What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Guest Hooli]

I had to work it out by calculating crashes since I got the MG as that's the only one I can ever remember dates for.

[Mr A Lawrence]

When I was 23 I had a proper povo spec rover SD1 2.3 of '79 vintage.

 

Another grin today, new settee delivered, no more sitting on conservatory chairs!!

 

Lush.

[155V6]

When I was 23 I had a Cortina 2.0S & then a MK 1 Granada 3.0 Estate.

[xtriple]

When I was 23 I was living with a lass, owned my house outright (well, bank loan... it was fucking cheap but then, who wants to live in Scunthorpe?) had my MK X jaguar and a Kawasaki Z1R. Also had an Austin 2200 for winter duties and towing trailer full of bikes.

[Alfamale]

23 for me would have been 2004 and spent in a Star Silver Astra Bertone Coupe. Still a damm good looking car, reminds me, must look at the price of the 888 racing edition I really wanted at the time instead of the 1.8 misery spec I had.

[richardmorris]

1995 and two years into an 8 year relationship with my D reg 2cv, and about £600 insurance.

[beko1987]

I had a 206 2.0hdi at 23,passed for less than a year. The insurance was fucking horrific iirc

[cort16]

At 23 I couldn't afford the 2 buckets to be a 2 bucket wanker never mind a flash car to clean. I was still making structural repairs to my cars using socks covered in fibre glass.  A young lad at my work bought a GT86 on some huge monthly payment then less than 12 months later lost his license for 15 months for doing doughnuts outside a local shopping centre and it's been sitting in his parent drive ever since.

[DodgeRover]

At 23 I either had a 1.6D Cavalier or LWB series landrover

[drum]

23 year old me was cruising in this 1200 Astra 2 door estate.

[DeeJay]

Mine was either (35 years ago, so memories are well pickled) Riley 4/72, Allegro or a Herald.

No pics as those were the days when you had to buy film, take your 24 photos, drop off film in chemist and wait about 4 days to pick up photos.

Invariably 50% were crap.

[drum]

25 years ago for me.

[alcyonecorporation]

When I was 23 I had a 2006 Citroen C4 HDi, a Volvo Amazon and a Isuzu Piazza Turbo with the worst located axle I have ever encountered.

[Hertz]

I had a silver H plate Renault 21 Turbo Quadra when I was 23. Happy Days were had in that fecker.

[alcyonecorporation]

Ah, only 30. That explains the petulance.

 

Ben

What's that supposed to mean?

 

/sanctimonious delight

 

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[Guest Hooli]

 

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Chuckle.

 

Anonymous

[alcyonecorporation]

Sorry, I'm just off to crowd fund a car I don't even own.

 

corporationalcyone

[Craig the Princess]

At 23 all I had was was the Citroen AX, 2 brown, 2 Lagoon Blue, a yellow, a purple and a green Allegro, a terminally rusty Austin A40 Farina, the White Rover 414.

[adw1977]

At age 23 (in 2000) I had a 14 year old Peugeot 309. Piece of crap it was, too.

[Guest Hooli]

At age 23 (in 2000) I had a 14 year old Peugeot 309. Piece of crap it was, too.

 

You're my age, you old fart!

[alcyonecorporation]

I'm an old git?

 

Ben

Nowt wrong with knowing stuff.

Time does the snide to us all. I dislike it.

 

Pop me on ignore, and have done with it.

[OwdChina]

At 23 I had a Fiat Mirafury..........no that's not right........mirrorfe..............erm .................mirifu.............oh fuck it, I had a Fiat.

[cort16]

If like me it seems you may enjoy hours of watching videos of some Russian guy repairing heavily damaged cars then have a look at his youtube channel.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjnBWt549rQ

 

 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpQ4XNSBA9jK4Iw_G_P0qWQ

[dave21478]

^^^The guy has mad skilz.

 

Sucks to be the person unknowingly buying his cut n shuts, but eh....I doubt they care too much about stuff like that over there?

[DVee8]

Is it a cut and shut or a good repair?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Now that is friggin brilliant. Thats my late-night viewing sorted for a good while

[cort16]

The Subaru roof transplant 2 parter is particularly impressive .

[xtriple]

Not so much 'what made ME grin' as what made a nice couple grin madly...

 

Went and got the car (fuck me it started without help!) and delivered it to the bodyshop, Rich ran me and the mutts back to the garage to get the Kia and then he went off to do his thing while I took the dogs for a walk. Walk went well and got back to the car, Phoebe straight in as always, while Chester fucked off, as always! I was calling him (I normally put him back on his lead just to get him in the car but I was talking to a lady and he took advantage!) and he kept looking at me, then wandering another few feet away. There was a middle aged couple just getting out of their car and were watching in awe and wonder at the superb powers of control I have over his royal fatness... I called, he wanders. He wandered up to them, they stroked him, I hobbled closer, he legged it! I stopped and talked to them and just let him get on with it. Finally, I hid round the side of their car and the lady called him... he only sodding went straight to her.

 

The look on his face though when I appeared from the side of the car and grabbed him was priceless! That is a dog that deserves a kicking on a daily (twice, three times?) basis yet he never gets one. Its a good job he's cute...

 

Yeah, I know, 'cool story bro' and all that but it put a smile on the ladies face from ear to ear. She thought he was lovely... I thought she was but married...

[AlabamaShrimp]

Is it a cut and shut or a good repair?

That is an excellent repair and by the looks on it just as good as new. If he bothered to clean and primer the strengthening bit then you know he's done a good job.

 

A very long time ago my dad used to be able to do very similar but it's skills like this, being able to do everything yourself, that seem to be dying out.

[Pillock]

I'd deffo say that's a proper, good repair. Panel gaps etc.... To me a cut 'n' shut is a car that has been chopped with no regard to structural safety. He's gone along the spot welds where it matters.

 

Looks to be a better job than most insurance approved places do here....