What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Pillock]

Hooray for new potatoes!

[gm]

My mother is a 'shiter !

 

I went home to visit and found a Nissan Almera parked at the bottom of the drive - when I asked "who does that knackered old Nissan belong to ?" she proudly declared it to be her "new car" !

 

the story goes, a lad at my brothers office was selling it as his dad is retiring from driving, it's only done 70,000 miles and has a full dealer service history. I nodded politely, secretly dreading that they had massively overpaid. More details of how well looked after it is followed, all the time I'm thinking yes, yes, how much though ?

 

Wearing my best poker face, I braced for the announcement - then pissed myself laughing as she told me they had given £250 for it ! Top Shiteing from mother GM

 

 

I may have to sneak an autoshite dealer sticker on to it for her

[beko1987]

very nice! i secretly like them, im a bit upset that I cant afford the hole in sump one for £50

[Sloth in a bowl]

Been wandering through the charity shops in Harbourne this morning.

 

£1.25 got me this

 

which is full of epic mid 80's extreme cars and concepts. I've never heard of the Dodge M4S before let alone had half a dozen pages of text and great photos of it.

 

Best interior though is this (Peugeot Quasar), though the book picture is nicer than any on a quick goggle search.

 

 

Also when walking back I noticed that the local MB collector had gone a bit nuts as well as spreading out into Laguna's, maybe he's a fan of this site.

 

 

[Lord Sterling]

My mother is a 'shiter !

 

I went home to visit and found a Nissan Almera parked at the bottom of the drive - when I asked "who does that knackered old Nissan belong to ?" she proudly declared it to be her "new car" !

the story goes, a lad at my brothers office was selling it as his dad is retiring from driving, it's only done 70,000 miles and has a full dealer service history. I nodded politely, secretly dreading that they had massively overpaid. More details of how well looked after it is followed, all the time I'm thinking yes, yes, how much though ?

Wearing my best poker face, I braced for the announcement - then pissed myself laughing as she told me they had given £250 for it ! Top Shiteing from mother GM

 

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I may have to sneak an autoshite dealer sticker on to it for her

Great stuff, now get shot of those 'orrible poundland trims and chuck on some proper Nissan items.

[Lord Sterling]

Also when walking back I noticed that the local MB collector had gone a bit nuts as well as spreading out into Laguna's, maybe he's a fan of this site.

 

O . M . G

 

Black S124 Mercedes Estate....swoon...

 

I WILL get mine fixed...money or no money...

[fordperv]

The clutch cable snapped on my saph earlier, but why have I put this in the grin thread I hear you ask, as I was sat at a set of traffic lights facing uphill trying to start it in gear then giving up and pushing it onto the pavement a knight in a shining clio stopped, jumped out gave me a push through the lights onto the flat where I could then start it in gear and make my way home, it made me smile that someone actually gave a fuck to help someone they didn't know, it's always me who stops for cars that I see broken to help, karma does exist, i got it home where I had a spare clutch cable sat on the shelf, 10 minutes I was motoring again

 

Thanks clio man

[richardmorris]

Fresh new season lamb.

[Aston Martin]

Everytime I see a Getz, I always say to myself "Whatever Hyundai wants, Hyundai Getz"

 

 

Hyundai had a missed opportunity on that advertising campaign.

[Pillock]

This is sneaky. You drop all the border checks, open the country up and before you know it they're parking their cars all over the place, opening shops with their own bloody language over the door.

 

[fordperv]

Bloody foreigners come into our country taking up our disabled spaces

[M'coli]

My little boy was born at 3.30 this afternoon!!!! FUCKING BRILLIANT 

 

Welcome to the world, young Spudlet!

[Sloth in a bowl]

Bathurst 12 hours about to start with live streaming on http://bathurst12hour.com.au/stream-int

[twosmoke300]

Congrats on the little salad potato . Don't mix with butter and chives !

[HH-R]

I didn't realise that a member of this forum is doing a lot of renovation work out here.

 

His name is plastered all over the hoardings covering his building projects.

 

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Bolix Renovation, a subsidiary of the Bollox Powertrain Corporation.

[willswitchengage]

Purchasing power parity, GDP per head and cost of living all summarised in one very important map:

 

[DVee8]

A chip of the old block congrats.

[cobblers]

Took our lass to Hemswell antiques place today, to keep 't cart on 't wheels. It seems a load of random antiques dealers have half taken over an ex RAF base, strangest place ever. Walking round 4 identical buildings all laid out with rooms and rooms of tat etc, it was proper disorientating. Most of the stuff in them is garbage IMO but there are some nice old radios for like £30 but I couldn't think of owt to do with them and I've enough shit around the place anyway.

 

I kept myself amused with looking at the actual old MOD buildings we were in while the missus poured through piles and piles of little pissing trinkets and stuff that our house is literally already COMPLETELY FULL OF to the point that our living room could more or less be featured on one of them old documentaries like life of grime or "My girlfriend is a fucking hoarder and it will eventually be the death of our relationship".

 

Anyway I went on one stall and someone had a load of old tools all cleaned and painted up all nice. Most of it was fairly bollocksed but in among it all was a few pairs of proper old stilsons.

 

Three quid for a pair of proper Record ones - They've never even seen a hammer or owt, they've hardly been used.

I'm sure that blue paint will be long gone fairly soon as they will be put to good use with fire, hammers and swearing.

[fordperv]

I'll have a dig through my mags tomorrow to find the date,

 

Here's a for sale ad for the car with more pictures of it

 

http://car-from-uk.com/sale.php?id=53599

[robinmasters]

Been wandering through the charity shops in Harbourne this morning.

 

£1.25 got me this

 

which is full of epic mid 80's extreme cars and concepts. I've never heard of the Dodge M4S before let alone had half a dozen pages of text and great photos of it.

 

Best interior though is this (Peugeot Quasar), though the book picture is nicer than any on a quick goggle search.

 

Very good book. I think I got it for Christmas from an aunt and uncle, 25+ years ago. The highlights for me were the arch gap on that Sbarro thing and the horrible faux-vintage American car with those BL doors. Oh, and the hacked about Porsche with a graphic equaliser mounted in the side of the t-bar in the roof; even the leggy eighties model can't make it look ergonomic.

 

The author's a bit of a dickhead though. Anything other than a supercar is referred to as 'lesser machinery'. It might be tongue in cheek, but I doubt it.

[seth]

Mrs_Seth's birthday present, wot I done gave her a couple of weeks ago.

 

 

We went to Retromobile on Thursday....

[andrew e]

Dream cars was one of my most treasured Christmas gifts ever, I buy copies when I see them still! The E30 with 944 pop ups was my favourite one week - the Isdera the next. With BB rainbow leather obviously.

[Cavcraft]

New personal best at petrol station roulette. Gave my daughter a fiver, watched her queue to pay and put £5.12 in.

[fred]

Little bit of fun in a flooded rainy 'Orrible day - hit a big patch of deep water by my estate, dad was filming his little kids in oil skins n wellies calling on drivers to make a wave for em, I hit the water at 30 Mph, enough to make a good 4 foot wave and they loved it - dad giving me the thumbs up as the kids laughed their heads off - Nice to see some things are still 70's

[mercrocker]

Took a chair up the tip just now.  Wouldnt fit in the Moggy so borrowed her ladyship's 190E.   Beautiful morning, sunroof open, gave it a bit of a Turin Tune-up along the bypass and came back the long, country way.   Much unnecessary holding of low ratios and redline dusting.   Gutless and a bit "settled down" it may be, but when you drive a Minor daily the old Merc feels like a DBS.    Need any shopping, love?

[trigger]

Has anybody been watching that Holiday of a lifetime with Len Goodman over on BBC1?. Its a pretty good series where he takes a celebrity on trip down memory lane to relive one of their childhood holidays.

 

Each episode he collects them in the car the same as they had at the time and some of them are great, Friday's one he was knocking about in a really nice K plate Citroen BX diesel with Mandy Dingle and the other day a Marina Coupe. It's worth watching.

[hairymel]

Purchasing power parity, GDP per head and cost of living all summarised in one very important map:

 

looks like Belgium is the one for me

[andrew e]

Sounds terrifying (note: I went in family holidays in a Marina coupe).

[Vin]

Has anybody been watching that Holiday of a lifetime with Len Goodman over on BBC1?. Its a pretty good series where he takes a celebrity on trip down memory lane to relive one of their childhood holidays.

 

Each episode he collects them in the car the same as they had at the time and some of them are great, Friday's one he was knocking about in a really nice K plate Citroen BX diesel with Mandy Dingle and the other day a Marina Coupe. It's worth watching.

 

I watched one where he drove Matt Allwright (I think that is his name...) around Devon in a Fiat 132. I only saw it as it was my friend's 132 'Bellini' that they borrowed for filming...

[Vantman]

I am back in a shite Saab later this week.  1991, 47000 miles and flat paintwork which I am not going to polish!