What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[michael1703]

Where've you been hiding ?

[dollywobbler]

Remember the dealer who was trying to hardball me on price over that shabby XJ40? He was pretending he had a seller offering him £950. Well, I got a text the other day saying that the 'buyer' never collected. Who would have thought it? I'm bloody glad I talked myself out of that car. I reckon it'd be an absolute nightmare. 

[trigger]

Driving though Colchester today i drove pass a little old lady in a faded red E reg (E*** CHJ) Fiesta 1.4 Ghia Mk2 whos clearly owned it since new, other than the faded Rosso red it looked pretty damn spotless, it cheered me right up still knowing cars like that are out there and haven't all be bought by OSF window lickers with banded wheels.

[HMC]

Used the Withnail Jag to go out on a family day trip at the weekend. Succeeded in having the thirstiest, oldest, shabbiest car in the car park, which made me smile....

[cobblers]

Driving though Colchester today i drove pass a little old lady in a faded red E reg (E*** CHJ) Fiesta 1.4 Ghia Mk2 whos clearly owned it since new, other than the faded Rossa red it looked pretty damn spotless, it cheered me right up still knowing cars like that are out there and haven't all be bought by OSF window lickers with banded wheels.

Yeah, today there was a (surprisingly young) bloke in Morrisons driving a D reg Wedgewood Blue MK2 fiesta 1.1, it was lovely, dead original with the red vinyl badges on the back. I was going to go up to him and bother him about it if he stopped but he was on his way out. There's really not many of them left that haven't been ruined by idiots like me when I was 17 turning them into "XR2s"

[Cheggers]

I had my first "scary clown" encounter while out for a run last night. I thought clowns were supposed to react well to being laughed at...

[bub2006]

A clown jumped out on me id have chinned him. Got judge dread album on in van. Getting a few odd looks raises a grin!

[Guest Hooli]

Found out about this very British thing today

 

https://deeperunderstandingoftea.co.uk/blogs/news/132802243-the-year-great-britain-bought-all-the-tea-in-the-world

[beko1987]

Our finance director at work is 50 today, and bought everyone in the office a pizza for his birthday! The local backstreet pizza place must have loved that phone call, over 370! I feel very full now, I bet it's all expensed back to the company though

[darkfour]

I survived Hurricane Matthew and more importantly so did the convertible!

 

Here's what greeted me when I got back home     

 

 

Some of the local roads (this is about 20 minutes or so from my house) didn't fare so well

 

 

 

[Sheefag]

I'm across the State in Cape Coral. Apart from a very 'sporty' landing at RSW last Thursday evening, we've had nothing like the weather you guys on the Atlantic copped for.

[barmatt]

Getting excited for a new toy.

 

Off to pick up my Wbod tomorrow lunchtime, probably won't do a collection thread as it's only just over an hour away and a mate is giving me a lift. Things I am expecting from this motor are...

 

Terrible mpg

Rubbish at going round corners

allegedly they explode at the slightest whiff of a collision

 

wcpgw?

[oldcars]

Getting excited for a new toy.

 

Off to pick up my Wbod tomorrow lunchtime, probably won't do a collection thread as it's only just over an hour away and a mate is giving me a lift. Things I am expecting from this motor are...

 

Terrible mpg

Rubbish at going round corners

allegedly they explode at the slightest whiff of a collision

 

wcpgw?

My Reliant gives good mpg 

[barmatt]

My Reliant gives good mpg 

Your Reliant would probably fit in the back of it.

[richbraith]

My car was happy as I left it with a friend to talk to in Tesco car park.

[Timewaster]

^^^ It is about time we had another thread titled "Crap face lifts" or something similar.

 

Cue lots of pictures of late 80s Fiats.

[dome]

Getting excited for a new toy.

 

Off to pick up my Wbod tomorrow lunchtime, probably won't do a collection thread as it's only just over an hour away and a mate is giving me a lift. Things I am expecting from this motor are...

 

Terrible mpg

Rubbish at going round corners

allegedly they explode at the slightest whiff of a collision

 

wcpgw?

Grand Cherokee?

[Guest Hooli]

Getting excited for a new toy.

 

Off to pick up my Wbod tomorrow lunchtime, probably won't do a collection thread as it's only just over an hour away and a mate is giving me a lift. Things I am expecting from this motor are...

 

Terrible mpg

Rubbish at going round corners

allegedly they explode at the slightest whiff of a collision

 

wcpgw?

Leyland Olympian.

[dome]

Danny McCaskills latest video. The boy is a legend on a bike.

 

https://www.redbull.com/uk/en/bike/stories/1331821751376/danny-macaskill-wee-day-out

[scaryoldcortina]

Conor and I took a road trip today

 

 

It was only* a 400 mile round trip, but worth it.

 

 

Doncaster pit stop

 

 

And home.

[dollywobbler]

Ace!

[Des]

 

 

A-frame?

[panhard65]

Conor and I took a road trip today

 

 

It was only* a 400 mile round trip, but worth it.

 

 

Doncaster pit stop

 

 

And home.

Has Geoff found a new home then ????? I was getting worried that I might have to buy him back for a while there.

[Ghosty]

How did you fit Nick Frost in the boot of a Smart?

[Mr A Lawrence]

Tv adverts make me grin.

 

Especially the ones that use common, copyrighted theme tunes but alter them ever so slightly as to not pay a fee to use the original.

 

They sound like someone has asked a band to play a well known song by humming it to them. Badly.

 

Two that spring to mind are one that uses the friends theme and one for life insurance that uses the chariots of fire tune.

 

Also, on cars that made Britain great they did a piece with a lotus in it and you could just hear a version of the bond theme played by a baboon that's found a bass guitar somewhere!!

[Slappy]

I had my first "scary clown" encounter while out for a run last night. I thought clowns were supposed to react well to being laughed at...

 

The local facebook gossip page keeps posting "sightings", seems to be a thing at the moment. A couple of years ago there was a lad, about 15 years old who walked into shops in the area and just stood there freaking the customers and staff out. Maybe it was him

[AMC Rebel]

Followed a very mucky Skoda Felicia lx yesterday - looked like it hadn't been washed since new - it had "Fabia VRS" written on the tailgate in scrapyard marker pen.

 

After a million years of speaking his stuff - albeit to music at times, John Cooper Clare has started singing - what next?

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Today has been a good day,

MOT'd the Arosa, needed discs and pads plus 3 tyres( part worn winters for OMGSNOKAOS) £150 including ticket. Ready for another year of teenage abuse.

Replaced lower suspension arm on the Merc, £47 from Euro's , I know it'll be made of cheese, but genuine ones on,y last for 50,000 miles and they cost £130. Even as a mechanical idiot I managed this myself in 45 minutes- BFO hammer FTW!

Went to a posh MILF Fat Club to get weighed as I keep missing my Tuesday one, and I've lost a couple of pounds, making it 30 in total( not that it shows)

Got the dog groomed and fitted a new outside lamp.

I am feckin' Superman !

Just spoke to insurance co. Ref. No.2 Daughters C Class bump- £550 less £30 for the salvage- do I buy a bumper or just gaffer tape it? The C will be Cat C, but as I paid £300 for it and don't intend to sell it , I'm calling this one a win!

[Ghosty]

Guess what I'm up to...

 

 

Do you feel like we do?

[Bobthebeard]

My next door neighbour makes me grin. A lovely Polish lady who just takes care of everything when we are away. We are away a lot. She puts the bins out, takes delivery of my many parcels and is an all round good egg. She is also ever so slightly attractive but I won't dwell on that due to being happily married. Just a nice person in a world where nice people are thin on the ground.