What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Richard]

I know what it is, it's been revealed on another thread.

[Cavcraft]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNaqRgGOuQQ

 

Must have legs of steel!

[DVee8]

Sitting in a car park waiting for Mrs V8,2 cars up is a Pt cruiser.Dad my 8 year old says is that the car you go in when you die? I hope not son,i hope not.

[vulgalour]

I'm impressed he didn't fall off that Chopper, it is a pushbike I never could master.

[richardmorris]

It's great seeing police cars on the motorway when you're in a 2CV. You can keep your foot to the floor in full knowledge that you can pass everyone who's just slammed their brakes on without being in much danger of exceeding 72mph.

[HillmanImp]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNaqRgGOuQQ

 

Must have legs of steel!

 

He has my rezpct when he does it on a Grifter. 

[Cheggers]

This is how to "do" Mont Ventoux...

 

[hairnet]

they done an american one too they gave them selves 36 hours

[rml2345]

A smashing evening with some mates and then a drive home down country roads in the dead of night.

Bloody brilliant.

[Tetleysmooth]

I finally got around to completing the fix on my broken vacuum pipe last Monday, on my V70.

All connected up, started up, EML light stayed on. Bugger. Fed up with seeing the light on, been there since I bought the car.

Oh well, I suppose I'd better get someone to put it out for me.

Used the car for work all week.

Friday morning, jumped in the car to come home from work, fired her up, light went out on its own. Result.

I had a feeling the old Volvo would need to have a think about the repair, and so it turned out.

Strange having a nice normal dash.

Thanks to Krujoe for the part he supplied, the final piece of the jigsaw.

[michael1703]

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Very true, on a similar theme I don't understand people passing speed cameras, they think if they are in lane 1 they have less chance of getting flashed, so they brake and pull into lane one and drive at 43mph, as I've been travelling at 50, I indicate out and pass them and the camera at 50 and pull back in, I ain't braking for nobody dagnammit

[Cavcraft]

Jesus wept, just watched the Borisbike one. Hat truly doffed, that was some challenge.

[beko1987]

tdPopped out in the XM this afternoon to wake it from its slumber prior to being collected on saturday, and fuck me it was lovely. Spent the afternoon regretting my decision to get rid of it but then realised why when it said I lost 40 miles of fuel in 22... It felt soooo lovely compared to the ZX, felt like I was sitting in the middle of the car, everything was so far away!

 

I think a period of mingebaggery with the ZX is in order, then when financial situations improve a bit (hah!) a nice 2.1td hatch is in order, or a Xantia 1.9td...I think I'm turning into a closet wafty citroen fan, the prospect of the rear shocks needing changing in the ZX worries me more than needing to change a sphere or something!

[Louise2cv]

7 weeks into couch to 5k and I did my first "parkrun" on Saturday. Parkrun is a free 5k run every Saturday at various places in the UK, except north Wales ot seems, so I went to one while visiting the rents.

 

Got my pace a bit wrong so had to walk a little bit (so annoyed at myself) but managed to get in a time of 28.22. They give loads of stats with the results: I was 223 of 425 runners, 56th female and 9th for the 30-34(f) age range.

 

I am chuffed and really want to go again, hope one starts up round here soon! Also lost loads of weight over the last couple of months so I am feeling great. Going to celebrate with cake obvs.

[Bobthebeard]

Wall stickers in Blackpool Vic Accident and Emergency department.

 

" Would you recommend a visit to us to your friends and family.... Please give us your feedback"

WTF? Who thought that one up?

"Hey mum, you really must visit A and E in Blackpool, get yourself down the garden and step on the rake. Blooming great they are..... You must go etc etc....

 

Overpaid men in suits springs to mind.

[outlaw118]

^^^ They've got them at Basildon too, very little else to read when you're lying on a trolly....

 

 

Anyway, it's apparently summer, so i'm glad to share this with you, from a musician i've great admiration for, Jon Poole, ex-Cardiacs, Wildhearts, Goddamn Whores....don't worry, it's not shouty, it's a bit Beach-Boys, bit pschyadelic, but all good, easy pop. Give it a listen, it's GR854.

 

[fordperv]

took my saph for an m.o.t this afternoon and it flew it, so it now has 13 months m.o.t

[AlabamaShrimp]

It's a bit cheesy but I think she may be some shitters dream woman

 

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/84250625/

 

(don't know how to direct link to the video)

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Just seen an episode of Bergerac, shite spotting paradise!

Montego Police cars,Toyota Cressida taxi,what sounded like a 6 cylinder LT minibus full of Nazi Hunters and a Nazi with a gold Renault 25 TS complete with plastic trims.

And to think I thought it was shit 30 years ago.

[Negative Creep]

http://www.carmag.co.za/news/haunted-renault-explained/

 

Could only happen to a Renault

[Cavcraft]

In some sort of 'staring at the screen in utter disbelief' moment of lunacy, it seems my lad (21) can insure thirty large's worth of Aston Martin 4.3 Vantage for £2,800.

Maybe, just maybe, his youthful exuberance and crazy plan to put a grand a month aside to buy one might just work. I bloody hope so as I want to be a named driver.

[Tayne]

Bought a snow shovel in the petrol station.

 

For a pound!

[cobblers]

Fuppin ell, if he can put a grand a month away you aren't charging enough board! Think of the corsas you could buy with that!

[Lord Sterling]

Was sorting through seom old photos the other day with old_man_Sterling (man, my parents were well stylish in the 80s) when I came across an old paper cutting about when our house was burgled in the late 80s, it contained the reg of my Dad's old Mk2 Cavalier! A391 OJN, the car was nicked in the burglary along with our Video recorder, TV and some other stuff. The car and stuff was eventually found I seem to recall.

 

Until then, I could never remember the reg of the car, any photos there were of it missed out the number.

 

A391OJN, a Red Vauxhall Cavalier L hatchback first registered in November 1983 lasted until November 1997. 'JN' denoting a Chelmsford registration.

 

This is the reason why I have a big soft spot for early Mk2 Cavalier hatchbacks.

[DeeJay]

In some sort of 'staring at the screen in utter disbelief' moment of lunacy, it seems my lad (21) can insure thirty large's worth of Aston Martin 4.3 Vantage for £2,800.

Maybe, just maybe, his youthful exuberance and crazy plan to put a grand a month aside to buy one might just work. I bloody hope so as I want to be a named driver.

By the time he can afford the car he'll be able to insure it with Saga. 

[Lord Sterling]

In some sort of 'staring at the screen in utter disbelief' moment of lunacy, it seems my lad (21) can insure thirty large's worth of Aston Martin 4.3 Vantage for £2,800.

Maybe, just maybe, his youthful exuberance and crazy plan to put a grand a month aside to buy one might just work. I bloody hope so as I want to be a named driver.

Absolute lunacy. Today I was on the phone to my insurer. I'm 31 and have now discovered that despite having had Classic Insurance previously with them, they count it as NCB. Suppose it makes sense.

 

However, despite that, to insure me on my 827 Coupe would cost me no less than £1k on a normal comprehensive policy. A classic one, £420. I've still not seen the car yet but I suspect it won't be going to France with me just yet, not this time anyway.

[daveb47]

Seen at local dunton boot sale  this morning.

Only £850.......

[fordperv]

I have just seen a unimog towing a digger on a trailer

[Caffiend]

Paging Mr Partridge. (mildly NSFW)

[xtriple]

I've just had a missive from the good people at DVLA. Normally this requires expenditure of dosh on my part, however, on this occassion, it was a cheque to me in the sum of £116.66.

 

Never had money back from the DVLA before... what can I buy?