What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[RobT]

Offered to give a girl from my course a lift back, and when she saw my car she exclaimed "wow, didn't think we'd be going in a posh sports car!"

Did you pull then?!

[cobblers]

Fuck me, about a week ago I was seriously considering getting a loan to buy a (fast) Corsa. What the hell was I thinking?

Anyway I didn't. 

[Negative Creep]

Did you pull then?!

 

 

No. Although my amusing anecdote from the course is that we had to do role play were I had to read out a hypothetical problem to another person and then state how I thought they reacted. I thought she was playing the role of someone listening without interrupting, but turns out her task was to flirt with me and I completely missed it.

[vulgalour]

I'm more curious as to what the 'posh sports car' was and have images of something like this.

 

[Negative Creep]

I'm more curious as to what the 'posh sports car' was and have images of something like this.

 

 

 

The 406 Coupe. Which can't be posh since it has a Peugeot badge on it and cost me £700, and is about as sport as sitting at home and watching darts on tv

[vulgalour]

Darts are a sort of sport...

 

 

I don't know how or why, but the glowplugs on the Xantia are now FINE.  I'm wondering if it was maybe stale fuel (veg) from it being sat around doing next to nothing for a few weeks that's the cause.  Now it's back in regular use there's nothing wrong with the glowplugs.  One less thing to buy at least.

[Cavcraft]

Fuck me, about a week ago I was seriously considering getting a loan to buy a (fast) Corsa. What the hell was I thinking?

Anyway I didn't.

 

Luckily common sense must have prevailed, it'd be madness to get a loan to buy a Corsa.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Especially because you can buy a really nice one at a bargain price, without needing to get a loan!

[Des]

We should all carry smelling salts in case of suffering an urge to borrow money for a Corsa

[oman5]

Yes it's wrong to vandalise someone else's property. Maybe the owner did it himself as either a pre-emptive strike, or a kind of double bluff to prove he wasn't driving the veyron as a penis substitute?

[trigger]

We all know that it was Partridge, who in a drunken state thought it was a cubical wall in a Tescos toilet, it's easy to see where he made that mistake.

[Angrydicky]

FINALLY got the internet again. About time too.

[saucedoctor]

I know which I'd rather have, and it isn't the Nova.

[Station]

This was an actual proper limited edition car released by Vauxhall (just minus the C20LET, intercooler and Morrette lights):

 

[Station]

Taking it to the man!

 

[overrun]

The thing that non-car people will never understand, is the owner (probably) has it because they enjoy driving.

 

That car cannot be replaced with a fucking Nissan Juke etc.

These people just seem to think a supercar is one that looks 'flash' and they don't realise it is also head and shoulders above in every other area.

 

The same vandal would probably have taken offence to a yellow MG ZR. Only a yellow one, mind.

[Cavcraft]

Wasn't it called the 'Fly' or something like that? I have a feeling there were two Nova convertibles, one sort of sporty looking and one standard.

[Station]

Opel Corsa Spider! Think it was styled by Irmscher, I think it's quite nice looking.

 

[Station]

[mat_the_cat]

Just won a pair of brand new, Citroen boxed rear lights for the BX for £1.20 I'm often having to clean the contacts for the bulbholders, as it seems like the protective plating has all corroded away. No more problems, for the next 15 years at least...

[skattrd]

Merc added to PJ multicar policy for .... £42, including admin fee.

[vulgalour]

Wasn't it called the 'Fly' or something like that? I have a feeling there were two Nova convertibles, one sort of sporty looking and one standard.

 

 

That would be the Fiesta convertible.

 

[Sloth in a bowl]

Seeing the Jago again in the gloom on the A435 at 7:30am, so that brave soul is probably using it as a winter beater of distinction.

 

Also saw a Citroen H van on the way home in my rear view mirrors, pulled over so that they could pass me and I could get a closer look.

Short wheelbase and looked lowered but apart from that very tidy.

[inconsistant]

^^^ I've got that Fiesta Fly brochure in the loft somewhere. Ill dig it out and do a scan when I get a chance.

[Cavcraft]

That white Nova convertible looks different to the others I've seen, aren't they called Irmschers? Anyhow, the standard (Nova soft top) one is as fit as fuck and I was on the brink of trading in the family car for one one year on holiday near Cromer, but Mrs CS threatened all manner of quite painful sounding things if we were forced to drive home 238 miles in a shit soft top and leaving all our luggage behind. 

[Cavcraft]

'Still have got the Kango'

 

Yes.

 

'150 cash tonight'

 

I said no offers.

 

'150 now'

 

What part of no offers didn't you understand?

 

'I come now'

 

?

 

?

 

?

 

200 cash tonight

 

No thanks.

 

U say u wont 200 for it

 

?

 

?

 

I also said no offers, and now someone has offered me the full price.

 

(Clicks block button)

[Timewaster]

'Still have got the Kango'

 

U say u wont 200 for it

Does Thant mean you WON'T take 200 or you WANT 200?

[Cavcraft]

It means I want to set fire to his head and insert his keyboard up his arse with the aid of a sledgehammer.

[Station]

Will give you 500p for it?

[mercrocker]

Had a good day today.   Minor was driven to restorers for new chassis leg (one was done in May, this is t'other side) and floor pans, excellent drive through Hants/Wilts followed by a very nice sandwich at a café in Wilton paid for by MrsRocker.    Then I went to get the Oxford out of storage for possible WBOD use but to get me to work whilst Minor is away at the very least.   Finally had a spin round the estate in the Cowley before it goes off for a replacement engine next week.   I actually borrowed some money to buy another car but don't want to sell any of mine so decided to spend on them instead.   Retirement postponed, shite motoring maintained.....

[AlabamaShrimp]

The detectorists on BBC something (watched on the iPlayer) it's like the office but not a fake documentary