What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[AMC Rebel]

Crying Pumpkin mended without too much hassle - that makes me smile

[fordperv]

At 23 I had a Kawasaki AR125. Didn't get my first car till I was 24 (Fiat Uno 45S).

I wanted an AR125 at 17 as I loved my AR50 that I had at 16 instead my mum bought me a 10 driving lessons for my birthday though and that was that no more 2 wheels after I sold my RD125

 

Iirc at 23 I had a silver opel manta berlinetta hatch as well as my mk6 escort 1.8 si, 1990 2.6 isuzu trooper and r8 214 si 3 door also my mk1 sierra that I still have

[AMC Rebel]

Found at the side of the road - it is the thing that says Trimble on it that is the grin. Trimble is one of those driver behaviour monitoring gadgets.

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Squashed spy-in-the-cab.

 The big white thing looks more like a "CREE OMFG 11venty billion lumens" Lamp from Chinese Best No1 Mfg Co.

[Tamworthbay]

When I was 23 I'd just moved into my current house and was driving a '76 Dolomite 1850HL with a '77 Dolomite 1300 as a backup car.

 

 

Frankly, it's been downhill from there...

We covered my Grandad in oil, he went downhill quickly after that.......

[Asimo]

The big white thing looks more like a "CREE OMFG 11venty billion lumens" Lamp from Chinese Best No1 Mfg Co.

Streetlamp had taken a knock and the led lamp had fallen out. It's a screw in upgrade for sodium (orange) lamps. I am going to dry it out and try and fix it.

[BavarianRetro]

At 23, I had a 1973 MGBGTV8 - which I still had at 33 - and a 1963 Austin 1100 on the road. As projects, I had a 1956 Morris Minor Series II, a 1969 Wolseley 16/60 (Farina) and a 1959 Sunbeam Alpine.

[twosmoke300]

Trimble make tractor gps systems - prob a lot of monies worth there !

[Lord Sterling]

Can't remember what I had at 23, wasn't very much, either I was driving Ma's Micra or briefly my Black Sierra Sapphire Ghia:

 

 

* Not actual picture of it, but was exactly the same.

[loserone]

I love that when I see that picture, I think "That looks just like the one Mo used to have", despite never having seen it or you

 

(Disclaimer: I was driving a black Daewoo Lanos.)

[New POD]

 

My oldest son is making noises about a bini as his first car. lots of time yet

I have just tried confussed for quotes. kerching £4046 the cheapest without a blackbox fitted..£4554 fitted.

 

Someone on here once said a seat arosa was very cheap to insure so i tried that.

 

£2255.00 per year without a blackbox, £2545.60 with the box..

 

 

 

 

 

Get a quote on a 1.4 Honda Jazz, or a 2 litre omega and come back with more amusement.

 

We insured our 17 1/2 year old daughter on my wife's BINI cooper and it only added £2K to the premium as a named driver.  Currently it adds £500 to the premium, which is because she is 20 now.

 

My only worry in all those years was having her friend, tell me that she is an "adventurous" driver.

 

Since then I have got her to show me what her friend meant.  Despite me not teaching her to overtake, she has clearly learnt from being a passenger with me, and can clearly cover ground fast, but safely on a country B road, not so much that I was tempted to scream. If she had a black box they'd probably cancel the insurance, despite the fact that she's actually quite safe.   

[HillmanImp]

Odd (or maybe not odd at all) that I posted this photo on here the other day:

 

 

and this evening I get a message on Flikr from the current owner asking if I used to own it. A little bit of Googling brings up this:

 

 

Fuck a duck. I had seen it was back on the road and was white last year sometime when I was looking on the Doovla website but my detective work had brought up nothing else but there it is. 

 

Really regretted selling that car but I had moved up to Leeds where I didn't have a garage and people kept trying to steal it. The only reason they couldn't was because of my Heath Robinson ignition set up.

[blakey79]

At 23 I had a Citroen saxo VTR with OZ alloys, and a Sony flip down stereo that changed colour, I've matured now, I drive a Volvo.

[doobietoo]

At 23 I was driving a Peugeot 404 estate and a galaxie 500.... happy days. In other news I was sitting at the traffic lights in town today. Its the sort of junction that has two lanes but immediately reverts to one lane 50 metres past the lights, anyway on the left a blinged up X5 with a powerfully built company director in the drivers seat, next to him was an (at least) 80 year old giffer in a pogweasel pink corsa complete with flat cap and blue rinsed wifey in the passenger seat.... Imagine my and X5 drivers surprise when said corsa driver went off the lights like a scalded cat leaving us both in a cloud of blue smoke..... as if that wasn't funny enough you could see his wifey telling him off all the way up the road....

 If in the unlikely event I get to 85 this will be me..... but not in a Vauxhall obviously

[M'coli]

At 23 I had an Imp.

[John F]

At 23 I had a Suzuki GS650GZ Katana, a Moto Guzzi V50 Monza, a Honda CX500, a Honda CB250N Superdream, a Kawasaki G7, A Kawasaki KH125, a Suzuki B120P, a Honda CB125T, two Honda CB100Ns and a Honda CG125 (iirc).

 

And a Jag XJ-S V12.

[garbaldy]

I've just had a look in my black book and honestly couldn't tell what I was driving at 23,  strange you may think but since I was that age for a whole 12 months then it would have involved a fair few motors.

[strangeangel]

I've never owned a BX, I consider this a success in life.

 

All the more for the rest of us then! When i was 23 I had a R4GTL that got permanently exported* about a year later.

 

 

*crashed by my then girlfriend's mate and dumped in a German scrapyard

[Timewaster]

I missed the original thread.... why 23?

 

Anyway I had a 205Gti and drove it like my trousers were on fire.

 

Twenty years on I have a beaten up people carrier, a non running Sierra and a non running Spitfire.

And no time to fix them due to the occupants of the people carrier.

 

Oh what a pleasure it is to get old.

[STUNO]

23 years old, that makes it 1970 !  Sold my Farina Wolseley 24/80 ( six cyl B series motor)  and bought a Mini 1100 new from Larke Hoskins motors in Canberra.

[New POD]

I got married at aged 23 and had a W reg mk3 1.6 escort GL in Bronze. Later that year I bought a White Metro Turdo. New wife not particularly impressed by the reliability or the fact that we had 3 rear end shunts in 5 weeks.

[DeeJay]

23 years old, that makes it 1970 !  

Hallelujah, somebody (on here) older than me.

[FakeConcern]

I was 23 once

[chaseracer]

23?  Citroen GS1220, which I'd had since I was 19 and run on a shoestring while a student.  Then this happened...

 

 

 

 

[myglaren]

I was 23 once

Me too.

No car, used company cars and the girlfriend's Renault 8 until it slid off the road into a deep crevasse

 

Didn't buy a car until 33 - a crap Hillman Minx deathtrap.

[Guest Hooli]

At 23 I had a Suzuki GS650GZ Katana, a Moto Guzzi V50 Monza, a Honda CX500, a Honda CB250N Superdream, a Kawasaki G7, A Kawasaki KH125, a Suzuki B120P, a Honda CB125T, two Honda CB100Ns and a Honda CG125 (iirc).

 

And a Jag XJ-S V12.

 

I think you win.

[scaryoldcortina]

I fixed* the transit I was grumpy about yesterday.

 

It wouldn't stay running or pull fuel through because one of the lines had a pinhole in it. I found that out while priming with an electric pump but it was impossible to find otherwise because of the GR2 way these things work - no lift pump, relies on suction to draw fuel.

 

*not actually fixed fixed, I need to order a new line, but at least it's diagnosed and off the bloody ramp.

[michael1703]

#monkman

[daveb47]

[John F]

Hooli, on 16 Jan 2017 - 9:32 PM, said:Hooli, on 16 Jan 2017 - 9:32 PM, said:

I think you win.

 

Ah, but in time-honoured tradition it probably sounds better than it was.

 

Most of the bikes were fine, but the Jag was a bit of a heap. It was 'inherited' from a housemate who got a job abroad & gave it to the rest of us in lieu of £100 back rent he owed (nobody wanted to buy the Jag). We sold it for £1000 via a kit car magazine, to a strange bloke who intended to fit a Ford 2.0 Pinto in place of the V12...!

 

I reckon most of the value* of the Jag was in its numberplate, 5694 VF.

[seth]

Yay! Hillman MOT passed for another year. No crawling around on the floor welding this time around.

 

Always pleasing to pull into the test centre and see an even older car parked there. This time an MG TF.