What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[motorpunk]

Treat by the missus, some poxy old house or summat. 😎

[Wack]

33 minutes ago, motorpunk said:

Treat by the missus, some poxy old house or summat. 😎

She's a keeper , any room for a lodger 

[motorpunk]

3 minutes ago, Wack said:

She's a keeper , any room for a lodger 

She certainly is. There’s some pokey lean-to round the back, bring a sleeping bag and let yourself in…

[richardmorris]

1 hour ago, motorpunk said:

Treat by the missus, some poxy old house or summat. 😎

Goodwood doing air bnb now? Ha!

[motorpunk]

52 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Goodwood doing air bnb now? Ha!

I wasn’t paying! 😄

[goosey]

Just noticed the Original first aid kit in my sons E36 expired in 1999, So I’ve binned it as I doubt the new owner will want old out of date medical stuff

[320touring]

29 minutes ago, goosey said:

Just noticed the Original first aid kit in my sons E36 expired in 1999, So I’ve binned it as I doubt the new owner will want old out of date medical stuff

@goosey

[goosey]

I’ve also binned this rather naff looking toolkit, imagine trying to undo a wheel nut with one of those little spanner’s, what were BMW thinking ?

[wuvvum]

I have a pair of those adjustable pliers which I "borrowed" from the tool kit of an E39 I once owned.  I can confirm that they are indeed shit.

[Dobloseven]

Never throw anything like that away. Original tools etc. add to desirability as cars get older. 

[jakebullet]

Went in the hive of scum and villainy that is CEX in town. Shop droid says have you got ID as this is rated 18. Er, no, I'm 48!

Fortunately my cex card had me down as being an old bastard. 

 

[808 Estate]

[richardmorris]

[vulgalour]

On 8/29/2022 at 8:56 AM, Spottedlaurel said:

Plenty of patina on these two. The Triumph has had the same owner since 1968.....

 

 

 

Great to see that Triumph hasn't changed since 2016 when I saw it at the Bourne show.  Owner seemed very sound, one of the cars of the show for me on that day.

[hairnet]

so was watching bangers and cash

turned over and hammond classic car thing is on

kinda watching it on mute - looking at grizz threads also

still on mute but had it on when he took the e type to prescott

it had a wee and mindy was driving - i dont think he blamed her

'do you think we got away with it?' as the pa bloke asked do you have float for su carb please  hammond is stuck

 

[gm]

having sold the roffle win 206gti, i had a few quid burning a hole in my pocket - the planned trackday was cancelled so i wazzed the lot on new tools  

the pillar drill even has a frikken laser on it  

[goosey]

6 hours ago, Dobloseven said:

Never throw anything like that away. Original tools etc. add to desirability as cars get older. 

It all went in the Bin with the original owners manual, wheel nut key, comprehensive service history and 2 spare sets of keys*
 

 

*nothing got binned really 

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, vulgalour said:

Great to see that Triumph hasn't changed since 2016 when I saw it at the Bourne show.  Owner seemed very sound, one of the cars of the show for me on that day.

The Bourne Identity?

[Datsuncog]

1 hour ago, goosey said:

nothing got binned really 

**Stops hyperventilating**

That's good to know. I trailed all sorts of useless crap out of my Subarus before they were taken away for recycling - no idea what I'll do with logbooks and history files for cars that no longer exist, but maybe some day I will.

Yes, my house is a shit-tip. How did you guess?

[myglaren]

 

[STUNO]

No photo...... saw a Tesla come through our town today. towing a caravan and with a large carrier on the car roof. I did wonder how far he was planning to go !!

[PhilA]

5 hours ago, STUNO said:

No photo...... saw a Tesla come through our town today. towing a caravan and with a large carrier on the car roof. I did wonder how far he was planning to go !!

That's a good plan.

 

Travel for vacation only as far as you're willing to walk back home.

[Remspoor]

19 hours ago, 808 Estate said:

Also UV glowing sockets, why?

[LightBulbFun]

37 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

Also UV glowing sockets, why?

so when they vanish into the 4th dimension you can pop in the UV tube you blagged from the local tanning saloon and get them glowing and known  

[Wack]

6 hours ago, STUNO said:

No photo...... saw a Tesla come through our town today. towing a caravan and with a large carrier on the car roof. I did wonder how far he was planning to go !!

It's becoming a problem on camping sites , they pick sites with unmetered electricity then expect to charge their car in the price 

I've just been to a site that've changed to metered electricity , the owner said her electricity cost is double the price cap so if people take the piss with heating awnings and charging cars that's the way all sites will go 

I don't expect a gallon of diesel to be waiting on my pitch so why should an ev charge for free 

[NorthernMonkey]

Convertible washing day today…

The grin is because it’s nearly time for the pub and tomorrow, we’re off to London for the weekend to drink shit loads of beer and see the Divine Comedy at the final night of their postponed and rearranged Barbican anniversary show with front row seats on Sunday night.

[NorthernMonkey]

This Z is really growing on me…so much so, I’ve owned it nearly a month and I’m not yet contemplating selling it (though I do have an hankering for that V8 X350 on here to match my green one and something is going to have to give shortly…)

In other totally* non related news, this may be up for grabs shortly once I’ve rebuilt the nearside front suspension as the knocking was doing my head in…

It was going to be a forever car but you can only drive so many…. 🙁🤔😂

[balford]

I never knew the 407 was available in limo form

[andy18s]

7 hours ago, STUNO said:

No photo...... saw a Tesla come through our town today. towing a caravan and with a large carrier on the car roof. I did wonder how far he was planning to go !!

Im sure they had a genny for the caravan...

[Metal Guru]

2 hours ago, PhilA said:

That's a good plan.

 

Travel for vacation only as far as you're willing to walk back home.

I did see a plan to extent EV range by basically towing a trailer full of batteries. So weeks of the year your 250 mile range is plenty , but for holidays et you could double the range with this. Could easily be extended to caravans. Pricey though unless you could hire them for two weeks.