What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Ghosty]

Not seen this mentioned anywhere on here, but I seem to have recorded "All Aboard: The Country Bus" off BBC4 a few nights back.

 

It's been playing for ten minutes and there's been zero talking, just camera mounted on what appears to be a single decker Optare, driving through the Yorkshire Dales, panning around to see the scenery with the odd fact popping up on screen here and there.

 

Bascially, 2 hours of landscape porn. It'll be on iPlayer for a bit.

 

Edit: Half an hour in and there's some talking when the driver stops and takes a fare. "£1.50 please love" is about the extent of it. You can also hear the indicator bleeper. And now it's back to silent countryside.

 

The mother told me she'd been watching that, she got bored after about ten minutes. 

 

I'll have to give it a watch.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

saw this hero earlier on the way to pick up my cylinder head, just look where the trolley jack is, I think he'd have a headache after an accident

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I think a trolley Jack to the back of the head would be preferable to having to drive a Scenic.

[Inspector Morose]

Is it sad that while watching never say never again on itv4 I've just spotted a BTH210 120hp trolleybus motor in the background?

[AMC Rebel]

There's a fair bit of quality chod in obscure old bongo films - I saw one the other week in which one of the female protagonists turned up in a white LHD SD1 - I think it was on German plates.

[nacho man]

Just sat in the local tyre place getting them to fit my supplied tyres.

 

The bloke on the desk is talking sooooo much shit to people it's outrageous lol proper bollocks spilling out his arse.

 

 

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[andy18s]

Anyone catch the new Jay Leno show in the week?

I only caught 10 mins of it and was all about the Great Era of American Muscle Cars.

He paid a visit to his friend Tim Allen for a chat,but the cameraman always managed to keep this little beauty in the background of most of his shots...

[DVee8]

^^^I watched the first 10-15 mins this morning then Dave playback through a wobble and kicked it off.

[DVee8]

So dragged kicking and screaming around Tesco yesterday,bored lets see what car mags there is.

 

This caught my eye.

 

 

I have read the first 6 pages or so,so far.It seems like a good read.

[andy18s]

There's a village show on in Sudbury,near Eccleshall N Staffs and they are having a classic car show

As I passed the queue to get in there were at least 3 white Metro s going in,1 was a GTA with a GTA reg plate

Other 2 had consecutive reg numbers....

Also going in were a couple of minis,minors and a yugo van.......

[Brodders]

So dragged kicking and screaming around Tesco yesterday,bored lets see what car mags there is.

 

This cought my eye.

 

 

I have read the first 6 pages or so,so far.It seems like a good read.

I picked up a copy of it too and loved the test they had between the 740 & Mk3 Granada. The next issue with the Sierra, Cavalier and Montego face off looks like it will be good too.

[Tamworthbay]

Ordering a curry in precisely 32 minutes............

[beko1987]

2 minutes to go!

 

We had curry last night, I had a vindaloo with 4 beers, was fucking ace!

[Tamworthbay]

Ordered! One chicken tikka Jalfrezi for me on the way! Plus a load of other stuff for everyone else of course....

[richardmorris]

Go Eddie!

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/03/thousands-to-march-for-europe-in-protest-against-brexit/

[fordperv]

I do love a nice curry

[Tetleysmooth]

A couple of Mondays ago, I bought myself a P reg V70 2.5 turbo.

So far, I've replaced the rear pads and front pads and discs. When starting from cold, it fired up immediately, but after a while the revs would drop like it was going to stall.

So today, I attacked it. Fitted a set of plugs, cleaned out the idle control valve and throttle body.

Put it all back together, it hesitated at first, then fired up. Idled at just over a thousand revs, then as it warmed, it settled back to about nine hundred. Spot on. No more fluctuating idle. Ran it for ages and the tickover speed stayed constant.

I'll consider that job jobbed.

Very satisfying. Big grin factor.

More jobs tomorrow.

[drum]

[The Moog]

Did a speed awareness course this afternoon.

 

Aside from some batshit people attending it, it was quite interesting. A bit long at 4 hours.

[M'coli]

Did a speed awareness course this afternoon.

 

Aside from some batshit people attending it, it was quite interesting. A bit long at 4 hours.

Couldn't they have done it any faster?

[Split_Pin]

Forgot about his until now, on Friday I passed an actual Astramax van, E reg, parked in the entrance to a piece of waste ground, multicoloured panels with the owner flytipping out the back.

 

Don't agree with the flytipping but but the scene was totally 1997.

[barmatt]

Got the Roffle Rover in for an mot this morning (my local, friendly tester actually opened up on a Sunday morning to fit me in) the only failure was a split cv boot and 1 advisory for a power steering leak. New boot ordered so we should have a years ticket on it in a couple of days. 

[Pillock]

Forgot about his until now, on Friday I passed an actual Astramax van, E reg, parked in the entrance to a piece of waste ground, multicoloured panels with the owner flytipping out the back.

 

Don't agree with the flytipping but but the scene was totally 1997.

 

Well he's fucked that up - the idea of flytipping in 1997 in a knackered Astramax is that you were completely invisible out on the road.

2016? Ring the police, "Yeah I've seen a multicoloured Astramax flytipping"

"Oh, that'll be Dave the Builder down on the high street. We'll go and have a word"

 

You need to be using a rusty Sprinter really.

[DeeJay]

Must be the politest car forum thread ever.

 

http://www.pakwheels.com/forums/d-i-y-projects/199291-rebuilding-triumph-herald-63-original-convertible-my-son-spitfire

[320touring]

The 335i is back in the game after a good used AFM from Bavarian retro. cheers Boyd!

[BavarianRetro]

You're very welcome.

[michael1703]

MotoGP, what a race!

[michael1703]

Black Sabbath 'War pigs'  @ about 11

Having a music night

Look up black sabbath live in Paris 1970, there's videos on YouTube, tight performance and mental drumming

[DVee8]

Speed with Guy Martin on Ch4 now.

[Sheefag]

[fordperv]

saw this lovely bus last night

 

 

another grin is the speed of post from Hong Kong, I ordered some wing mirrors for my capri and they were here in a couple of days