What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Wack]

Saw this guy on pawn stars , I was thinking of growing my hair , hmmm

[Inspector Morose]

 how can you bid on something for a week without reading the description

 

I put a cheeky bid on a very cheap Audi A4 a few years back, ideal for daily hack duties. Only after I won it I noticed it was on the Devon/Cornwall border. Needless to say, I'm not. 

Meh, still went and got it, the way I looked at it was that it was a very cheap car plus I got a nice day out in the countryside!

[Mr A Lawrence]

your chocolate is our concern.

[catsinthewelder]

I did it with this phone, put a dozen G4's in the watchlist thinking that I would check the listings more carefully before bidding. Alert came up that there was 10 mins left just as my daughter brought her bedtime story down for me to read so fired bid in without checking the spec. It's not what I wanted but it does the job.

[pshome]

not long ago, i bought an electric car antenne of famous Hirschmann brand for the 504 and I was very pleased that the instructions included both the 504 and Tagora.

 

 

Today, i went to the local electronics shop, and bought another one. To my disappointment, there has been an update and only newish things like 405, 306 and 605 are now covered by the instructions.

 

 

I shall promptly complain to the manufacturer!

HIT_AUTA_2040_2040 SW.pdf

319288-an-01-ml-HIRSCHMANN_MOTOR_VERSENKANTENNE_de_en_fr(1).pdf

[beko1987]

Gareth crashed his dad's van nearly 2 months ago now. Since then I've been taking him to work and bringing him home and helping him fix his actual car that he abandoned when he got the van.

 

Its just come back from the local garage who changed the front discs, and in their words we wouldn't have had a fucking chance! They heated them up until they were blue several times before they came off. And now, bar a bit of grease on the discs from fitting which I've mostly wiped off, it is now ready for its mot at 3.15!

 

Place bets now!

 

[Cheggers]

Who is accepting these jobs with massive commutes for no real world increase though?

 

I have a MASSIVE commute to London but the rate is... significantly more than it costs

Err...People who live close enough to not have a massive commute?

 

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[scaryoldcortina]

Sunburn?  What on earth causes that?  Sounds terrible.

I've heard Saltburn is worse.

[Kiltox]

Err...People who live close enough to not have a massive commute?

 

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Eh?

 

We were talking about the people that spend £5000+ on a season ticket for an extra salary that barely pays for it. Plenty of people do it.

[Aston Martin]

How does he get in?

[Tamworthbay]

Pilot may be driving but as far as the law(COLREGs) and most employers are concerned the master remains legally responsible for the safety of the vessel, so if the the pilot spods it up you get the blame anyway.

That’s certainly what happened in his case. No idea whose fault it was in reality, but he always starts the story with something like ‘this clueless pilot got me sacked by.........’

[beko1987]

His car passed! No more 20 mile detour the wrong way in the morning and then again evening! Much beers are owed and forthcoming apparently!

[vulgalour]

20180420-05 by Angyl Roper, on Flickr

[fordperv]

I love that yellow thing in the sky,

 

I spotted this as I came from the gym

 

 

I saw it pulling onto a petrol station so I followed it on, spoke to the owner and he has had it for 30 odd years him and his mrs looked very happy in the old girl, he seemed quite confused that someone was showing an interest in it

 

 

I also spotted this love the colour

 

[Ghosty]

20180420-05 by Angyl Roper, on Flickr

 

 

 

Why do you have a Strathclyde PTE Princess now?

[SiC]

How does he get in?

Not actually sure what car it is, but if it's got comfort window opening you press and hold the unlock key to have all the windows open.

[Aston Martin]

Not actually sure what car it is, but if it's got comfort window opening you press and hold the unlock key to have all the windows open.

Accord, it was next to a Domino's so maybe a delivery driver. They always drive battered shit.

[Lacquer Peel]

69, hell yeah.

[320touring]

69, hell yeah.

#pdftw

[fordperv]

Scorchio

 

I keep trying to get a picture of this when its driving out and about but never manage to so walked the dog by there earlier to some fields we never go, did see a wing stamped into the ground in the field as well which made me laugh

 

[DodgeRover]

The sun was out on Thursday, work went really well and I'm really happy with how the kitchen I've been doing has turned out. The clients are over the moon and have recommended me to their friends.

I felt like I got about 40 hours sleep in the 7 hours I slept last night.

Sun shone on me again today and I finished off a job for the company that's been causing problems for ages.

 

Followed a N plate Marina estate on my way home, sign written for a local cleaning company and complete with roof racks and towbar!

[richardmorris]

20180420-05 by Angyl Roper, on Flickr

 

I’m not sure, but it’s your car.

[The Moog]

B road blast at 9pm in little red roadster. Lovely old job

[D Spares & Tyres]

Sold an engine today and helped the chap load it into the boot of his car. He declined my offer of an old tyre to wedge it in with. I told him to take it steady as it was quite close to the rear window.

 

Twenty minutes later I get a phone call off him.

 

"Hi, I've broken the window, can I buy the tailgate too please"

[Datsuncog]

^^^ Link selling! Fantastic.

 

Seriously though, if that happened to me I'd have felt like such a div that I wouldn't dare go back to the seller.

[Cheggers]

Leaving the T2 car park at Heathrow late last night I was following a yellow Juke in the stop-start traffic up the ramp. I noticed straight away driving wasn't their forté as they stuttered and jerked their way along.

 

As we went to pull away again on a steeper part of the ramp they had 3 attempts to get going, rolling back ever closer to my front bumper each time. Eventually they got close enough that a little warning toot on the horn was in order.

 

At this point the driver, a woman about my age (early 50's), got out and swapped places with the elderly gent in back seat.

 

While they were making their driver change the front seat passenger (a gammon-faced guy also about my age) got out and shouted obscenities at me for 30 seconds.

 

Eventually everyone was back in the car with driver #2 which hopped forward a couple of feet, stalled and rolled back surprisingly hard onto my front bumper.

 

Why is this a grin rather than a grump?

 

There was no damage to the Skoda, and the opportunity to make Mr Gammon squirm was just too great to resist.

 

Schadenfreude

 

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[Bucketeer]

The Princess is looking sweet Angyl.

On an unrelated note, I now have a craving for a big bag of rhubarb and custard spogs.

[purplebargeken]

I met Dave out of Chas & Dave the other day. He does sign writing and so on and has done work for my mate. Lovely chap, very down to earth, has tons of sardines in tomato sauce on the back seat of his car, his dog loves them.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I met Dave out of Chas & Dave the other day. He does sign writing and so on and has done work for my mate. Lovely chap, very down to earth, has tons of sardines in tomato sauce on the back seat of his car, his dog loves them.

Don't leave us hanging, what sort of car does he drive ? Full on celeb black Range Rover or 911?

Or something more Autoshite, maybe a skanky X300 Jag or Toyota Carina E estate, I bet Chas has got a Bentley and doesn't need to moonlight doing sign writing- had a better deal.

[Spottedlaurel]

Really enjoying driving the Sunny around since it's new MoT and brake/exhaust work last week. It's going better than ever and I've put a couple of hundred miles on it, trying to make up for last year's relatively low use.

 

 

Sadly the garage that sold it new appears to be closing down their original premises (although they still sell Subaru and Mitsubishi from a couple of other sites in the city). I wanted to get some shots of the car there before the (presumed) redevelopment occurs.

 

Started using the 1200 for work again - with just a 10-mile drive to the new office I'll use the old things in my fleet as much as possible. It's a bit rural where I'm now based, one of my neighbours seemed to approve.......

 

 

Funny thing is to get there I have to drive along a stretch of road that I used to commute along 22 years ago in my previous 1200 at exactly the same time (albeit in the opposite direction, due to intervening house/job changes). Although I know it's impossible on so many levels, I half expect to see me in my old car heading the other way.......