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What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread


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I went to the severn valley railway diesel gala yesterday, lots of locomotive chod from the good old BR days (when the trains were late and shite but you could at least afford to buy a ticket)

 

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These are fuggin ace. class 55s have two 18 cylinder 2 stroke deltic (cylinder banks in a triangle) engines and they sound incredible.

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as are these. this is a class 42 warship with twin v12 maybachs.  the driver very kindly slows down just before the tunnel before giving it the boot for maximum aural delight.

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I remember these from when I was a kid. 

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I wonder if more people would use the train if they still ran these teak pre war carriages? they are dead plush inside

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Caned my Escort about for 50 miles on it's new alternator, with the sun shining. It never missed a beat and even tells me how much pez is in the tank now. How posh!

 

Then washed it (hoofed up the dual carrigeway to dry) and put it to bed.

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Went to see a Citroen nut at the weekend, and he taught me how to take all my spheres off and pressure test them, swapped my faulty turbo sensor something which cured the eml light and cleared all my historic fault codes, including such small issues as power supply to suspension fault, and now the old girl rides great*

 

 

A rusty exhaust heatshield meant the rear centre sphere is unknown, but I will sort that and pop back up another day!

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Took my Civic out for a nice run to a car show in posh Aldeburgh today as the weather was nice, it's driving brilliantly now the carbs been cleaned, and as Mr. Dollybird pointed out, it also made someone VERY happy!

 

 

CALENDAR

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Years old and everybody has probably heard it a million times but makes me smile each time  I read it;

 

A man in a hot air balloon realized he was lost. He reduced altitude and
spotted a woman below. He descended a bit more and shouted, "Excuse me,
can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I
don't know where I am."

The woman below replied, "You're in a hot air balloon hovering
approximately 30 feet above the ground. You're between 40 and 41 degrees
north latitude and between 59 and 60 degrees west longitude."

"You must be an engineer," said the balloonist. "I am," replied the woman,
"How did you know?"

"Well," answered the balloonist, "everything you told me is, technically
correct, but I've no idea what to make of your information, and the fact
is I'm still lost. Frankly, you've not been much help at all. If anything,
you've delayed my trip."

The woman below responded, "You must be in Management." "I am," replied
the balloonist, "but how did you know?"

"Well," said the woman, "you don't know where you are or where you're
going. You have risen to where you are due to a large quantity of hot air.

You made a promise which you've no idea how to keep, and you expect people
beneath you to solve your problems. The fact is you are in exactly the same
position you were in before we met, but now, somehow, it's my fault."

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So I'm rebuilding a 1969 Alfa Romeo 105 Bertone Coupe. The interior is like a shoddily built kit car. The electrics are like soggy spaghetti and short out when you sneeze. This car will sell for £20,000 all day every day.

 

If the above didn't make you laugh, the centre console is extremely happy. All the time.

 

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My grin for today was having some kids come over to look at my 944 whilst I was at the local shop. Lots of questions about "how old is it" and "it's cool" comments. One lad said " wish my mum would get something like that, my mum and all my mates parents have got boring cars. They are all the same"

His mums car was a VW Touareg.

Result!

:-)

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I took the beta spider down to Norfolk at the weekend, and I was grinning all the way there and back.

 

Ok, so it runs a bit hot (despite me fitting a new big ass cooling fan) and the speedo stopped working just after I set off, then the drivers window got stuck, and the back end gets skittish over 70mph ... Hey, it's a 35yr old Lancia, and it did 200 miles without breaking down, so I'm happy.

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Mums are indeed a law unto themselves.  Mine wanted a 5 door hatch with a small engine.  Then she decided she doesn't like small cars, could she have a Volvo 240/740 or a Granada or something?  And now she doesn't want to drive.  I give up.

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I think I have a weird drawing habit. Just caught myself pulling the face that I was attempting to draw, I wonder how often I do this?

:-)

Presumably this doesn't include drawing portraits of strangers? Expect they would be quite nonplussed if you reached over and actually pulled their facial skin.

Maybe that's how Munch did 'The Scream'?

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