What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Asimo]

^^^What was the 1cylinder, a Bond?

[daveb47]

Bond with 1/2 cylinders

Messerschmitt/issetta/Trojan 1

Berkeley 2/3

Dkw/saab/wartberg/daihatsu 3

[vulgalour]

I just remember, completely randomly, the dream I had last night of driving around in an old JRG Mk10 Jag with no functioning brakes unless my passenger and I wound the windows down very fast and shouted BRAKING very loudly.  This meant the Jag could stop slightly better than if you put your feet out the doors.

 

I have been quite ill with some sort of stomach bug lately so I'm pinning the blame on that.

[daveb47]

The dunlop brakes on the Mk 10 were like that when working,i almost drove mine off the Hythe quay one dark night when i wanted it to stop and it didnt believe me.

[fordperv]

Vulg you've just reminded me where's that dreaming of shite thread, before I forget, last night I dreamt I was driving my mk1 Sierra and was being pursued by someone in a bronzey brown kia magentis (do they even make them that colour I've only seen silver ones) flashing at me so I pulled over and the driver was excited looking round my car, telling me about sierras, it was bloody strange

[rml2345]

Speaking of dreams, the one I had last night involved too many cars and trade insurance. I wonder if it's a prophesy.

[Ratdat]

Seeing Mr Ratdat and his Cherry in Classic and Sports Car.

 

Really? I bet that's the first (and possibly the last) time that a Europe/Arna appears in C&Sc! I better go find a copy!

[Ratdat]

It was in CCB and CCW as well.

 

I missed the CCB piece unfortunately. 

[loserone]

I just remember, completely randomly, the dream I had last night of driving around in an old JRG Mk10 Jag with no functioning brakes unless my passenger and I wound the windows down very fast and shouted BRAKING very loudly.  This meant the Jag could stop slightly better than if you put your feet out the doors.

 

I have been quite ill with some sort of stomach bug lately so I'm pinning the blame on that.

 

Throwing themselves into the road.

[purplebargeken]

I had a dream last week that I was driving a brown Moke type thing but it had side panels welded on and was pretty rough and ready. It then disappeared from under me when I was driving. Completely vanished. I was miffed. Not sure if it was post-apocalypse zombie thing or just odd. 

[Tayne]

Perhaps you had just insured it and became "epic".

[michael1703]

I've got a mk10 jag which had little or no brakes, got quoted £300 for a master cylinder, searched the net googling the part numbers and looking at various pictures and found it was the same as series 3 landy

 

£42.......NICE!

[Mr Lobster]

I missed the CCB piece unfortunately.

 

Also in MotorSport too.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

WIDESPREAD FAME

[Ratdat]

Blimey!

[Semi-C]

Throwing themselves into the road.

Throw yourself in to the road darling, you haven't got a chance.

[Caffiend]

Hooray, another year's MOT certificate on my BX (actually, 54 weeks as I remembered to take the old certificate in). Failed on a couple minor LHM leaks (witness my entire lack of astonishment) and o/s/f ball joint, which I knew was u/s, so doesn't count (my theory is that only expensive things and/or nasty surprises count as proper MOT failures, rest is just normal servicing, works wonders for my attitude to cost of shite motoring).

 

Might be moving it on next year sometime if I can find something fun to replace it with. With which to replace it.

[Cavcraft]

My missus wants to help me do a tip run this morning. The car now has some new wild life to go with the spiders, flies and midgie type things in it, in the form of maggots. I have a feeling this isn't going to end well.

[cort16]

The gang all together for one last time. I imagine this is what AA mens nightmares look like

 

image by cort16, on Flickr

[HillmanImp]

I imagine this is what AA mens nightmares look like

 

 

 

EFA

[Cavcraft]

 

 

EFA-ier.

[dollywobbler]

Hooray, another year's MOT certificate on my BX (actually, 54 weeks as I remembered to take the old certificate in). Failed on a couple minor LHM leaks (witness my entire lack of astonishment) and o/s/f ball joint, which I knew was u/s, so doesn't count (my theory is that only expensive things and/or nasty surprises count as proper MOT failures, rest is just normal servicing, works wonders for my attitude to cost of shite motoring).

 

Might be moving it on next year sometime if I can find something fun to replace it with. With which to replace it.

 

Good stuff. You don't need the old certificate any more though. Digital automatically recognises if the test is early and adds the time on. 

[michael1703]

And also alerts you if presented too early

[Ratdat]

Just got my insurance renewal through from FJ. For 7 cars fully comp including one modified one... £431. It's not often insurance and good news arrive hand in hand!

[Ghosty]

Seems everyone was having shite dreams the other night.

Mine consisted of trying to buy a free maroon Rover 75 off an Autoshite memeber who turned out to be Ian Wright who was wearing a suit the same colour as the car, and lived in an exact copy of my house, except not on my road and instead in the Midlands somewhere. When I arrived he wasn't in and the garden was full of gardeners that didn't notice me, so I found the keys to the Rover somewhere, took some paperwork and left a note, and went inside the inexplicably open copy of house to wait for Mr Wright to get back. 

 

Also my mum's been in the AA for 25 years, so they're giving her access to some offers and a van-tracking thing on the AA app...

[Spiny Norman]

Since I've yet to find new wheels I thought I'd better phone my insurer (Privilege) and tell them I no longer had the Jaaag.

I'd mentally prepared myself for an epic long wait in the queue listening to fucking Vivaldi but got through to a real human being within seconds. Told him I'd got shot of my car but wanted to keep the policy going so I could use the 'Driving other cars....' bit of it, and he surprised me by first by saying that was no problem at all and secondly by launching into a long conversation about what great cars old Jaaags were.
Seemingly his whole family had been employed at Browns Lane and he told me they'd had all manner of old Mk2s, early XJs, XJ40s, S types and his dream car was a V8 XJR.

Best call to an insurance company EVAR!

[beko1987]

Ha! Just spat some of my dinner out...

[vulgalour]

For 7 cars fully comp including one modified one... £431. 

 

You must have been driving since cars began to achieve that, I'd have to add at least one more 0 to the price.

[jonathan_dyane]

I've been putting up with the laptop running slow for ages and I finally got round to doing a clean install. On a whim I replaced windows 7 with Lubuntu and not only did it work beautifully out of the box with no driver issues it runs like lightening now!

[outlaw118]

Not car related (except I drove there) saw this band, featuring my musical hero Devin Townsend, on Thursday night, at Union Chapel, Islington. Just beautiful. Not metal, I promise.