What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Jim Bergerac]

Those BMWs are the spitting image of the Kia Carens.

 

I'd rather have the KIa, too.

[cms206]

Meant to post this the other day...

 

[M'coli]

Back to multi-cylinder bikes of-sorts...this little beauty was constructed in the 1980s by a guy called Geoff Bouchard,  from a Gilera frame and 3 Mobylette 50cc engines on a common crankcase.  It was featured in PB magazine and I just thought it was incredibly cool.

 

More:

http://motorcyclephotooftheday.com/category/gillette/

[alf892]

That BMW........not sure it is shit. And not sure all BMWs are shit either......I'm sure I could find something to like if I could afford one

 

But it is very,very, ordinary.

[catsinthewelder]

Near enough?

 

 

Better?

 

[Asimo]

[Richard]

Everybody's favourite massively overpriced petrol station is still charging 152.9 for diesel. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/angus-the-mearns/it-s-blatant-profiteering-stracathro-service-station-criticised-for-fuel-price-1.788511

[drum]

^ ye'll gang faur to fare anything like as waur.

 

 

Ye May Gang Faur and Fare Waur by Scots Language Centre, on Flickr

 

On those 7+ cylinder bikes, I have enough trouble balancing two carbs.

[dollywobbler]

That BMW Scenic Picasso is almost as tragic as those sporty Zafiras you could get. No, I'm sorry. Grey porridge is grey porridge. You should have kept it in your trousers. Then you could own an actually nice vehicle. Like a 20-year old XM or a tragically rusty 2CV. Oh...

[twosmoke300]

What I never understood about all the 5 seater people carriers was what they did better than a big estate car . More rear headroom you say? Yeh all small children and babies need extra headroom don't they

[Pillock]

Loftier driving position to look down on peasants.

 

My grin just now is getting these letters in my game of virtual scrabble, and immediately picturing a veg-friendly X-type.

 

[twosmoke300]

Loftier driving position to look down on peasants.

 

 

Us peasants in our non tragic boring cars ?

[dollywobbler]

My dad thought his Scenic would be a practical machine. What actually happened is that my pint-sized mother found her feet didn't reach the floor when she sat in it, and the only way to get a decent load in the boot was to stack stuff to the roof. I think he might even have started to miss his Montego estates. They are a brilliant triumph of marketing over ability. Much like SUVs in fact.

[twosmoke300]

I remember having the estate vs mpv argument with my FIL when he had a mk1 scenic and I had a vectra estate. He couldn't really give many reasons.

[vulgalour]

The demise of the French estate car is something families of 4+ will never recover from.

[MarvinsMom]

Near enough?

 

 

Better?

 

 

much better, thank you!!

[twosmoke300]

Totally agree. 504/ 505 , 405 , bx , xm etc etc were such good estate cars .

[twosmoke300]

And the xantia I suppose

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I fuckin hate all mpvs, but as I've got 4 kids I had 15 years of the bastards. I tried everything to avoid them a505 Family,a Savanna ,various rear facing estates Audi 100, Montego,W123,740. Still had loads of em,but I will never have another,if I need 7 seats now it'll beDisc3/XC90 or similar,why anyone would choose to drive a 5 seat mpv* when they're not forced to I could never work out.

[HillmanImp]

I bought my Scenic as it was dirt cheap, GR22 for chucking mountain bikes in the back of, and diseasel for long journeys to various mountain mountains with the bike. The hight roof helped there. 

[vulgalour]

MPVs are just vans with windows and clever marketing.

[Minimad5]

Met up with some Autoshite folk.

Just rolled in. !

 

Good to meet Andy and Dave, also great to catch up with LordSterling and Dugong again

[vulgalour]

Finally hauled my wretched broken corpse out of bed and expected a day of misery.  Instead I was greeted with images of Mr Boll's newly acquired purple Fiat so I'm feeling a bit better about things.

[xtriple]

Dog (Phoebe) has just walked round the block of her own free will! First time she's walked anywhere since the 20th of December when she broke her leg. Stitches out tomorrow (the official day she can go for a walk on a lead) so a day early, but hey, she wanted to so why not? Home now and tramadol rammed down her throat 'just in case'.

 

Back to cars, I had a Scenic this time last year and it was all good. It was cheap, which was good as I was mega skint and I found it easy to get in and out of but the clutch was a pain and when the feeling in my leg disappeared (permanantly) I was driving it in traffic and it just ran into the back of the car in front  - I didn't know what the clutch was doing!

 

But, other than the ease of entry for a cripple, I must admit I thought 'what's the point?'

[myglaren]

Had a really bad knee fro a while and could barely sleep for it.

 

Took the C5 for an AC re-gas and fix a non-working headlight that defeated my miserable efforts to induce it to produce light.

Had to drop it off at 08:00 and walk the three miles home, called at 10:30 to say it was dome, another three mile walk to collect it.

 

Car is much better and despite all odds, knee is considerably better too.  The walking wasn't much fun though.

[fordperv]

That's great news xtriple

[xtriple]

She worries me though to be honest, keeping a dog quiet has got to be one of the most difficult jobs in history! She hates the postie (whereas Chester lurves Graham - the postie and goes for walks with him!) and has actually bitten him before (good job he's a mate now!) and she throws herself at the bloody door whenever she thinks he's around. So, I have to hang on to her collar serruptitously from about 12:00 until he arrives which can be as late as 1:30p.m. Still, she does seem better in herself.... I bloody hope!

 

Though if anyone knows (one for the vet tomorrow) why does her elbow get hot when she's used it? Seriously, you can warm your hands up on it when she's trotted up the road! Though after todays walk, it didn't do it....

[fordperv]

At a guess I would say everything thing would be a bit tight in the joint from lack of or only limited movement and maybe some inflammation of the joint still there, so when she did start fully moving around on it the friction and stretching of tendons would cause the joint to heat, i am in no way a vet or medical professional this is just a theory

[trigger]

Check out the old cars in this video, Lowestoft back in 1990.!

 

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10206104288911598 

[xtriple]

I can't press 'like' for some reason but 'like' the above!

 

Yes, that was my theory as well, she seems very tentative on that leg which is hardly surprising really, but letting her walk seems to have loosened it up a bit. No doubt the vet will tell me off tomorrow!