What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[panhard65]

Someone on passionford has been stealing the roffle idea

 

http://passionford.com/forum/general-car-related-discussion/486322-raffle-my-escort-cosworth.html#post6646186

 

That passion ford lot look a right bunch of mongs. Needing a "gold" membership just to advertise it and how naughty it is to do a raffle. I think that is one of the reasons I only bother with this site as on here everyone is sort of normal and not up their own arse dictating how the site should be run. Maybe we should copyright the roffle idea so these other muppets can't jump on the hugely sucessful bandwagon.

[DeeJay]

Someone on passionford has been stealing the roffle idea

 

http://passionford.com/forum/general-car-related-discussion/486322-raffle-my-escort-cosworth.html#post6646186

!-PD seems to have a bit of a stick up his arse ( telegraph pole size)

[Timewaster]

Panhard, replace "look" with "are".

[fordperv]

I am on a few forums including passionford a lot of the members are brill but then you get the stereotypical ones, but you'll get that everywhere, i rarely post on there, im mostly on here making the place look untidy

[AlabamaShrimp]

I am on a few forums including passionford a lot of the members are brill but then you get the stereotypical ones, but you'll get that everywhere, i rarely post on there, im mostly on here making the place look untidy

I had a quick look and they seem the same as every other mong car forum all engine swaps and lowering. Think I'll stop here

[beko1987]

Since I'm going to euro car parts in the morning for a backbox for the meriva, I had a look at service bits for the ZX, and just reserved this:

 

 

It deserves some love, it hasn't been serviced for nearly 9k, and it seems I'm paying less for oil and filter than the oil costs! (no cheaper oil listed, I don't mind though, I put shell helix in on the last service, still got a litre left of that too.

 

Fuck it, it's christmas (and the flange gets paid on the 8th). Hopefully a light service will help it pass the MOT that I really must book in before the 15th Jan.

 

Did look for a cylindrical air filter too but they are out of stock, will look on ebay for one of those

[beko1987]

Damn, cut off the subtotal. Cost £21...

[Lacquer Peel]

Posh oil for a shit car.

I think it takes a bit more than four litres unfortunately, 4.5 IIRC.

[twosmoke300]

£21 for a distributor for a talbot express isnt bad really . 

That was what you wanted wasnt it?

[beko1987]

Posh oil for a shit car.

I think it takes a bit more than four litres unfortunately, 4.5 IIRC.

There's just about . 5in the old bottle of it. Failing that, the oil for the meriva is only slightly different!

 

It takes me to work and back every day with no complaints, it deserves swanky oil!

[DVee8]

Darren reed > to old school motors on faceache

Got a Robin Reliant to move next week. Answers on  postcard as to how...

Use your transit ford truck recovery.

 

[cobblers]

Someone who has matching monster stickers, wing mirrors and ratchet straps isn't going to cramp his style by doing something like putting a 3 wheeler on the back of his truck. or sleeping with a girl who has all of her original teeth, or letting a girl with all her teeth emerge from a brief relationship with all of them remaining.

[beko1987]

A very productive hour today

 

First off

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shiney. I give it 3 years...

 

Then over to the zx

 

 

And new oil and filter fitted. Must get a new dips tick at some point too, there's a fair bit of air blowing out of the gap...

 

[fordperv]

I was out and about earlier and saw a lovely original lookin orion ghia, what made me grin more was that it was a local registered car with its king ford dealer sticker and plates still present, to top it off it was on King Street which king ford used to be on before it closed,

 

 

When I noticed the details I sung the old radio jingle

[beko1987]

I haven't seen an orion for years! Dad used to go out with a bird with an orion, a bubble shaped one though

[fordperv]

I got all nostalgic when I saw it, i had a black h plate the first of this shape which had the 1.6 cvh efi engine, mine had a spoiler though, the same wheels but was slightly lowered, i also put a fast road high lift cam in to get a bit more oomph out of it, i used to polish the life out of it and drive it with my dad on L plates I loved every minute but i stupidly sold it

[Hendry]

Orions are cool as now!

 

Before I used to just think they were crap old Fords, I used to love Fords when I was a boy growing up in the late 80s and early 90s, back then it seemed everyone owned a Ford of some kind except my dad who had a turd brown Maestro City, imagine then my delight when I got picked up from staying at my grans one weekend in September '94 in a 3.5 year old 91 H plate Orion 1.6 LX in Matisse blue my dad had just paid 6 large for out the local Ford franchise with such "luxuries" as central locking, metallic paint, a factory alarm, factory fitted tilt and slide glass sunroof, and possibly even power steering. I thought this thing was so cool but ultimately it killed my love for Fords because of how unreliable it was. Thankfully it got stolen and burnt out! I'm only now starting to appreciate how retro cool they are now.

[dave21478]

There is just something RIGHT about the shape of an Orion. I love them.

I had two as a teenager, both the mkIV escort style....A gold with beige interior 1.4GL which got crashed very spectacularly then a blue with blue interior 1.6GL which got XR3i alloys, spoiler and a huge ICE install.

[Cavcraft]

I had a spare ramp and a fully enclosed back for my Mk2 Transit recovery so could three wheelers on.

[dollywobbler]

Had a look through some of my older digital images. Here's my fleet in October 2003. Seems a long time ago! This was not long after the 2CV's first body overhaul (one that didn't touch the removable panels or bumpers!)

[steve_earwig]

There is just something RIGHT about the shape of an Orion. I love them.

 

 

I always thought they screwed the proportions up on that one, I don't know which generation they were but I saw them first in Canada and I thought they'd got some weird fat boy version for some reason. Then they started selling them in the UK.

 

When I was a kid all my mates had Fords, while my dad had all these weird French motors. I asked him why and he said he didn't want any "overpriced wobbleboxes". Eventually he got a Mk4 Cortina, almost new it was in some metallic yellow. Soon after I was out shopping with me ma, we got back to the Cortina, unlocked it and... oh, this ain't our stuff. No, our one was parked behind it. It soon went and I've never been a fan. Although there wasn't one of my mate's Fords I couldn't get into in a second or two with my Avenger ignition key.

[brownnova]

Seeing as the weather was so nice today I pretended that it was the summer...

 

[forddeliveryboy]

Made me chuckle, apols to those who've already seen it everywhere else

 

 

then it rained...

 

 

 

and...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Dippy]

Finally managed to get a full day's work done on the Princess got the fuel tank out in ½ hour then stripped a few more bits before starting to cut some rot out and even managed to get a small repair patch in under a jacking point before calling it a day.

Still lots of rust to deal with but it feels good to have started properly at last.

[robinmasters]

NEW tyres. Not second-hand wheels, fitted with tyres with marginally more tread on them than those on the outgoing wheels, but actually actual new tyres.

[richardmorris]

Driving down the m3 this morning to head off to box hill for a long walk I spied a w124 grill approaching slowly in the mirror. Closer and closer, it was a coupe! The same colour as mine too! He passed just before the m25 junction and his wife/partner/kidnap victim waved. A 300ce - g reg, the first I've seen on the road since I bought mine nearly four years ago.

[andy18s]

The rain has held off for a couple of days now,meaning the garden has dried out enough to drag the mower out and trim the suprisingly long grass....

Decided to give the hedge a going over as well,again after a growth spurt which left it looking rather scruffy

Not bad for the last week in December

Up at silly o'clock tomorrow to collect my latest purchase...

[MarvinsMom]

renner 20?

 

better watch out for the jihad's/sheep/illegals on your journey.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

On Christmas Eve, Mrs N informed me that the headlights on her Freelander had packed up, 'Great' thinks I ' another nightmare electrical fault on a piece of modern crap'

Today,after googling and forum searching , I thought I'd start by replacing the bulbs.

Bingo! Both headlights working perfectly, I'm now embarrassed that I hadn't noticed one was out before the other went, unless they both gave up T the sMe time.

I rewarded it by taking old bath and boxes of tiles to the tip, using my patent gaffer tape load restraining method.

[dave21478]

Crikey. I am sure* its fit for purpose etc, but that is the flimsiest looking towbar I have ever seen!