What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Richard]

730XUN still checks out as a blue Austin A60.

[BMC Dan]

You have a PM Gary

 

[Louise2cv]

Web-browsers do not understand the concept of Autoshite:

 

This page appears to be written in Malay

[Louise2cv]

[Tayne]

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[trigger]

You have a PM Gary

 

 

Oh that looks nice, tell us more!

[BMC Dan]

 

Oh that looks nice, tell us more!

 

Went to see it today as the owner had taken it out the garage where it has been sat since May after failing the MOT. It fired up straight away and runs sweet as a nut despite a mileage of 112,000. Needs a couple of bits of welding, the synchromesh sorting and possibly a wheel bearing replacing, as well as some cosmetic stuff. Has a few new parts including a stainless steel exhaust and a set of radial tyres. It was his daily driver for a year!!

 

 

He already has a few interested parties in it though, including a racer who has offered £500...

[mattblack]

Flicking through 'Retro Cars' mag in Smiths and seeing Seth's Herald.

[Cavcraft]

I hope to God someone from here gets that Farina, it's absolutely lush and it'd be a crime if it gets raced or pissed about with. The colour scheme is perfect and it's obviously been looked after in the past.

[BMC Dan]

I hope to God someone from here gets that Farina, it's absolutely lush and it'd be a crime if it gets raced or pissed about with. The colour scheme is perfect and it's obviously been looked after in the past.

 

He's got someone from round Cambridge way coming to look at it during the week who's more than happy with the £650 asking price, although as the owner's from a Hot Rodding background it'll probably end up roller painted satin black with 99p shop skull stickers plastered over it.

 

(Not that I have anything against it btw, hopefully it gets turned into something special if it does go down that route)

[Cavcraft]

Each to their own but it'd almost certainly look completely toss if someone did that to it. Fair enough if it was a wreck anyhow but it just looks too nice for that to happen.

[Alexg]

I had a chuckle today at the new Innocent Smoothies ad, complete with Flash Gordon rip...

[The Moog]

As a sort of anitdote to the grumbling about work, being a lecturer really makes me smile. Got in this morning not very motivated. Students coming in and are bouncing about because they are 107 out of 8000 teams in the country in the stock market game they are competing in.

 

So to tap into this I set up some team building games for them to play with just paper and sellotape. They loved it and really enjoyed this morning. Nice to see people learning and enjoying doing it. A far cry from the business bullshit I used to have to put up with

[morris_ital_lover]

I had a chuckle today at the new Innocent Smoothies ad, complete with Flash Gordon rip...

 

+1, I am also feeling the love for the Meerkovo adverts. (Although Jedward and the Confused adverts aren't quite so full of joy).

 

m0rris

[Angrydicky]

£650 looks good value for that Cambridge, I paid £750 for mine and it wasn't in nearly as nice condition and needed an absolute shedload of welding and the whole braking system replaced before it could get an MOT.

[trigger]

I wish we had safari parks like this around here, I don't think I'd ever leave the car park!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiSAm8PX ... re=related

[autofive]

(more smirk than grin)

 

reading that a member of another forum has bought a holden, expecting to see something like this;

 

or this

 

but its actually this one

 

 

hope it wasnt expensive, B & Q sell large sheds for 200 quid

[Negative Creep]

That was the Pistonheads SOTW not too long ago

[eddyramrod]

(more smirk than grin)

 

reading that a member of another forum has bought a holden, expecting to see something like this;

 

or this

 

but its actually this one

 

 

hope it wasnt expensive, B & Q sell large sheds for 200 quid

 

Some of us here actually LIKE a large station wagon! I think that's a little beaut, I'd have been very happy with it as my daily back in Yuk.

[autofive]

That was the Pistonheads SOTW not too long ago

 

your right - i just googled it

 

http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default ... ryId=22926

[CIH]

That big Holden wagon thing looks friggin ace.

[Negative Creep]

Of course a Falcon would have been a much better choice

[trigger]

Quick question - When watching British programs from the 70's and 80's (Minder in this case) is there always a lot of American cars in the background?, You never see that many American cars on the roads these days.

[autofive]

Quick question - When watching British programs from the 70's and 80's (Minder in this case) is there always a lot of American cars in the background?, You never see that many American cars on the roads these days.

 

i have a theory:

lots of american serviceman no longer come to UK or Germany, so loads fewer US tat around for the re-sale market

[morris_ital_lover]

What makes me grin....

 

Jonathon "stating the feckin obvious" Legard has been replaced by Brundle on the Beeb commentary for F1.

 

m0rris

[cms206]

Is it a Lacetti? Is it fucking horrorsome?

 

NO!

 

It's... err... a Daestego? No, a Monetti... err...

 

 

I'll have mine with a Perkins Prima, please...

[rml2345]

Oh my good God thats horrorsome! Its like the man who did that saw a picture of a Bora once a few years ago and had to draw it from memory.

Can I have one in that shade please?

[Minimad5]

That looks like a Montego Countryman crossed with some sort of VAG

I'd roll that (With an edited front end)

[Richard]

I think that's because it is a Maestro Countryman with another front end.

[Minimad5]

I think that's because it is a Maestro Countryman with another front end.

 

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