What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[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.

[Des]

You did incredibly well parking that close without being clamped / towed / controlled exploded / shot at, and maybe in the coming weeks you'll receive a cascade of pics depicting your car.

In the form of CCTV PCNs for daring to drive on London streets.

 

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.

 

Do look for smoke detectors wherever you place your toaster, 10 years ago I had one at work and I failed to carry out that that check. Used it loads until one day just as I'm spreading on the butter the fire alarm goes off, everyone promptly makes their way to assemble in the carpark, I arrived a bit late as I had to put the marmalade on my toast, when I stepped out enjoying my bittersweet and slightly charred treat, my colleage Ian informed me that it's our office responsible for the predicament, fire brigade on way, £400 charge for false alarm, big trouble.

Soon as we're allowed in I sprinted ahead, grabbed my toaster, wrote 'Ian' on it with a marker and plonked it on Ians desk just as he comes in, on spotting it he called me a rotten bastard and started to laugh at which point a jumped up tart called an operations manager or something arrived, sees Ian with 'his' toaster and launched into a truely superb bollocking, ''I'm so glad you find it funny blah blah self important angry shouty tinpot blah blah'' denying poor Ian a chance to get a single word in, I actually fell to my knees with breathing difficulty caused by indigestion from laughing my bollocks into a knot.

[dollywobbler]

Aye. A former office I worked in banished our toaster after similar events. We didn't get charged by the Fire Brigade the first two times though...

[seth]

Whilst there I decided to pop into Central London with the Rover.

 

I hope you remembered to pay your £10 for the privilege. (Unless it was Sat/Sun you did that bit)

[Lord Sterling]

Whilst there I decided to pop into Central London with the Rover.

 

I hope you remembered to pay your £10 for the privilege. (Unless it was Sat/Sun you did that bit)

 

I did yes, it cost me pretty much all the credit on my phone (that and trying to phone up the accomodation people for Ma_Sterling to find the place she was supposed to be staying at as my SatNav couldnt pick it up) but at least I got it out of the way.

[whitevanman]

I'm chuffed to bits....the Ex Reggie_Bol p100 has just passed it's MOT Another year of pick up ownership a head

[mattblack]

I bought this 70's kit on ebay a while ago...

 

 

...finished it the other day, I didn't exactly build it 'out of the box' tho'...

 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I'm chuffed to bits....the Ex Reggie_Bol p100 has just passed it's MOT Another year of pick up ownership a head

 

Strewth man! Did you weld on a whole new undercarriage?

[TimothyClaypole]

Aye. A former office I worked in banished our toaster after similar events. We didn't get charged by the Fire Brigade the first two times though...

 

All sorted. It was lovely.

 

Team leader old misery non the wiser.

 

Then I hung a seat massage/heat thing on my back like a turtle and had a massage.

 

http://www.ebuyer.com/388182-carmen-c90005-infrared-heated-seat-massager-with-multiple-programmes-and-heat-pad-c90005

[vulgalour]

It has been very, very cold so I've been wearing a fur overcoat to work the past few days. Driving a tatty old Maestro while wearing a brown three-piece suit, fur overcoat and massive hat really makes me feel like Old Money, it's awesome.

 

Also, received numerous compliments for my appearance, my deportment, the quality of my work and the obvious effort I'm putting in to actually go places in my current job from boss and company executives alike which had me properly grinning for the latter part of the day. It has been intimated that I'm in the running for the permanent contracts that are hopefully to be available in Jan/Feb time when my temp contract ends.

 

Today has been awesome.

[pompei]

I thought you were on the bins, VA?