What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[HH-R]

To all owners of VW Beetles/Camper vans/Type 3 thingies. Stop using the following fucking words when writing your pathetic POS ebay ads:

 

Barn Find

Surf

 

Nnnnggghhhhh! 

Had the misfortune of being stuck behind one of these piles of shite for AGES the other day. It didn't go above 35 and took about three days to get there. Hopefully Top Gear will take a dislike to them.

 

Edit: I think we have the wrong thread...

[Pillock]

On 4od yesterday I found some short clips of Guy Martin talking about his passions, one of which is a Rolls Royce Merlin engine.

 

It is awesome

I recommend any Guy Martin stuff where he gets to talk about what makes him tick. He has quite a Dibnah way of describing machinery and manages to get the patronising-technical balance about right.

[Pete-M]

Today I went in a full works David Sutton prepared original factory Mk1 Escort Twin Cam.

 

I've waited to go in one of these since I was about 12.

 

It was better than I'd imagined it could be.

 

This has made me very happy indeed.

[Lacquer Peel]

I like how you have to spend thousands on RWD Escorts to make them good.

[Pete-M]

Good.

[michael1703]

Mention of Guy Martin on a car forum?

 

Any bike love on here?

 

If so, watch these

 

 

[fordperv]

I have just seen a post brenhinol van at my local pez station (stoke) when I was putting some fuel in, I laughed thinking he's a bit far from his round

[cort16]

Remember that super sweet track allegro that was for sale on retro rides that made my love onions hurt? Well here it is in the manx rally!

 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/motorsport/27140755

[KruJoe]

[Ghosty]

Calendar.

[KruJoe]

I thought you'd enjoy that. Have another:

 

 

Which one should I submit to the calendar thread - first or second?

[dollywobbler]

First one has more impact. Second one is impressive for the 205 tow vehicle though!

[Jimcit]

First one does look like some kind of rocket launch.

 

Reminds me of a budget version of this:

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Yesterday I saw 3 men escape death (possibly)

M11 ,lane 3 ,70 mph possibly plus the statutory 23% allowed* by law. In front of me is a tatty Sprinter LWB, heavily laden and at terminal velocity for a rusty 55 plate Sprinter. He had just passed the lorries in lane 1 and 2 and I was thinking about a flick of the indicator or flash of lights to remind him I was late for a Stansted pickup .

Then,you you know how sometimes you fantasise about having steering wheel controlled machine guns to clear the fast lane? Well it was like I did, the offside rear tyre of the Sprinter disintegrated ,causing the van to hit the central barrier ,very hard,then bounce across all 3 lanes and hard shoulder hitting the Armco that was protecting a drop of about 30 feet. It flattened about 100 yards of this barrier ripping off the near side wheel in the process,it then lurched up onto its offside wheels and swerved back into lane 2 before the driver regained control and steered onto the hard shoulder.

How it stayed upright during all this,I can only attribute to it's apparently overloaded state, or possibly it was being driven by Mark Higgins .

All 3 lanes had come to a halt and the motorway was covered in gravel,bits of tyre and random Sprinter parts, the driver got out white faced( which was surprising ,because he was black) waved , gave a thumbs up and everyone just accelerated away.

It did make me think it was probably just as well I hadn't decided to undertake it, and that Sprinter man should buy a lottery ticket tonight.

[mercrocker]

I never fail to be amazed at the blind faith with which disintegrating Sprinters are driven, flat out....They are the new Cortina Estate (the only vehicle my traffic-cop Uncle used to say overtook his jam sandwich BMW in zero visibility and six inches of rain....)

[bub2006]

Vauxhall astra for sale at local used car dealer. P reg LS trim i think. Price in window? £995. Made me lol did that.

[Junkman]

After a long and colourful succession of tatty Puntos and Rover 25s,

my gifferdom bordering next door neighbour has now outshited himself.

 

 

In fact, he upped the ante suchlike, that I now find myself in zugzwang.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I've been wearing my new 'Ipswich park & Ride' clip-on bus driver tie to work today, every meeting I have been in has had 10 minutes lost out of it while folk check it out, have a laugh at it, ask why/where I got it, and think up 'amusing' work situations in which it could participate. Been in 4 meetings so thats 40 mins of work time that I have been able to chill out and bask in the glory of rocking the bus driver look. YES

[cort16]

That Princess front end is begging to be tacked onto the front of a smashed up Vectra or Mondeo. Cut N Shit

[155V6]

The Sweeney on ITV4.It's the one with Morecombe & Wise in it,they're in a Mk 1 Transit Pickup throwing frozen fish at the cars that are chasing them 

[trigger]

 

 

 

I always thought that car chase was a bit shit!

[AnthonyG]

After a long and colourful succession of tatty Puntos and Rover 25s,

my gifferdom bordering next door neighbour has now outshited himself.

 

 

In fact, he upped the ante suchlike, that I now find myself in zugzwang.

That is supremely awful, I think only a City Rover would out-shite it! Is he keeping the ladybird stickers?

[Sloth in a bowl]

After a long and colourful succession of tatty Puntos and Rover 25s,

my gifferdom bordering next door neighbour has now outshited himself.

 

 

In fact, he upped the ante suchlike, that I now find myself in zugzwang.

 

Best use of Zugzwang ever 

[vulgalour]

Are we not all in zugzwang here, isn't that the point?

 

 

 

 

I may have had to Google what zugzwang is.

[Alfamale]

Apologies if this has been posted before but this has made tea come out of my nostrils.

 

 

[Tayne]

Are we not all in zugzwang here?

No, I'm in Aberdeen.

[Hertz]

Just made it down to Winchester ready for a car meet on Saturday at Goodwood. This is the longest trip I have done in the car (200 miles) since dragging it out of the garage I found it in after 6 years off the road. This made me grin, how small does the Alpine look next to the Focus 

 

[TimothyClaypole]

Are those Princess lights the same as these?

 

[vulgalour]

Princess lights have a squarer, shallower back plate, different retaining bezels and not so large a step in height between the lights.  So they're almost exactly the same apart from everything about them.

[Junkman]

No, I'm in Aberdeen.

 

I'm pretty sure there is an Ovlov estate for you out there somewhere.