What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[AMC Rebel]

I rented a smiley face Transit from a local garage a few times - it had 400K miles on it and drove better than some of the much lower mileage ones I've driven. 

[RoadworkUK]

A Catalina just flew over low and banked sharply over my house!

 

After sprinting to the front garden to see what the din was, I had to dash back through to the back picking up whatever was the closest camera on the way, by the time I was ready to take a shot it was a vanishing dot.

 

 

What a wonderful noise though.

[strangeangel]

A while back I changed the rattling camchain in my C90. Never done one before, and was doubly careful because I have a huge sentimental attachment to this little bike far in excess of its monetary value. Job done, I test rode it to the next village to buy fuel. It ran like a top, I filled it up and rode home, pleased with my day's work.

 

It cut out about half a mile from home and refused to run again. I pushed it home and pulled it all apart again, convinced I had made some terrible mistake. I whipped the covers off and checked all the timing marks, tried it again - nothing. I took the head off to check the valvegear - all OK. Firmly convinced that I'd killed it I pushed it to the back of the garage. I threw a sheet over it cos I couldn't even look at it, so gutted was I because of what I'd done.

 

Weeks later I'm talking to a good mate who, unlike me, is a gifted engineer. Chuck it in the car, he says, and I'll sort it. So we had a run out to North Wales!

 

 

When I arrived home there was a text waiting for me:

 

It was running an hour after you left. Carb was full of crap.

 

 

It never occurred to me to check anything not related to what I'd just done. 'Grin' doesn't even begin to describe it

[daveb47]

Just been given an automatic orange peeler.....

Been round the shops and they dont sell automatic oranges,

no wonder they gave it away.

[sierraman]

Not fucking about at scrapyards with carefully removing trim to get to a part. Needed a door lock for a Focus today. Bollocks to unscrewing 50 self tappers, couple off then rip the bastard off with my hands. Quite satisfying!

[jakebullet]

I started using the new style postage labels for sending my ebay crap. Royal mail are encouraging me to do it with the carrot of free delivery confirmation coming soon.

 

Grin is in the 1000 items I've sent I've had 3 scallies tell me I've still not got my item m8!!!! Normally I'd be knackered and they'd get a freebie. Told them my items have a 3D barcode on them, and if they'd like to open a case with ebay I can then access royal mail's GPS delivery records and will know exactly where their item was delivered to. For some reason not heard anything more from any of them

[bub2006]

Not fucking about at scrapyards with carefully removing trim to get to a part. Needed a door lock for a Focus today. Bollocks to unscrewing 50 self tappers, couple off then rip the bastard off with my hands. Quite satisfying!

As anyone who can recall my delicate approach to getting a focus central locking module off a scrapper at Albert looms last year I feel your pain

[Tamworthbay]

As anyone who can recall my delicate approach to getting a focus central locking module off a scrapper at Albert looms last year I feel your pain

EXACTLY what I was thinking when I read it! Who needs a hammer when you have Bubs boot.

[bub2006]

It came off didn't it?!

[Tamworthbay]

Oh joy, need to replace the shed roof today, why the grin thread? Because instead of taking most of the day as expected I managed it in an hour flat, including sealing all the joints. That leaves this afternoon to clean and strip the carb from the dolomite.

[bub2006]

If I'd have known you was off work I'd have popped in. Around an hour ago I was passing your door stop

[Tamworthbay]

If I'd have known you was off work I'd have popped in. Around an hour ago I was passing your door stop

that's a shame mate, you would have been more than welcome to drop in. Carb is now cleaned out, new filter installed (last one was gunky after less than 50 miles) and sorted the dodgy earth on the front indicator but think it will come back again as it's still playing silly beggars.

[dollywobbler]

I may not have fallen in love with it entirely, but over the past few days, I have caught a train to London, bought a £280 car built in 1987, then driven it to Sussex, Portsmouth, Derbyshire, Birmingham and back home to Wales, covering over 500 miles. Cheap cars are ace.

[quicksilver]

https://flic.kr/p/Jw94QB

Is it just me or is that a Dacia Denem on the forecourt behind the bus?

Before you get too excited, the photo was taken in 1988 so everything there is probably long gone.

[nacho man]

Can't find the thread about nevarras but this has just been dumped at the workshop next to ours.

 

 

 

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[spike60]

I was given a trailer made from a 70's Mazda pickup with a chassis like that!

[Guest Biggus Dickus]

Not fucking about at scrapyards with carefully removing trim to get to a part. Needed a door lock for a Focus today. Bollocks to unscrewing 50 self tappers, couple off then rip the bastard off with my hands. Quite satisfying!

 

Went to the scrapyard to get a Focus door trim. Found a car with the right trim but some fud had ripped the card off with his hands rather than spend 4 minutes undoing 7 screws. Quite unsatisfying.

[myglaren]

New ticket, no advisories, a month early.

Four new tyres (Sailun - that I have wanted to try for a couple of years) from Camskill, £179 delivered and rear brake pads was all that was needed and I knew about the tyres, ordered on Monday.

[cobblers]

our lass was driving us to waste some time at a retail park and I saw an old bag of shit mk3 golf coming round the roundabout, only it seemed familiar. It was missing loads of trim, covered in primer etc etc.

 

It was my old one! I "sold" it back to my mate about 2 years ago and he just left it sat outside on his drive leaking gallons of water in going hilariously mouldy but never paid me for it apart from giving me a few pairs of speakers and a load of shit he didn't want. It was fairly rusty to start with and was not far off 200k extremely hard miles, I thought it was deffo bean tin material. I only really wanted a few quid for the wheels and wank ebay coilovers but couldn't be arsed to scrap it myself so asked him for about 100 quid or something

 

anyway after leaving it to fester into a stinking vinegary damp mess, he sold it to some maniac who said he was gonna sort it out as a family car to tow his caravan (in a 1.9NA diesel!) and by the looks of the tow bar, he has! Quite a surprise to see it about 20 miles away from home.

 

 

 

Back in happier times:

[LC Torana]

Can't find the thread about nevarras but this has just been dumped at the workshop next to ours.

 

 

 

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Is that scissor jack structural?

[xtriple]

Having advertised for a cleaner to help me with the horrible task of sorting the flat out and keeping it so, I was rewarded this morning with a very pretty young lady keen for the job.  She is VERY pretty, very young and bound to be absolutely fucking useless! She spent an hour here this morning (not working just chatting about the job and stuff) and spent 45 minutes on her phone and 15 playing with the dogs... this does not bode well.

 

Still, she is extremely decorative so maybe I'll pay her shit loads just to sit around, drink coffee and annoy me and then pay someone else to actually do the cleaning

[oldcars]

Mate just bought a lovely Rover 213. 

[fordperv]

Xtriple You could always get her to polish your knob

 

A Bentley and a cleaner your living the dream

[AMC Rebel]

 

Attracted quite a crowd - full story -

 

http://lincolnshirereporter.co.uk/2016/08/man-charged-with-mobility-scooter-drink-driving-after-skegness-mcdonalds-standoff/

 

[beko1987]

I treat myself to a new front wiper blade last thursday, and today it rained on the way home (stopped whilst I commuted yesterday and this morning) and it's bloody excellent! Wipes with no smears, better than the ebay special I had did.

 

It's one of those mitchelin hybrid ones from Asda, down to £7.50 atm

[The Moog]

Simple pleasures!

[cobblers]

Having advertised for a cleaner to help me with the horrible task of sorting the flat out and keeping it so, I was rewarded this morning with a very pretty young lady keen for the job.  She is VERY pretty, very young and bound to be absolutely fucking useless! She spent an hour here this morning (not working just chatting about the job and stuff) and spent 45 minutes on her phone and 15 playing with the dogs... this does not bode well.

 

Still, she is extremely decorative so maybe I'll pay her shit loads just to sit around, drink coffee and annoy me and then pay someone else to actually do the cleaning

 

Just make sure you hide your cash well cos she's probably not stupid.

[xtriple]

Just make sure you hide your cash well cos she's probably not stupid.

What cash?

 

[cobblers]

I should have known better after reading the Bentley thread!

[dollywobbler]

Simple pleasures!

Good wipers are one of life's great pleasures. Anything less than perfect is one of life's great fails. I really like the RAVs wipers. I can't really fathom why.