What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Station]

so hopefully after i tickle it with the magic sparkler it should see her to the grave. 20140826_150804.jpg

Jesus man, what did you do to it! Think of her family!

[Pillock]

The whole of Autoshite seems to be on a collection mission today.

[SambaS]

Remembered the car boot sale today. Got a Bronski Beat LP for £1, love Small Town Boy and now I get to hear some others they did.

 

Such a different experience to downloading album after album and having thousands of songs to choose from on itunes.

 

Long live vinyl!

[155V6]

The Red Bull Soap Box Race from Peru on Dave,what a bunch of nutters 

[Ghosty]

Remembered the car boot sale today. Got a Bronski Beat LP for £1, love Small Town Boy and now I get to hear some others they did.

 

Such a different experience to downloading album after album and having thousands of songs to choose from on itunes.

 

Long live vinyl!

Charity shops and car boot sales are like vinyl Russian roulette but you get a lot of bargains. 

Been collecting for 2 years and I've amassed 1300!

[xtriple]

|Found my camera today, lovely Nikon 'bridge' camera which has been lost for the last year. In it were my log in details for photobucket so I've been posting random piccys all over the forum. Not much really, but it made me smile!

[SambaS]

I've had records as long as I can remember, before even... I had a Fisher Price record player that played nursery rhymes like a music box!

[Tayne]

Its rained a lot here today.

A lot.

 

Coming home this evening a young blade in an old mid-spec Focus saloon went charging past me in the left hand lane here.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@57.16924,-2.122306,3a,75y,153.38h,71.69t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sI5zTFXl0h7obVqAbm5ezzw!2e0

 

A few minutes later I found him looking sheepish facing the wrong way in the middle of road here.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@57.165844,-2.115159,3a,75y,196.36h,76.88t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sxqnLiF8XL2sdEdIweuUM9A!2e0

 

Possibly lift off oversteer but certainly driving like a dick.

Hopefully he learned a valuable lesson without the usual damage to metal or flesh.

[UmBongo]

When Gumtree sellers can't be arsed...

 

http://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-motorbikes/saab-900s-turbo/1079093260#photo-content

[Mr_Bo11ox]

^^^^ Whenever I see those now, I chuckle at the old 'my vegetarian friends wont travel in it' thing from way back when.

[rml2345]

No picture unfortunately but I saw an actual MG6 today driven by a chap who I can only assume paid money for it and wasn't borrowing it from the dealership or something. It was in a nice copper orange shade and looked quite good, in a bland sort of modern car way.

It's the first one I've seen outside of an MG meet or dealer.

[retrogeezer]

I saw one today at a car show (dealer stand) in that nice copper colour! I even sat in an MG3 as well.....horrible dark hard plastic dash and interior.

[Ghosty]

I've seen one with a private plate on it! 

Also a couple of MG3s, which I keep mistaking for small Renaults from a distance. (The inverse is also true of new Méganes).

[trigger]

There's a chap a few doors down from my in laws with a black MG6, it's the only one I ever see about though.

[SambaS]

I saw a silver MG6 today ! They must have sold some

[SambaS]

I saw a silver Monza GSE too, Id just relented and parked mine up, and set off to town on my push bike!

[Pillock]

I sat in an MG6 at AvailableCar. It was really nasty feeling inside, all hard plastics and afterthoughts.

[DVee8]

Ha ha been on my hols for the last 2 weeks,now sitting here playing catch up this may take a while.

[Wilko220]

Heard this advertised on the radio tonight. What a fascinating business idea...

http://www.webuyanycorsa.com/

[Jim Bergerac]

Corsaviour has moved to Dunstable?

[KruJoe]

DV8 - Don't miss the "Somebody stole half my car" thread for lols!

[155V6]

I saw 3 MG6's last week,I was watching the BTCC though  .There was also a Chevy Cruze,how many of those have you seen?

[Jim Bell]

^^^^ Whenever I see those now, I chuckle at the old 'my vegetarian friends wont travel in it' thing from way back when.

Vegan.

That one never gets old.

[wuvvum]

Mr. Selecta actually emailed me about buying the Cavalier.  Unfortunately* it had already sold by the time I got his message.

[purplebargeken]

Sainsbury's Star Destroyer carpark in London Colney. Parked across the way from a Fat Fiat 500 Bloatmobile. It had been parked straddling two parking bays as it is simply way too massive* to use a normal space.

 

Then a woman aged around late 50's, pulls up, squeezes into the space between the bloater and the next car. Her new'ish Beemer is parked a gnats nut hair away from the bloater (drivers side). She gets out, looks at the gap and walks off laughing. I like her.

 

Mr and Mrs. Chavwanker plus brat return, look bemused and he slides over from the passenger side and reverses out carefully. It was not as Jeremy Kyle as I'd hoped but I am easily amused. It beat the shit out of actually shopping however. 

[myglaren]

^ I followed a new Fiat 500 a few days ago and it was indeed huge - as big as my C5 in height and width, don't know about length.

[saucedoctor]

He is, mind. Edit: Police matter, it seems.

 

From an FOI request to Doovla:

 

"DVLA does not accept reports of illegal number plates from the public, as the vehicle must be seen by the police on the public highway to establish that an offence has been committed.

[Louise2cv]

Megan and me waving like mad at Mr and Mrs Dollywobbler in their 2cv from a bridge oover the A487. Great way to finish a 2cv weekend with a day out at Trac Môn for the 2cvgb national and 24hr race yesterday. Even OH has been looking at leboncoin.fr

[fordperv]

Spent the day doing nothing but being chauffeured around being hugged tight in the seat of mrs fordperv's escort whilst she was driving for the sake of it to stretch the cars legs, i managed pick up a brand new vice on sale for £14 it's just the job for in the shed, the trip out was ended by going to mrs fordperv's parents to throw a dish basin of ice water over her dad.

[Cavcraft]

I've seen two Chinese MGs in two days now on local roads. One is being used as a courtesy car for a small garage nearby. Maybe they don't want repeat custom?