What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[DoctorRetro]

Not car related, but for some reason I keep getting given these, purely for throwing myself in the way of spherical objects that people seem determined to get past me into a sort of fishing net thing. 

No idea what MOTM means, I presume something good? 😁

[Agila]

15 hours ago, paulplom said:

Cats and certain dogs chase the red dots on a wall or whatever.

Reminds me of my American cousin when he was 15.

Got a laser pen and was being a knob and shining it though neighbouring windows etc.

This one neighbour was being stalked and had received threats to life etc. Next thing a SWAT team turned up looking for a potential shooter.

Could of gone quite badly wrong.

 

[Aston Martin]

[Austat]

 

[Metal Guru]

3 hours ago, Vantman said:

Man of the match?

You think?

[Wack]

Fuck me , what goes through these people's minds 

 

[cobblers]

5 hours ago, Aston Martin said:

Shitting nora!

[DVee8]

Someone asked if he managed to drive away, to which the uploader told the rest of the story: "Yes, he drove off came back later saying his gas gauge didn't move and it sounded like he was out of gas...then said our pumps were broken and we stole his money."

[Wack]

Tyres look ok though 

[S2000]

Bimmer was riding like a bag of shite and showing NS rear suffering with low pressure for a week or so (kept topping it up for a month), and finally got it to the garage yesterday to find a hole 1 inch from the tyre wall on the run flat.

Check the picture of the deterioration on the inside. Why am I grinning? New set of Yokohama non run flats all round equals better ride and when the tyre goes flat it goes flat!!!!

[Remspoor]

 

[Minimad5]

Grin. Finding old pictures like this :

I recall the look of horror on some folks face, as they read the banner .... Autosh- 😲

[Ghosty]

33 minutes ago, Minimad5 said:

Grin. Finding old pictures like this :

I recall the look of horror on some folks face, as they read the banner .... Autosh- 😲

The banner disappeared for a long time, in my early years on the forum (2013-16) its whereabouts was often questioned. 

When the Northern Powerhouse meets started in 2016, I occasionally noticed Junkman and Conelrad making reference to something AS related, but always spoken obliquely - 'do you still have it?' 'yes I do'. This went on for a while and I was curious. They wouldn't say what was going on. 

I was talking to watgongsidecorporation late one night at Shitefest '17 in Lincolnshire, Jon having shown up at the eleventh hour in his 305 having had nothing to eat for several hours and with nothing but a Mexican blanket to sleep under. Feeling peckish after countless Bud Lights (I'd managed to buy 50 cans for £7.50 from a Tesco reduced shelf somehow), I started on a large bag of Doritos - Jon asked for some and ended up eating the whole bag. 

Somehow Jon ended up telling the story of the banner and he explained it was once his - I don't recall exactly what was said, but he said that he didn't want to have the banner any more so asked someone nearby to take it away from him.  Something clicked in my head. 

I know where it is, and nobody else does.

When daveb47 had stopped fucking about and the site was back up, I sent a PM to Junkman: 'I know you have the banner'. 

'Yes. What do you want it for?' 

'To take to shows and stuff'.  

As it happened, someone at Shitefest foisted an XJ40 wing onto me (Richard K? ChinaTom? I can't quite remember) and asked me to take it to the Junktowers, which I did on my way home. I nabbed the banner while I was there. 

I didn't tell anyone - I thought it best that way, and waited for the right moment for it to resurface - after all I was the last person anyone would have expected to have it back then. I can't remember entirely where it made its return but that may well have been Chumley 2017 - I remember it being taken in exceptionally good humour by showgoers and shiters alike. 

It was a triumphant return. 

It's been to every AS gathering I've been to since, and I still have it now. 

[Minimad5]

1 hour ago, Ghosty said:

The banner disappeared for a long time, in my early years on the forum (2013-16) its whereabouts was often questioned. 

When the Northern Powerhouse meets started in 2016, I occasionally noticed Junkman and Conelrad making reference to something AS related, but always spoken obliquely - 'do you still have it?' 'yes I do'. This went on for a while and I was curious. They wouldn't say what was going on. 

I was talking to watgongsidecorporation late one night at Shitefest '17 in Lincolnshire, Jon having shown up at the eleventh hour in his 305 having had nothing to eat for several hours and with nothing but a Mexican blanket to sleep under. Feeling peckish after countless Bud Lights (I'd managed to buy 50 cans for £7.50 from a Tesco reduced shelf somehow), I started on a large bag of Doritos - Jon asked for some and ended up eating the whole bag. 

Somehow Jon ended up telling the story of the banner and he explained it was once his - I don't recall exactly what was said, but he said that he didn't want to have the banner any more so asked someone nearby to take it away from him.  Something clicked in my head. 

I know where it is, and nobody else does.

When daveb47 had stopped fucking about and the site was back up, I sent a PM to Junkman: 'I know you have the banner'. 

'Yes. What do you want it for?' 

'To take to shows and stuff'.  

As it happened, someone at Shitefest foisted an XJ40 wing onto me (Richard K? ChinaTom? I can't quite remember) and asked me to take it to the Junktowers, which I did on my way home. I nabbed the banner while I was there. 

I didn't tell anyone - I thought it best that way, and waited for the right moment for it to resurface - after all I was the last person anyone would have expected to have it back then. I can't remember entirely where it made its return but that may well have been Chumley 2017 - I remember it being taken in exceptionally good humour by showgoers and shiters alike. 

It was a triumphant return. 

It's been to every AS gathering I've been to since, and I still have it now. 

Good man 😎

I've always wanted to nab it, and put it up in my garage at home.

Hopefully we will see it make an appearance next time we have a meeting, infact, it'll be (sad) but awesome to recreate the above picture 😅

[ChinaTom]

The only XJ40 wings I had were still attached to the XJ12 so I deny all!!

I recognise Pete M, Minimad, Jon and think that’s wuvvum’s head at the back there, but I can’t put names to the other faces.

[New POD]

13 hours ago, cobblers said:

Shit

Corrected for accuracy..

[cort16]

Can anyone help ?

[3VOM]

20 minutes ago, cort16 said:

Can anyone help ?

You just know he spent 6 hours replacing the belt, following the correct route, and tensioning it as per the HBOL.

[MikeR]

At last Aldi have confirmed the proper way to hang big paper ....

[Remspoor]

12 hours ago, Minimad5 said:

Grin. Finding old pictures like this :

I recall the look of horror on some folks face, as they read the banner .... Autosh- 😲

OOOOh Viva Ha and HB....... The later looks like it could be a hens tooth GT model.

[reb]

I don't know how much power this Volvo is outputting, but it's a lot and I love it!

[High Jetter]

15 hours ago, Minimad5 said:

Grin. Finding old pictures like this :

I recall the look of horror on some folks face, as they read the banner .... Autosh- 😲

I never guessed that AS has been running since the 60's. Why did they add the .com back then? 😃

[DVee8]

16 hours ago, Minimad5 said:

Grin. Finding old pictures like this :

I recall the look of horror on some folks face, as they read the banner .... Autosh- 😲

Who's who in the photo? roll call.

[Minimad5]

7 minutes ago, DVee8 said:

Who's who in the photo? roll call.

This is embarrassing 😅

Far right is Pete_M

Next to him is Jon (Not sure his username on here this time around, was Dougong or summit)

Then me in the Cheq' .

Erm yeah that's all I know 😅 (This is why I walk around awkwardly at A.S meets, as I'm piss poor with names)

[reb]

New Volvo related grin.

Just filled up with diesel and been for a drive.

Indicated 45mpg.

That's including several overtakes where full power was utilised, to great effect.

[andrew e]

A V12 petrol powered lorry with a softop.

 

[Austat]

22 minutes ago, andrew e said:

A V12 petrol powered lorry with a softop.

 

Ahh, the new G-Wagons. What my friend considers the car of choice for the financially incompetent.

[wuvvum]

Is it a new G-Wagen?  It looks exactly like a 1979 one with stupid wheels and arches fitted.

[Sigmund Fraud]

9 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Is it a new G-Wagen?  It looks exactly like a 1979 one with stupid wheels and arches fitted.

Mercedes actually made quite a few changes to them in 2018, but nobody seems to have noticed 😁

[iainrcz]

Beer, fire, woman at work.

Even better, I've only got 2 shifts left till Xmas holidays.