What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Spiny Norman]

Any advance on 5 different colours on the same car?

(The Polo Harlequin doesn't count btw)

 

[Wilko220]

[cobblers]

Some poor sod on wheeler dealers just gave Mike Brewer £23,000 for a AC Cobra rep which is running a Chevy 350 and a big carb. Mike added a pair of cats to get it through the IVA emissions, which it just snook it through with brand new cats. Good luck replacing £600 worth of cats for every MOT Needs a computer controlled carb like and R reg Lada. Oh, hang on, no, even those plugged the cats up by the first MOT

 

Wasn't a bad 45 minutes telly though.

[RedSparrow]

http://www.flickr.com/groups/686090@N21/

Morris Ital Sl by Charles Dawson, on Flickr

 

Rockin the 1988 paedo look there.

[cobblers]

Some poor sod on wheeler dealers just gave Mike Brewer £23,000 for a AC Cobra rep which is running a Chevy 350 and a big carb. Mike added a pair of cats to get it through the IVA emissions, which it just snook it through with brand new cats. Good luck replacing £600 worth of cats for every MOT Needs a computer controlled carb like and R reg Lada. Oh, hang on, no, even those plugged the cats up by the first MOT

 

Wasn't a bad 45 minutes telly though.

[Lord Sterling]

The bloke who spotted the Morris Ital also spotted some other cars on the saem stretch of road in a similar condition, one of them was ratted Vauxhall, done so well it really did look patina'd, but upon closer look, it looked deliberately done, too neat and tidy in some places and the body left in a generally bad condition:

 

Vauxhall Cavalier 1.6 Base by Charles Dawson, on Flickr

 

I suspect they were coming from some sort of show/retro rides gathering?

[M'coli]

That shonky Ital's still marked as taxed, although it's due at the end of the month.

[Negative Creep]

The bloke who spotted the Morris Ital also spotted some other cars on the saem stretch of road in a similar condition, one of them was ratted Vauxhall, done so well it really did look patina'd, but upon closer look, it looked deliberately done, too neat and tidy in some places and the body left in a generally bad condition:

 

Vauxhall Cavalier 1.6 Base by Charles Dawson, on Flickr

 

I suspect they were coming from some sort of show/retro rides gathering?

 

 

Now that's how you do rat look

[cort16]

It seems MG might have cottoned on to the fact that no-one wants to pay 16 grand for one of their cars. If you trade in your current bit of old rammel they'll give you 3 grand off making an MG6 £12,455.

I guess at that kind of money it's a bit more tempting as you'd not even get a bogo Focus for that (although a bogo Focus might be better?)

 

http://www.cardealermagazine.co.uk/publish/mg-dealers-mega-value-deals-on-mg6-models/69767

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Just noticed this on Autotrader. Thank you Autotrader!

 

[messerschmitt owner]

thank goodness autotrader have done that - I'll be using it a lot.

[Caffiend]

The BX passed its MOT

 

It also needs a new high pressure return pipe (temp fix done for MOT), but oh well - so chuffed about an MOT pass with no advisories that I don't care.

[Alexg]

thank goodness autotrader have done that - I'll be using it a lot.

+1

[ProgRocker]

On TV - Sort of half watching 'Murder, She Wrote' on ITV3. This time, Jessica Fletcher is in Ireland (the accompanying actress is putting on an unconvincing Irish accent ). She has just been dropped off in a fairly basic series 1 Citroen CX. Seeing the Renault 21 hatchback and a 'behemoth' Merc S Class indicates that it was probably filmed in the early to mid 1990s.

 

I wonder if Angela Lansbury is a secret fan of Citroen CXs? Last week, she was in Hong Kong and there's a shot of a CX Pallas or Prestige pulling up outside some posh establishment.

[retrogeezer]

Trusty Mongdeo has just gone straight through another MOT.....just the thrill of forking out another £220 for the tax again next week.

[outlaw118]

Outraged from Tunbridge Wells having a go at me on the "Bargains" thread.

Laugh? I nearly shat.

[willswitchengage]

[ing]pic deleted by me as apparently facebook just gives you stupidly high resolutions - 2002 Clio van[/ing]

 

COURTESY CAR SHITE!

 

As the supplier forgot to send my local garage the bits for a timing belt change, I've been lent this. Low miles 220,000, actually feels surprisingly well screwed together with a pretty decent engine (1.5dci) and smooth gearbox. Couple of dashboard lights on but they never harmed anybody. Sorry to admit but I actually quite like it

[Louise2cv]

Finished browsing www.classicBMW.com? Try this:

 

http://gizmodo.com/5944472/the-most-ins ... -ever-seen

 

[Cavcraft]

Outraged from Tunbridge Wells having a go at me on the "Bargains" thread.

Laugh? I nearly shat.

 

I can see that daft twat turning into EPIC TROLL in record time. He's already donr that bit where he quotes everyonr then adds the sort of response you'd expect a slightly deranged 7 year old to make, and the usual flexing of the e-cock has been done

Let him twat on about trying to sell rattly old clunkers for five times their value, we can just sit back and laugh at him.

[dollywobbler]

Sunshine. New BX. Welsh roads. Welsh scenery. Sunshine. Sunroof! Welsh roads. Welsh scenery. Turbocharger. Welsh roads. Welsh scenery.

 

Yup. I'm liking today, and I'm REALLY liking the BX. I love the torque, though I'm still trying to find ways to combat the turbo lag. You have to anticipate the power, because it bloomin' shifts once the boost builds up.

[willswitchengage]

[pompei]

That Lego machine reminds me of the Better Mousetrap edition of Tom and Jerry. Or that Honda advert.

[Vin]

I've posted this site before on a shite thread here somewhere before...

 

But, the recent updates on this site are BLOWING MY MIND http://spannerdude.wordpress.com/

 

The metal bashing and fabrication skills of 'spannerdude' are SIMPLY STUNNING

[Cavcraft]

Driving 'enthusiastically' and getting to Lincoln in a smidge over 2 hours in the 306. Didn't get overtaken at all on most of the roads and only got slightly help up going over Woodhead.

[pompei]

The Thick Of It on later tonight

[Richard]

The Thick Of It on later tonight

 

They will have to go some to beat what's been happening in real life this week.

[Albert Ross]

Watching a goodly percentage of "The Ipcress file" earlier... and falling asleep on the sofa. Just woke up.

[autofive]

Watching a goodly percentage of "The Ipcress file" earlier... and falling asleep on the sofa. Just woke up.

shoot the traitor ross

[barrett]

As usual I got sucked i to The Ipcress File (just turned it on when I was having my lunch) so that was my whole afternoon well-used. The BBC really need to invest in a new print though, they're still showing the horrible worn-out copy that I first taped off the telly about 13 years ago and it's looking even rougher now. Actually, it took 10 years for me to buy a DVD copy and work out wtf this was lurking in the background during the car-park scene as it's just an indistinct blur in the Beeb's copy...

[dollywobbler]

I give up Barrett. I thought Lotus IX or Fairthorpe but Google does not concur.