What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[ProgRocker]

  On 17/06/2018 at 11:13, Lacquer Peel said:

Clues pls

French?

[paulplom]

Vauxhall?

 

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[Lacquer Peel]

I hope it's that Kappa wagon.

[bramz7]

I wish. Sadly insurance killed that one off.

 

Not far off though. I won't actually say if anyone guesses it but I am hopefully collecting in a fortnight.

[dozeydustman]

  On 16/06/2018 at 13:55, twosmoke300 said:

Just not lucas ones - they are almost white when new . Osram ones the best I’ve found

 

 

That'll be the problem then, all the local places sell Lucas or Ring brand bulbs, and they always look lemon yellow after a few weeks.

 

I'll find some Osrams. Thanks for the tip twosmoke

[dozeydustman]

  On 16/06/2018 at 14:28, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Those look excellent.

 

 

Just waiting for some Vero-type board to arrive in the post along with a project box, I can then assemble & solder evryfink. They really are tiny little things, about 12mm diameter and 40 high.

 

Can you attach videos does anyone know?

[Tamworthbay]

Just taken delivery of the winter project. It looks easy enough......... welll.............

Massive thanks to Arthur Foxhake for this, hope you enjoy the TE rig mate!

[Amishtat]

A new Coldwarmotors video.. Can't recommend this highly enough to people

[AlabamaShrimp]

  On 17/06/2018 at 13:51, Tamworthbay said:

Just taken delivery of the winter project. It looks easy enough......... welll.............

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Massive thanks to Arthur Foxhake for this, hope you enjoy the TE rig mate!

It's going to be a twat working on it with it stuck to the ceiling.

[Tamworthbay]

  On 17/06/2018 at 15:38, AlabamaShrimp said:

It's going to be a twat working on it with it stuck to the ceiling.

Fooking Aussie Ipads coming over here stealing our pictures, no idea why it randomly does it and only on here.

[AlabamaShrimp]

I'll give them a flip

 

 

 

 

Mini Shrimp liked the gearbox in bits picture as he was asking the other day what do they look like and it's a bit hard to explain.

[Guest Hooli]

You'll never get an A series lump in that frame!

[HillmanImp]

I've been tinkering with cars a bit for the first time in a few years recently and its been a lot of fun.

 

The work on the house is pretty much done, Imp jr is 3 next week and is helping with the cars and I am actually getting stuff done.

 

Its really good fun and I'm getting my mojo back after a long time.

 

Hopefully the Visa will be tested for the first time since Feb 2015 in the next few days, the GT6 is running and just needs a UJ to be road legal* and I have money saved to pay someone else to paint the Imp.

 

Don't want to temp fate but I'm beginning to enjoy cars again for the first time in a long time.

 

Watch the Shaguar shits itself tomorrow after writing all this.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

  On 17/06/2018 at 12:14, dozeydustman said:

.....Can you attach videos does anyone know?

Just upload to YouTube, then post link here.

[DodgeRover]

Walked dog with my son, he and the dog played in the woods and stream, then we came back and had a BBQ, feel asleep sat on sofa for an hour while kids and OH watched TV.

Best fathers Day in a couple of years.

[Tamworthbay]

  On 17/06/2018 at 19:25, Hooli said:

You'll never get an A series lump in that frame!

Prepared to put money on that? Have angle grinder, will travel.......

It would look like a CBX 6cyl

[MikeR]

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/what-its-like-one-worlds-14789768

 

Southport Lawnmower Museum vid ...

[fordperv]

Went to a local show today after polishing the life out of the saph yesterday, ended up towing a chap who was with us in due to overheating problems, I always carry a rope in the boot

 

A picture that was taken for the wall of shame

 

 

Not a bad day at all the cars were pretty much the same ones I see there every year but a good chance to catch up with folks I don't see often

 

 

I didn't take that many pictures

 

 

This was with us as well

 

 

 

 

Nimbus grey is pretty rare on mk4 escort but there was an xr3i and rs turbo

 

 

1.3

 

A pant accident happened when I saw this uno turbo

[cobblers]

I fix battery boost packs at work. Proper ones, not this maplins bollocks - they're used to start buses because the fleet operators won't buy decent batteries for the buses.

Anyway, a boost pack came in a few weeks ago. I couldn't fault it at all, the batteries were good as new, master switches and wiring was all perfect but the customer insisted it wouldn't start a bus. I wanted to send it back as it was FOC, but my bosses don't like doing that and won't argue with a customer who says something doesn't work, so they offered to belt and braces it with a new pair of batteries and a new master switch, something like £450-500 job.

Customer obliged, so I did the work and it went out to them.

 

A few days later, we got a phone call:

"It's still no good!!" 

 

I got them to send the pack back in, along with the leads they were using to try and start 20 year old dennis darts that had been stood for 2 weeks with batteries that were shagged to start with

[Guest Hooli]

Brilliant! those would struggle to start a mower ffs.

[cobblers]

They were a pair of "STREETWIZE" jump leads, the wire was probably 2.5mm², some maniac had folded it over the wire enough times to somewhat make it fit into a 175 amp anderson connector which has an 8mm dia hole. They'd crimped it by just hammering the whole terminal flat (the ones on the bench are 50 amp ones from another job)

[LightBulbFun]

as mentioned in this thread http://autoshite.com/topic/32122-the-state-of-the-market-cheap-car-buyers-and-sellers/

 

"its not just cars"

 

I had an item end today with no bidders/buyers and I got this message from I guess one of the watchers?

 

 

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/263763759944 this is the item in question. an obscure CPU upgrade for an 18 year old Apple laptop and yet still punters show up...

 

im surprised he did not offer me a broken xbox 

[xtriple]

  On 17/06/2018 at 19:25, Hooli said:

You'll never get an A series lump in that frame!

I was thinking exactly the same thing!   

[AlabamaShrimp]

  On 17/06/2018 at 21:39, LightBulbFun said:

as mentioned in this thread http://autoshite.com/topic/32122-the-state-of-the-market-cheap-car-buyers-and-sellers/

 

"its not just cars"

 

I had an item end today with no bidders/buyers and I got this message from I guess one of the watchers?

 

 

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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/263763759944 this is the item in question. an obscure CPU upgrade for an 18 year old Apple laptop and yet still punters show up...

 

im surprised he did not offer me a broken xbox

I don't know why I'm asking this but if it's up at £100 and even though it didn't sell why would you offer even less than half?

 

I mean go down a bit then expect to come up a bit but £35??

[MorrisItalSLX]

  On 17/06/2018 at 20:16, fordperv said:

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That Number Plate,

 

WHY?!?

[Mr A Lawrence]

jdm drift yo innit.

[Guest Hooli]

To ruin it I presume.

[Datsuncog]

It's the fact that the pointless square number plate almost completely obscures the n/s driving light that has me scratching my head.

 

And it's not like there's some sort of massive fuck-off oil cooler mounted front and centre to necessitate such a thing...

 

VERDICT: 1/10 SC3N3 TWAT

[fordperv]

  On 18/06/2018 at 08:12, MorrisItalSLX said:

That Number Plate,

 

WHY?!?

The worse thing its an old boy, the last time I saw this car it was as it should be, had a more appropriate number plate and im sure it had original wheels as well

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

Sitting here just metres away from the social melting pot that is the EU...... I've overheard a typical 50ish upper middle class bitch moaning about the racism entrenched in the local regimes, the utter disregard the 'system' has for poor white folk being molested, attacked and ripped off by muslims. How she personally is paying for all these asylum seekers, due to her 'career' as an interpreter on a huge tax deal contract they all have (she loudly mentioned a mates name so I know her dept!) and bitching about her mum leaving all of her estate to 'so called' charities....... she is a nightmare of skin and bones.

 

Grin - old guy got up, went over - "Madam, you are the poorest excuse for a child of your departed mother and sorriest human being I have ever had the misfortune to be forced to listen to in my entire life. I can only think I would've disowned you a long time earlier" and walks off....... well done that man

 

She's now onto 'negative energy' associated with her dead parents things and 'spiritual cleansing' required...... my laughter has now seriously pissed her off I think.........