What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[hairnet]

bangers and cash on yesterday - now

moskvitch and a ponton mercedes

ooft

[Ghosty]

Conversation with the boss at work. 

'My new driving lights for the Pug came last night, they're yellow'.

'Get some yellow headlights while you're at it'.

'Way ahead of you'.


I wouldn't swap where I work for much at all right now. 

[Roobarb]

This made me smile a few weeks ago.

Or at least it did for the first few hundred miles. Then the straight started to wear a little. 
I’m working in a new place next week. The drive is 1000 miles (well just under) and 13hrs of actual driving each way!!!

[Skizzer]

2 hours ago, Roobarb said:

I’m working in a new place next week. The drive is 1000 miles (well just under) and 13hrs of actual driving each way!

If you’re planning on commuting daily, I’ve got some bad news.

[dome]

On 6/18/2020 at 7:46 PM, camryv6 said:

I was going to ask if you would deliver ?

4,429 mi

Distance from Louisiana to United Kingdom

If @PhilA finds something old with a V8 to share the container for around £4k I'll half in on the shipping costs?

[somewhatfoolish]

Freight not cheaper than that at the moment? Should be with the oil price where it is.

[paulplom]

Have you asked @worldofceri? He's reliable and delivered my mazda cheaply enough.

[Roobarb]

For RORO you are looking at $840 for a small car at the moment. 
Shipping out of the UK is $150 for destination charge and then tax upon landing. 
I can’t imagine it would be much more going back the other way (US to UK). 

Don’t ask me how I know as the wife will kill me  

[Wack]

What the actual fuck , is that a £25 bottle of iron brew then 

 

[angle]

Let's say, for arguments sake, you drive your scabby Transit into the back of a new A3 in front of a queue of people waiting to get in a shop. Let's say you drive through a red light on the wrong side of the road to get away. Please remember to check your wing mirrors for police riot vans immediately behind you first, otherwise you might find things get quite shouty quite quickly. 

[PhilA]

1 hour ago, Roobarb said:

For RORO you are looking at $840 for a small car at the moment. 
Shipping out of the UK is $150 for destination charge and then tax upon landing. 
I can’t imagine it would be much more going back the other way (US to UK). 

Don’t ask me how I know as the wife will kill me  

That's not bad. I need to ship a car at some point. It's small (Healey Sprite) but isn't roadworthy but does run and stop and steer.

I presume non-runners get charged a pain-in-the-ass fee?

[Agila]

I saw this yesterday at Speke. Apparently it's a BAC mono. The guy had the helmet on and trade plates on it. Looked and sounded ace at only 30mph in traffic on a dual carriageway.

If you fancy one prices start at £165k. 

[omegod]

5 minutes ago, Agila said:

I saw this yesterday at Speke. Apparently it's a BAC mono. The guy had the helmet on and trade plates on it. Looked and sounded ace at only 30mph in traffic on a dual carriageway.

If you fancy one prices start at £165k. 

BAC have permission to use a runway at Speke airport for testing these, very high quality product 

[paulplom]

Just had a 110 mile B road blast in the mx5 this afternoon around Northumberland. Blaydon, Prudhoe, Corbridge, Hexham, Chollerford, Rothbury and even Newbiggin. I might have hit 100 at one point which would equate to 5250 on the rev counter if I did. Over 20°c everywhere. One of my favourite drives ever.

Here it is waiting for ice cream in Rothbury.

 

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[camryv6]

9 hours ago, dome said:

If @PhilA finds something old with a V8 to share the container for around £4k I'll half in on the shipping costs?

I am going to end up with a fucking LHD Renault 9 if I am not careful, aren't I ?

[camryv6]

1 hour ago, angle said:

Let's say, for arguments sake, you drive your scabby Transit into the back of a new A3 in front of a queue of people waiting to get in a shop. Let's say you drive through a red light on the wrong side of the road to get away. Please remember to check your wing mirrors for police riot vans immediately behind you first, otherwise you might find things get quite shouty quite quickly. 

Is this a confession ?

[mitsisigma01]

1 hour ago, paulplom said:

Just had a 110 mile B road blast in the mx5 this afternoon around Northumberland. Blaydon, Prudhoe, Corbridge, Hexham, Chollerford, Rothbury and even Newbiggin. I might have hit 100 at one point which would equate to 5250 on the rev counter if I did. Over 20°c everywhere. One of my favourite drives ever.

Here it is waiting for ice cream in Rothbury.

 

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I do miss my one, last I heard it was being discharged from Snagglepusses Hospice for sick and dying vehicles, hopefully still alive ???

[Tadhg Tiogar]

2 hours ago, Wack said:

What the actual fuck , is that a £25 bottle of iron brew then 

 

Price of Freixenet has gone up as well. 

[angle]

1 hour ago, camryv6 said:

Is this a confession ?

Afraid not, I was in the queue. Having said that, a few years back my dad took my brother's (Sorn, uninsured) car for a quick pre-MOT test run to the end of the road and back, and managed to u-turn at the roundabout in front of an unmarked traffic car, which was... expensive. 

[vulgalour]

Princess moved under its own power today for the first time in at least 6 months, so I'm happy.

[Joey spud]

Need to deliver a 6' x 2' green house and can't be arsed to dismantle it ?

A bit of old decking,my best B+Q blue string and the trusty Toyota and it's job jobbed.

[Joey spud]

Can't spell either..

[Alan_Green]

Visited Morrisons, Elstree last night:

[Tamworthbay]

After three years of searching for a set of steels for the Capri at sensible money and not in Antarctica or Siberia, or when I am skint, and after moaning about the rain stopping play on the Capri this morning, I look on Gumtree to see a set 20 miles away for less than half what I have seen a set for in the last few months. 40 minutes later and they are safely in the back of the wife’s 500 (the v70 is SORN at mo). The last piece in the puzzle to get it back original.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

23 minutes ago, Alan_Green said:

Visited Morrisons, Elstree last night:

Elstree really has gone downhill. Or is this technically Boringwood?

[cobblers]

My wife's mate has has a transit camper for a couple of years, it's a bit of a lashup from old caravan parts she bought off some bloke. 

She asked if I could fit her a new leisure battery because the lights don't work inside anymore. Apparently they worked for about a week after she bought it and not at all since.

Now I've seen some lashups in my time, but I reckon this is the worst in 20 years of wiring vehicles. 

The only fuse I can find is wired across the battery terminals, and is of course, blown.

Luckily, all this lashup has no way to actually charge - there's no split charger or connection to the engine in any way, the only thing stopping it from being on fire is that the battery has been at 0V for the past few years.

 

So yeah, my weekend is ripping all that lot out and sorting it.

[camryv6]

4 minutes ago, cobblers said:

My wife's mate has has a transit camper for a couple of years, it's a bit of a lashup from old caravan parts she bought off some bloke. 

She asked if I could fit her a new leisure battery because the lights don't work inside anymore. Apparently they worked for about a week after she bought it and not at all since.

Now I've seen some lashups in my time, but I reckon this is the worst in 20 years of wiring vehicles. 

The only fuse I can find is wired across the battery terminals, and is of course, blown.

Luckily, all this lashup has no way to actually charge - there's no split charger or connection to the engine in any way, the only thing stopping it from being on fire is that the battery has been at 0V for the past few years.

So how long did you spend sorting it out, or are you still doing it ?

[Joey spud]

 

[cobblers]

2 minutes ago, camryv6 said:

So how long did you spend sorting it out, or are you still doing it ?

I've not touched any of that lot yet! - I've fitted a battery and proper split charge setup under the drivers seat (robbing the split charge relay off my own van!), that took most of the morning. Tomorrow I'm going to rip that lot out and see if anything can be salvaged - I really don't want to reuse anything, but equally I don't want to spend hours fishing wires round the van to the interior lights etc.

[camryv6]

5 minutes ago, cobblers said:

I've not touched any of that lot yet! - I've fitted a battery and proper split charge setup under the drivers seat (robbing the split charge relay off my own van!), that took most of the morning. Tomorrow I'm going to rip that lot out and see if anything can be salvaged - I really don't want to reuse anything, but equally I don't want to spend hours fishing wires round the van to the interior lights etc.

I knew you wouldn't just leave it, we have all been there ?