What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[SiC]

Just watched an absolutely brilliant episode of the Grand Tour. An hour and 20 minutes of the three of them pissing about in RVs. They really are back on form, I was laughing like a drain.

+1. I watched that the other week. Throughly enjoyable.

[wuvvum]

Went into Norwich earlier, and the Buick found an even shonkier friend.

[wuvvum]

Organised a HubNut meeting. Amazing cars turned up!

 

Bonnet up!

 

350 miles in two days in the 2CV, which ran perfectly apart from refusing to start at a set of roadworks. I'd turned her off as it was a very long queue. Bit embarrassing. Wonder if she's fouling the plugs up again?

 

That Lancia is lovely.  I papped its big brother at Kings Lynn a few months back.

 

[dozeydustman]

We have life!

 

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Been for a drive this evening and the top end rattle has calmed down a bit as oil circulated about again. Feels perkier as well, which is nice.

 

Rooting around in the car's history the last time I noticed a timing belt being changed was 2003 when my in-laws bought it second hand. Wife's owned since around 2011. It may have been changed between now and then, if not it's managed to do over 100k since the last documented change.

 

It's such an easy little car to work on as well. I'm hoping to get it well into 200k before it dies. It's on 176k at the moment.

[Jazoli]

I'm in for three Roffles at the moment.  I still haven't got my licence back so I can't do collections; I've arranged to buy another car for daily use anyway (which I also can't collect yet); I have nowhere to put extra cars; and there's the slight issue of no income at the moment.  WTF am I doing?   Somebody stop me!

 

I have a space in Bowness that you could store one at Eddy, its off the road so no legal issues

[Jmac]

Well , the Corolla failed the mot sat , noisy r/h front wheel bearing.....damm ! .when she got home I jacked it up and turned the wheel , it made a terrible noise and stiff to turn screech and grind feel to it ,damm damm damm . I removed the wheel and brake pads . Still the same wheel is going to fall off noise . Then I saw what was causing it !the rubber doughnut on the drive shaft had moved down the drive shaft and when jacked up it trapped itself on the A arm pivot , the noise was the rust and dirt as it tuned on the shaft .easy fix just pushed it back up the driveshaft . Back for a free retest next week .i was more worried about the emissions test but passed that easy ! . I am grinning.

[sierraman]

Reading about the prototype that was made of the Reliant Rebel with a Ford 1600E engine fitted. Given the Rebel weighed absolutely fuck all it had something like 204bhp per tonne. I bet that thing fucking flew.

[chaseracer]

[chaseracer]

Not the x-flow Rebel, though... 

[purplebargeken]

I have 45 days until retirement.

[myglaren]

For anyone thinking of mounting a propane tank on the roof of their bus -

 

 

Sceptical about it being Stockholm.

[andy18s]

I have 45 days until retirement.

46 untill you come over to find your dream Lada then?

[SierraMikeHotel]

Saw my family at the weekend, picked my sister up from the station in my Merc on the way to Mum's house.

 

When we got out she looked round it and said, "You know, I miss the days when you had cars whose value doubled when you filled them with fuel."

[Timewaster]

Saw my family at the weekend, picked my sister up from the station in my Merc on the way to Mum's house.

 

When we got out she looked round it and said, "You know, I miss the days when you had cars whose value doubled when you filled them with fuel."

It gets worse when you think how much cheaper petrol used to be

[SierraMikeHotel]

It gets worse when you think how much cheaper petrol used to be

Well, true! I think the least I ever sold a car for was a tenner mind you, and it probably would have cost £30 to fill its tank at that time (Citroën GSA, 2004ish)

[DeeJay]

[JeeExEll]

[dozeydustman]

 

Is it Giro day, Tom?

[richardmorris]

I have 45 days until retirement.

 

I’m closer to 45years. If ever!

[busmansholiday]

Called into Lidl today for some minor bits for Mrs BMH.

 

Had a rummage through their cheap bits box.

 

 

Yorkshire war cry 'ow much.

 

Oh yes.

 

[richardmorris]

Jammy sod!

[reb]

Got a letter from my insurance company today:

 

I think we can do better than that.

 

Let's see what that meerkat bastard has to say:

 

A definite improvement.

 

Now for that site everyone seems puzzled by:

 

Oh yes, that's more like it!

 

 

Now, just for fun, lets tell them it has a non-standard engine, uprated brakes and nonstandard suspension....

 

Well. It'd be rude not to, eh...?

I'll be phoning a couple of specialist insurers in the morning as there may be some plans afoot, but I need to make sure they're viable...

 

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[Wack]

Chicken for tea yesterday, I didn't know whether to eat it or buy it a drink

[ProgRocker]

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One of my goals is to learn to cook a roast. I can't be any worse than what my first attempt will turn out like.

 

Re: insurance. The renewal for my Nissan Almera 2.2 dCi came in at £167.something, which is the cheapest my insurance has ever been. For the first time in 24 years the VED is now my largest standard car expense (ie: non maintenance or repair).

[face]

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That's my neck of the woods and that road surface is bloody terrible and has been for years.

 

It is the road that 'should' tempt visitors from the Audley End estate to pop into Saffron Walden but it resembles the aftermath of the 'Highway of Death' from the 91 Gulf War FFS.

[dollywobbler]

Have had a pretty hectic workload lately, but finished off the latest issue of Retro Japanese today. Now for some much-needed relaxation time! Once I've done a post run. In the Invacar...

 

Has been a lovely morning. Got my head down, got some music on, it's actually stopped raining. Marvellous!

[blakey79]

Some excellent footage here from 1986 which has been posted on my town's news site. Plenty to spot 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0DTqGxpGlY

Question is what are they driving ?

[Tayne]

Called into Lidl today for some minor bits for Mrs BMH.

Had a rummage through their cheap bits box.

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Yorkshire war cry 'ow much.

Oh yes.

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I totally missed the ratchet crimpers in Lidl, I probably would have bought them at full price.

Do you think they’d been there a long time?

[Kiltox]

Got a letter from my insurance company today:

 

I think we can do better than that.

 

Let's see what that meerkat bastard has to say:

 

A definite improvement.

 

Now for that site everyone seems puzzled by:

 

Oh yes, that's more like it!

 

 

Now, just for fun, lets tell them it has a non-standard engine, uprated brakes and nonstandard suspension....

 

Well. It'd be rude not to, eh...?

I'll be phoning a couple of specialist insurers in the morning as there may be some plans afoot, but I need to make sure they're viable...

 

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Assuming it isn’t currently modified, be VERY CAREFUL submitting speculative quotes. It’s all being recorded and assuming you’re using your real name and address, used in the underwriting process when you do finally take out a policy.

[reb]

Assuming it isn’t currently modified, be VERY CAREFUL submitting speculative quotes. It’s all being recorded and assuming you’re using your real name and address, used in the underwriting process when you do finally take out a policy.

I have spoken to Adrian Flux today, been upfront about the current state of the car and plans for it, they have been incredibly helpful and got me an affordable policy that meets my needs perfectly! Slightly on the pricy side while it's standard, but includes driving other people's cars which is a literal impossibility to find at 23, and there will be no increase once modifications are carried out, just the admin fee to amend the policy.

It likely helps I was able to reasonably thoroughly and enthusiastically run through all planned mods in all aspects but timeframe, and also used my work phone voice/attitude. Call centre workers love me!

 

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