What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[bub2006]

Did a few miles. Car worked out high 40s mpg

[angle]

My uncle has a photo studio down the road, they asked if they could borrow one of his cars to try out their expensive new camera.

 

 

Wibble

[Kiltox]

No need me or no need the other bloke?

 

Tbh I don't care about all these duplicate threads but some people do. Maybe we do need a read me sticky like Ghosty says it could stop a bit of it.

The other bloke.

 

Some forums make you read something before you join - maybe a “post these things in these threads you thundercunt” would be good

[Guest Hooli]

Dropped down to Cardiff on Sunday. Then up to devils bridge and Aberystwyth via elan valley. Beautiful views.

 

You'll wear it out Bub!

 

 

Out of interest is there a mileage limit on mobility cars?

[bub2006]

Yes,20k a year. Anything over I need to pay.

[Guest Hooli]

20k? That's a decent limit.

 

Hitting it about november then?

[beko1987]

My dad did 80k in his motability car over the last 3 years, got lumped with about £700 in charges. Luckily he had some of it saved up, but bear it in mind. £250 rebate for the car being in good order helped a bit I think

[robinmasters]

Two grins; looking at Streetview of Bexhill reminded me of a couple of things.

 

I used to drink in the pub on the left. Mathilde's Kitchen, or the shop next to it, used to be a secondhand bookshop. The owner would sit in the pub, if a customer turned up he'd walk across the road with his pint-he begrudged doing this.

 

 

The local Four Candles shop. I worked nearby, and this is where new staff were sent for a 'long weight', 'sky hooks' etc. The owner usually played along.

 

[clayts450]

Did they sell left-handed screwdrivers and tartan paint ?

[Mr A Lawrence]

Or 5ltrs of Matt Monroe? 

 

Or tins of Matt gloss?

[Roobarb]

[bub2006]

My dad did 80k in his motability car over the last 3 years, got lumped with about £700 in charges. Luckily he had some of it saved up, but bear it in mind. £250 rebate for the car being in good order helped a bit I think

That's my thinking. If I do go over,say by 10k then it's 500 quid in charges. Which is less than 2 months payments were I to go on a hp for the car. And the 250 quid rebate would soften it also. I'm not aiming to go over my mileage but I am putting a bit each month away!

[The Moog]

The clatter of XUDs in the morning. Yesterday both the 305 and 406 were started and left idling away, clattering in our cul de sac, looked like a scene from Apocalypse Now with clag drifting over the battlefield. 

 

 Neighbour comes out with their TDCI and that starts straight up and is quiet.. not quite the same 

[Cavcraft]

Sorry if we have already had this one.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zeBIxI7n1I&sns=em

 

 

This video complies with our intetests!

May as well shut YouTube now, that is singularly THE best video ever seen.

 

(Note to self: email Chester council with idea for city centre trams)

[busmansholiday]

Sister spotted this in Lowestoft yesterday....

[dollywobbler]

Dropped down to Cardiff on Sunday. Then up to devils bridge and Aberystwyth via elan valley. Beautiful views.

 

You got lucky with the weather! We've barely seen the sun this year. Typical that I was up in Blackburn when the sun shone back home.

[Talbot]

The clatter of XUDs in the morning. Yesterday both the 305 and 406 were started and left idling away, clattering in our cul de sac, looked like a scene from Apocalypse Now with clag drifting over the battlefield.

[DodgeRover]

That's my thinking. If I do go over,say by 10k then it's 500 quid in charges. Which is less than 2 months payments were I to go on a hp for the car. And the 250 quid rebate would soften it also. I'm not aiming to go over my mileage but I am putting a bit each month away!

Ahem, mileage correction services are available should you find your mileometer has been over reading. Ask a private hire driver in a new car for a recommendation.

[AMC Rebel]

I'll tell you what made me grin - the look on the face of the weapons-grade bellend in a new white X5 who rolled up alongside me at the motorway roundabout expecting he was going to outdrag me and loop around to make a right turn across me without indicating.  Priceless when he couldn't.

[M'coli]

Sister spotted this in Lowestoft yesterday....IMG-20180222-WA0000.jpg

I'd rather drink my own piss!

[Tamworthbay]

I'd rather drink my own piss!

It’s the same thing isn’t it?

[Cavcraft]

I’ve been upgraded from a ‘buffed up piss spoon’ at work to ‘Small cock Billy (whose) growing his beard hair and bum hair listening to Radio 1 riding round in a hairdresser’s Ford Puma having a mid life crisis’

[andy18s]

You make that sound like it's a bad thing

[M'coli]

It’s the same thing isn’t it?

No, my pish has more taste and body!

[Guest Hooli]

It’s the same thing isn’t it?

 

Nah that's fosters.

[Ghosty]

Went to buy a new office chair, and who should I find to sell me one but Junkman’s acquaintance John of the mintola blue R16! Did me a good deal too

[hairnet]

Iceland air the ticket has written on it

 

Oh you can't check in online

 

Got a email this morning

 

Click here to check in

 

Wtf does Ryanair run them too

[bub2006]

You got lucky with the weather! We've barely seen the sun this year. Typical that I was up in Blackburn when the sun shone back home.

Don't let the pictures mislead. It was around 5 degrees and blowing a gale. The mountain road to Aberystwyth was fun. I was amazed at the artic wagon in front of me and how he handled it.

[Saabnut]

Major grin day today! I aquired a Holden Suburban to be the new tow barge from a friend a few weeks ago, where it had been parked in the open on a Scottish hillside for the last 3 years. A couple of weeks was spent replacing rotten pipes etc before getting it home where I have been slowly getting it ready for MOT. This morning was warm(ish) and sunny, and before doing anything to any of the motors decided to do a tip run with the Saab. On my way back, I called in to see my MOT man to see when he had a slot available, only to be told to bring it in at 1630!

Returned home, did a few final checks and duly turned up for a test. All was going well until he spotted a damp patch on a rusty fuel line, but after promises from me, and threats from him, he put it down as an advisory and it now has a years MOT. Got home and replaced the rusty section of fuel line with some proper petrol hose, so all is good. Will tax it next week and see what it is like, but I am happy.

 

 

[Slappy]

Popped to Tesco after work, parked up, got phone out as I was walking down the path to the shop and then caught something out of the corner of my eye.....

 

So far, so nothing really unusual for us lot.... until I heard the second time "Oh do you like our Maya".

 

"Ah balls", thought I, "I've finally been caught taking pics of someones else's car". Do I a) run away very quickly b ) apologise profusely for I am British or c) chat to the owners slightly awkwardly for 10 minutes.... because I'm British?

 

The answer was C and I'm glad I did actually. 'Maya' is a 1.6 GLX Auto (sorry, not a Penza), it was a retired husband and wife who were coming back to their car and it was his late mother's from new. The wife did most of the talking, amazed that someone so young was interested in a car so old (we're the same age) and was gently trying to encourage the husband to part ways with the car to me for a suitable price!

 

I explained that I was on a car forum where we love cars exactly like this, to which the wife said that they had put it up for sale last year for £2,000, and I have their number in case anyone might be interested...

 

I was then given the tour, apparently it's been garaged it's entire life, sunroof has "probably" never been opened. There were a few scratches around the wings, but I didn't spot any obvious welding, though the husband did say that a rear suspension turret has been worked on after a spring broke. The inside looked even better, no obvious signs of wear on anything despite actually having done about 46k, it just looked all very honest to be honest.

 

It was a nice local car too, to finish off (along with noticing that there was a rear wiper through the rear glass on a saloon, unheard of now) here's the original dealer sticker....