What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[fordperv]

What's made me grin is people making comments about the dogs being chauffeur driven and the smiles that the old car gets when people see it with a dogs head hanging out of either side with drool stains down both sides!

 

Have you had sneers from purists yet? Mrs fp takes cara out in her escort rs with dog art on the window from cara's nose and gets some funny looks and some comments most positive but I've heard a few saying like hell they would let a dog in it if it were theirs etc

[STUNO]

Was that Panhard65's old Anjou or its twin?

The real Ex- Panhard's one, look back a page or two on this thread.

[DeeJay]

Have you had sneers from purists yet? Mrs fp takes cara out in her escort rs with dog art on the window from cara's nose and gets some funny looks and some comments most positive but I've heard a few saying like hell they would let a dog in it if it were theirs etc

I'd rather have my dog in the car than those moaning dicks.

[KruJoe]

If any of you haven't been watching the 405 rolf thread over the last day or so, you really need to catch up

http://autoshite.com/topic/21601-peugeot-405-19td-drown-on-sat/?view=getnewpost

[MarvinsMom]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rover-P6-2000-SC-Auto-1972-/181909101541?hash=item2a5aa09be5:g:YqAAAOSwT5tWJ2t0

 

i would love to own a P6 one day, though i'n not sure about the strip speedo.

 

i this a good price for one?

 

i doubt i will ever get to own one cos of "the fear".

 

knowing my luck it will be like a rust ice berg underneath shiny panels.

 

 

[Coprolalia]

I forgot to go to work today.

 

More accurately, I swapped a post-nights compulsory off day months ago to cover someone. That day was today, and I entirely forgot I'd done the swap. Got a nice phone call off the division manager about 11, to check I was alive, and to be told not to bother coming in late as they had enough cover.

 

Doesn't make up for missing out on the 405 rofle though.

[MarvinsMom]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1992-ROVER-MAESTRO-1-3-CLUBMAN-BLUE-1275-56K-Miles-Rare-Classic-Mini-engine-/262105463612?hash=item3d06b3fb3c:g:VDAAAOSw~bFWJ9MY

 

a nice pageant blue maestro, with rover metro hub caps!

 

nice.

 

[MarvinsMom]

and this is COMPLETELY the WRONG THREAD!!

 

what a dummy.....

[fred]

I forgot to go to work today.

 

More accurately, I swapped a post-nights compulsory off day months ago to cover someone. That day was today, and I entirely forgot I'd done the swap. Got a nice phone call off the division manager about 11, to check I was alive, and to be told not to bother coming in late as they had enough cover.

 

Doesn't make up for missing out on the 405 rofle though.

Used to have bets on the most stupid reasons not to attend work a few years ago - Martin my co worker kinda won it - with '' Cant make it to work today - someone has hid my false leg''  considering he had two legs he was born with intact - they bloody paid him FFS !!

[gordonbennet]

Excuses, that reminds me.

 

When i drove for Kwik Save, remember them? we had to put in daily worksheets, then started to be called debrief sheets cos modern admin (clerks) think they're fuckin MI5, anyway we'd have say 4 drops round London and an expected turn around time at each drop so the job was sort of scheduled, but loosely.

 

They started to put all this debrief shit on computer for statistics, so say for example we had to wait for the bread and milk lads to deliver first there'd be one code, and if there were stacks of empty cages in the way another code.

So they got about 30 codes built up, sod that we racked our brains for different excuses to muck the data input up, my contribution to this one was ''driverless bus in bus lane preventing shop access''.

 

Silly i know, but you have to take the piss out of their silly military style buzz words, 'debrief' FFS i'de delivered 30 cages of bloody supermarket fodder, not abseiled through the bloody Iranian embassy windows.

 

 

Same job, the company started putting Hows MY Driving (shit basically) stickers on the back, call 0800.... anyway i got dragged in the office one day, Gordon you took a car's mirror off and didn't stop, sod me where and when was this Pete, he looked it up, about 11am Kew Bridge....

Hah, i'm in the clear, whilst going to South Lundun drops we'd have to use the Circular to avoid the London Boroughs night time bans, but coming back from those drops i'd come back through the middle or city to have good well paid perv at all the luscious ladies, this being the 90's when the ladies still dressed rather well.

So, Pete, where did i go that day, ruffles through paperwork, Grimethorpe.

See ya Pete.

[nacho man]

Pics of the valver please. Had a 1.4 as my first car and always lusted after a Naples Red 'valver.

[The Moog]

Today I have been mostly been learning how to build dry stone walls.

 

It's ace. A local community thing wanted volunteers. Ended up being me and a group of guys doing community service.

 

[bub2006]

This place is a bad influence. Went out looking for a medium size diesel or auto. Ended up with a vectra petrol manual.

[fordperv]

I have just been at mrs fp's mum and dads while I was outside talking to someone mrs fp quietly got my attention and told me not to move as there was a hedgehog sniffing my foot, what a cute little creature, it decided to move away when she got her phone out to take a picture, it then proceeded into the back garden to its friend we put some food out for them and will continue to

[MrDuke]

Discovered where the elusive local Maestro Turbo lives today, while doing the rounds. Turns out there's a clean-looking base model in dark blue parked behind it, although I suspect it's being kept for spares...

 

Also drove past the local Vauxhall-fetishist's place, which I'd spotted a few weeks back but forgotten about. 2 (yes, TWO) mint Nova cabrios out the front, not dodgy DIY jobs either, and a silver Mk2 Cav 'daily' sandwiched between them. Clearly living the dream.

[HH-R]

and this is COMPLETELY the WRONG THREAD!!

 

what a dummy.....

 

A Maestro is enough to make anyone smile!*

 

*maybe not outside of this forum

[D Spares & Tyres]

I think it would....

 

A friend has a tatty J plate R8 Rover 218 td in that same Henley blue, he was driving slowly in traffic and a bunch of teenagers were pointing and laughing at it ☺

[beko1987]

This place is a bad influence. Went out looking for a medium size diesel or auto. Ended up with a vectra petrol manual.

Far safer! Less derv to go wrong. Hope the clutch is ok for you though, and it doesnt explode obv

[bub2006]

Standard clutch on this,no dmf bollocks. New clutch fitted 30k ago too.

[fred]

I have decided my Forester  is ''Christine'' - driving to my old dears - I noticed a light flash up on the dash ''Check engine''

 

I looked and said ''not now lass, your having a full blown service next week gal''

 

bloody light went out - Love her!!

[Negative Creep]

A list of things the Daily Mail has said will give you cancer

 

 

http://www.lazerhorse.org/2013/06/15/list-daily-mail-give-cancer/

[fordperv]

what has happened to gumtree, i put the 51 plate focus i had for sale on there, not one message offering xbox360 m8, iphone, pair of my wifes worn underwear, instead i had correctly written messages and a couple of people come and look, it sold to a nice romanian fella who is a car sprayer, we had a laugh talking about old shite and a moan about dole dossers, top bloke

[beko1987]

Standard clutch on this,no dmf bollocks. New clutch fitted 30k ago too.

Does it drink oil? Bulb in the eml light work?

[mat_the_cat]

Today, 3 weeks before my contract was due to expire with no hint of whether they were going to renew or not, I got it extended by 12 months That was the first grin.

 

After work I went for a drive over the Horseshoe Pass in the Stellar...

 

 

...the engine is soooo torquey I made it all the way up in 5th!

 

And as I had my bike in the back of the car I had a quick ride up and down, setting a few Strava PBs in the process. Currently in front of the fire with a bottle of Asti. All in all a good day...

[D Spares & Tyres]

You should put Maserati badges on that Hyundai, they look so similar

[andy18s]

This place is a bad influence. Went out looking for a medium size diesel or auto. Ended up with a vectra petrol manual.

What happened with the Focus?

[Louise2cv]

*general showing off*

Going to keep it going with a parkrun PB in the morning? I'll be barcode scanning at Penrhyn.

[mat_the_cat]

 

Going to keep it going with a parkrun PB in the morning? I'll be barcode scanning at Penrhyn.

 

Oooh, tempting! I should probably save myself for the race on Sunday though, and try for a 10k PB... That would top the weekend off nicely Especially if I can beat my workmates.

[Louise2cv]

Oh right, I didn't realise you had another race (<seething jealousy>). Is that the Flintshire one?

 

Good luck!!

 

If you fancy it the Penrhyn 1st anniversary is on the 14th and there will be an after party in (I think) the function room in the castle, WITH CAKE!!!

[mat_the_cat]

Party AND cake? I'm in!

 

Yes, it's the Flintshire one (sorry ) Cheers, I will try not to rub it in