What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[cort16]

I've finally got some garage space to do some work on my Rover although there seems to be a small compatibility issue.

It didn't make me smile but it might make someone else.

[Angrydicky]

The Austin Morris show at Brooklands today, some prize chod in amongst the Moggys ranging from a brown A70 Hereford to an absolutely filthy Mk1 Metro, photos to come shortly. Great to meet Angry Dicky and his family with their A35 and beige Maestro too.

 

Nice to meet you too Dan. That Ital Suntor was something else, and there was a good turnout of Maestros and Princesses this year as well. I saw Torsten in his 1100 briefly but he had to get moving. Look forward to the pics, wish I hadn't forgotten my camera

[dollywobbler]

Oh dear. SD1s are a bit long aren't they?

 

Unless you buy pink paint and invest in an angle grinder...

[brammy777]

The Austin Morris show at Brooklands today, some prize chod in amongst the Moggys ranging from a brown A70 Hereford to an absolutely filthy Mk1 Metro, photos to come shortly. Great to meet Angry Dicky and his family with their A35 and beige Maestro too.

 

Nice to meet you too Dan. That Ital Suntor was something else, and there was a good turnout of Maestros and Princesses this year as well. I saw Torsten in his 1100 briefly but he had to get moving. Look forward to the pics, wish I hadn't forgotten my camera

 

I was there too, think I might have seen at least one of you but at the risk of looking a fool approaching the wrong people, I decided not to say anything! Anyway, good show, I was actually really surprised at how many 70s/80s cars were there.

Wedges. by bramm77, on Flickr

[Negative Creep]

The new album from the Dropkick Murphys

 

[dollywobbler]

Very much a one-off I think Tayne - they certainly didn't come out of the factory like that, even with the best of BL quality control!

[M'coli]

Oh my god.

 

I had a drunken conversation last night with someone who was convinced he's seen a 3 door SD1 and was going to ask if it existed on here.

Is that pink one a one-off?

I seem to recall that Malloch Nichol used to rally an SD1 with 10 inches cut out of it, so it might have been that one he was on about. It featured in CCC in the early 90s.

Edit: here's a picture of one from a Triple-M thread:

[eddyramrod]

This!

My new whitewalls arrived, five of them, from the home of the whitewall, in a slightly bigger size than the car has been wearing. Naturally I was down the tyre shop ASAP for a fitting session; 20 euros well spent, including balancing all 5.

 

Also this:

My new guard dog, Memphis. We think she's a chihuahua cross, so unlikely to get much bigger. Very affectionate, and already used to living outdoors, which is good.

[Negative Creep]

I've got to say that's not the most threatening guard dog I've ever seen

[eddyramrod]

She's not, is she? All she has to do is wake me up, her pen comes quite close to what will be our bedroom...

[Guest]

 

It finally turned up.

[eddyramrod]

Ooh, sexy radio!

[Guest]

Ooh, sexy radio!

 

It works too. Once I've got my inverter back off PRTE_DAVE I will be using it to listen to various LW drizzle. The detailing on it is actually quite crude, and the chassis design is pretty basic but reliable. It's also very small for a fifties American set, I also have a H751 Zenith and it's a right lump. My Tesla Talisman makes them both look a bit 'mouth and no trousers' though. In car terms, we have a Tatra 87 and a shoebox Ford.

 

I have a brown one too of the H511 model. It's my third favourite radio design ever.

 

Rankings go:

 

1. Ekco A22, black. (someday)

2. Tesla Talisman 308U, burgundy. (have a minter refurbished with its original box)

3. Zenith H511 'Racetrack', white.

[scaryoldcortina]

More pointless messing around yesterday, made me grin this morning even though it's monday!

I literally cannot believe how well this is coming along, given that it's my first attempt at woodwork since school.....

[michiel]

Confused - tiny bass or giant cat & tub of butter & mug?

[Guest]

^^Anything else show up?

 

Ha, this is where it gets complicated. The H511 that went via your good self Norm is the brown model mentioned earlier. Last time I spoke to R&R it was en route to the UK with my GT 500 RIMZ. Bear in mind that this white one took over a month to arrive, and then HMRC relieved me of a further £23 to have it released from their Liverpool office. I'm not expecting either any time soon.

 

Yes, I have two models of the same radio.

[scaryoldcortina]

Confused - tiny bass or giant cat & tub of butter & mug?

 

yes, we keep tigers and buy butter by the gallon. Or, it's a mandolin. You decide...

[michiel]

mandolin.

 

Ta, unconfused now. Looking forward to the first video!

[scaryoldcortina]

Me too!

Full story is on Retro-Rides

[pogweasel]

Be careful not to be TIGERBUMMED.

[Spottedlaurel]

Driving my cars:

 

1) Took the Camry Sport on a quick trip to Leics and back on Saturday. Roads dry and I was on my own, didn’t go silly fast but enjoyed myself and it made me realise how competent it is – really looking forward to using it for the trackday at RAF Marham next month. I’d gone up there to look at a Camry V6 estate, but oddly it felt no faster than my humble 2.2.

 

2)Stepped out the door at 6.15 this morning and both the Camrys had iced-up windscreens. Looked decent weather otherwise so decided to get the Laurel out of the garage, first to get to a meeting and then back across to the office. The old thing went really well, must use it lots this year.

 

I think it’s the turn of the accident-damaged one tomorrow.

[Negative Creep]

The re-imagining of the E Type

 

 

 

 

Simply stunning

[cobblers]

A mate of a mate who I am doing a bit of work for (wiring a a horsebox) is a car repo man.

 

The first day he turns up in a 59 plate TOP SPEC range rover wag spesh. He parked it behind my £600 golf and come dinnertime he told me to take the range rover to macdonalds to save swapping cars round.

 

The next day he is driving a 58 plate big merc (I dont know what new cars are) but it was a posh one with leathers and screens all over the place. He used this to collect about 200kg of timber from the builders merchants and some flat pack furniture. Since then He's been driving a t5 van and a BMW x5.

 

He's a big massive scary looking bastard but is stereotypically soft as shit. Turns out and the reason he's changing cars every day is that he just runs them til they have no fuel in, so he just picked the next recently repo'd car that he was "storing" to run out of fuel. He doesn't give a crap about looking flash in them, he just doesn't like spending money on juice. It's so bizarre that I can't help but laugh.

[mattblack]

O/H starts a new job tomorrow, after nearly 6 months on the rock 'n' roll. Only temporary for 5 months at a local-ish nursery (plants not sprogs) but at least it's something.

[Pillock]

Picked up my £300-worth of Ikea bed today for a third of the cost. Took ten minutes to put together, it's fucking gigantic and is well comfy. Score.

As a bonus, instead of hiring a van to collect it I borrowed one of the box vans from work for a total cost of bugger all. As a bonus, the brimmed tank hasn't moved off the full mark so I might not even have to fuel it up

[Angrydicky]

It was a nice day today, so I washed and actually polished the Cambridge for the second time in my ownership. I then drove down to Basildon in search of an old overgrown snotter I'd been told about that was visible from the side of the A127 near the Fortune of War roundabout. After about an hour I spotted it, completely overgrown apart from the rear n/s door, window and part of the front wing. It looks a bit like an Austin Somerset, but the back window is the wrong shape. Certainly a car of that era though.

[Claypole]

Lord Oakeshott on the news commenting on the frankly piss taking bonuses at Barclays - "I don't think they give a toss".

 

My kind of politcal comment.

[pogweasel]

Good grief, that E-type thing is DISASTEROUSLY COOL.

[dollywobbler]

It is rather eye-catching, though can't help thinking that if it was built, it wouldn't have anywhere near the impact of the original. The cabin is very conventional looking. Best looking Jag coupe I've seen for a long time though! (XK8 and XK have too many fussy details that let down the design).

[Guest]

Have some stuff that arrived today. Stuff that isn't a complete piss take. Stuff that doesn't send me up and boil my piss.

 

 

Stainless steel milled handbrake ring for the Amazon. The very early 120s had them fashioned out of stainless steel until around 1961-62. Then they moved over to plastic presumably on the grounds of cost. My plastic one snapped in two, and on occasion I've caught a shoelace on the lever because it's down by the driver's seat near the sill.

 

 

Radios of AWESOME arranged on my desk. Sadly they take up too much space when assignments are due in, so they live elsewhere when work needs to be done.