What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[clayts450]

Looking back at your car after parking up and muttering to self "I fucking love you, car"

 

 

How many modernz owners look back at their car ?

 

 

[DeeJay]

I look back, to check nothing is pissing out.

[wuvvum]

Comfy but even at legal speed it's doing less than 35 mpg auto but mega sensitive kickdown

Don't forget their gallons are smol though.

[Guest Hooli]

^^^ dat tru

 

46.67mpg when converted to proper UK gallons.

[captain_70s]

I look back, to check nothing is pissing out.

I look back to make sure it hasn't rolled away.

[burraston2006]

I have a magic car that repairs itself!

Had to go to a friends wedding all day yesterday. Took the Rangie P38. Parked up and left it all day. After dinner me and the current millstone went for an after dinner stroll. Thought we'd move the car nearer the venue. Central locking decided to take a holiday then put the key in and the magical warning "engine immobilised" appeared on the dash. Did the old 6 turns of the key left 7 right etc and fxxk all happened. As usual the venue was the the middle of nowhere. Called the men in orange and they sent some one out. I explained it's a Range Rover and is immobilised. They sent a small van. Fxxktards. Man said needs to be recovered. No shit Sherlock! Anyway it was cracking on to 11pm by now and it was colder than a polar bears arsehole so I said get us home and recover the car in the morning. The guy was really nice and it turns out he knew my family ( this means I can now hear all the family laughing at us) and he got us home. Car arrived 20 mins ago. Put the key in and the bxstard started first time!

Range Rover P38 repair themselves. Definitely would buy another!

[junkyarddog]

Sunny day,

Old car,

Quiet county roads

 

[dome]

At Race Retro at Stoneleigh.

 

Been for a passenger ride in an ex Carlos Sainz Focus WRC.

 

Ooft

[andy18s]

At Race Retro at Stoneleigh.

 

Been for a passenger ride in an ex Carlos Sainz Focus WRC.

 

Ooft

Was the RS1700T out today?

Watched the live BGM feed of it yesterday where they had turned the boost down to "only" 350 through the rear wheels.....

[eddyramrod]

Sunny day,

Old car,

Quiet county roads

 

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That could be a brochure pic!  Excellent!

[Des]

I look back to make sure it hasn't rolled away.

I've done likewise to find the rotten fucker rolling after me.

[dome]

Was the RS1700T out today?

Watched the live BGM feed of it yesterday where they had turned the boost down to "only" 350 through the rear wheels.....

No, never saw it out sadly.

 

If you're a fan of rally cars this is must. Still slightly on cloud 9.

[busmansholiday]

[purplebargeken]

Just faffed with blue Dolomite in a garage that is in a much better state of tidiness. Yay.

[Supernaut]

 

It's legal here in Oregon... and surprisingly cheap! Very good quality too.

[Cavcraft]

Got absolutely trollied on Sat night for my work’s do/birthday. Woke up yesterday and remembered I’ve agreed to buy a Corsa with a knackered engine. That’s what weekends are made for.

[purplebargeken]

^^ I have never, ever known anyone to have so many works do's. Your lot must be in a permanent state of pissed. Gets you through the day mind.

 

Corsa..... knackered engine...... normal service resumed.

[fordperv]

Got absolutely trollied on Sat night for my work’s do/birthday. Woke up yesterday and remembered I’ve agreed to buy a Corsa with a knackered engine. That’s what weekends are made for.

I've got no excuse I was sober and agreed to buy a 1.2 2005 Corsa C, it is around 55k miles and ive looked after it for the past near 10 years so i know the car

[Jazoli]

I've spent the last 18 months rebuilding relations with my sister after 20 years of ignoring/avoiding each other. We're all the blood-relations each other has left so we've managed to agree that life's too short. We are having brother-sister "dates" in order to make some new, nice, memories. I do often feel like I'm walking on eggs a bit (and I'm very good at trampling them) but it's worth the effort.

 

In other news, I was late finishing work today because I had to take a delivery to Bowness, and the A592 is closed so there's a diversion. So why is this a Grin? Because I went to work in the Cadillac this morning, a Grin in itself; but also, my van was in need of an Italian tune-up, as all it does is go 5 miles at a time, meaning it never really gets up to temp. The diversion sent me all the way to Kendal and into Windermere which is beyond Bowness, and back the same way. Quite a lot of that is dual carriageway and when traffic's light, these are gorgeous roads. Not that I saw much of the scenery, as I was trying to see what speeds I could do in each gear.... within the law obviously officer!* Let's just say, my Transit has well and truly had its lungs cleared.

Excellent "crusty camper" in Windermere too, no photo as I was driving.

That crusty camper lives on the main road down to Bowness, which is probably where you saw it, the local snobs hate it.

[Lord Sterling]

My car broke down the other day. Had it recovered:

 

 

Plastic swirl-flaps needs removing they reckon....

[GrumpiusMaximus]

That crusty camper lives on the main road down to Bowness, which is probably where you saw it, the local snobs hate it.

 

Hah!  I was up that way the other week, visiting a friend in Grasmere.  If I'd known, I would have diverted...

[Coprolalia]

The Scirocco runs. Update soon.

[eddyramrod]

I've got no excuse I was sober and agreed to buy a 1.2 2005 Corsa C, it is around 55k and ive looked after it for the past near 10 years so i know the car

55k is a hell of a lot of money for a Corsa!  Was it hand-made by Aston Martin?

[dollywobbler]

Looking back at your car after parking up and muttering to self "I fucking love you, car"

 

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How many modernz owners look back at their car ?

 

This is a practical and entirely sensible thing to do, and has saved me from a flat battery after leaving the lights on more than once...

[fordperv]

55k is a hell of a lot of money for a Corsa! Was it hand-made by Aston Martin?

The radiator is filled with the tears of the workers from ellesmere port

[Cavcraft]

The radiator is filled with the tears of the workers from ellesmere port

Not in a Corsa it won’t be

[fordperv]

Had a message from fil fp to ask if I had a wet vac as he had spilt some coffee in his footwell, got my Bissell out and this is how much he spilled, it was a big thermos full the plonker

 

 

I had a chuckle

[Slartibartfast]

I did that in my mark 1 focus at least three times because of how terrible the cup holders were. I'd put a full thermos of (thankfully) black coffee in the cupholder, set off for the three hour journey to work and at the first corner it would inevitably tip into the passenger footwell. I tried any number of improvised additions to make it more grippy but none of them worked.

[Datsuncog]

I dream of cupholders.

 

Really. Never had 'em.

 

My biggest disappointment on buying the 156 was realising that no Alfa comes with cupholders. Gutted. I really thought that getting a semi-modern after years of running wrecks would open up a whole new world of pleasure, but it was a disproportionately upsetting discovery.

 

The second-biggest disappointment was the turbo that only seemed to spool up when floored in second gear.

 

The third was the rest of the car.

[xtriple]

Mazda passed it's MOT nay bother Turns out the guy that did it is an old friend of mine (he didn't know it was my car before you all start going on about favouritism!) and he said how clean and rust free it is underneath. Rare he said for an old MK2 as they are usually sieves.  He did fail it first though, turns out I cannot fit a battery in the dark as well as I thought I could as I'd left the retaining bar loose... he failed it for that the miserable old bugger!

 

Not sure if this is a grin tough: the car has done 400 miles in a year! Oh, and I had it serviced at the same time, after 400 miles, did it really need new oil/filter etc?