What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[808 Estate]

[High Jetter]

7 hours ago, Out Run said:

Finished this, today.

a £200 Marketplace purchase. Looks a fair bit less 80s/90s now, IMO.

I rollered the FG beams and angle iron purlins with Rustoleum Combicolor, replaced the roof, white fascia and RWG and spray painted them in my spare bedroom lol.

Here’s some before, during and after pics.

Pleased with how it has came out and it will hopefully keep a lot of the weather off the car, until I get around to building a garage.

Wot if the rain comes down at an angle?

[mitsisigma01]

FG, RWG 🤔.... 

[Ghosty]

8 hours ago, Nyphur said:

I've seen that in the flesh.

I believe there is photo/video of it from one of my show reports in the early days.

Any of Millyard's creations are a sight to behold, having encountered a five-pot Kawasaki someone had him do. Man's a genius. I was particularly impressed by the engineering of the mountain bikes he's designed for his lad as shown on his YT channel.

[Wack]

FFS ,the latest from China 

[Borsuq]

I'm extremely proud of my mum. She's been doing the promo rounds for her book on local telly and radio, and despite having essentially zero experience with things like that she's doing great.

The book is fantastic too, obviously.

[Out Run]

9 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Wot if the rain comes down at an angle?

Hence just expecting a lot, but not all of the weather to stay off it lol.

It will stop the rain streaming through the sills and doors etc every time the heavens open, I’m sure. 
I’ll soon find out.

[Out Run]

8 hours ago, mitsisigma01 said:

FG, RWG 🤔.... 

Fibreglass. Rainwater Goods - guttering n that innit.

[wuvvum]

Autoshite is weird.  I'm sat here smiling from ear to ear because a bloke I've never met has managed to move to a country I've never been to.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

In the last week or so, a shamateur car dealer / scrappy has been up and down the street putting "Cars Wanted For Cash" flyers and his mobile number on every car here.

Every car, that is, except the CX....

[clayts450]

[Joey spud]

I was out working in the badlands of West Sussex today when i spotted this absolute honey outside a garage in Horsham.

I give you a 70's Spitfire that's been mated with what looks like a early 30's Austin 7.

If the rad was moved upright/ pulled in tighter to the engine and below the rad was tidied up then i think this would be way too cool for (old) school.

[clayts450]

Blimey, hope the Council don't take it away by mistake on bin collection day.

Looks well cool, that.

[louiepj]

I will keep an eye out for that next time I frequent the cafe next door.

[DSdriver]

4 hours ago, clayts450 said:

spacesaver innit

[clayts450]

[hairnet]

chap on yootoobe has an e niro and is doing lands end to john o groats for charidee - mr EV andrew till

unbelieveably hes done it in one go (with a helper) he left LE at 6am they turned up in scotland at just before 3am - im mileage king and even i wouldnt do that - 1000 miles in 10 hours 800km in 6.5 etc - crucially not at night

just  a shame that the interesting bits he passed in the dark at the start and at the end

edit he lives in canterbury so it was 400 miles just to start ffs

 

[Cavcraft]

Bought an old funky moped a few months ago, came with no V5, seller wouldn’t let the recovery firm collect from his house (and no proof of where he lived) etc.

On top of that, not only did someone message me later saying the vendor was full of shit and not to trust him, but when I questioned him as to how come the back brake didn’t seem as good as it could be, he said ‘just adjust it, it’s dead easy with drum brakes’ or something like that. I actually had to point out it has a rear disc. Anyhow, log book arrived after the usual Coronavirus DVLA wait, and then I promptly forgot about the bike until the other day when I went to take my scooter for an MOT, so put it on with it. Just checked on line, and it’s only bloody well gone and passed with one small advisory!

Might as well get my meagre wages just sent wholesale to Bikesure now.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

[richardmorris]

 

[MikeR]

In to do file work today .

Pc has gone tits up ...

Feet now put up ....brew in hand 

[New POD]

9 minutes ago, MikeR said:

In to do file work today .

Pc has gone tits up ...

Feet now put up ....brew in hand 

Given that you know more about computers than the IT manager, at what point do you offer to fix it ?  For a fee ? 

[MikeR]

1 hour ago, New POD said:

Given that you know more about computers than the IT manager, at what point do you offer to fix it ?  For a fee ? 

Never , I would get a bollocking to tweaking the software !!!!! 

[New POD]

And yet you could fix it. Hilarious. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

There's nothing like a good old-fashioned practical joke, albeit writ large...

 

[Joey spud]

Me buying Haribo Starmix..

[steveo3002]

these toyotas are the tits

[Agila]

18 minutes ago, steveo3002 said:

these toyotas are the tits

Shouldn't you have waited until another 3 miles.

Excellent though 😂

[steveo3002]

18 minutes ago, Agila said:

Shouldn't you have waited until another 3 miles.

Excellent though 😂

cool kids like me spell it boobz   

[strangeangel]

I'm not laughing. but my inexcusable, if perhaps explainable, inattention and my dear old car's unfailing ability to fuck up might give you a giggle. The BX went to the garage this morning because it had been making a hideous rumbling noise (from the front, or so I thought) which sounded like the mother of all wheel bearings about to explode. I got a phone call early this afternoon:

 

"There's nothing wrong with the wheel bearings, the noise was one of the rear wheels that had worked loose. We sorted that, but then we had to push it off the ramp because it wouldn't start. The battery's obviously new, so we cleaned all the earths and checked all the connections, but nothing."

"Ah, sorry 'bout that... it does that occasionally. If you waggle the key a bit then it starts fine"

"Riiiiiight, sounds like the brushes are going. Seeing as it's here, and there's nothing wrong with it, d'you want me to put a new starter on it?"

"Er, yes please"

 

I'd had my first flu jab this afternoon and, feeling like shit, retired to the sofa for a nap. An hour later, and refreshed, I went to put the bin out and discovered my BX, back in its usual space as if it had never been away. Keys pushed through the letterbox.  They are good, bless them.