What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[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

[Cavcraft]

Bit sad I suppose, but always fancied getting the train to work as the changeover location is a smallish town, and the next line is a proper old style hardly used job.

5.38 out of Chester duly caught, changed at Helsby then look at the carriage I got in next!

 

 

 

[michael1703]

Did you see Jeremy corbyn?

[purplebargeken]

Yeah, he tripped over him by the doors. 

[bub2006]

Work quiet this mor ing so getting g paid to sit down and watch the valeti g

[Bucketeer]

I just started my first ever engine using a cranking handle. And it was a 7 litre V8. And both my arms are still attached to my torso.

[Slartibartfast]

How did this come about?

[Vin]

Now with pictures! But not of Gavin.

 

Ah, no that was not me...that Panda does indeed belong to Gavin...although the two vehicles have met before...Autoitalia 2011...