What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[trigger]

I've just discovered this car whilst looking at a old magazine, Now what does it look like from behind?

 

[dollywobbler]

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...

Indeed she was. Didn't spot her much in the second series though. Very disappointing. Dick and his wife are the ultimate odd couple. He's a pig-slaying, ex-Army nut while she seems like a total hippy. Fair play I reckon!

 

Great series which has inspired us with the whole move to Wales thing.

[Cheggers]

When he was on Masterchef ("Cooking doesn't get tougher than this!!" - TWAT) they showed him cooking at home for his kids, with no sign of Mrs Dick, which made me wonder...Maybe she was hiding in his 'tache

[trigger]

I did, It must be were Morgan get their inspiration from then!

[dollywobbler]

Sadly, it looks like my Chrysler Alpine is no longer worthy of this thread. Had a chat with the bloke who owns it and he seems to think it's worth £6000 because he's seen one like it up for that. Gutted!

[trigger]

£600 at a push maybe but not £6000!, That will still be for sale in a years time, I got told that my Kadett was for sale for £6000 at one time years ago, that's only £4200 more then i paid for it!

[Tayne]

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[Station]

 

 

 

 

[dollywobbler]

 

 

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...

Nope, the show was called Planet Mechanics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Mechanics

 

I posted a link to the video of the wood gas car a page or two back.

You're both right. Colonel Dick has done many TV programmes.

 

EDIT - and his daughter has a website! Might have to check out the tunes later. http://www.charlottestrawbridge.com/photos.cfm

 

In fairness to my wife, she'll be pleased to learn that Dick's hunky son also has a website. I'm not linking to that one though.

[barrett]

DW- that's a real shame, I guess the one he is talking about was the mint one that we were all taking the piss out of in the bargins thread a while about... and iirc that was 'only' £4000

 

Station - that resume is great, i've not seen it before. Reminds me of the famous CV my friend got for a position in the record shop he works in. in the 'misc info' type section at the end, someone had written

''I love great white sharks. I will watch any program on television if I think there is a chance that I will see a shark on it''.

Mental.

[Gompo]

Going down the A1 from Markham Moor this morning, around 9.30, I spotted a gold Senator 'A' sporting SERCKS, looked ace.

 

Going up the A1 from Newark this afternoon around 17.00 I spotted a gold Senator 'A' sporting SERCKS, still looked ace.

 

Really brightened my afternoon. Good effort whoever you are.

[barrett]

Could it have been this one? Can't be many that fit that description about

[Tayne]

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[cobblers]

 

 

 

Lol, Reddit? I too wasted most of the day on there

[MrDuke]

I've just discovered this car whilst looking at a old magazine, Now what does it look like from behind?

 

 

Oooohhh, Mazda 121L perchance?

 

Think it may have just pre-dated the Chrysler lookalike?

[trigger]

Nope, The Avenger was first, then this came out about 1975, It's a Mazda RX-5 'Cosmo' though 121 could be another name for it, I'd never even heard of it before until earlier.

[Cavcraft]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccCnL8hArW8

 

Hauntingly good.

[MrDuke]

Nope, The Avenger was first, then this came out about 1975, It's a Mazda RX-5 'Cosmo' though 121 could be another name for it, I'd never even heard of it before until earlier.

 

Yep, I think it was badged as a 121 on the continent, pretty sure it came with piston engine options as well, could be very wrong though

 

The whole 'copying' order should've been obvious really, being as the Japs were still using the A-series copies then (albeit 100 times more reliable copies...)

[dollywobbler]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccCnL8hArW8

 

Hauntingly good.

Not chilling enough. Try this!

 

[Cavcraft]

I like that. Touch of Sinead O'connor about it which is no bad thing.

[gearoil]

This...

 

 

[Richard]

East Fortune?

[gearoil]

East Fortune?

Yep, was there yesterday. I like the cold war era jets.

[eddyramrod]

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.

Re-posting pics? This one, any time you like. And yeah, Dick Strawbridge is something of a legend, he turned up on Scrapheap Challenge quite a bit and was always good value. Now THERE is real Man's telly!

[barrett]

Just realised my Senator/ Carlton mistake. Tisk tisk.

 

Anyway, I've had a really fuggin shitty day today culminating in a horrible 'argument' with the missus.

 

On my way home, in a very bad mood, I saw a quite astonishing amount of top-drawer tat including a German-registered ex-fire brigade 70s Mercedes T2 van. Popped into a record shop and managed to score a nice copy of Rare Earth's 'Ecology' - then waiting for the bus I glanced down and noticed a huge pile of Practical Classics mags that someone was throwing out... about 20 of them, so I reckon there is enough material here for 35 long shits. Just had a bowl of noodles and now I feel much better!

 

Ah, the little things, eh?

[Cavcraft]

Just realised my Senator/ Carlton mistake. Tisk tisk.

 

Anyway, I've had a really fuggin shitty day today culminating in a horrible 'argument' with the missus.

 

On my way home, in a very bad mood, I saw a quite astonishing amount of top-drawer tat including a German-registered ex-fire brigade 70s Mercedes T2 van. Popped into a record shop and managed to score a nice copy of Rare Earth's 'Ecology' - then waiting for the bus I glanced down and noticed a huge pile of Practical Classics mags that someone was throwing out... about 20 of them, so I reckon there is enough material here for 35 long shits. Just had a bowl of noodles and now I feel much better!

 

Ah, the little things, eh?

 

Does the print not come off on your arse?

[barrett]

What can I say, I'm a C&SC man....

[Station]

I couldn't care about IPhones and all this rubbish technology must-haves, but upgraded my old phone to a newish one (when I dropped it in a bucket of water), and it's got GPS navigation, Wifi internet (GR% 4 stealing McDonald's interweb), a really decent camera, and all this shite that's actually useful, it's like a mini-PC.

[myglaren]

Sodding Windows updates.

Sorting a desktop out for my granddaughter, been offline for about three years.

When it eventually went online it set to with the updates, first wave was 75 of the buggers.

at 57 it just sits there apparently updating but not much to show for it.

It had popped up an EULA BEHIND the list of crap it was installing and sat there waiting for me to agree with the damned thing - and it was for IE8, which she will never, ever use.

Then it installed IE7 without asking

 

Had the same bollocks last week when reinstalling Vista on a trashed laptop. Should have known better.

 

Just done the same thing for Service Pack 3.

 

Ubuntu never pulls these stupid tricks

[Cavcraft]

*Edit coz I is fick

 

 

Our new dog hasn't been too well so missus took him to the vets yesterday. Gave him a jab of some sort, said he'd be right again by Saturday evening latest.

He's back on form already and been an absolute nutcase today