What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Talbot]

Not in the Glasgow area is it?

No, somewhere in t'north.  I don't know where he lives, but he works in Manchester.

 

I may have to ask him if I can post one of his Pics up here as it's a great looking car.

[M'coli]

What a fantastic achievement....... Isle of Bute will be a great place to be this weekend...... I am - of course- nowhere fuggin near!

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cumbria-45037080

 

Go bluebird go!

I'll be waiting for the Cumbria - at pace - dates and be there with munchkin come hell or high water.

 

 

Well done the entire engineering team - fantastic to see her on a trailer and heading north for initial trials.

Yup, I'm planning a wee trip over there in the next week or so to hopefully catch it in action.

I noticed this too - we're up in Teuchterland (Brora) for most of the week but may pass by this on the way down and hang around just in case we see it.

It would be nice to see the hard work as I'm a Marillion fan, and I'd just got my own gaff and my first internet connection when the salvage was ongoing, so kept up to date online with the tale in between visits to The Hun dot com and bangedup dot com...!

[omegod]

Horrific few weeks in work and finished today for 12 days , flying to Lanzarote on Monday for much needed fucking rest in a very nice all inclusive, they have Jamesons Irish whisky on the all inclusive too 

[Parky]

heading for furrock in coupla hours

 

oh no thats a grump

 

but kent rural essex and suffolk will make up for it

 

hopefully i get on the chunnel tomorrow

Sorry to hear that. And I am allowed to say that because I live in Furrock

 

Avoid our motorway services though, like our air quality it’s the worst in the UK. Go us!

[busmansholiday]

Also spotted this earlier - dunno why but it made me grin -

 

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There's a couple of them, they were following each other in the middle lane of the M5 (wankers) a few weeks ago. One doesn't have any marking on though.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Check out my new treasure! MEGA THANX to SpottedLaurel and GreenGartside for facilitating the rescue of this amazing historical artefact!!

[SiC]

Is this going to be a-framed behind your motor home when you go on holiday?

[Hertz]

Nice one Juan Bollox!

[Vin]

A QUALITY GOAL BY A QUALITY PLAYER.

[beko1987]

Huzzah! Now wave your magic wand and make it un-cod'ed

[Parky]

Nice one Mr Bollox, off to stock up on snacks and drinks as this has EPIC written all over it!

 

It had to be didn’t it? It’s like the planets aligned and a mighty deity emerged from the clouds and pointed his finger at your garage

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Does feel a bit like that admittedly

[cort16]

There's lot of nice detail on that Mazda. Well done, it all looks generally to be in one bit.

[omegod]

That 929 has been worrying the fuck out of me all day when I got a sniff summat was happening today , trail seemed to have gone cold......you leg end !!! 

[vulgalour]

Slightly annoying that some goon has lifted it by the roof there.  Otherwise an excellent purchase.

[greengartside]

Looking fabulous! I’d be itching to pressure wash it now. Hopefully the damage is just confined to the gutter trims.

[danthecapriman]

Nice job gentlemen. That is one seriously good looking car and I’m glad you’ve saved it!

Can’t wait to see more of it.

[Spottedlaurel]

Very odd to be able to get up, walk a few steps across to the front window and look out at it. It is somewhat visible from the house so it probably will get washed at some point. Sorry patina fans.

 

 

I think it had been lifted when the yard first collected it, and/or it had something resting on it, which did the worst damage to the 'screen, front roof edge and bonnet. The gutter trims have suffered a bit since, although the doors are OK as it was lifted with them open.

 

 

Unfortunately without a crane I doubt we could have got it somewhere sensible on the drive. There's no key so the steering would have locked on, it doesn't roll from having stood for so long, and my drive is gravel with an annoying slope up onto it. And it was hot again today.

 

 

I haven't had a chance to look at it properly yet, it certainly has a bit of rot in it. But it's not hanging either, in fact some bits are surprisingly good.

 

 

The interior is a bit of a surprise, from experience with Datsuns of similar age I was expecting the seats to be vinyl but they're some sort of beige fabric. I'll get shots of that over the weekend, it's a little whiffy in there and I doubt a day in the sun has lessened that....

 

Edit: I won't throw too many photos on here, I'll let Mr_B have the pleasure of looking through them first and experiencing varying degrees of exhilaration, relief, nausea etc as he realises what he's got.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Blimey. Is the screen broken then?

[DodgeRover]

Offer #1 on perfect house rejected, Offer #2 has gone in. However, as a back up more house hunting was done and another potential house was found with a dangerous amount of car storage space.

Go careful and play it cool property market a bit closer to London is cooling and prices are falling.

[dollywobbler]

That is an amazing, and slightly terrifying, set of pictures!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Yeah great footage!!!

[Spottedlaurel]

Blimey. Is the screen broken then?

 

Sadly, yes. That's visible in GG's original photos.

 

I'm already wishing I'd got more photos or even a video of the unloading, but it was a bit rushed as he was late getting to mine and he couldn't half talk, so I got somewhat distracted.

[omegod]

Oh the chains, oh the horror    perhaps unavoidable but ......never mind , if anyone can .....bollox can !!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Ah that's a shame. Still, it might not matter at all if I can't get the CoD reversed!!! Ha ha

[New POD]

Wife had phone call from senior radiologist.

 

The tests they did on the cells they took from her breast are normal. She does not have to see consultant.

Thank Fuck for that.

[Vin]

Yeah, the smashed screen is visible in GG's original scrapyard photos (edit - like SL said...) All that lifting by chains shizzle can be sorted out by metal manipulation, hammers and dollies and welding obvs. Nowt to worry about.

 

Ah that's a shame. Still, it might not matter at all if I can't get the CoD reversed!!! Ha ha

 

This is a GOOD point. Well Made.

[vulgalour]

On the plus side, look how tidy its bottom looks!  For a car of that age, let alone a Japanese one, it looks pretty good under there.

[NorthernMonkey]

Wife had phone call from senior radiologist.

 

The tests they did on the cells they took from her breast are normal. She does not have to see consultant.

Thank Fuck for that.

Brilliant news....bet you’re both walking on clouds at the minute

[Noel Tidybeard]

Offer #1 on perfect house rejected, Offer #2 has gone in. However, as a back up more house hunting was done and another potential house was found with a dangerous adequate amount of car storage space.

 

FIFY