to go around with a rucksack stuffed with papers and receipts to prove that I live here and can legally drive. Stanky, wuvvum, Mally and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wgl2019 Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 17 hours ago, MikeR said: Her next door had a empty washer bottle on her mercs cause she could not get the 2nd latch undone . When i opened the bonnet , she headed straight for the brake resoiviour !!!! , Er no , how about this blue top over here with the washer symbol , good thing the 2nd latch worked .. We used to be trusted to top up engine oil at work if the weekly vehicle check highlighted it..... People would invariably add oil to the screenwash or brake fluid. One time someone topped the engine oil up with some kind of car shampoo. Our rewritten weekly check now tells us not to lift the bonnet! Tickman, BorniteIdentity, Cord Fourteener and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robinmasters Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 HarmonicCheeseburger, Split_Pin, davehedgehog31 and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandeth Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 Well this looks safe! Currently someone is just walking around on the roof, on their own as far as I can see, for some reason pressure washing the roof. Yes there are cars parked roadside both sides just out of frame which are getting showered with the spray off as well. Is this a thing that people have done regularly? Have never even heard of it before! Cord Fourteener and louiepj 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spurious Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 10 minutes ago, Zelandeth said: Well this looks safe! Currently someone is just walking around on the roof, on their own as far as I can see, for some reason pressure washing the roof. Yes there are cars parked roadside both sides just out of frame which are getting showered with the spray off as well. Is this a thing that people have done regularly? Have never even heard of it before! I think that's natural selection at work there now. Or at least a broken femur. Edit. Forgot to post this one actually from a few weeks back. Aluminium ladder on a van roof. What could possibly go wrong... Amishtat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 That's a professional looking outfit - knackered ex-Parcel Force Sprinter and a non-matching pair of ladders... louiepj, HarmonicCheeseburger, BorniteIdentity and 7 others 4 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spurious Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 53 minutes ago, wuvvum said: That's a professional looking outfit - knackered ex-Parcel Force Sprinter and a non-matching pair of ladders... It's all okay though, they've got hi-vis vests on that'll save them Cord Fourteener and richardmorris 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wgl2019 Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 2 hours ago, Zelandeth said: Well this looks safe! Currently someone is just walking around on the roof, on their own as far as I can see, for some reason pressure washing the roof. Yes there are cars parked roadside both sides just out of frame which are getting showered with the spray off as well. Is this a thing that people have done regularly? Have never even heard of it before! That's ridiculous. Has he not heard of snowfoam followed by a two bucket wash! catsinthewelder, Shite Ron and louiepj 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpiusMaximus Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 When I did my heights and ladders courses a few years back, the trainer referred to the Ladder Association's 'Idiot of the Year' award: https://ladderassociation.org.uk/ladder-exchange/idiots-ladders-competition-2015/ It's worth a look... Cord Fourteener, adw1977, Leyland Worldmaster and 5 others 2 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cord Fourteener Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 31 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said: When I did my heights and ladders courses a few years back, the trainer referred to the Ladder Association's 'Idiot of the Year' award: https://ladderassociation.org.uk/ladder-exchange/idiots-ladders-competition-2015/ It's worth a look... Apparently Only in Malta... DVee8 and GrumpiusMaximus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownnova Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 You know you’re winning at life when you get a message offering you an american minivan to accompany the one you already have... Anyone fancy a very tidy Chevrolet Venture 3.5 auto? I know of one for sale! dome, LightBulbFun, Asimo and 13 others 15 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymous user Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 Surely they know the correct way to paint the rust is by throwing tennis balls dipped in paint at it louiepj and Minimad5 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N19 Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 My favourite ladder fail :- Three Speed, mitsisigma01, Spurious and 5 others 2 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 3 hours ago, Zelandeth said: Well this looks safe! Currently someone is just walking around on the roof, on their own as far as I can see, for some reason pressure washing the roof. Yes there are cars parked roadside both sides just out of frame which are getting showered with the spray off as well. Is this a thing that people have done regularly? Have never even heard of it before! I wondered what 2 guys were doing to the roof of a local 1960's bungalow a while back. They were more professional* (using ladders) but they were doing just that, removing the grot and moss etc that had accumulated during the past 60-odd years. The result? The roof sticks out like a sore thumb even today as it's now a different colour from all its neighbours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 3 hours ago, Zelandeth said: Well this looks safe! Currently someone is just walking around on the roof, on their own as far as I can see, for some reason pressure washing the roof. Yes there are cars parked roadside both sides just out of frame which are getting showered with the spray off as well. Is this a thing that people have done regularly? Have never even heard of it before! This is nothing! Nothing! A mere bagatelle! When Maplin Electronics used to have a branch in Burnt Oak, I visited quite regularly and would park in a nearby residential street. Imagine my surprise when I looked up one afternoon to see a team of Indian builders working on a house. They had got to the re-roofing stage, and it dawned on me that they had no scaffolding of any kind - just some strategically-placed ladders and their own sense of balance, and they were quite happily running along the roof apex or going up and down the roof tiles. No safety lines, no PPE, no nothing. Just the agility of cats, albeit cats with tools. Dunno what the local Health & Safety made of it, but I reckon they'd have been apoplectic if they'd seen that lot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stanky Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 4 hours ago, Zelandeth said: Well this looks safe! Currently someone is just walking around on the roof, on their own as far as I can see, for some reason pressure washing the roof. Yes there are cars parked roadside both sides just out of frame which are getting showered with the spray off as well. Is this a thing that people have done regularly? Have never even heard of it before! GrumpiusMaximus and robinmasters 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 1 hour ago, brownnova said: You know you’re winning at life when you get a message offering you an american minivan to accompany the one you already have... Anyone fancy a very tidy Chevrolet Venture 3.5 auto? I know of one for sale! This thing looks absolutely delicious. Sadly bank balance and space requirements firmly say no. Would be fun to put Vauxhall badges on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 13 hours ago, brownnova said: You know you’re winning at life when you get a message offering you an american minivan to accompany the one you already have... Anyone fancy a very tidy Chevrolet Venture 3.5 auto? I know of one for sale! i first thought it was a sintra Floatylight 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrcento Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 Just now, stuboy said: i first thought it was a sintra Because it is. Just one of the LHD US variants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 16 hours ago, Spurious said: I think that's natural selection at work there now. Or at least a broken femur. Edit. Forgot to post this one actually from a few weeks back. Aluminium ladder on a van roof. What could possibly go wrong... 15 hours ago, wuvvum said: That's a professional looking outfit - knackered ex-Parcel Force Sprinter and a non-matching pair of ladders... wonder if it has any chasis... 14 hours ago, Spurious said: It's all okay though, they've got hi-vis vests on that'll save them definitely.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorrisItalSLX Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 1 hour ago, brownnova said: You know you’re winning at life when you get a message offering you an american minivan to accompany the one you already have... Anyone fancy a very tidy Chevrolet Venture 3.5 auto? I know of one for sale! Worth it for the upholstery alone. brownnova 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 21 hours ago, brownnova said: Right, which one of you drove past my house, saw the Pontiac and left this all over the road outside.... You dirty buggers you... due to covid i just stayed at home... brownnova 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazoli Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 I bought this today It needs de-barrying a little and the ecu sending off to noobtune but it's a solid old bus and it's a colour I've never seen before. wuvvum, gm, FakeConcern and 12 others 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 1 hour ago, Jazoli said: I bought this today It needs de-barrying a little and the ecu sending off to noobtune but it's a solid old bus and it's a colour I've never seen before. Can't tell on my phone screen but is that a dark blue or more of a dark brown? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 louiepj, Tadhg Tiogar, Yoss and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazoli Posted April 8, 2021 Share Posted April 8, 2021 6 hours ago, SiC said: Can't tell on my phone screen but is that a dark blue or more of a dark brown? It's a dark brown Once I've polished it up I'll post a pic as it's quite unusual. SiC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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