What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[michael1703]

Interesting model 'boat' spotted the other day. Boat & small child do not belong to me.

 

http://youtu.be/xuR6Jb3tYw4

Are you sure it's not a "hoovercraft"?

[bramz7]

Went to a local Morrisons earlier to see if there was any old stuff parked up. Found a nice F reg 5 series.

I then went to leave, and came across a ratty 1991 Escort.

I then went to leave again, and came across a mint 405 GTX saloon.

I then went to leave again, and a nice Xantia parked up nearby. 

 

!!!

[Coprolalia]

Recently moved 150 miles across the Severn for work. Now living somewhere with no car storage, where I know no-one interested in cars, and away from my friendly independents. This is not a grin.

The grin is I think I've found an amazing new garage to use. Father, son, wife does accounting, been there 40 years, father races mk1 Lotus Cortina's, the building smells of warm oil, dog and tea. The daily driver parked outside is a ratty e30 M325i. Being worked on - an early Mini Cooper and a mechanically straight but dowdy Humber Sceptre. Asking about getting some work done, their response- "Whenever is good for you, it's just the long termers in at the moment". The long termers being a mint-looking Lotus Espirit, a 40s Austin in pieces and something very low to the ground under a tarp.

 

I thought places like this didn't exist anymore!

[vulgalour]

This is my friend's racing car.

 

 

 

This is a replica of my friend's racing car.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/mgf-x-power-replica-car-mg-mgf-convertible-/152223947455

 

 

He's pretty chuffed about it as it's a sort of recognition to put on the massive pile of class win and sometimes race win trophies he's amassed from being a really very good driver.  He's a not a professional racer (he'd like to be), he's a professional mechanic who races in his spare time, sometimes for the garage he works for if they need a driver for their car.

[vulgalour]

Car insurance renewal sorted out today.  Time to switch, like it is every year.  I could have stayed with Admiral had a £36 a year saving, or I could jump ship and go with Tesco who were going to save me a whopping £170 a year.  That's a bit of a no-brainer.  I even keep the drive-other-cars option for just £305 a year on the Rover.  The Rover is nearly as cheap to insure on a regular policy now as the Princess is on a classic policy, it just keeps winning.

[overrun]

This is my friend's racing car.

 

Does he live in Scarborough, by any chance?

[vulgalour]

No, he lives in Lincolnshire.

[bramz7]

Not sure if it's a grin or not but I saw a 'proper' rusty car today. I at first thought the door was just dodgy but the rear arch had completely disappeared by the rear bumper too. I thought these Civics were meant to be fairly resilient, but there we go.

[overrun]

No, he lives in Lincolnshire.

 

Fair enough.

Just I was in Scarbados collecting some trailer ramps and the seller had amongst other things, an MGF track car that looked a lot like this one.

Although I can't recall the specifics.

 

Given that the owner also owns a Formula Ford, and seems handy behind the wheel, I thought I'd ask!

[Sheefag]

There's a discussion about comedy going on in 'The Grumpy Old Men' thread.

[fordperv]

how ironic 😀

[UmBongo]

Narcos on Netflix is pretty good and there are loads of clean looking 80's shitboxes to be seen.

[Sheefag]

That's the kind of talk that got Keith Vaz into bother.

[Ghosty]

Not sure if it's a grin or not but I saw a 'proper' rusty car today. I at first thought the door was just dodgy but the rear arch had completely disappeared by the rear bumper too. I thought these Civics were meant to be fairly resilient, but there we go.

 

 

They really aren't, they do like to rot. Rear arches in particular. 

One of our old ones had the sills bodged with a dremel for a grinder and some fibreglass by Old Man not long before he sold it.

[purplebargeken]

On the way home from work in St. Albans this afternoon and saw a bloody minty mint 2CV buzzing along in the opposite direction. Bright yellow and looked gorgeous.

[purplebargeken]

Fuck it. Just lobbed a bid on something silver, French and fairly local to me. 

 

Bollocks to it

[Tayne]

This:

 

 

 

 

Turning into this:

 

 

 

[Jazoli]

 

 

Great shopping list on the doors

 

[Jazoli]

 

Didn't realise the church had become quite so liberal

[beko1987]

Been taken to the pub because birthday, and a surprise game of cat piss tarp challenge appeared!

 

 

[Eddie Honda]

Well the white thing I can tell. (Reliant SS1), not sure on the red

[Stanky]

Is the red thing a Ginetta G4?

[beko1987]

The white one is a scimitar, no idea what the red one is.

 

Ive had 4 spitfires now, so went over

 

 

 

[John F]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matra_Djet

 

Apparently Yuri Gagarin (who is a sort of Russian Princess Anne) owned one.

[M'coli]

^^^Matra Djet:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matra_Djet

 

Bollocks:  beaten to it!  Take this!

[John F]

You bastard

[beko1987]

Love the colour!

[purplebargeken]

Quality Street Green

[Tamworthbay]

The white one is a scimitar, no idea what the red one is.

Ive had 4 spitfires now, so went over

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Is it for sale by any chance?

[beko1987]

Doubt it, apparently they've been there years. Their in Crowle, the next village along from chinnor (sf16 railway location).