What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Richard]

I saw someone towing a Rolls Royce Silver Spirit on a trailer behind a Frontera on the M40 today. It was snaking like a bastard at 40mph and made my stomach churn just thinking about it!!!! Luckily I was able to drive past it and think about summert else.

 

WCPGW? http://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/13341096.Vintage_Rolls_Royce_owner_had_car_for_just_hours_before_it_overturned_on_A350_near_Trowbridge/

[Tamworthbay]

WCPGW? http://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/13341096.Vintage_Rolls_Royce_owner_had_car_for_just_hours_before_it_overturned_on_A350_near_Trowbridge/

very scary, I think people forget just how heavy those old barges are.

[skattrd]

You know when you buy a car and he seller has "lost/misplaced" the history and will send it on if they find it ... We all know the car has no history and they will never find it.

 

The Volvo I recently bought came with a box file full of history and no such words from the seller.  Today I got a fat hand written envelope in the post, which is not a common thing these days, so I curiously opened it:

 

 

Yes, more history for the Volvo file.

[Cheggers]

You bought a Volvo from Shane Ritchie??

[155V6]

The C70 I bought for £120 last month to break had loads of history,even loads of old insurance documents 

[rrsix]

I don't care if you think its wrong, you don't like it or its on its way to the scrapyard..... It makes me grin....

 

 

 

And if I saw it on the road I would be going mad, pointing, shouting and grinning from ear to ear......

 

and MrsD would be giving me that "grow up" look ..........

 

Don't they have an aluminium bonnet? 

[panhard65]

I saw someone towing a Rolls Royce Silver Spirit on a trailer behind a Frontera on the M40 today. It was snaking like a bastard at 40mph and made my stomach churn just thinking about it!!!! Luckily I was able to drive past it and think about summert else.

When I bought my Spirit I trailered it the fist 100 odd miles home and they are bloody heavy. With the right trailer and tow car 50 is just about ok but I was using a 3.1 Trooper with a 17ft bed Brian James trailer. You really need to concentrate to keep the speed down or it will snake.

[fordperv]

If not they definitely have plastic bumpers and mirror caps

[Lacquer Peel]

I saw someone towing a Rolls Royce Silver Spirit on a trailer behind a Frontera on the M40 today. It was snaking like a bastard at 40mph and made my stomach churn just thinking about it!!!! Luckily I was able to drive past it and think about summert else.

 

The braked towing weight for a Frontera DTI is 2.8t, a Silver Spirit is 2.25t - it might have been within 2.8t if it was a light trailer.

[BavarianRetro]

They're not the easiest things to move.

 

I asked Brian James if it'd fit before taking this job. They said, "No".

 

[Lord Sterling]

I bought some proper BMW mats with clips and a couple of folders containing some more BMW bumph that was missing from my set. The other folder was for receipts and MOT documents. Little things like this make me happy.

 

[Lacquer Peel]

Lord 316i SE.

[purplebargeken]

Arrggh, he's turning into a BMW slut now. He'll be too good to talk to us lot soon enough lol.

[Inspector Morose]

Nah, he'll just stop indicating.

[Jerzy Woking]

Planning my annual trip to meet up with some mates living in the Czech Republic in May - this year it's in the home town of the original Budwieser. I'm going to ride my 125cc scooter there, just because.............

 

Found I can put it and myself on a motorail train between Dusseldorf and Vienna for €168 return, meaning just a leisurely 5 hour ride from Coquells to Dusseldorf and a two hour from Vienna to Ceske Budejovice. This means iI can go out on Thursday morning and be home Monday evening. Sweet.

 

I think a car is €90 each way for the same week ( plus €39 each way for your seat). Is ther a cheaper way to cross Europe (www.obb.at)?

[panhard65]

Planning my annual trip to meet up with some mates living in the Czech Republic in May - this year it's in the home town of the original Budwieser. I'm going to ride my 125cc scooter there, just because.............

 

Found I can put it and myself on a motorail train between Dusseldorf and Vienna for €168 return, meaning just a leisurely 5 hour ride from Coquells to Dusseldorf and a two hour from Vienna to Ceske Budejovice. This means iI can go out on Thursday morning and be home Monday evening. Sweet.

 

I think a car is €90 each way for the same week ( plus €39 each way for your seat). Is ther a cheaper way to cross Europe (www.obb.at)?

Ooooo what 125 scooter have you got. I have just the thing for a road trip to the Czech republic.

[Jerzy Woking]

It's a modern I'm afraid - Yamaha Vity. What is it you have? I wanted to take my 1983 butchered CZ250 Custom but I doubt I will get it ready in time without lots of time spent on it which I don't have at the moment, as that needs to be spent on the Mercedes.

[panhard65]

Ahhh I am just recommisioning a Tatran 125. No pictures on this computer though. It is a surprisingly good bike for an Eastern block design of the 60's it's very advanced with electric start and indicators.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

That sounds like a great adventure!

[Jerzy Woking]

Really wanted to take the CZ. We did a group visit to the Jawa museum a couple of years ago, and they were the only ones I saw whilst there. All the Czech's I know all ride BMW GS's which is disappointing.

 

Those Tatrans look great - are spares a problem? CZ and Jawa spares are so easy to get and not at all expensive.

[chaseracer]

Anyone hereabout driving a blue M-reg Fiat Tipo past Burton College at around 1.45 on Thursday afternoon?

[doobietoo]

went down the tip today to drop off some more crap in the PT and a bloke walked up to me and asked me if I wanted another PT...... for free......

picking it up in the week.....

[skattrd]

Is PT short for something other than a vehicle made by Chrysler? because if you've been offered a free PT cruiser then you might be posting in the wrong thread

[Aston Martin]

C+E assessment next week. It's only an hour, but they give you the keys and just say go. No practise or pissing about first.

 

I'm terrified of where the trailer ends up when cornering. 

 

 

I'm still going to class this as 'grin' for now.

[vulgalour]

Thank you everybody for looking out for Chompy and Bub.  I wasn't involved in the accident and I feel selfish saying it but the outcome has hit me pretty hard today.  Chompy's my little brother and Bub is a top bloke I respect, to have lost both together in one incident... It doesn't bear thinking about.   To see the support, well wishes and even battle plans to get Bub mobile again is really heartwarming and just further proof of why being part of this community is so good.

[Aston Martin]

I was in a carpark when a Vantage drove behind me... Fuck the car unless it's the V12. This was V12 'white' but sounded like an angry bastard of a V8.

 

The car is parked about 6 cars away and I can't see it, but I see a guy loitering, not sure of it was the driver or an admirer. As I'm leaving he has parked in two bays. Crummy private reg. I see no badging on the back, but I see the V12 bonnet vents. I also see an a4 piece of paper on the windscreen 'TWAT'

 

DVLA results? 2005 V8, maybe the paper was correct.

[Cheggers]

Waking up to this view made me grin.

 

 

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[Eddie Honda]

CMPG â€@CMPG  Feb 16

 

1/2 2 vehicles travelling together stopped travelling south on #M40 both seized as uninsured. Drivers arrested......

 

 

CMPG â€@CMPG  Feb 16

 

2/2 for producing fake insurance documents. Wonder what 1st caught or eye!!! #hastobeseentobebelieved

 

[andy18s]

Wana biy a mitsoobishee?

 

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[andrew e]

Shotgun wedding Cheggers?...