What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Six-cylinder]

This has appeared near my storage unit today, I have never seen it before and made me chuckle.

It so reminds me of the old joke

boat owner - number 6 your ride time is over please return to launch area

No.6 boat - the boat is safely returned and tied up on the pontoon

boat owner - number 9 are you in difficulty! 

[beko1987]

3 hours ago, Dan the van said:

The crowds at Heathrow for the final landings were amazing.Over 100000 was the estimate.Sadly I couldn't make it that day,I was working in a garden in Richmond.Luckily they were on easterly approach that day so I saw them all come over.It's disappointing ,to say the least,that one wasn't kept flying.12 perfectly  serviceable Concordes were parked with years of flying time left.Branson was serious about leasing a couple and was happy to pay the vastly increased parts bill from Airbus Industrie (the main reason why BA and AF withdrew them),but British Airways were having none of it.It was OUR plane after all.When she entered service in 1976 the British taxpayer had forked out 647million pounds by then,several billion today.I don't think we got our monies worth.Hard to believe it's fast approaching 20 years since the last flight.

My dad once took me (quickly, as he didn't know in advance) to Hatton Cross to see it/one take off once. Was bloody quick! 

[Dan the van]

Yes indeed,I think minimum take off speed was close to 200 knots.

[scdan4]

Found some old photos... 

Practical celica

Nice bike shot in Gibraltar 

Did some proper miles on that trx, here it is at the nurnburgring. Adenauer? 

Long distance transalp, went from alaska to Panama on that. 

Another (crashed) biggish twin yamaha. Last millennium. 

Ford v6 coffee table. We had a matching set of seats as well.... Waste not want not. 

More trx hooliganism. 

 

All of which is grand, but I didn't find the photo I was looking for, which was the xr4x4 that had homed the coffee table originally. 

Feeling oddly motivated. Might do a burnout. ? 

 

 

[mitsisigma01]

19 hours ago, Dan the van said:

Yup,I used to work at the cargo village at LHR.Without fail everyone stopped what they were doing to watch her take off.I so so miss Concorde

I used to try and time my journeys to the cargo sheds so that I was caught at the front of the queue when the aircraft crossing gates came down to allow Concorde and the other planes to be pulled out across the road. Surprising how small it was but perfectly formed, beautiful. 

[Andyrew]

2 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

 

I Assume it's a dead boat, 

Looks like its just keel'd over. . .

[Tamworthbay]

I worked as a motorbike courier for Pony Express over the summers when I was a student. One job was to take a part for Concorde down to a unit at Heathrow. What they forgot to mention was that while it was light it was in a tube 10ft long and about 6” diameter. We ended up gaffer taping it to the rear footrest and then to the top box. I was surprised I didn’t get pulled on the M1 as the rozzers used to pull you for the tiniest thing when they saw you were a courier. Sadly I didn’t get to see Concorde when I dropped it off.

[mitsisigma01]

Found this of Concorde crossing @LHR 

https://youtu.be/RxeQ6LwBoEQ

[mitsisigma01]

3 minutes ago, Tamworthbay said:

I worked as a motorbike courier for Pony Express over the summers when I was a student. One job was to take a part for Concorde down to a unit at Heathrow. What they forgot to mention was that while it was light it was in a tube 10ft long and about 6” diameter. We ended up gaffer taping it to the rear footrest and then to the top box. I was surprised I didn’t get pulled on the M1 as the rozzers used to pull you for the tiniest thing when they saw you were a courier. Sadly I didn’t get to see Concorde when I dropped it off.

I was at Delta couriers on my piped and tuned TDM 850 twin, supersoft tyres and h/d chain and sprockets used to last about a month, didn't make much money but I had fun doing it, until some f***in* *itc* pulled out in front of me ½ mile from home and fucked me right up

[Six-cylinder]

3 minutes ago, Andyrew said:

I Assume it's a dead boat, 

Looks like its just keel'd over. . .

Mrs6C says if it is dead she wants it!

[Tamworthbay]

3 minutes ago, mitsisigma01 said:

I was at Delta couriers on my piped and tuned TDM 850 twin, supersoft tyres and h/d chain and sprockets used to last about a month, didn't make much money but I had fun doing it, until some f***in* *itc* pulled out in front of me ½ mile from home and fucked me right up

I did it for three summers, two were great fun but the third was a nightmare. Woman in charge of jobs had her favourites so you only got shit jobs and the wettest summer ever. Nothing worse than putting on a damp crash helmet the day after. Best job ever was taking a banner uo to an outward bounds place up in Derbyshire. Lovely summers day and empty roads and getting paid for it! That and when you phoned the local branch and they had a job heading back your way so you got paid both ways! I still have some of my uniform nearly 30 years later, the leggings are the best I have ever had.

[paulplom]

There's an aircraft museum somwhere that has a concorde in it. I was there about ten years ago. They let you go inside and have a look at the cockpit etc. It's very small inside. Claustrophobic even.

[Dan the van]

That would either be Duxford or Yeovilton?.G AXDN and prototype 002 respectively.The others in the UK ,apart from Brooklands,are stand alone exhibits or in the case of the one at LHR,inaccessible and left to rot outside.?

[anonymous user]

7 hours ago, myglaren said:

11 years to build a car?

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/final-bentley-mulsanne-leaves-production-line-after-11-years

 

 

It did take Rolls Royce over five years to build one car. It was complicated by the body designer only speaking Italian and nobody at Rolls Royce understanding him, also the person who commissioned the car was not the eventual buyer. 

[anonymous user]

22 minutes ago, paulplom said:

There's an aircraft museum somwhere that has a concorde in it. I was there about ten years ago. They let you go inside and have a look at the cockpit etc. It's very small inside. Claustrophobic even.

There is one at Filton in Bristol

[mitsisigma01]

45 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Mrs6C says if it is dead she wants it!

Best you get the JCB working at the FoD and dig a kin big hole and I'll bring a holed fibreglass dinghy (with repair kit) and a couple of non running little outboards, pond shouldn't take long to fill.... The FoD isn't on a water meter is it ???

[mitsisigma01]

Do Invacars float ???

[mitsisigma01]

I'll bring some expanding foam as well ?

[Six-cylinder]

There is a plan for a pond one day but not yet!

Our trail boat floats in 11 inchs of water if you lift the engine.

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

6 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

There is a plan for a pond one day but not yet!

Our trail boat floats in 11 inchs of water if you lift the engine.

 

 

 

We know a song about that:

 

[Six-cylinder]

4 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

We know a song about that:

But don't try this in a flat bottom boat!

[Wack]

18 hours ago, hairnet said:

watching bangers and cash

barn find early marina 3 door - the chap gets there and is taking it off the trailer and keeps repeating one owner never welded unrestored

'gearlevers a bit short'

gearbox is in the boot ?

sd1 3.5 and at least matthewson was complimentary

but still slagged bl in general

 

Everybody says what a top guy he is but I get the same impression as Fred Dibnah , my way or the highway , I doubt his kids ever saw a beach , more like the bottom of an oily engine during the school holidays.

[gm]

2 hours ago, paulplom said:

There's an aircraft museum somwhere that has a concorde in it. I was there about ten years ago. They let you go inside and have a look at the cockpit etc. It's very small inside. Claustrophobic even.

just south of Edinburgh

https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/stories/science-and-technology/concorde/

not far from the myreton motor museum, 

https://www.myretonmotormuseum.co.uk

could make a nice autoshite day out

 

[Fumbler]

Theory test booked for August- excite much!

[georgeinabz]

just south of Edinburgh
https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/stories/science-and-technology/concorde/
not far from the myreton motor museum, 
https://www.myretonmotormuseum.co.uk
could make a nice autoshite day out
 

Another one at Duxford , Cambridge


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[Floatylight]

Going to get a new trolley jack, thought I'd have a look at what Argos have..

Clearly none of the people who have asked questions about this should be allowed anywhere near a trolley Jack..

Questions like

Can this be used instead of ramps when carrying out an oil change?

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8845951?clickSR=slp:term:trolley%20jack:2:82:1

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[djoptix]

I made a thing.

A friend of mine has some crazy brackets to hold his curtains on the wall.

 

...but they've got bent because he has a toddler. He was looking for recommendations for a fabricator. He'd made a plan and everything!...

 

I ordered some 5mm x 50mm flat bar and successfully made them. I was using gasless wire so the welds are pretty splattery but I'm pleased with the result.

[djoptix]

14 hours ago, gm said:

just south of Edinburgh

https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/stories/science-and-technology/concorde/

not far from the myreton motor museum, 

https://www.myretonmotormuseum.co.uk

could make a nice autoshite day out

 

It's also the main attraction at the new(ish) Aerospace Museum in Bristol.

If you're local and have kids I'd recommend it when it reopens. It's one of those places where you pay for admission once and then you can keep going back for a year for free.

[dome]

Just gave the Jag interior a quick wipe over. 

Just look at it. What a wonderful place to be?

 

[face]

13 hours ago, georgeinabz said:

Another one at Duxford , Cambridge


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I watched that land, 1977 ish.