What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[purplebargeken]

Fuck! That looks amazing!!!!^^

[ShiteRider]

New co-op bank advert features a sandglow maxi

[strangeangel]

The generosity and helpfulness of our fellow shiters

[steve_earwig]

[Aston Martin]

I saw two, mk 1 Lagunas within 20 mins. 

[AlabamaShrimp]

Bit of a weird one but got into the Fiesta that I'd left parked in the sun to come to town and it smelled lovley inside only thing I can say it smelled of was old Fords.

 

As always it drove really well. It has to be the best one I've ever owned, and I've had quite a few, and always makes me happy driving it.

 

[Vantman]

Gumtree works for me!!  Advertised my hi-fi set up at 10am today,4 enquires and it was gone by 3pm. Result!

[Louise2cv]

Why has Steve got pictures of my bookcase?!

[MarvinsMom]

Bit of a weird one but got into the Fiesta that I'd left parked in the sun to come to town and it smelled lovley inside only thing I can say it smelled of was old Fords.

 

As always it drove really well. It has to be the best one I've ever owned, and I've had quite a few, and always makes me happy driving it.

 

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oooooh, is it a ghia, or just a poverty plus with ghia bits added?

 

WE NEEEDZ THE INFORMATION!!

[Louise2cv]

Our copy of T.H.A.S.I.O.T.P. is sandwiched between The Science of Meat(vol.1) and Sheep Husbandry and diseases.

 

A few shelves up from my favourite:

 

Plywoods of the World. Their development, manufacture and Application.

 

Matt had a thing for "interesting" charity shop books.

[Cavcraft]

Just taken the dog for a walk and up the road some old duffer in an old Fiesta was going off his head because the person in front hadn't realised the lights had gone green.

He was constantly on the horn and shouting things (God knows what) and when the driver in front realised and started moving off, the old boy stalled his car and missed his turn at the lights.

[richardmorris]

The Flying Scotsman videos.

 

Putting the Great back into Great Britain.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-35672693

 

My step grandfather used to be a stoker and worked on th Scotsman from Leeds to York ( didn't stop just slowed down to walking pace so they could hop on and off), I think as they turned around staff. He always said he couldn't see what all the fuss was about as it was a bit of a cobbled together outfit to start with. He preferred the mallard.

[Station]

Haha, so lovingly made:

 

http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a19774/somehow-cops-werent-fooled-by-this-cardboard-license-plate/

[skattrd]

After 9 months of delays and various issues I have exchanged contracts on the new skattrd_towers. There's lots of work to do on the place and money to be spent I haven't earned yet, but I'm hoping to be moved in and my fleet parked outside it before the end of the year ... I reckon there's parking outside for most of the fleet

[AlabamaShrimp]

oooooh, is it a ghia, or just a poverty plus with ghia bits added?

 

WE NEEEDZ THE INFORMATION!!

 

Not a Ghia but just above poverty spec being a popular plus but with Ghia bumpers I put on as the metal one had rotted through.

 

A previous owner stuck that silver stuff to the wheel arches to hid some wobbly looking bits that aren't actually that bad

[steve_earwig]

Our copy of T.H.A.S.I.O.T.P. is sandwiched between The Science of Meat(vol.1) and Sheep Husbandry and diseases.

 

A few shelves up from my favourite:

 

Plywoods of the World. Their development, manufacture and Application.

 

Matt had a thing for "interesting" charity shop books.

Mate of mine sent it to me - "I've found a bible for you". Apparently I like spuds more than is "healthy". Must be my Irish ancestry :frown:

 

It does seem an unlikely subject for such a tome, you'd have thought a pamphlet would have covered it.

[Louise2cv]

Apparently it's quite an important work, I mentioned it at work (when I was a plant research technician) and a couple of plant pathologists got quite uppity about me poking fun at it!

[DVee8]

Channel 5 at the moment Carry on caravanning.

 

[steve_earwig]

Apparently it's quite an important work, I mentioned it at work (when I was a plant research technician) and a couple of plant pathologists got quite uppity about me poking fun at it!

Maybe it is, potato blight, starvation, people buggering off to the colonies...

 

I wonder if there's a similar work about brussel sprouts.

[fordperv]

Today whilst working on mrs fp's car, i saw and old lady walking along the road collecting up the litter that people had thrown, it made me smile that this little old lady gives a shit about the area where she lives enough to take it upon herself tidy up

[eddyramrod]

I'm watching Spike atm.... a JCVD actioner called Maximum Risk.  It opened with him being chased around the south of France by the baddies in a Renault 25

[barmatt]

After 9 months of delays and various issues I have exchanged contracts on the new skattrd_towers. There's lots of work to do on the place and money to be spent I haven't earned yet, but I'm hoping to be moved in and my fleet parked outside it before the end of the year ... I reckon there's parking outside for most of the fleet

 

I thought you'd be using the car park by the weekend

[Noel Tidybeard]

http://speedsociety.com/removing-rust-with-a-laser-fastest-and-safest-way-to-remove-rust/?source=gmg

[KruJoe]

It's the future, man.

I'll have to wait until I can get one for £15 delivered off ebay.

[John F]

Not sure if I'm ready to fire a laser at the Maserati though. I can see that ending in tears.

[The Moog]

That is amazing... sadly I would be tempted to star wars everything ....  probably including the dog until it looked like 

[eddyramrod]

I'm at the dentist this afternoon.  Wrong thread?  Normally, yes, but what time has MrsR made the appointment for?  Bearing in mind she spent 37 years as a dental nurse?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[NorfolkNWeigh]

Collected Fatha N from airport after 7 weeks away today, got to his house and he'd parked his 3 UK heaps one behind the other, with his 400k mile 300Tdi Disco at the back, because the battery is a bit dodgy ..."

Guess which was the only one to start, when the battery was reconnected?

SLK ? A4? Not a chance, the Audi didn't want to know even with leads and a gallon of derv thrown in in case the slope was the problem. In fact it only went with a good squirt of the Easy Start I keep with the toolkit in every diesel I own.

I hate that knock when they catch ,but it's still kind of satisfying. The A4's a 2.5 V6 with a cvt box and is the most unpleasant thing I've ever driven, he keeps it because it's reliable apparently.

[Aston Martin]

I drove past an Impreza with a bombing-run WW2 style airbrushing, it looked stupid. 

 

 

So... I saw 'Poppy the Subaru' today, so I take it all back??? Maybe? I'm conflicted.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poppy the Subaru has teamed up with Help For Heroes to help support our troops that have to overcome some horrific injuries both physical and mentally.

 

 

 

 

 

Go fund me

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I'm no doctor of history, but, the car features Spitfires, Churchill and many other things WW2 related... the Subaru is Japanese.

[eddyramrod]

Yes, I spotted that.... perhaps a Rover 600 would have been more appropriate?  Oh wait, that's pretty much a Honda... damn.