What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[camryv6]

1 minute ago, PhilA said:

You're welcome to. Hairnet took a short ride in it and can attest to its Frenchness.

 

Phil

It could be a while

[PhilA]

4 minutes ago, camryv6 said:

It could be a while

It'll be here. I can't see anyone else wanting to buy it, and it's now tucked away well out of public view.

 

Phil

[camryv6]

@PhilA Look can't you tell I am a mouth breathing timewaster ?

but if you want to respray it and do a full mechanical overhaul and put it in a container for £500 I could be interested ?

[Kiltox]

This wonderful thing is coming back home this weekend 

[hairnet]

kiltoax has gone all posh

 

[hairnet]

1 hour ago, PhilA said:

It'll be here. I can't see anyone else wanting to buy it, and it's now tucked away well out of public view.

 

Phil

 

[PhilA]

6 minutes ago, hairnet said:

 

I had more hair back then

 

Car has more engine in it now.

[PhilA]

45 minute paint job. Looks like it, too. Don't like painting silver but it looks better than it did.

 

It runs, I painted it. What more do you need? Heh

[hairnet]

sky blue with blue roof? :D

 

 

 

 

[busmansholiday]

[somewhatfoolish]

An Alliance Renner would be a unicorn in the UK; instant obscurity cred at any car show.

[Andyrew]

I've had this rusty tube kicking around for years. It's not much use for anything so it was going to be scrapped.  Today I finally made some use of it. 

Rusty pipe, some scabby 6mm plate, an old tin of Matt laquer and a mig welder later.

 

[wuvvum]

21 hours ago, Kiltox said:

This wonderful thing is coming back home this weekend 

Assume this is to appease Mrs £95 following the arrival of the Gilbern?

[wuvvum]

I find it mildly amusing that the only 'shiter most of our overseas contingent have ever met is Hairnet.

[somewhatfoolish]

It's like having Stanley Unwin as Ambassador.

[Kiltox]

28 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Assume this is to appease Mrs £95 following the arrival of the Gilbern?

There have been repatriation plans for a while now   

[wuvvum]

Don't blame you tbh - if I had a car with that interior I'd want to hold onto it.

[anonymous user]

2 hours ago, Kiltox said:

There have been repatriation plans for a while now   

I was worried for a bit, I thought that was what she had gone shopping in, you pinched it back, so she had to go home on the bus to find he'd bought a Gilbern.

[wuvvum]

I'm off to Somerset in the morning to visit my parents.  Haven't seen them since Christmas, and apart from a brief foray over the border to Bury St Eds to pick up a pushbike I haven't been out of Norfolk for over three months.  I'm properly looking forward to it.

[hairnet]

21 hours ago, PhilA said:

45 minute paint job. Looks like it, too. Don't like painting silver but it looks better than it did.

 

It runs, I painted it. What more do you need? Heh

wheels make me hnng

 

[hairnet]

41 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

I'm off to Somerset in the morning to visit my parents.  Haven't seen them since Christmas, and apart from a brief foray over the border to Bury St Eds to pick up a pushbike I haven't been out of Norfolk for over three months.  I'm properly looking forward to it.

no getting wazzered on scrumpy boi :D

 

[PhilA]

I enjoy SiC's musings on his MGB, and the most recent video was good- everyone loves a good cold start video.

So, I felt compelled to do my own, a tribute to an MGB cold start.

 

*grin*

 

--Phil

[hairnet]

bangers and cash on yesterday - now

moskvitch and a ponton mercedes

ooft

[Ghosty]

Conversation with the boss at work. 

'My new driving lights for the Pug came last night, they're yellow'.

'Get some yellow headlights while you're at it'.

'Way ahead of you'.


I wouldn't swap where I work for much at all right now. 

[Roobarb]

This made me smile a few weeks ago.

Or at least it did for the first few hundred miles. Then the straight started to wear a little. 
I’m working in a new place next week. The drive is 1000 miles (well just under) and 13hrs of actual driving each way!!!

[Skizzer]

2 hours ago, Roobarb said:

I’m working in a new place next week. The drive is 1000 miles (well just under) and 13hrs of actual driving each way!

If you’re planning on commuting daily, I’ve got some bad news.

[dome]

On 6/18/2020 at 7:46 PM, camryv6 said:

I was going to ask if you would deliver ?

4,429 mi

Distance from Louisiana to United Kingdom

If @PhilA finds something old with a V8 to share the container for around £4k I'll half in on the shipping costs?

[somewhatfoolish]

Freight not cheaper than that at the moment? Should be with the oil price where it is.

[paulplom]

Have you asked @worldofceri? He's reliable and delivered my mazda cheaply enough.

[Roobarb]

For RORO you are looking at $840 for a small car at the moment. 
Shipping out of the UK is $150 for destination charge and then tax upon landing. 
I can’t imagine it would be much more going back the other way (US to UK). 

Don’t ask me how I know as the wife will kill me