What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Crackers]

Right. A couple of grins tonight. 

1) I'm apparently a key worker so I get to go to work. This in itself is a major grin as I'm lost if I'm not kept busy. 

2) The roads are EMPTY. This means people are, at least locally, obeying the rules. It also means I can drive like a twat sensibly, Officer. 

3) Working in the yard unloading and reloading a lorry tonight, I was having a chat with the driver, who remarked on how clear and fresh the air is. My work is right on the A30, not far from the M3, and wedged between several towns and villages, not necessarily conducive to pleasant air... But The air tonight was so fresh and stunningly quiet, it really was something else. Lovely. A pleasure to be outside on such a refreshing evening. Would repeat. If only we could have this little shit in the air all the time eh... Definitely an eye opener. 

Right, Greenpeace propaganda finished, now where did I leave the keys to my V8..?

[Rab]

On 4/5/2020 at 11:35 PM, omegod said:

For me it's a great car programme, Tim's a bit of a pillock but Fuzz is ace and could carry a show on his own 

I photographed Fuzz drumming with The Beat in London on the German culture ship..MS STUBNITZ..and RIP Roger Ranking..such a nice bloke as well...we gently kidnapped him for a photoshoot..thats me on his left

[paulplom]

I'm 'friends' with Fuzz on fb. He really does come across as a really top bloke and definitely is a people person.

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[Timewaster]

He couldn't grow a beard to save his life though. 

Doesn't stop him trying. 

The world loves a tryer. 

[New POD]

19 hours ago, ChrisWilliams said:

Agreed. Unless you have to remove inlet manifolds etc to get at them I tend to buy the bog standard branded versions. Same with headlamp bulbs too 

Takes about an hour and a half to do the plugs on the omega, and i gave up trying when i had the juke. 

[DVee8]

9 hours ago, vulgalour said:

Saw a rarity in the garden recently, couldn't get a picture because it scooted off as soon as it arrived so I stole the below from the internets with thanks to http://www.somersetmothgroup.org.uk.  Bombilius Major, or Bee Fly.  I've never seen one in person before and they're absolutely adorable looking little things, like something from a Ghibli film.

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We had something that looked like that hovering  in our garden yesterday. For the few minutes it was there it stayed in the same spot.

It looked like a hovering honey-monster..

[Timewaster]

On 4/6/2020 at 12:12 AM, hairnet said:

prices of iridium plugs

fuck!

I remember working at the spares place when Toyota announced one of their models had plugs that would last 60k.

Oh shit we thought. Plugs must be 20% of our sales. 

We were  relieved to see they cost £80 a set.  Better yet, they didn't last anything like 60k.

Made a change from old gits complaining that N9Ys used to cost a shilling. 

[catsinthewelder]

Long queue to get into Aldi today but at least there's a nice view.

 

[Fumbler]

Being Mother Fumbler's taxi for shopping, the Micra has reached another milestone:

As a reward for its 17000 smiles and sterling service, I'll be treating it to Tesco's finest* 5W-40!

[richardmorris]

8 hours ago, Timewaster said:

I remember working at the spares place when Toyota announced one of their models had plugs that would last 60k.

Oh shit we thought. Plugs must be 20% of our sales. 

We were  relieved to see they cost £80 a set.  Better yet, they didn't last anything like 60k.

Made a change from old gits complaining that N9Ys used to cost a shilling. 

One of our customers imports metals. They send samples to us to test. We can’t do iridium as no acid does anything - boiling away in nitric, sulphuric or aqua regia for days on end, it looks the same as when it went in.

[HillmanImp]

Someone was asking for pictures of 1985 cars on FB. 

Posted a picture of my old Audi which was a bit of an Autoshite bike for a bit. 

 

[dozeydustman]

Found this on facebook. Is anyone’s wife bored?

[wuvvum]

It must be spring - just found this little chap in my front garden. 

[cobblers]

Pretty poor timing for the wife to leave her cushty job in schools and come and work with me, but 10 days in it's going really well. She's great on the phone and an absolute dab hand with the desoldering gun. But for some reason she seems to absolutely love sandblasting stuff.

I only gave her a quick go on it because it gives you massive static shocks every few seconds and I thought it would be funny, but now I can't get her away from it, I've got piles of stuff that needs doing but I have to keep dragging her off it when the air compressor is about to go on fire.

[Floatylight]

Nothing to do with you@TheDoctor ?

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[Out Run]

Emptied my Mondeo today and found this sticker that @Jim Bell gave me, ages back.

Now has pride of place.

[Neil clark]

6 hours ago, Out Run said:

Emptied my Mondeo today and found this sticker that @Jim Bell gave me, ages back.

Now has pride of place.

I owned that a while back!

[Out Run]

1 hour ago, Neil clark said:

I owned that a while back!

I remember you saying.  Did it give your any hassle? It’s been no bother at all for me. It needs a clutch very soon - but it did nearly 3.5 years ago!

Did you run it on veg? The bloke I bought it from hadn’t, and when I started to (SVO) it made the pick up from the tank, right where it enters the sender, leak a bit. But that was easily solved.

[DoctorRetro]

9 hours ago, Floatylight said:

Nothing to do with you@TheDoctor ?

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Ha ha. Its good, but not matt black enough for me. ?

[Neil clark]

2 hours ago, Out Run said:

I remember you saying.  Did it give your any hassle? It’s been no bother at all for me. It needs a clutch very soon - but it did nearly 3.5 years ago!

Did you run it on veg? The bloke I bought it from hadn’t, and when I started to (SVO) it made the pick up from the tank, right where it enters the sender, leak a bit. But that was easily solved.

No veg oil no. Never any hassle. I got it from a mate at work that had had it for years and was one of them blokes where it goes into garage every 5 minutes for something to be fixed, proper over the top lol. That's why I had it off him! Brilliant car, I did egr delete...

[mitsisigma01]

10 hours ago, Out Run said:

Emptied my Mondeo today and found this sticker that @Jim Bell gave me, ages back.

Now has pride of place.

Are Rextons always that horrible shape or is it a Cavcraft optical illusion special photo ?

[Rab]

After a failed attempt..and  the last few days plastering FB with rotten car photos...my dead car book is finally being designed by a bloke who approached me on the Unloved group yesterday..40 yrs design experience and right up his alley..bang..hes onto it..we ve already nearly got the cover done..ive transfered 1200 images to him..so all that i dreamt about a year ago is finally coming in fruition. Once the book is done designed n printed..the reason i bought the JAAG is to punt copies out at car shows.Im happy.

[Out Run]

1 hour ago, Neil clark said:

No veg oil no. Never any hassle. I got it from a mate at work that had had it for years and was one of them blokes where it goes into garage every 5 minutes for something to be fixed, proper over the top lol. That's why I had it off him! Brilliant car, I did egr delete...

Nice. She’s a tough old girl.

[Out Run]

1 hour ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Are Rextons always that horrible shape or is it a Cavcraft optical illusion special photo ?

That’s it’s best angle.

[Out Run]

16 hours ago, wuvvum said:

It must be spring - just found this little chap in my front garden. 

I had one nesting in here. Luckily I spotted him before he ended up on the fire!

Re-homed to a neighbouring bush.

[Coprolalia]

For ages I've seen a proper ratty CX and an LDV about but not been able to get a photo.

Whilst out on my bike I found they're both owned by this winner.

Needs to be on here.

[face]

On 4/6/2020 at 4:48 PM, Timewaster said:

The best car show on at the moment for me is Bangers and Cash following Matthewsons classic auctions.  Main man Derek seems to really have a passion for old cars and would be a top bloke to chat with in the pub.

Great program, Sarah is lovely too.

[face]

On 4/7/2020 at 4:49 AM, Rab said:

I photographed Fuzz drumming with The Beat in London on the German culture ship..MS STUBNITZ..and RIP Roger Ranking..such a nice bloke as well...we gently kidnapped him for a photoshoot..thats me on his left

I also saw The Beat live with Fuzz on drums.

Exho the RIP for Roger, him and Ranking Junior were great front men together.

I really like their ska-rapped up version of Rock the Casbah:

 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

This weeks Classic Car Weekly has two examples of a particular classic marque for sale, one even makes it into their Pick of the Classifieds feature.

What amuses me is that I ( and you) know* them both, yep forward @DodgyBastard and @Cavcraft purveyors of classics more rare than Cobras, Aurelias or DB4GTs ( more of each in Octane than these gems) And none of the DB4 GTs say they’ll swap for a moped either.

[Cavcraft]

(runs to newsagents wearing a builder's dust mask)