What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I now have to get by until next Tuesday on €12, $30 and 210CHF that I can't actually spend as I need it next week because I'm going on a trip to CERN and a chocolate factory

 

Oh, CERN and the Chocolate Factory is one of my favourite films ever! My favourite scene is when Charlie and Uncle Joe stay behind to try the experimental fizzy drink and are sucked into the collider and end up being slammed into each other at almost the speed of light, proving the existence of the Higgs Everlasting Gobstopper. 

[ShiteRider]

The MOT station/taxi firm directly opposite work is closing in a few weeks, which is a bit shit really as they're good lads and a good source of cheap tyres and are convenient come test time. However, a 'classic car restoration' firm are moving in in a few weeks, apparently they already have a bodyshop in or near preston and just need this place for mechanical stuff..........they turned up this morning in an Allegro

[DVee8]

I got these today.

No idea what i am going to do with them.

Prob move them to the offered/wanted thread at some point later

A Hitachi CSK-413D

 

 

 

A Saisho CX780

 

 

My youngest asked what are they dad?

I said radio cassettes

What is a cassette dad?

[fordperv]

The yellow thing (I forget what its called) was in the sky, so I've actually been able to get outside to do something, I stripped the interior out of Mrs fordpervs car and gave the thing a damn good cleaning.

[quicksilver]

Out for a pub lunch today. Various automobilia on the walls but my eye was drawn to a painting of a VW Beetle with a pair of sheep. There's got to be a subliminal message there about Dub scenesters being sheep-like. Oddly enough there was a OMGRATLUK Beetle in the car park, a distinct lack of pineapples though.

 

And that yellow thing was in the sky round here too, for the first time this year I went outside without a coat on.

[Spiny Norman]

My arms are aching but I finally got round to tackling Tasha the Volvo's manky headlining this afternoon. Like most of the car it was covered in a (sometimes not-so-thin) layer of grease and grime but luckily these old 240s have the old fashioned vinyl headlining that looks like a giant Elastoplast rather than the newer fuzzy-felt stuff that much newer cars have so it was a relatively simple hour's worth of scrubbing to get it a hell of a lot cleaner.
 

[ShiteRider]

I'd be interested in the silver hitachi DVee8, one of my cortinas needs a radio to fill the space in the centre console.

[vulgalour]

Drove to see shiter garycox today to exhange Princess stuff.  The route is my house, M1, A35, Halfords.  I got lost but recovered and then parked in the wrong Halfords car park.  Well done me, I believe I probably can get lost in a paper bag.  However, Princess performed flawlessly for what ended up being about 220 miles and seems to have returned something like 38-40mpg which I'm very happy with.

 

On the way back I overtook an 8 wheel Atkinson flatbed truck which was a glorious thing lumbering along at a steady 50mph and was myself overtaken by a pale yellow rubber bumper MG B Sherpa Coupé who seemed to have a keen interest in/were flabbergasted at seeing the Princess.  On the other carriageway was a FUCKOFFORANGE Reliant Scimitar saloon/coupé, I forget what the proper name for them is.

 

Garycox's dog shirt was pretty amazing too.

[alf892]

Had house stuff to do today but used the Rover to pick up bits. Just coming home when saw the new neighbour with garage doors open.......lovely VW Variant and BMW 6 M something.

 

Chatted for about an hour. Top bloke

 

Failed to complete any house jobs.

[DVee8]

Mr shiterider you have pm

[drum]

Saw this lovely unimog camper today in its natural environment.

 

[vulgalour]

Were you on the moon?

[drum]

Were you on the moon?

Not quite!

 

Glenshee ski centre. The car park is over 2100 feet above sea level.

[beko1987]

Did 380 miles this weekend! Xm was great apart from hiccuping twice at 95mph and dropping a few hundred revs then picking back up...

 

Saw several million VW's and bmws blowing black smoke out their arses too! All much much newer than the xm that overtook them

[jakebullet]

Bought a pair of capri S doors that didn't look as pretty in real life as on ebay. After attacking them with the DA sander the tons of obvious wob has been added for no real reason as there's still steel underneath.

[trigger]

Whilst searching for some photos for the shameless 'cars and girls'  thread I've stumbled on this gold mine of fantastic period 1930-60's photos on Flickr, It's well worth a look.

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/44300154@N08/page1/

 

VW 1100 by Raymondx1, on Flickr

 

Citroën DS by Raymondx1, on Flickr

[Lord Sterling]

^^^ I think we need to do some half-arsed pics like that today. See how the men were well-dressed in pressed trousers and shirts posing with thier cars. And then get todays unshaven rabble dressed in torn rags posing with half stripped fit-for-scrap cars.

[Ghosty]

Well Trig, you have an impeccable taste in women.

[Station]

My dad never services his cars. I don't think he has ever done an oil change in his life.

He has been struggling with DMF failure or whatever it is on his 02 Mondeo for about a year, having to charge every week the many batteries he has bought as it's painfully struggling to start every morning. He's gone through four of those yellow jump start things (they're rubbish and don't last long).

I bought him a new starter and swapped the old one out and now it starts great, and also noticed the filter was a little bit manky.

 

 

Power is restored (it was much slower).

 

Also put bucket seats and coilovers on the Nippa and it's a completely different car.

[bub2006]

Is that honestly the colour of the air filter??

[Ratdat]

Jesus, talk about false economy! If he wants to neglect a car he should get something like an old 80's Mazda 323. They'll just keep chugging on even with complete neglect and zero servicing.

[M'coli]

The 205 chillin' in the Kingshouse carpark last night.

[MrDuke]

Seeing an approaching gaggle of honeys in a shiny Merc, Dieter surreptitiously tries to shove his VW into a field. The old smoothie.

[vulgalour]

My Dad always says if you're going to do any head work on an engine, do it right; grind the valves, clean everything, replace the stem seals.  Interesting then that he told the garage not to replace the stem seals to save a few quid and now his Omega is going through oil like it's going out of fashion and exhibiting all the signs of stem seal failure.

 

It is a wise man that takes his own advice.

[Junkman]

^^^ I think we need to do some half-arsed pics like that today. See how the men were well-dressed in pressed trousers and shirts posing with thier cars. And then get todays unshaven rabble dressed in torn rags posing with half stripped fit-for-scrap cars.

 

Note that the chap also saw fit to shell out a few extra D-Marks for the glitzier Export-version with sunroof, then added wheel embellishers and rear wing protectors courtesy of what must have been the German equivalent to Halfords.

 

Pure class.

[fordperv]

just won a new copper cored rad for my mk1 sierra for £16.51 delivered, well chuffed

[overrun]

GMS Capri Spares providing me with early mk3 Escort handbrake cables, 3 piece, genuine Ford, no less and a genuine RS1600i ehaust manifold gasket, for £26.

 

I love that place. Great craic, too.

 

Guess which gasket Ford supplied, a few months back, after I mistakenly assumed mine had been compressed too many times and was the source of the blowing. Yes, I threw it away. :/

 

[mercrocker]

those FLICKR shots - I am a bit perturbed at how much more appealing women seem to me when clinging to a Kapitan or stroking a Simca.   Doktor...!!

[fordperv]

overrun what a bargain,  im just looking on their site now to see what bargains can be had

 

*it seems to not have been updated since 2011 lol

[fordperv]

The advert with the cat and the budgie singing to each other makes me smile