What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[tonedepear]

We have a car list at work of everyone's cars so if one needs moving or whatever they can be quickly found, and an updated one was just sent round. I've got rid of the names and phone numbers and that, but just look at the choice of colours available in our work car park!

It would be fantastic if "Talbot Alpine Beige" was in there somewhere

 

Triumph Herald Yellow will be on the next one, regardless of MOT status.

 

Proton Impian Silverish

I like this, almost as if, whoever did the list went.. bah who gives a shit, it a proton....

 

I've a feeling "Silverish" was my own description, lovingly transposed onto the sheet by the reception lot. It's down as either blue or green on the log book.

[boobydoo]

Hee, hee! My 'Return Of The Saint' DVD set arrived yesterday. I've watched four episodes already.......loads of fab 1970's chod to gawp at.

 

I even noticed that his Jaguar XJS has the 'Supercover' sticker in the windscreen just above the mirror. (My name is Billy Sad-Bollocks)

 

Also, it says in the interview section with Ian Ogilivy that BL couldn't fall over themselves quick enough to provide their latest model for the series, supplying two cars complete with mechanic on all foreign locations to keep them roadworthy!

[Guest]

Seeing a National Rail Transit with a 'Level Crossings : Don't Run The Risk' sticker, stopped in traffic right in the middle of a zebra crossing.

 

No?

 

Look, I'd been running errands since 5 AM and was on my way to work to listen to dreary arseholes drone on incessantly about how shit their loss leader TV is.

[HillmanImp]

I know this is OT but I just found this on the BBC (via B3ta).

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/programme/index.shtml

 

LOADS of old BBC programmes. Fucking ace.

[trigger]

I've just been watching some of that Injustice program on ITV1, It's meant to be set in Ipswich and Felixstowe, Yesterday they was filming on Felixstowe seafront and in the distance these two big highrise flats, they don't exist, All CGI trickery Then today there version of Ipswich train station was totally different to ours and better still was a scene filmed down the docks, Totally made up!.

 

It was filmed on the old disused part of the docks called Landguard but everything about it was changed like containers that wouldn't normally be laying on the quay and a manager driving a folklift about obviously getting the job as an extra!

[autofive]

I know this is OT but I just found this on the BBC (via B3ta).

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/programme/index.shtml

 

LOADS of old BBC programmes. Fucking ace.

 

wow what a treasure chest

 

BBc finally keeps its promise made over 10 years ago

 

Thanks for the link

 

heres a good example: http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/bankholidays/7112.shtml

[RedSparrow]

I know this is OT but I just found this on the BBC (via B3ta).

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/programme/index.shtml

 

LOADS of old BBC programmes. Fucking ace.

 

This is bloody brilliant! Thank you so much, I would never have known about it.

[scaryoldcortina]

Interestingly DVLA have it down as being 1999cc so she's paying too much road tax for it.

 

Ford V4 FTW?

 

1996cc...

 

Grin today was provided by the air filter that was delivered for a peugeot 205.

Check out the "popular applications" list! Let's not mention that it fits an early 90's popular small hatch and instead boast that it's compatable with (among others) the Matra Bagheera S

 

PS, sorry for the awful pic, my camera batteries are flat so I used the webcam on the eeePC...

[RedSparrow]

^^^LOL

A couple of years ago I bought a rear screen wiper blade from Halfords for a 2001 Fiesta. On the list of cars it was for was Ambassadors and MG Midgets as well as a few other ancient ones. Wonder why they bother, but maybe it's helped some shite-ers out so its cool.

[autofive]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrDZpX9n ... r_embedded

 

anyone fancy a cruise?

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

I wonder where one could find a FRAM catalogue to consult!

 

Edit: it's right here! But no Talbots listed.

http://www.framfiltros.com.ar/frmresult ... alogo.aspx

[Lord Sterling]

Insurance companies BAH! etc...

 

Further to my Insurance grump today, I took Dollywobblers advice and gave Peter James Insurance a call, after going through a few questions (less questions than usual) I thought they'd quote me something like £500/£700 to insure my Sterling, they came back with a quote of £230 per year, fully comp on a classic policy RESULT!

 

I dont think I've ever paid as low insurance before, I had the money and paid the full amount off for the year, something I've never done before.

 

Yesterday evening I received a call from a nice old chap I got speaking to when I saw his Mk1 Rover 827SLi a couple of months ago, he had since sold the 827SLi due to transmission problems and himself being too old to sort it out, he part ex'd the 827 against a new Focus at Ford who valued the car at £1 (Cheeky bastards) thankfully though, the Rover got sold on privately.

 

The chap told me he had some left over parts which he accumulated over time and I was welcome to everything FOC as he just wanted it out of the way otherwise they would be going in the skip. Upon arriving I didnt realise how much parts he was giving away, I ended up filling the boot and the back seats and footwells with old dusty boxes full to the brim of parts!

 

I had to stash them somewhere as Ma_Sterling hasnt been impressed with my car parts accumulation programme, so I threw a few boxes in the loft and left the others in the boot of the car to take them to my garage later on.

[Guest]

I just got my £11 eBay Tamiya [Vanessa's Lunchbox] going after bodging together a heap of spares I had and nicking the battery from one of my FF01s.

 

It's absolutely nadgered and the steering servo has more play in it than a schoolyard full of crack. That does make it quite amusing to run though. Didn't go swimmingly the first time around though - got a speed controller in, found a pair of matching crystals and tried to use the FF01 Clio's Acoms to control it. This resulted in the whole thing shooting forward, ripping my desk fan off its perch [again], bouncing off my H725 radio that I've got in bits and then twatting the wall head on with the back wheels and motor shrieking maniacally.

 

The Clio was built by a spod racer who upgraded lots of parts. As I was mostly ignorant to RC stuff at the time I bought it [it was a birthday present to myself - I wanted one in 1994 when they were new but never had enough money] I didn't know any better. I'm a little bit better informed now. I won a charity RC race with it pissing off all and sundry, some of whom had turned up with very expensive 1 \ 8th scale Schumachers. I think the Clio cost me £60 all in with the controller. Having a huge pile of Tamiyas was something I always wanted to collect when younger, so I suppose this whole affair feeds my immature streak.

 

I assumed most components were common. It has an MTroniks speed controller with what looks like a pot you can adjust to eke more power out of the RS-540. The Acoms has an adjustable slider you can set to give more throttle, and on mine it's been fixed into the 120% position. Team this with an 1800 mAh battery and you have a rocket of a thing that will four wheel drift and lift off oversteer if you snap the throttle shut. Trouble is, a standard Acoms receiver takes this to mean the accelerator's halfway open when it isn't. Cue chassis shooting sideways and hoofing into the skirting board. I had a spare Adspec GS knocking around which hadn't been 'adjusted' so to speak, so that's the transmitter controlling the Lunchbox at the moment.

 

Anyway, the old 1500 mAh Ansmann wasn't any good, so I'm dumping the FF01 battery pack into it and seeing if it goes the distance.

 

I reckon I've got about 15 minutes before it ends up in the pond. I'll let you know how I get on

[Guest]

....he part ex'd the 827 against a new Focus at Ford who valued the car at £1 (Cheeky bastards) thankfully though, the Rover got sold on privately.

 

Reminds me of the time I was trying to trade my 306 TD in against a new car and Evans Halshaw in Altrincham offered me £50 for it against a TDCi Focus.

 

I had to stash them somewhere as Ma_Sterling hasnt been impressed with my car parts accumulation programme, so I threw a few boxes in the loft and left the others in the boot of the car to take them to my garage later on.

 

If you get mega stuck for space, I can stash some of it at the UoS, provided it isn't a complete car. Buying the 305 has pissed my landlord off big style.

[Negative Creep]

there were no staff on board the train and the driver stayed shut up in his cabin. He didnt even come out to offer refreshments

 

LOLZ

[Lord Sterling]

I had to stash them somewhere as Ma_Sterling hasnt been impressed with my car parts accumulation programme, so I threw a few boxes in the loft and left the others in the boot of the car to take them to my garage later on.

 

If you get mega stuck for space, I can stash some of it at the UoS, provided it isn't a complete car. Buying the 305 has pissed my landlord off big style.

 

Thanks Jon, thats a really kind offer, though I think I'll be able to stash them in my garage, I swapped garages with the bloke I'm renting it off (On the basis my garage door had a plank or two missing off it) the garage had some bits for sticking up shelving, I just need some longish planks of wood to complete the shelving again, I will keep you in mind though Jon.

[Guest]

I reckon I've got about 15 minutes before it ends up in the pond. I'll let you know how I get on

 

No pond visits, but because bell end here didn't check all the wheel nuts (and didn't notice one was absent), this happened shortly after I blezzed it round the garden for a bit:

 

 

It was actually piss funny to watch - the whole thing was bucking all over the place because of the soft suspension. Suddenly at full tilt there was a grinding noise as the wheel worked itself free of the driveshaft, and then it dug itself in and stopped dead while the wheel whistled off into the blue yonder.

 

'Tis a very silly design really. The rear springs \ dampers do the classic muscle car squat under power, so much so that the front goes light and you get epic positive camber. Then, because whoever at Tamiya though unequal length steering drag links were a good idea, the poor thing can barely turn left because the contact patches of the tyres are nowhere near where they should be.

 

If you hard reverse and slam the joystick forward it up ends itself, the wheelie bar digs in and it points up at the sky. My QD Monster Beetle used to do that and it's as amusing now as it was then.

 

The bodyshell is absolutely shagged. I reckon it's been driven hard off a wall and then rolled. I could do it up but I might just keep it as an old knacker and buy the really nice reissued one that's on eBay for not so much coin. This one could become a test bed for some mods you can buy. The upgrades you can get from the 'States are mental - strut braces to stop the shock towers jiggling about, camber correctors, double wheelie bars, stiffer springs, metal tubs - the list goes on and on.

 

 

In other news, the RC mania has to stop.

[trigger]

I got trained up today at work to drive one of the new container cranes for the new terminal that's just opened yesterday at Felixstowe, They seem much nicer then our old ones and have tons of fancy gadgets to play with, this computer screen tells you every little thing that's happening to the crane, even down to the amount of fuel it's using (about 40 litres per hour when hoisting) and how much air is in the tires, I can't wait for it all to start going wrong.

 

 

and we now have cameras which can see were your stacking the boxes on the lines, there's 4 camera's on each corner of the frame, each camera costing £3000!

 

[sludgeguts]

Nice find on the Lunchbox watanabe. I did have a modified one but to be fair I think they're more of a laugh standard. Replacing the white bushings in the wheels and gearbox with metal ballrace bearings is good move though.

 

Keeping it RC related this has been making me grin:

 

 

Its a Tamiya Toyota Hilux with a three speed gearbox. Bought for a bargainous £35 off Ebay. Had to spend another £70 on parts for it mind. Hope to give it its first proper run soon.

[Guest]

Nice find on the Lunchbox watanabe. I did have a modified one but to be fair I think they're more of a laugh standard. Replacing the white bushings in the wheels and gearbox with metal ballrace bearings is good move though.

 

Keeping it RC related this has been making me grin:

 

 

Its a Tamiya Toyota Hilux with a three speed gearbox. Bought for a bargainous £35 off Ebay. Had to spend another £70 on parts for it mind. Hope to give it its first proper run soon.

 

That looks boss. I am gonna have to do an RC thread soon - I ended up selling my Cheetah to a bloke in the States who offered me £££££££s for it.

[Guest]

On the shipyard thing, am I the only one who thinks you could make an amazing rally special stage out of one. Obviously you'd have to shut down said shipyard for a bit, then again if PINEAPPLE TRAINERS SENSATION KEN BLOCK drifted hard into a container full of plastic raincoats it would no doubt get the viewing figures up a tad.

If you held it near Xmas Trigger could marshal in one of his fantastic \ horrifying yuletide pullovers.

 

Otherwise I could join Customs & Excise and have stylish shootouts with crims in shipyards like in NCIS. Followed by tons of tedious paperwork. DEAR GOD WHERE DID IT ALL GO WRONG, I JUST WANTED TO NOB THAT LASS FOR AN UNPAID HANDLING CHARGE, ARGH

[Pillock]

I had a Mud Blaster - a Subaru Brat shell running on a Monster Beetle style chassis although some folk seem to think that wasn't the correct combo. All fitted fine though, and the body mounts were proper jobs (and different to Beetle mounts at the rear).

 

Proper ball bearings make a hell of a difference, even to battery life - less rolling resistance. I had two shells - a "for best" in the original colours, a cracked one that used to get repainted every week, and then I wised up and used school's vacuum forming machine to make thin plastic ones to muck around with. Look great painted on the inside, school were charging me 20p per shell or something.

[brammy777]

Getting the bus to Basingstoke on a battered N reg Dart Dash, only for a tow truck pulling a (presumably) restored c.1990 Olympian in the ye olde Stagecoach Livery to stop along side at a roundabout. Made quite a contrast....

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Getting the bus to Basingstoke on a battered N reg Dart Dash, only for a tow truck pulling a (presumably) restored c.1990 Olympian in the ye olde Stagecoach Livery to stop along side at a roundabout. Made quite a contrast....

 

I don't understand how the environazis never touch buggered old buses. A clean 9 year old Magentis taxi needs to be sold off due to OMG POLUSHON while fucked K-reg buses spread their diesel goodness around town all day.

[Rhythm Thief]

I got trained up today at work to drive one of the new container cranes for the new terminal that's just opened yesterday at Felixstowe, They seem much nicer then our old ones and have tons of fancy gadgets to play with, this computer screen tells you every little thing that's happening to the crane, even down to the amount of fuel it's using (about 40 litres per hour when hoisting) and how much air is in the tires, I can't wait for it all to start going wrong.

 

 

and we now have cameras which can see were your stacking the boxes on the lines, there's 4 camera's on each corner of the frame, each camera costing £3000!

 

 

Cool. I used to run in and out of Felixstowe Trinity on container haulage and I always thought those massive six wheel cranes looked like tremendous fun to drive.

[155V6]

Nice find on the Lunchbox watanabe. I did have a modified one but to be fair I think they're more of a laugh standard. Replacing the white bushings in the wheels and gearbox with metal ballrace bearings is good move though.

 

Keeping it RC related this has been making me grin:

 

 

Its a Tamiya Toyota Hilux with a three speed gearbox. Bought for a bargainous £35 off Ebay. Had to spend another £70 on parts for it mind. Hope to give it its first proper run soon.

 

That looks boss. I am gonna have to do an RC thread soon - I ended up selling my Cheetah to a bloke in the States who offered me £££££££s for it.

I remember watching Tamiya videos when that Hilux came out showing a load of them pulling a real one .If you want real shite RC cars though,you should look at the Mardave cars & the Kamtec bodies they use for RC Banger Racing

[Pillock]

Many grins provided by the Dukeries Rally blasting it's way through the local woodland. It's wonderful in this day and age of the nanny state and OMG Helf'n'SafetyGoneMad that you're free to pitch up next to the track and get pelted with rocks. At one point I was 12" away from the tyretracks when the mentalists in the WRC stuff started coming through. Prior to that a lovely selection of older cars - I say selection, 94% Mk2 Escorts.

 

Did take a fist-sized boulder to the bollocks though. That'll "learn" me.

[trigger]

royal flypast today, already had a fighter jet flyover!

[chaseracer]

Were they on their way to take out a 90 year old dole scrounger living with his idle family in a big house in SW1?

 

[chaseracer]

Cort16's current avatar is particularly grinworthy. Wonder what the original message was...