What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[kevin 900]

Oooh, I say. That looks nice!

Weird looking headlamp wipers too.

[dollywobbler]

Aye - the headlamps wipers are odd. Brushes! I do want this very badly. If I can get rid of the CX and Westminster, I might have to see how much they want...

 

But back to grinning, just got the CX back. When it works, it's a bloody marvellous machine.

[warren t claim]

We need to start a Save The Alpine fund asap! Maybe if we all chipped in a tenner each via Paypal we could get it back on the road.

[Vin]

Alpine is

 

Headlight wipers were GLS issue I believe.

[greengartside]

Alpine is

 

Headlight wipers were GLS issue I believe.

Well done Vin - it is a 1.5 GLS according to Cartell. Lovely looking beast - and for being left outside since 1997, I don't think it's done too bad.

[Tayne]

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[Akron]

My son has been given a book by my folks about cars, on our way home he shouted to me wow Dad this car is gorgeous what is a Talbot Tagora? My missus thought he was mad I was dead proud

[chaseracer]

Incidentally, there is a lamp post up the road in St Andrew's Church which gave C S Lewis inspiration for Chronicles of Narnia.

Are you sure? I've always thought it was the Victorian gaslamps (now listed, history fans!) on the road to Malvern Wells.

 

Maybe ol' CS travelled a bit!

[Mr Lobster]

http://theoatmeal.com/comics

 

[AlsoMike]

[brammy777]

Currently buying all the albums I lost when my old PC decided to fuck up, throwing away over 8000 songs. Its annoying because I keep forgetting what albums I need to buy, but Amazon is providing stupidly useful. Its crazy how cheap you can pick CDs up for, and the choice is unbeatable. Shame that there seems to be some requirement for all CD cases to arrive broken though.

I love listening to Music I havent heard in ages, sounds so much better now too.

[scaryoldcortina]

Yay for the feckin highways agency! or, at least two of their employees. Thanks to a faulty fuel gauge (and wetherby services wanting £1.25 a litre for diesel) I ran out on the A19 at osmoytherly. In the truck, with a car on the back, and no-one had a phone on them. I ditched the truck in the verge, hopped the barrier and walked to the village (there was a garage there... 20 years ago...) when I got back empty handed there was a patrol waiting for me. I expected some bother, but I got a lift 5 miles to the services and back, loan of a can and they blocked the inside lane while I filled the (offside filler) truck.

 

Thumbs up guys. Tobermory would be proud of you.

[Pete-M]

Discovering my boss once ran a fleet of Montego Countryman Ds. For seven years. "Until they were fucked, but they wouldn't bloody die and were amazing on the old fuel".

 

He is possibly the last person on earth you'd expect to like Montegos. Turns out he's got the Maestro love as well. If I'm still working there at Christmas, I may try and find one.

[whiskeyonesix]

This makes me happy A "Legend" fender copy bass.

 

Dragged it out of the back of my mates shed yesterday where it had sat for 3 years.

Got it home, cleaned it, changed the strings, and surprise surprise it works!

There's a bit of a crackle on the control pots, but I'll strip it all down at the weekend and give it a good going over. There's a bit of rust here and there and the odd scratch but that's nowt to worry about...

[M'coli]

Yay for the feckin highways agency! or, at least two of their employees. Thanks to a faulty fuel gauge (and wetherby services wanting £1.25 a litre for diesel) I ran out on the A19 at osmoytherly. In the truck, with a car on the back, and no-one had a phone on them. I ditched the truck in the verge, hopped the barrier and walked to the village (there was a garage there... 20 years ago...) when I got back empty handed there was a patrol waiting for me. I expected some bother, but I got a lift 5 miles to the services and back, loan of a can and they blocked the inside lane while I filled the (offside filler) truck.

 

Thumbs up guys. Tobermory would be proud of you.

Boroughbridge Morrison's is probably the best bet for future reference so long as it's not after 11PM - it's about 1/4 mile from the A1M, and usually 8-10p cheaper than Wetherby services. For those that need it, it also does LPG.

[trigger]

[Guest]

Was poking around the Laurel today (getting some pictures of the power steering pump) and I found this bizzare replica numberplate:

 

It appears to have been made out of an old box and some tippex, to be fair the font is all perfect and it's the exact right size. Wrong for the car though, that's a Tokyo plate. Still, ideal for speeding through Japanese speed cameras.

[dollywobbler]

Ah, nice to see the typical grey import fog light dangle angle!

[Tayne]

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[trigger]

Wood gas car picture - not re-posted so as not to offend Leonard Hatred.

Ok, I might be a bit slow here (which i am) but is Leonard Milf then?.

[Mr Lobster]

Yes. At least I think he is.

[Tayne]

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[Mr Lobster]

Neither of you have heard of that tv show though?

What TV shows that then?

[Tayne]

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[trigger]

I remember seeing this one before

 

[seth]

Gratuitous image re-posting in one thread.

 

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=166600&page=30

 

(You need to scroll down and then head over to page 31)

[Pete-M]

The two chaps are the ex-military guy with the handle bar moustache (maybe called Gem) and a camp blonde bloke.

 

Anybody know what I'm talking about?

 

Dick Strawbridge.

[trigger]

Gratuitous image re-posting in one thread.

 

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=166600&page=30

 

(You need to scroll down and then head over to page 31)

 

Well she is nicer on the eye compared to that mustached faced bloke above.

[cobblers]

When I got my car, it came with a decent stereo that was in the hole, but not doing anything. The lad said it just needed wiring up. I expected horrors, and wasn't disappointed when I took it out! I got it all patched back up and "safe" again, Then I came to actually refitting the stereo.

 

The stereo in the car was a Kenwood, with no ISO lead.

 

After working at 'frauds for a while I'd got used to inhaling through my teeth when people came in asking for these - £35 was as cheap as we could get them, and we had to order them. They'd usually bought the stereo at a carboot for a fiver and walked off swearing under their breath.

 

I thought "oh I'll have a look on ebay". £3 posted. THREE QUID. Turns out I won't have to wait while payday for some music in the car after all!

 

It turned up today, plugged in and now I have some music. The nob had even left CLUBLAND DA RIDE OF YOUR LIFE DISK 2 in for me to take great pleasure of frisbeeing into the side of the house. There's even some £75 speakers in the doors, on inspection.

[Angrydicky]

This makes me happy A "Legend" fender copy bass.

 

Dragged it out of the back of my mates shed yesterday where it had sat for 3 years.

Got it home, cleaned it, changed the strings, and surprise surprise it works!

There's a bit of a crackle on the control pots, but I'll strip it all down at the weekend and give it a good going over. There's a bit of rust here and there and the odd scratch but that's nowt to worry about...

MMM...Yes

 

Dick Strawbridge is a legend! I think the camp bloke might be his son (who drives an Austin A35) but it's been a while since I saw the series. I think it was called "It's not easy being green", and was great fun to watch.

 

I seem to remember his daughter was quite nice on the eye too...