What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[richardthestag]

Range rover is working again. Didn't know whether to stick this in the grump thread or not but it is running

 

Last weekend I decided to strip the top end to fix a suspected air leak around the inlet/plenum. Took me 3h of fun to strip it, clean it and get it all back together with lots of blue hylomar. And it started, and ran without all the lumpiness.

 

Then I tried to remove the ecu temp sender which being lucarse and on a 1990's land rover car renders them hugely unreliable. Only dpo dipshit had glued the bastard in because the thread was fucked. So when I tried to remove it the top end just span with no removing going on. So the whole fugging thing came apart again, but this time with the inlet manifold also. I managed to get the offending sender out but with buggered thread and daily driver off the road I opted for a 2nd hand inlet from the bay.

 

Ordered new gaskets, injector seals etc etc and got everything together for a fix it morning yesterday. Inlet manifold went in fine, new injector seals seemed to be made of butter, and for some reason I didn't bother to check for fuel leaks at the injector rail until the whole thing was back together. Started fine but with a fuel leak of BP proportions. SHIIIIIIIIT!

 

So it all came apart again, found one seal had the tinseyest nick taken out of it! Making me very nervous i stripped them all apart again, triple checked them and reseated, no leaks yay. Got it back together for the 3rd time in a week and it purrrrrrrrrrrs

 

So a week of no daily driver and a shit load of work and all because of a previous owner bodge, you gotta love em haven't you!

[Cheggers]

Welcome back Eddy

[fordpoplier]

Just got power back after 6 days, dear god you realize how cold it is with no heating.

[scaryoldcortina]

My debit card is worn out, and starting to go dodgy in the card reader thingies so this afternoon I went onto online banking to order a new one. While there I noticed that I can "personalize" my card with a photo so I sent them this one.

 

[dollywobbler]

Forget the bank card. The story of that car and its creation is still one of the biggest grins on the internet. Especially the devilish underside shot. Must be some years ago now?

[vulgalour]

Still one of my favourite cars for being what a hot rod should be.

[scaryoldcortina]

4 years ago now! I almost used the devilish underside pic for the card, but the aspect ratio was all wrong.

[barrett]

Very long day of 'car stuff' today with some Very Nice People off the internet, taking in two 'events' and getting various bits of car delivered to replace the worse bits of mine. Some uplifting chatting have left me feeling very positive about the stupid plastic thing on my drive and I'm now looking forward to cracking on a bit even more than before. So all the good bits of the online old car scene and none of the nonsense. Lovely stuff!

 

Also, I imagine this must be the only time in history that this exact combination of rubbish cars have shared a car park It's hard to see from this angle but there is a 190-something Olds Curved dash behind the Merc)

unusual car park scene by barrogance, on Flickr

[pompei]

Good to hear from you again, Ed!

[pompei]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5dL4DPm-DE

 

I know this is a pearoast but I hoot with laughter every time I see it The voice reminded me of someone and I've just got it: it's that character who left all those messages to George during the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper (one for our younger listeners)

[pompei]

I've missed out on that hotrod story. Is there a link?

[Tayne]

I've missed out on that hotrod story. Is there a link?

 

http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.c ... read=39982

[dollywobbler]

Make plenty of time for that thread. 49 pages. I'm just reading it again!

[Cavcraft]

My lad knocked a CV up and printed a few out yesterday on new printer and we went and handed some out. First job this morning he got a call from a Ford garage offering him a job! It's not quite the position he was after but it sounds good all the same. Told him to whizz up there after and sound the bloke out.

[Largactil]

Myself & Mrs_Largactil decided to conduct our own Skyfall reenactment yesterday, swapping Mr Bond's DB5 for my peasant spec pug, and heading up the A82...

 

Fantastic scenery & roads... And the pug never missed a beat

 

 

 

[cort16]

Have more money than sense and no friends? If so then spend 4000 hours building a 911 with 1 seat and centre driving position.

 

I'm not sure how it took them 4000 hours given the engine's in the back.

 

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2012/11/porsche-center-wheel/

[fotorabia]

Discovering at work today that the company ute Ive already spent at least half a day in driving [half of that lost] is actually a Ford Falcon and not a Holden Commodore...i was so useless with alll the new gizmo's and digital layout I forgot to look at the badges..

[whiskeyonesix]

Well that would have been easy to figure out... A Holden Commodore never would have lasted to half a day

 

Those Falcon Utes are surprisingly light at the back end, Smoke dat bitch

[Tayne]

Have more money than sense and no friends? If so then spend 4000 hours building a 911 with 1 seat and centre driving position.

 

I'm not sure how it took them 4000 hours given the engine's in the back.

 

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2012/11/porsche-center-wheel/

 

 

providing more even weight distribution

 

Why the fuck did you start with a 911?

Could you not have picked something that had better weight distribution to begin with, like a sledgehammer?

[Tayne]

I was asked for ID in Sainsburys tonight.

 

I'm 33.

[trigger]

I was asked for ID in Sainsburys tonight.

 

I'm 33.

 

Welcome to my world, I got asked for ID in the Co-op a few months back for a 6 pack of Fosters and I've even been asked in the last year for ID when buying a lottery ticket!, I'm 32!

 

The lady in the Co-op got to met grumpy Trig when she asked me, Annoyingly she asked In such a high voice that a load of customers turned to look at me and she made me get my drivers licence out for her to then say "you should be grateful that you look so young", "WE'LL I'M NOT" I snarled back before running off with my beer.

[scaryoldcortina]

I've never been asked for ID in a shop. Ever. Looking in the mirror suggests it isn't going to happen either.

[Tayne]

A week's worth of shopping and a bottle of Balvenie, it wasn't as though I was buying cheap alcopops.

 

I was made up.

 

She did tell me she though I was 23 though.

[trigger]

Yesterday I spotted for the second time in the last few years a tatty looking D reg Rover SD1 (model unknown) in Colchester being driven by a smart looking older gentleman wearing a shirt and tie and on a similar note most mornings i see a smartly dress guy in a white shirt and tie driving a very rough looking white K reg Maestro along my road.

 

I like to imagine him being the manager of a successful shipping company and parking this rough Maestro in his personal car parking space at the office next to the sales reps Audi's and Mercedes.

[Tayne]

most mornings i see a smartly dress guy in a white shirt and tie driving a very rough looking white K reg Maestro along my road.

 

I like to imagine him being the manager of a successful shipping company and parking this rough Maestro in his personal car parking space at the office next to the sales reps Audi's and Mercedes.

 

Is it this guy?

 

[cobblers]

Or this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMCFeoR9oSg#t=282s

[cort16]

I saw an old boy driving a Blue mk5 Cortina estate today near my work. I know most of the tat in that area but I've not seen that before. Original giffer Cortina's are nearly always easy to spot as the front number plate is always mounted too far up the bumper.

[TimothyClaypole]

I've a brand new and working toaster (the case is dented) under my bench at work so tomorrow I'm going to see if I can get away with toasting a crumpet.

 

 

(I've been banned from taking buns in... ) - miserable manager(s), can't hack it that I'm the BEST.

[pompei]

WoW, I only occasionally dip into RR and missed that build. That hot rod creation is just bloody fantastic! 49 pages spent well into the night (and early morning)

[Lord Sterling]

Yesterday I met Pete the Organist, it great to meet him and his cars, particularly the Renault 14 of which I've not seen one in the metal for a good few years (probably about 15 years or so)

 

I've just come back from the South after dropping Ma_Sterling off and helping her shift a few things. Whilst there I decided to pop into Central London with the Rover. It was great driving that thing around London, it felt 'just right' if that makes any sense. Me cruising in the Rover dressed in a suit and my best Arthur Daley overcoat blasting some classical choons, I toured around Buck house, Houses of Thieves (Parliament) and Kensington and Chelsea to see what luxo chod I could spot, I pappeda few pics, but nothing substantial, I shall chuck some pics up some time soon as I need to jettison the pics from my phone as its getting into 4-figure amount of pics I have stored on there.

 

On the journey down South, into and around Central London, out again, then back to Birmingham, the Rover behaved absolutely impeccably

 

For now, have this rubbish attempt at getting the Rover in a shot with Big Ben:

 

 

I honestly couldnt find anywhere else to park where I could get a better shot.