What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Angrydicky]

Good luck Triggers!

[morris_ital_lover]

Norm... what on earth led you too high speed ninjas?

 

m0rris

[cort16]

I know it's for a Piss hat but it still made me smile.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R55e-uHQna0&feature=player_embedded

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I saw some pikeys towing a Mk6 Escort to the scrapyard today. It had been burned right out, all the paint was off it, no glass, and the interior was completely burned away to nowt. Despite this there was a lad sat in it, on the rusty metal seat frames, being towed along on a scratty bit of rope behind the usual Transit pick-up through rush hour Derby traffic!!!!

[Pillock]

Yeah Belgium for the win. They've got a lovely balance of junk food and chocolate there, and a "large" beer is getting on for about a litre which makes a lot of sense.

If it hadn't been for the moment with the armed police on a Brussels tram I'd be all over it.

[Pete-M]

YTS Mechanics (or whatever the equivalent is these days).

 

My Jeep has been feeling more than a bit clunky at the front end since I bought it. More than a tad vague and a few alarming clanks on occasion, but couldn't feel anything bad when it's been in the air on ramps.

 

Looked at it today, as I thought the Panhard Rod bush must have been the main culprit from the way it drives. No real play though. Looked at the grease points while I was under it and they were all covered in grease around the nipples (oo-er, down Warren!) but dry at the actual joints. (Phnarr). So I gave them a bloody good seeing to with a grease gun. Oh look, they're all dry as the proverbial.

 

Quick test drive... oh look, it's quiet and steers properly.

[pogweasel]

Some more SUPER HARDCORE shite material arrived in plain brown envelopes today. This is some seriously filthy old car action.

I was going to scan some of it for here tonight, but I am going to the pub instead where I intend to become completely rat-arsed on max-strength cask ales.

You'll have to wait.

It will make the excitement better anyway. L8rz!

[Guest]

Seeing as Pog won't be in, shall we just break into his house?

[Alexg]

I saw a MINT brown Talbot Horizon Series 2 driving past me today - it was wonderful!

[autofive]

what planet is he on?

 

http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.c ... read=97157

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

Planet Mentalist.

[George-Roper]

Watched a geeza today take a roof box off a Ford Galaxy. Whats funny about that you may ask? It was not intended he missed the car park hight restriction sign

[Cavcraft]

Isn't this Panda geezer a member of Autoshite or is that a different Panda geezer? If he's considering chucking himself off Beachy Head because his Delicia timing is out he wants to try owning my fucking Passat. He'd probably feed himself into a bacon slicer as he repeatedly smashed himself over the head with a mallet.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

That Panda lad is a maniac, he seems to buy eye-watering shit heaps and conjures up ORSUM MODDING PLANZ0RZ for all of them, but never gets anywhere with any of them and ends up 'auctioning' them through the R-R sales board. 'Just £500' 'OK will take £400' 'Its £300, just for this week' 'OK tax is running out soon so £200' 'hello is that Gosforth metals?' Now he seems to be getting a bit overcome by his 20-year backlog of shite repairs.

[dollywobbler]

That Panda lad is a maniac, he seems to buy eye-watering shit heaps and conjures up ORSUM MODDING PLANZ0RZ for all of them, but never gets anywhere with any of them and ends up 'auctioning' them through the R-R sales board. 'Just £500' 'OK will take £400' 'Its £300, just for this week' 'OK tax is running out soon so £200' 'hello is that Gosforth metals?' Now he seems to be getting a bit overcome by his 20-year backlog of shite repairs.

 

Dunno if it's been pulled now, but he put a new Delica-te ad up today until BrianDamaged pointed out that the price had actually started at £1k, then dropped to £500, then £400 but today was £550 or something.

 

It's easily done though I think - you get a bit carried away with what other people are doing and indulge in a little retail therapy. Women have it so easy! Handbags are much cheaper than (non-shite) cars.

[Cavcraft]

Oh aye, I think he was trying to offload a Panda of some sort and offered it to everybody who ever logged on to the internet, including me. He offered one of those 'deals of a lifetime' that wasn't actually anything of the sort and I had to drive to him because he wasn't insured/his cat was ill/his mother-in-law had genital warts/whatever.

 

To be fair I don't know the lad and he's probably a decent fella but taking on more than he can handle.

[scaryoldcortina]

Knocked this together this evening, and it works! So I grin.

[pogweasel]

haha, that made me LAUGH MY SPUDZ OFF!!!

Plus the fact that I have given up on life and don't see how to go on, I just get totally despondent about it all. Oh well, carry on and always know the bottomless cliffs of the north east coastline may once be my fate

 

MEGAMONG RATING: 110%

Fuggs sake, old motors grip your balls, but if it gets that bad just get down Carcraft for an Fiat 500 and stop going on like some self-indulgent Emo teen.

What a plum!

[fotorabia]

Pulling up for gas this morning..old boy attendant asked if I needed a Viva motor..or a whole 2dr car ..when in fact about all i need is an interior light cover..but ill go round and see him and get a weedy photograph of a luscious rusty model..

[scaryoldcortina]

Knocked this together this evening, and it works! So I grin.

 

Explain........... it looks like half a drawer of Radio Shack stuff soldered together in a soap dish.

 

Show the pic to Larry...

 

 

My only input to the Panda discussion is this.

 

While we were collecting his A35 ebay buy, Conor asked him what he does for a living. He says "I'm a plumber". Quick as a flash Con replys with "So, is it as fun as Mario makes it look?". I almost peed myself laughing.

[M'coli]

Watched a geeza today take a roof box off a Ford Galaxy. Whats funny about that you may ask? It was not intended he missed the car park hight restriction sign

Last year, we were parked outside the Hunstanton lighthouse carpark in the motorhome because of the height restriction, having an icecream. I must have subconsciously spotted the people carrier with the bikes on the roof heading for the carpark - as soon as I heard the clang, I picked up the camera and took this:

[Cavcraft]

 

Mind you I did the same in a Transit Luton with a wind deflector once, about ten days into a new job

[Pillock]

Daft little thing made me grin this morning. Dragged myself our of bed early (i.e. the clock had "am" on it) to go get a haircut - 16 hour shifts do not make it easy to get one of those in the week. Expected a barbers full of snotty kits fighting, fat chav mothers failing to do anything but text their mates, and a really long wait.

 

Walked in, lass there waiting for me with an available seat. Got offered a real coffee which was lovely, a nice chat, really good haircut for £6. She's also a bit of a looker which is why always go there and she's got a filthy laugh.

[Pete-M]

Logbook has just arrived for Le 604.

 

This brought good and bad news.

 

Bad news is that it's an oddfire 2.7, not the even fire 2.85. Bollocks. I thought it sounded a bit weird,

 

Good news is that means I can drop a Rover V8 in without feeling guilty...

[myglaren]

Daughter has swiped my C5 estate for a bit of domestic removals, leaving me her Saab 900 2.3 cab.

 

I hope she takes her time with the removals, although I need the C5 to service it and fit the new wheel arch liner and undertray.

 

Was supplied with:

 

instead of the paper filter element required.

[Pillock]

Scrapyard delvings.

 

Managed to find a trio of E36s - one tidy, one a bit stripped and one that was little more than a shell. Still between them I got a full set of genuine floormats with the BMW embossing, a pair of clear front indicators, an 18-button trip computer plus wiring tails, a new door lock solenoid (hopefully to fix my non-locking passenger door) and a new spare wheel (steel, to replace the alloy I'm using so I can sell the set of five).

 

And a pocket full of fuses, natch.

 

It was also one of the cool oldskool scrappies where they let you up the yard to clamber over stuff piled two high. I wanted to look in the engine bay of one of them so found myself hanging off the slam panel, trainers sliding around on the wet bootlid of the car below, wondering if I might impale myself on something sharp and rusty.

[pogweasel]

Walked in, lass there waiting for me with an available seat. Got offered a real coffee which was lovely, a nice chat, really good haircut for £6. She's also a bit of a looker which is why always go there and she's got a filthy laugh.

Sadly, she thinks you are desperate and just a little bit creepy. Unlucky.

[Louise2cv]

 

 

How cool is Megan?

 

Thanks Mr Claypole!

[warren t claim]

Awwwww!!!!!!!

[Cheggers]

That's brilliant