What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[dugong]

 

 

How many Dyson detailing threads are you planning on doing?!

[KruJoe]

Just turned over the calendar:

 

 

[skattrd]

Ahhh ... "Wills first A-framing adventure"

[PhilA]

tell him his house is mortgaged and as such doesnt own the road outside or indeed the house.......... that happened to us (we live near manu so permit parking some fud parked across (slightly next door) they were too scared to be able to drive in the driveway we solid towbarred the car out off the way onto the main rd (about 500ft) word must have spread - it didnt happen again

I recall many, many years ago a similar situation. I lived on a quiet, dead-end street assembled between 63 and 67, so naturally enough room for two cars to pass on the street but not much else.

Every house built with a driveway capable of accommodating 3 cars. However, each house had a standard farm gate across, coupled with fence because the farmer used to herd cattle down the road from the farm at the end.

Well, nobody liked to park in their driveways, instead choosing the standard 80's "couple wheels up on the pavement" instead.

 

That changed overnight as instead of the cows causing any vehicular damage, my neighbor came home in a cider fueled haze and carefully bounced off every car in the street in his Cortina, before parking it askew in the top of his drive and stumbling inside for a well deserved kip.

 

Not many people would argue that they were glad he wasn't driving his normal mode of transport; backhoe JCB...

 

Best thing that happened to the street, that was.

 

Phil

[beko1987]

How many Dyson detailing threads are you planning on doing?!

As many as you like! I presume 0 though, although I might thread one up, but not for here. Happy to link to it for repair help though.

[hairnet]

salvage hunters do tucketts ford place

 

golden ford - splumph

 

 

 

[KruJoe]

Congratulations, you won this auction.

Winning bid: £87.10

[Rover414]

All feels well in the driveway again, for now:

 

[inconsistant]

People give the Royal Mail a hard time, but we've just experienced them at their most speedily efficient... we got a letter for someone else last week which my wife popped in the post box with "not known at this address" on Friday, and today, Monday, it's been delivered back here again. 

Brilliant!

[andy18s]

OOoooocha !!!!!

 

http://www.wimp.com/choppingcars/

 

There's going to be 1 of these stationed on every road into that there Londonium if Boris gets his way

[jakebullet]

OOoooocha !!!!!

 

http://www.wimp.com/choppingcars/

 

There's going to be 1 of these stationed on every road into that there Londonium if Boris gets his way

 

When I see vids of this sort of machine it just makes me think what do they do with the product? You're going to end up with fairly big bits of dissimilar materials fastened together?

[fordperv]

The correct Radiator came today for my mk1 sierra I'm mega chuffed as today is the start of 14 days off work so hopefully I can finish the jobs I want to do on it and get it booked in for paint

[nacho man]

 

Using x40000 zoom to capture this beaut FBI style.

[meggersdog]

Welcome to the HQ of Sod's Law.

For the last few years I've been lucky enough to be given free fire wood.The remnants of rotting sheds,fence posts and suck like.The last delivery was a few branches of a chestnut tree that blew down one windy day before Christmas.Nothing since so my stocks have depleted to such a degree that for the first time in six years I actually bought a few bags of wood with real coins of the realm.

Yep, three hours after I finished stacking the wood in the woodshed my fencing contractor buddy shows up with a flatbed of fence posts and panels.

The law of Sod in action.

[Asimo]

Just been cursing the little insect that has got under the glass on this ipad.

 

Now realise it is a little animation on Daveb47's post!

[Bobthebeard]

Just been cursing the little insect that has got under the glass on this ipad.

Now realise it is a little animation on Daveb47's post!

Not just me then. Took me a few minutes of shaking the ipad and poking at the screen before I realised.

Doh.

[trigger]

A couple of mates popped over tonight, one of them just bought this Orion 1.6i Ghia, it's been sat in a garage a couple of years and has only done 64000 miles, the interior was mint. I want one now!

 

 

[dugong]

 

I drove the Amazon today for the first time in four years.

 

It's filthy, the interior's still a mess, parts are missing, there's no heater and it's slowly losing oil from the not-long-fitted rear crank oil seal. The brakes have yet to bed in so I did two low-speed laps of the industrial estate after letting it warm up. This netted me a ferocious bollocking from the engine builder who wanted to get it back in his workshop to fit the new rear crank oil seal (which Brookhouse replaced for free). I'm hoping he can work out why it let go so quickly.

 

I hope the crank hasn't got too much float in it, otherwise it's game over until I can save up for the work. The bonnet latch played merry hell this afternoon and the horn is a shambolic lash-up to get it through the MOT, but it'll do until I get it home. A tame VOC carburettor bod is coming look at the Zenith next week to see if it'll behave. Failing that, the carb place in Manchester have agreed to look at it again.

 

Managed to get a mega-low unlimited mileage insurance premium on it from Peter James. Garaged at my gran's with FATHA_DUGONG on the policy, it came out at £88.92 - so some good news at last.

[seth]

Excellent news Dugong.

[DeeJay]

That's nice.

It all seems to be coming together for you at last.

[dugong]

That's nice.

It all seems to be coming together for you at last.

Yes. Seems. 

[vulgalour]

Crikey that is a cheap policy!  I'm trying Peter Best again at renewal as I've a bit more experience and NCB this time around, I'll be happy if I can get my insurance down to around £250.

[wuvvum]

Coming back from work today, I pulled off the bypass to see the usual Tesco artic sitting in the layby outside said supermarket, waiting for its delivery slot.  Only instead of the usual 4-year-old Mercedes Axor, this one was pulled by an R-reg Scania 143M.  The oldest truck I've seen on contract haulage for a very long time.

[dugong]

My old 305 Estate has resurfaced, still without an MoT - for a bit over double what I sold it for. 
 

Buyer was a pleasant bloke and I like what he's done with it, but I don't think there's much chance of him seeing £595 on a 305 that's without a diesel engine and any test. I don't begrudge him making money on it but it won't move at that price without an MoT (IMHO). 

[mouseflakes]

The Golden Age of Coach Travel - BBC 4. Now. For all you insomniacs out there.

[oman5]

Coming back from work today, I pulled off the bypass to see the usual Tesco artic sitting in the layby outside said supermarket, waiting for its delivery slot.  Only instead of the usual 4-year-old Mercedes Axor, this one was pulled by an R-reg Scania 143M.  The oldest truck I've seen on contract haulage for a very long time.

Good to know somebody is still working one. the 143 was the king of the road in the late 80s early 90s. big powah for their time and they sound fantastic.

[nigel bickle]

That Volvo looks ace Jon.   Damn well done for persevering.

[dollywobbler]

Thanks to my kindly neighbour, and their very-powerful router, I'm back online again. Wonder when our phone line will get fixed. Mind you, it's not very quick, so my video plans may yet remain on hold.

[scruff]

Good to know somebody is still working one. the 143 was the king of the road in the late 80s early 90s. big powah for their time and they sound fantastic.

 

Indeed, was it red Wuvs? I passed a 143 roaring up a hill on the M6 last week but I think it was on a container. 

[cms206]

Coming back from work today, I pulled off the bypass to see the usual Tesco artic sitting in the layby outside said supermarket, waiting for its delivery slot.  Only instead of the usual 4-year-old Mercedes Axor, this one was pulled by an R-reg Scania 143M.  The oldest truck I've seen on contract haulage for a very long time.

 

The metal reprocessors around the corner from my yard have a fleet of nearly new Scanias on scrap work, plus one N-reg 143M V8 streamline which hauls their mobile crusher around. There's a G-plate 143 also runs into the yard owned by a contract and it is spotless.