What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[purplebargeken]

Saw my old blue Daf 33 in the 'Spotted' pages of PC mag this morning. Nice.

[purplebargeken]

Bristol area is where it now seems to live.

[SiC]

On 6/19/2020 at 9:06 PM, 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.

You chose the wrong weekend to go over here! Weather was crap for the first time in a long time. Really nice out here today now! (Probably the same for the rest of the country too)

Incidentally. I've recently found out that quite a few people off AS have a connection to this part of the world.

 

On 6/19/2020 at 10:25 PM, PhilA said:

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

Haha. You had it easy in 30+ degree weather!

Admittedly I suspect a B-series still would take a fair bit of cranking after laying up. 29C here tomorrow and Thursday ... maybe it's a perfect excuse to go pull it out for a spin and see how well it starts in this weather. ?

[SiC]

On 6/20/2020 at 3:47 PM, PhilA said:

That's not bad. I need to ship a car at some point. It's small (Healey Sprite) but isn't roadworthy but does run and stop and steer.

I presume non-runners get charged a pain-in-the-ass fee?

How much do you reckon needs doing to get it sorted a bit more roadworthy?

You're welcome to use my garage in the future if you need to do some prep work before shipping it out. Wouldn't be too difficult to get it properly transported here if needs be.

By the time that comes I'll hopefully have a scissor lift and a decent garage door, so work will be easier. Also with Moss in the centre now expanded (Feeder Road now), more parts are available on the shelf without having to wait for them to be moved between branches. Guess that is going to be cheaper + quicker to get what you need here than when it's back in the states. Even at Moss prices! (They do have 12 months return policy on parts handily too)

Just remind me when you get closer to doing it if you need any assistance. Even if you just need someone on the ground in the UK to be the ears and eyes. I guess probably going to be a few years time frame?

[PhilA]

57 minutes ago, SiC said:

How much do you reckon needs doing to get it sorted a bit more roadworthy?

You're welcome to use my garage in the future if you need to do some prep work before shipping it out. Wouldn't be too difficult to get it properly transported here if needs be.

By the time that comes I'll hopefully have a scissor lift and a decent garage door, so work will be easier. Also with Moss in the centre now expanded (Feeder Road now), more parts are available on the shelf without having to wait for them to be moved between branches. Guess that is going to be cheaper + quicker to get what you need here than when it's back in the states. Even at Moss prices! (They do have 12 months return policy on parts handily too)

Just remind me when you get closer to doing it if you need any assistance. Even if you just need someone on the ground in the UK to be the ears and eyes. I guess probably going to be a few years time frame?

No time frame right now other than really "Chieftain finished and running" being the major stopping point in proceedings (money notwithstanding).

Appreciate the offer though. It would probably drive there in the dead of night lol.

Mind you, my old man said he had issues last time he tried to get it running. I need to go visit them once all this nonsense is over with and see anyway.

 

Roadworthy.. needs the dampers seeing to, a bit of rust, the engine smokes and the brakes are 100% shagged.

Phil

[SiC]

No time frame right now other than really "Chieftain finished and running" being the major stopping point in proceedings (money notwithstanding).
Appreciate the offer though. It would probably drive there in the dead of night lol.
Mind you, my old man said he had issues last time he tried to get it running. I need to go visit them once all this nonsense is over with and see anyway.
 
Roadworthy.. needs the dampers seeing to, a bit of rust, the engine smokes and the brakes are 100% shagged.
Phil

I'm sure you'd get it running smoothly again in under an hour. It's only an A-Series after all. A bit of fuel, some sparks and rotational movement to make them happy running.

Brakes would be the interesting* bit when going back down Rhodyate Hill though!

Definitely need a meet up when you're next over though.

[PhilA]

3 hours ago, SiC said:

 

 

I'm sure you'd get it running smoothly again in under an hour. It's only an A-Series after all. A bit of fuel, some sparks and rotational movement to make them happy running.

Brakes would be the interesting* bit when going back down Rhodyate Hill though!

Definitely need a meet up when you're next over though.

 

Absolutely!

There's a few nice pubs you might not know about that are an excellent Sunday drive away.

 

Though, when I say it smokes, think about Greenpeace demonstrations and people calling the fire brigade helpfully. It's Del Boy's Van levels of oil burning. The guides and rings are toast. It's done 156,000 miles on them and an A gets smoky past about 70k...

Almost this bad. 

 

Phil

[hairnet]

ROFL round at phils house

made i larf - literal potato cam :D

thats the most gas ive ever seen in it :D

[PhilA]

Quarter of a tank? Yeah, the fuel light is on right now, the gauge hardly moved when I started it last time.

That's probably why it's all sputtery and difficult right now.

 

Phil

[omegod]

Anyone seen this before ? Micros getting  transported to Africa Sans roof which gets rewelded at the other end ? 

[richardmorris]

5 minutes ago, omegod said:

Anyone seen this before ? Micros getting  transported to Africa Sans roof which gets rewelded at the other end ? 

I’m amazed. So the cost of cutting, stripping the interior and re welding the shell is outweighed by shipping three and not two cars in the same space?

[outlaw118]

Outlaw_junior was round earlier, and we filled in the preliminary divorce paperwork online, paid the £550.

Now it's just a waiting game before the adulturous slutwhore responds.

[Andyrew]

1 hour ago, omegod said:

Anyone seen this before ? Micros getting  transported to Africa Sans roof which gets rewelded at the other end ? 

Never seen that before. Lorry going with them in assume. 

Couple of years ago the Girlfriends neighbours were always buying shite and taking out to Zimbabwe etc etc, some old onsite generator trailers piled into the back of an ex luton council b reg daf with zero tyre tread left was quite the site to see. Bunch of Africans turned up and lifted them into the tipper bed. 

 

 

 

[myglaren]

Despite not being far from Newcastle airport, we rarely wee any air traffic here, there used to be a heavy transport 'plane late on a Thursday night but haven't head that for years.

Something huge and heavy flew over yesterday.  Spotted this this morning.

 

 

 

https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/huge-military-airbus-set-fly-18463918?fbclid=IwAR2yph2PbnYmBbJWhEOAuMoU8NC_QFrW8YRgK4ORN-UBSyUY3Ey-G-PPGwA

[Tadhg Tiogar]

12 hours ago, omegod said:

Anyone seen this before ? Micros getting  transported to Africa Sans roof which gets rewelded at the other end ? 

This is much the same method that car thieves used in the '90s when they were nicking cars and shipping them off to Africa. Cut, stack and pack into a shipping container.

When they ran out of Peugeot 505s and Renner 21 Savannas, they moved onto higher-end cars... 

[Fumbler]

2 hours ago, myglaren said:

Despite not being far from Newcastle airport, we rarely wee any air traffic here, there used to be a heavy transport 'plane late on a Thursday night but haven't head that for years.

Something huge and heavy flew over yesterday.  Spotted this this morning.

 

 

 

https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/huge-military-airbus-set-fly-18463918?fbclid=IwAR2yph2PbnYmBbJWhEOAuMoU8NC_QFrW8YRgK4ORN-UBSyUY3Ey-G-PPGwA

I had one of those fly over my house a couple weeks ago. They're giant things.

[Three Speed]

The A400m was flying around out of Gatwick a week or so ago. Low and slow over Sussex. Very impressive.

[BorniteIdentity]

Riding my bike down a quiet country lane last night -  I saw a middle aged woman getting f***ered on the reclined front seat of a Birmingham registered Mk4 Ford Mondeo.  Not being particularly fit I wasn't going very quickly, so it was easy to see what was going on.  Neither of them saw me as her eyes had rolled back further than Asda's prices and he seemed to be sucking on her neck at the same time.

Lucky bastards.

 

[Dan the van]

Get an A400 fly over the yard at 501ft (or less) quite often.Prob goes down to RAF St Mawgen.They make a rather odd droning noise due to the 8 bladed propellers.

[Fumbler]

Down here we're treated quite regularly to military helicopters, chinooks (some after midnight too), and the occasional heavy cargo plane. Brother Fumbler semises that all the increased air activity is due to them not being able to do exercises in Scotland, so they're settling for Ashdown Forest for all their training and stuff. We've seen a few groups with maps out in all their gear too on the forest... largest military presence I've seen there for years!

 

7 minutes ago, BorniteIdentity said:

Riding my bike down a quiet country lane last night -  I saw a middle aged woman getting f***ered on the reclined front seat of a Birmingham registered Mk4 Ford Mondeo.  Not being particularly fit I wasn't going very quickly, so it was easy to see what was going on.  Neither of them saw me as her eyes had rolled back further than Asda's prices and he seemed to be sucking on her neck at the same time.

Lucky bastards.

 

How luverly..!

[richardmorris]

1 hour ago, Three Speed said:

The A400m was flying around out of a week or so ago. Low and slow over Sussex. Very impressive.

I saw it too last weekend I think. Low and loud.

[Volksy]

3 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

I saw it too last weekend I think. Low and loud.

They have been taking advantage of the light commercial traffic, to train in landing passes at most UK airports. 

 

When I worked at Leeds Bradford, we used to get them all the time, as it's a tricky* runway.

 

*on top of a windy hill, not level, short, and a drop in approach from one side. 

[warch]

1 hour ago, BorniteIdentity said:

Riding my bike down a quiet country lane last night -  I saw a middle aged woman getting f***ered on the reclined front seat of a Birmingham registered Mk4 Ford Mondeo.  Not being particularly fit I wasn't going very quickly, so it was easy to see what was going on.  Neither of them saw me as her eyes had rolled back further than Asda's prices and he seemed to be sucking on her neck at the same time.

Lucky bastards.

 

I love the Autoshite-centric version of events, lots of detail about the car and little else. Reminds me of the story from the classic Red Dwarf episode 'Marooned' when Rimmer is talking about the time he lost his virginity in the back of his brother's car and all he can talk about is the car itself. 

My wife says she never catches me surreptitiously checking out other women, just other motorbikes and tractors and stuff.

'Phoaaar, check her out, JCB Fastrac 4220, what a beauty!'.....

[angle]

On 6/23/2020 at 12:17 PM, purplebargeken said:

Saw my old blue Daf 33 in the 'Spotted' pages of PC mag this morning. Nice.

 

On 6/23/2020 at 12:18 PM, purplebargeken said:

Bristol area is where it now seems to live.

I know I have a photo on my phone somewhere, but does it have Brighton plates / dealer sticker? If it does it lives just up the road from me and is the guys daily I think, it's just been kicked off the drive to make space for an amazing Fiat 900 camper. 

Edit: this one? 

 

[somewhatfoolish]

It is a noose and in the context of the southern US that has a lot of connotations, all of them negative and racist. It certainly doesn't appear to have been aimed at Bubba though. Apropos nothing, is there a more stereotypical 'redneck' name than Bubba Wallace? Short of calling him Jim-Bob obvs.

[gm]

fucks sake, just stay at home !

is it some kind of wind up ? surely can’t be true

[somewhatfoolish]

The temptation to lob a wasp nest or a stinkbomb into that would be difficult to resist. How much of a balloon do you have to be to wear that?

[myglaren]

6 hours ago, warch said:

 

My wife says she never catches me surreptitiously checking out other women, just other motorbikes and tractors and stuff.

 

We were shopping in Chester-le-Street and a girl passed us, running down the middle of the road.

Wife turns to me and said "Were you looking at her arse?  You were, weren't you"?

Which I could not deny, caught red handed, as it were.

"Fair enough, she does have a nice arse"! she admitted.

[camryv6]

8 hours ago, BorniteIdentity said:

Riding my bike down a quiet country lane last night -  I saw a middle aged woman getting f***ered on the reclined front seat of a Birmingham registered Mk4 Ford Mondeo.  Not being particularly fit I wasn't going very quickly, so it was easy to see what was going on.  Neither of them saw me as her eyes had rolled back further than Asda's prices and he seemed to be sucking on her neck at the same time.

Lucky bastards.

 

What model was the Mondeo ?

[vulgalour]

If this works even half as well as it looks I shall be most pleased.  Rebuild cost nearly twice as much as the car did to buy, mind, so it had better.