What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[purplebargeken]

That shouldn't exist ^^

 

Only due to the fact that it looks too fucking gorgeous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

[Tamworthbay]

It pisses on a Bentley continental from a great height looks wise.

[dollywobbler]

That's Gerry Lloyd's handiwork. I met him earlier this year for a feature in MG Enthusiast. Here are some more shots.

 

BMW 4-Series roof, merged onto an MG ZT.

 

Interior is a mixture of 75 and BMW. Note door shuts, which work around hinge points for the rear doors (still there, but now part of the structure).

 

He also made this. Note the 75 Tourer opening rear window and the fact that all the brightwork is in oak.

 

He also made this, which I had a drive of. Very, very strange and the wipers work at both ends!

[purplebargeken]

^^ He is one of those mad genius types isn't he. 

 

Wow, just wow. I love the Coupe.

[dollywobbler]

He certainly is. I know what his next project is as well. I can't say anything, but it'll make the above seem quite sensible.

[purplebargeken]

:)

[purplebargeken]

He needs to do a convertible. 

[dollywobbler]

Yeah, everyone tells him that apparently, but he's not keen. He certainly has the skills to do it if he so wished, but he just doesn't like convertibles.

[purplebargeken]

Shame

 

Then he should go 4x4 off roader lol.

[Supernaut]

Shame

 

Then he should go 4x4 off roader lol.

 

There was a prototype found in Longbridge. A 75 estate, jacked up with AWD and plastic cladding, Audi Allroad style.

[trigger]

That coupe is the car Rover/MG should have made.

[dollywobbler]

I reckon it's actually more attractive than Rover's own in-house design.

[beko1987]

That looks like an audi TT by the rear windows

[oldcars]

Just ordered 2 new side repeaters for the 75 for £9. Bargain, the originals have been tatty since i got it but not willing to pay rimmer prices for them.

[inconsistant]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaqZoph265U

[strangeangel]

Some very bad news has meant I've been doing a lot of driving recently...  the BX has quietly managed to rack up 2000 miles in the last 11 days without FTP or other drama I could well do without. I am very grateful  - both to the old heap itself, and to the legion of previous benevolent 'shiter owners who have helped it to live this long.

[Skizzer]

+1 on Gerry Lloyd's 75 Coupe being a stunningly beautiful car - and the skill and effort that must have gone into it is humbling.

 

Meanwhile, my grin is I had a ride around in this earlier:

 

 

It belongs to a friend of mine who has spent the last 12 years building and fettling it. It's a replica of course, but a good one, and it's all sorts of fabulous - looks, noise, oomph, impracticality, atmosphere, little bits of lovely engineering.

[seth]

I now have that nice satisfying feeling of another holiday racked up with completely trouble free motoring in a stupidly modified 48 year old car, including over 400 miles while fully loaded (inc. bikes on the roof and towing the trailer tent) and a couple of hundred more along the byways of mid-Wales. 

[dollywobbler]

I now have that nice satisfying feeling of another holiday racked up with completely trouble free motoring in a stupidly modified 48 year old car, including over 400 miles while fully loaded (inc. bikes on the roof and towing the trailer tent) and a couple of hundred more along the byways of mid-Wales. 

 

Ah, so that's how you lowered it! Sheer weight.

[Rover414]

I decided to go on a little drive with the blue RX8 today, from Liverpool to Windermere, on the way into Bowness I decided to go up Kirkstone Pass which I had never been up before, here it is just by the Kirkstone Pass Inn:

 

[M'coli]

Autoshite on Radio 4! I believe it's Vin's Fiat Panda that features at about 15 minutes in.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07q1zbm

[dollywobbler]

Autoshite on Radio 4! I believe it's Vin's Fiat Panda that features.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07q1zbm

 

Sorry, don't think it is. At least, I know the chap who did take his Panda to London to meet folk off t'radio.

[M'coli]

I thought it was his blue Mk1, or does that belong to someone else? I'm guessing as I don't know Vin's real name.

[dollywobbler]

I thought it was his blue Mk1, or does that belong to someone else? I'm guessing as I don't know Vin's real name.

 

I think there are a few blue Mk1 survivors. Gavin was the chap I know. I think he even managed to impress Suzi Perry with it if I remember rightly.

[M'coli]

That's the guy's name who's mentioned. I stand corrected! (Although I did put "I believe" to cover myself!)

[dollywobbler]

Now with pictures! But not of Gavin.

[Noel Tidybeard]

i think the rovoid pickup would be nicerer without the pisswat lights

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I wouldn't mind trying to impress Suzy Perry with it , sorry, I digress.

 

My grin is cars , how do they know just when to misbehave and more importantly not?

 

My work Merc has been in the fold for exactly 1 year today, next week it's due it's 3rd Council Inspection under my stewardship. I've taken it from 132,000 to 221,000 and was sort of thinking that maybe I should cut my losses and change it. Because I'm skint that would involve about £10k of finance in one form or another and because I'm quite happy with the thing , I decided at about 2 pm today to keep it. I booked the test appointment, bought a pair of tyres and ordered a pair of rear springs- I'm sure one or both is broken and it sits far too low ,.

 

Anyway off to a job at 6pm and......

Yes it broke! Engine mount, I think , felt a bump from n/s/f corner and harsh vibration, I switched off and felt engine 'shudder' . After checking visually best I could I crept back the 1/2 mile home and will worry about it tomorrow- hopefully I can do it myself with bottle jacks and hammers, worse outcome is it costs a couple of hundred quid.

 

Luckily I was doing 20 mph and half a mile from home , i could quite easily have been 300 miles away going quite fast. A good car will look after you, I'm convinced of it.

[Slartibartfast]

This gif

https://imgur.com/orPc0Dg.gifv

[Mr A Lawrence]

They used to deliver bus chassis like that to the optare factory in crossgates just outside Leeds back in the day.

 

Hastily applied lights and a guy in a flying jacket and a crash helmet.

 

Then health and safety took over