What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Tamworthbay]

Was it leaning against a lamp post with 100m of cassette tape on the grass verge

Thankfully it was face down on a grass verge, the back was dirty from brake dust which probably saved it from being a frisbee.

[sierraman]

I bet if you pulled up at the services and the electrical charging bays were full of diesels you’d laugh like a drain if your Tesla had 10% charge.

[beko1987]

[omegod]

I've just convinced my ginger daughter that gingers shouldn't interbreed as that's what causes Albinism, I'd love it if she repeats this in a biology lesson 

[Bren]

Watching period road tests of muscle cars on youtube - Bud Lindemann is the host of whatever programme they were taken from. His commentry is very good and the music is like something from a 70's strip club.

 

While the cars were very quick in a straight line around the bends were hilarious - go and see.

[danthecapriman]

Today has been absolutely glorious! I’ve decided spring is now definitely here and winter has taken its shit and fucked off because it’s a cunt and nobody likes it. At long last.

 

Anyway, I took the dogs for a walk out in the country, went through a rapeseed field which smelt absolutely gorgeous! Lovely warm sunny day to be out and about. Lots of trees and bushes starting to get their leaves and blossom too.

Went home and sat my arse out in the garden in the warmest sunniest spot. It’s just so nice to finally go outside and feel comfortable temperature wise and not get rained on.

Such a nice evening I washed and polished the volvo too.

[Timewaster]

I bet if you pulled up at the services and the electrical charging bays were full of diesels you’d laugh like a drain if your Tesla had 10% charge.

The hatched area is the electric car spaces, no?

[SiC]

Today has been absolutely glorious! I’ve decided spring is now definitely here and winter has taken its shit and fucked off because it’s a cunt and nobody likes it. At long last.

 

Anyway, I took the dogs for a walk out in the country, went through a rapeseed field which smelt absolutely gorgeous! Lovely warm sunny day to be out and about. Lots of trees and bushes starting to get their leaves and blossom too.

Went home and sat my arse out in the garden in the warmest sunniest spot. It’s just so nice to finally go outside and feel comfortable temperature wise and not get rained on.

Such a nice evening I washed and polished the volvo too.

Get much done on the Capri?

[danthecapriman]

Get much done on the Capri?

Errr...

 

 

Best intentions and all that!

Though I did dig out some of the shorter new brake pipes I’ve made up, cleaned them with some white spirit and gave them a coat of clear engine bay lacquer to stop them corroding green. They’re ready to go on the car now, so that’s something?

[catsinthewelder]

I've been next door at a 14 year olds birthday party and had a great time.

 

I dropped my kids off with them this afternoon so had chance to tinker with the Dacia in the sun.  It now appears to start on the button after some slightly bodgey rewiring so I can get on with fixing the MOT issues.  We were invited round for dinner (first time I haven't had to cook in weeks).  Then we played a very loud boardgame and laughed like drains, just a shame its a schoolnight so we had to stop at nine.

[omegod]

I've been next door at a 14 year olds birthday party and had a great time.

 

I dropped my kids off with them this afternoon so had chance to tinker with the Dacia in the sun.  It now appears to start on the button after some slightly bodgey rewiring so I can get on with fixing the MOT issues.  We were invited round for dinner (first time I haven't had to cook in weeks).  Then we played a very loud boardgame and laughed like drains, just a shame its a schoolnight so we had to stop at nine.

 

Hey Cats, there's a dude selling a tidy R8 rover in white on facebook for £199, don't think you do social media but it looks a decent donor for the 220 

 

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007598439361&fref=gs&__tn__=%2CdC-R-R&eid=ARAHN-To72lc9xxKedJMhwGTgqe4-XYoytF1Df_Y9VtWp7sp-s7mbDHo7hdMzR3zYxYgz75260HgdJLn&hc_ref=ARTPp-QtrzAvzcdl4TAzzdwgl7uYQIq-IG5cmVmx_C95lgijy7SCbSleu_zOuVZrAk8&post_id=2648590675156540&dti=390896610925969&hc_location=group

[catsinthewelder]

With only 38k on that one someone should just buy it to fix up and cherish.  It would be a horrible waste to use it as a donor.  There is also the slight hitch that its about 200 miles away in North Yorkshire.  If anyone likes the look of the 220 but not the condition then they should buy it.  You'd struggle to find another R8 anywhere near that tidy for £199.

 

I tried to work on the 220 yesterday buy kept setting the alarm off,  I'll try a new battery in the remote today before I loose my rag and pull the wires off the horn.

[Wack]

Hey Cats, there's a dude selling a tidy R8 rover in white on facebook for £199, don't think you do social media but it looks a decent donor for the 220

 

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007598439361&fref=gs&__tn__=%2CdC-R-R&eid=ARAHN-To72lc9xxKedJMhwGTgqe4-XYoytF1Df_Y9VtWp7sp-s7mbDHo7hdMzR3zYxYgz75260HgdJLn&hc_ref=ARTPp-QtrzAvzcdl4TAzzdwgl7uYQIq-IG5cmVmx_C95lgijy7SCbSleu_zOuVZrAk8&post_id=2648590675156540&dti=390896610925969&hc_location=group

He looks happy , obviously not married yet

[sierraman]

That can’t be his bird. If it was she’d be going ‘why can’t you get a Seat Ibifa Turbo FR like Chloe’s boyfriend?!? It only costs him £350 a month plus insurance!’

[New POD]

Hey Cats, there's a dude selling a tidy R8 rover in white on facebook for £199, don't think you do social media but it looks a decent donor for the 220

 

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007598439361&fref=gs&__tn__=%2CdC-R-R&eid=ARAHN-To72lc9xxKedJMhwGTgqe4-XYoytF1Df_Y9VtWp7sp-s7mbDHo7hdMzR3zYxYgz75260HgdJLn&hc_ref=ARTPp-QtrzAvzcdl4TAzzdwgl7uYQIq-IG5cmVmx_C95lgijy7SCbSleu_zOuVZrAk8&post_id=2648590675156540&dti=390896610925969&hc_location=group

apparently I need to log in

That's not appening

[Lacquer Peel]

That can’t be his bird. If it was she’d be going ‘why can’t you get a Seat Ibifa Turbo FR like Chloe’s boyfriend?!? It only costs him £350 a month plus insurance!’

Eugh.

[Wack]

I deliver stuff to a place that strips cars , sometimes all I can say is fuck me there are some brave people out there

 

 

[cobblers]

Jaysus!

 

That looks like the place that whathisface off the youtube took one of his many cortinas. Pete C? 

[danthecapriman]

I deliver stuff to a place that strips cars , sometimes all I can say is fuck me there are some brave people out there

 

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Oh god, I’ve been there before!

 

 

 

Lots of work, lots of expense. But it’s the only real way to get rid of all of the shit from the previous 40 odd years.

[Pillock]

The hatched area is the electric car spaces, no?

 

That was my thoughts, just the spaces that straddle the charger.

[busmansholiday]

"Take a sip out of that and I'll top it up for you".

 

Bit different from having to ask for a pint to be topped up.

[Saabnut]

Had a great weekend at the Restoration show at the NEC but the biggest grin was the 1990 Saab 900i with the welded up towbar did the 900 mile round trip towing the Sonett all the way behaved perfectly.

 

And we got the Sonett running again!

[dollywobbler]

I'm still gutted that I missed that, and the resulting cloud of blue smoke.

[myglaren]

[stephen01]

The last couple of days I've been thinking about selling my MK1 Twingo, Impluse purchase while trying to raise 3 kids and do lots of stuff on the house, just no time to do anything. This has resulted in me looking on ebay trying to find something to base my price off. I'm now thinking it'd be a good idea to buy another Twingo, FML. 

 

 

[eddyramrod]

Yesterday I ordered a set of brake pads for Huggy, which I think he's going to need before going back on the road.  What arrived at 11.15 this morning?  They only had to come from Bradford but still, that's bloody good service!

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Don't you just love it when you find stuff out you didn't know before?

I thought I was a pretty extreme Granada anorak, but just watched this ;

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zwMAFnc6cao#fauxfullscreen.

And discovered GL and Ghia Mark 3s had different gloveboxes, drop down in the GL but cantilevered in the Ghia.

I've owned many examples of both and driven even more, but it had compete lay passed me by.

Also interesting that early Scopios only offered cruise, alarm and rear belts as options, but had standard electric reclining seats- that was a spec dead end.

 

 

I know there's a YouTube thread, but can't be arsed looking for it and don't know how to attach them anyway.

[holdyerhandout]

I've just convinced my ginger daughter that gingers shouldn't interbreed as that's what causes Albinism, I'd love it if she repeats this in a biology lesson 

That's great, on a similar tack, one of my wife's co-workers isn't very bright and was persuaded that the sex of a baby was determined by the day of the week of conception -- Monday to Wednesday Boy, Thursday to Saturday Girl and Sunday could go any way.  It took her boyfriend looking it up on google that night to put her right!

[bramz7]

At Madrid airport. I took 460 photos of crappy old cars.

 

I also ate pretty well. Loads of cakes obviously but also a ton of fruit. Twice I ate just fruit for dinner. And I walked 90km. I don't even ache that bad.

[wuvvum]

The last couple of days I've been thinking about selling my MK1 Twingo, Impluse purchase while trying to raise 3 kids and do lots of stuff on the house, just no time to do anything. This has resulted in me looking on ebay trying to find something to base my price off. I'm now thinking it'd be a good idea to buy another Twingo, FML. 

 

 

When we moved to France in 1993 I was desperate for my dad to buy my mum a (then newly-released) Twingo.  I was gutted when it was vetoed because there were five of us and no way of fitting a third seatbelt in the back.  Mum ended up with a 2-year-old 205 instead (although it was a Green special edition with green seatbelts, so that made up for it a bit).