What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Wack]

I’ve had a lovely weekend , date today and lots of top down action

 Result

[MarinaJosh]

Birthday joy continues. First, I went for a drive in TWC, to where P38s go to die.

 

Then I went in to town to buy whipped cream and other delicious things. I found this.

 

Pretty early, and I reckon it's local too. I've definitely seen it before. Even had a period crooklock on  the steering wheel! Fantastic.

 

Also, my wife is amazing. The cream is for home-made profiteroles. YUM.

 

That Marina belongs to a mate of mine who lives in Norfolk. He's currently on holiday in your part of the world. It's his daily driver with over 180k on the clock- all original running gear. There is a Limeflower one in Carmarthenshire though which you may have seen.

[Pillock]

The interesting effect of this if widely adopted will be how it affects petrol price margins when no one bothers buying overpriced goods in the shop. And what all the franchisee owners of petrol stations will do. Hmmm.

Also, this is probably easier to fraudulently pay than it is with a card. Presumably the phone app is linked to a bank, so if you guess someone's app password you just get to fill up out their account.

 

In fact I can't see what the benefit is for BP. Keeps people out the shop, more complex, people hanging around at pumps sat in their car for longer....

[dollywobbler]

That Marina belongs to a mate of mine who lives in Norfolk. He's currently on holiday in your part of the world. It's his daily driver with over 180k on the clock- all original running gear. There is a Limeflower one in Carmarthenshire though which you may have seen.

 

Excellent! He is well travelled then. I noticed the 83k on the clock and wondered if it was first time around. Just think how many miles those two cars have covered between them!

[MarinaJosh]

He's been in to Marinas for years and has six others but this one is his favourite despite being the tattiest as he's been all over the country in it several times. He bought it in the 1990s and realised that it was the same car bought new by a friend of his dad!

[Datsuncog]

That Marina belongs to a mate of mine who lives in Norfolk. He's currently on holiday in your part of the world.

The fact that Autoshite has its very own Morris Marina Location Information Service is enough to give me a massive grin.

 

Brilliant that shiters are always on the lookout for one another - and that one's a real beauty too. Big miles!

[DeeJay]

Mythbusters covered the mobile causing an explosion in a petrol station.

 

[wuvvum]

Not sure what's going on today but within the first ten minutes of my drive home I saw two 205s (including one LRM P plater), a beige Allegro 3, a gold Mk2 Cortina 1600E and a delightfully tatty povvo spec W reg Metro. All apparently just going about daily duties. I felt rather inadequate in my Perodua.

[Spottedlaurel]

Not sure what's going on today but within the first ten minutes of my drive home I saw...............

 

Good weather bringing stuff out? I'm using my old things as much as possible right now, yesterday I was in the Laurel and I ended up one car back from a tidy GT6 at 7.30am on the A140.

[AMC Rebel]

Not grinning he was doing this, but grinning we have some coppers left to track him down, despite him using Belgian plates.  None of the news reports has any detail on the Belgian plates angle - I'd like to know more but probably never will.   You can skip the survey to read the article - last option on the pop-up.

 

 

Driver caught speeding 27 times on A127 disqualified for three years - Basildon Canvey Southend Echo

[twosmoke300]

A large amount of interactions on the endless stream of Police Stop Interceptor Traffic Cops shows start with the pulled guy immediately being huffy/cocky/aggressive "I pay your wage/got nothing better to do?/aint done nuffink m8" and they all end up in cuffs in the back of a van, with acting like a nob while having a warrant for their arrest being a favourite.

Apparently people are even fucking dumber than I thought they were.

Or pulled for not wearing a seatbelt but have 1/2 cwt of coke in the boot!

[dave21478]

Not grinning he was doing this, but grinning we have some coppers left to track him down, despite him using Belgian plates.  None of the news reports has any detail on the Belgian plates angle - I'd like to know more but probably never will.   You can skip the survey to read the article - last option on the pop-up.

 

 

Driver caught speeding 27 times on A127 disqualified for three years - Basildon Canvey Southend Echo

 

18 grand fine and 2.5k court costs.

 

Verdict: arrogant flash cunt who thinks the law doesnt apply to him.

 

Good.

[beko1987]

[danthecapriman]

Good weather bringing stuff out? I'm using my old things as much as possible right now, yesterday I was in the Laurel and I ended up one car back from a tidy GT6 at 7.30am on the A140.

I’ve thought the same this week, seen shit loads of old motors.

 

Notable ones were a lovely Saab 900 turbo in metallic maroon on the A27. I heard it coming and thought wtf is that. Then it shot past me in lane 2 like I was stood still! Clearly one of life’s winners!

A delightfully tatty D reg Fiesta mk2 1.4 Ghia. mk5 Cortina left me for dead on the backroads near Chichester, I tried to catch it up but couldn’t! There was a ww2 US army artic lowloader on the A3 too with another cab on the back, sounded absolutely glorious chugging along.

 

Must be the weather!

[Pieman]

And what all the franchisee owners of petrol stations will do. Hmmm.

 

Probably go back to cloning people's credit cards.  (Yes it happened to me and I am still pissed off about it several years later.)

[Joey spud]

[Joey spud]

My son has a unloved Mitsubishi FTO and the window has been wedged up with cardboard and a screwdriver for a weeks after the motor that had been clanking for a while made a break for freedom.

So a whole door was collected to get the required bits to make it good again.

Alas it needed more of the donor door than i realised.

Jeez that's not good.

 

I have called it the Frankenstein door.

[Joey spud]

With less than an hour of my shift left my thoughts have long since turned to going home and relaxing in the sun when i get despatched a VW steering job on the M20.

The extremely helpfull notes for this job just say ''noise''.

 

So oh how i chuckle when i pull up behind it and the owner of this fine steed is laughing and singing "three wheels on my wagon" to himself.

 

 

The wheels gone awol (last seen heading towards Farningham) but the threads are still ok in the hub so on goes the spare and some wheel bolts are found in my vans "they'll come in usefull" stash and despite the brake disc looking a bit mauled it's good enough to go back to the garage that fitted a bottom arm bush to it a few hours earlier.

 

[Pillock]

Got a new wallet today.

 

[Joey spud]

[beko1987]

With less than an hour of my shift left my thoughts have long since turned to going home and relaxing in the sun when i get despatched a VW steering job on the M20.

The extremely helpfull notes for this job just say ''noise''.

 

So oh how i chuckle when i pull up behind it and the owner of this fine steed is laughing and singing "three wheels on my wagon" to himself.

 

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The wheels gone awol (last seen heading towards Farningham) but the threads are still ok in the hub so on goes the spare and some wheel bolts are found in my vans "they'll come in usefull" stash and despite the brake disc looking a bit mauled it's good enough to go back to the garage that fitted a bottom arm bush to it a few hours earlier.

 

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My deepest sympathies to the man! He got lucky, when it happened to me I ground so much of the brake disc away gliding along the road onto the hard shoulder at 65mph they couldn't just put the spare on and have me on my way! Still use the 3/4 of the brake disc as a prop for the back gate! There's still hard shoulder paint on it too

[Bobthebeard]

Conversation in the van yesterday whilst on the way to work. Me, da boss and apprentice.

Boss to apprentice "You are very quiet today Billy. Are you ok?"

Billy "Yeah am fine"

Boss " Billy you are lying, what's up?"

Billy "Am thinking about girls.. I can't stop thinking about girls"

Boss " Yeah...So?"

Billy " Well I just can't stop thinking about girls. Am getting worried "

Boss " Billy, you are 17 for fucks sake. When I was 17 I had an erection that lasted for four years. Don't worry about it "

Billy "Oh.. Ok. Thanks"

[twosmoke300]

I know the feeling

[treehugger]

Got a new wallet today.

 

You spent money, taking it out your old wallet to fund purchase of new one?

[Jim Bell]

Here it is. The camera didn't capture its colour very well - it's more turquoise than that.

 

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What a colour!

Looks class. Like what I thought cars would look like in the future when me dad drove an Avenger.

[davehedgehog31]

Offered a council lockup near my house, I've no driveway or anything, so think it will come in handy. Going to go and have a looksie, want to check it's actually dry first...

[somewhatfoolish]

Got a new wallet today.

 

There's someone out there making wallets from old train seats? Niche.

[Pillock]

There's someone out there making wallets from old train seats? Niche.

Haha, close, Golf GTI.

I think you can also get M-Sport cushions etc from the same place.

 

And I did see in the National Tramway Museum you can buy cushions using various repro tram seat fabric.

[Pillock]

You spent money, taking it out your old wallet to fund purchase of new one?

Nope. Present.

[nacho man]

Got this for a couple of days

 

 

It’s a hybrid so greenpeace are happy. It’s also 462bhp so I am happy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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