What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Sunny Jim]

[vulgalour]

The Maestro is getting a new tailgate.  Or rather, an old tailgate that's not rotten where mine is so I can make one good tailgate out of the two.  I was wondering how to get it from Nottingham when it turned out a friend was actually going to be in Nottingham and heading down to Kent so that sorted that out nicely.  I'm finding once again that there are some supremely generous people in the Maestro owning... scene?  Anyway, they make looking after one very easy and quite rewarding.

[Remspoor]

3 hours ago, vulgalour said:

there are some supremely generous people in the Maestro owning... scene?

Cant be many left theses days....Maestro owners that is.

[hairnet]

Yeah you twat it's a right fuck on when you drop your phone in a taxi

Even tho got hold of the chap who I couldn't understand he came back having been Newport pagnell lol

He got money - only bothered about the phone cos it's got the tran ticket on it

I'm back here in December the nice box office lady will get wine

 

It's in here as in more than 20 years that's the first time I've done that

Mainly cos.its been 15 years since I've been in a taxi lolol

 

[Wack]

Another year , another MOT 

 

Big job broke out on the Ex Forestry Berlingo Van , 2 new springs, a steering rack gaiter and some welding but it passed 

[dome]

Work on Thursday consisted of driving down to Peebles in the Jag and spending the day riding mountain bikes. What's not to like about that?

[gm]

I'm just back from an excellent day out courtesy of @DVee8 who invited me to join him, Dvee8 Jr and his mate Andy at the NEC classic car show - I've never been to such an event so wasn't really sure what to expect but I thoroughly enjoyed myself from start to end. I'm sure there was plenty that we didn't manage to see but what we did see was smashing, what a fantastic selection of cars and a great bunch of people. 

Massive thanks to @DVee8 for inviting me, doing all the driving and an all round top day out !  

some pics

we said hello to @dollywobbler and TWC (our non AS companions were mildy confused by this behaviour)

lambretta & sidecar, for when you really don't like your passenger ? imagine the racket

we took turns sitting in the Ami, not as flimsy as expected

 I spent ages on the Exocet stand but somehow only managed to take on photo ! (nice digital dash but why the wiper stalk ?)

 

a grand day out ! cheers Dvee8  

[gm]

11 minutes ago, dome said:

Work on Thursday consisted of driving down to Peebles in the Jag and spending the day riding mountain bikes. What's not to like about that?

WORK ? I don't even do that on me day off  

[NorthernMonkey]

3 minutes ago, gm said:

I'm just back from an excellent day out courtesy of @DVee8 who invited me to join him, Dvee8 Jr and his mate Andy at the NEC classic car show - I've never been to such an event so wasn't really sure what to expect but I thoroughly enjoyed myself from start to end. I'm sure there was plenty that we didn't manage to see but what we did see was smashing, what a fantastic selection of cars and a great bunch of people. 

Massive thanks to @DVee8 for inviting me, doing all the driving and an all round top day out !  

some pics

we said hello to @dollywobbler and TWC (our non AS companions were mildy confused by this behaviour)

lambretta & sidecar, for when you really don't like your passenger ? imagine the racket

we took turns sitting in the Ami, not as flimsy as expected

 I spent ages on the Exocet stand but somehow only managed to take on photo ! (nice digital dash but why the wiper stalk ?)

 

a grand day out ! cheers Dvee8  

I was down on Friday and completely missed the Exocet stand! I was hoping they’d have one too as I still harbour dirty thoughts about building one from one of the MX5s I have kicking around… 🙁

[gm]

6 minutes ago, NorthernMonkey said:

I still harbour dirty thoughts about building one from one of the MX5s I have kicking around

if you start now, you'll still have yours on the road before mine  

7 minutes ago, NorthernMonkey said:

I was down on Friday and completely missed the Exocet stand!

we walked right past it and had to look on the map to go back 

[DVee8]

23 minutes ago, gm said:

I'm just back from an excellent day out courtesy of @DVee8 who invited me to join him, Dvee8 Jr and his mate Andy at the NEC classic car show - I've never been to such an event so wasn't really sure what to expect but I thoroughly enjoyed myself from start to end. I'm sure there was plenty that we didn't manage to see but what we did see was smashing, what a fantastic selection of cars and a great bunch of people. 

Massive thanks to @DVee8 for inviting me, doing all the driving and an all round top day out !  

some pics

we said hello to @dollywobbler and TWC (our non AS companions were mildy confused by this behaviour)

lambretta & sidecar, for when you really don't like your passenger ? imagine the racket

we took turns sitting in the Ami, not as flimsy as expected

 I spent ages on the Exocet stand but somehow only managed to take on photo ! (nice digital dash but why the wiper stalk ?)

 

a grand day out ! cheers Dvee8  

Umm what a cracking day from the very early start,  05.30 to dropping @gm off at 20.15. The conversation didn't stop. We have laughed, looked confused and laughed some more. It was nice to meet @dollywobbler.

It was good to have you along @gm.

[DVee8]

Also the argument I had with the Bugatti guy on the stand over taking a photo of a veyron fuel cap.lol.

He got very arsey, but I couldn't stop laughing at his yellow trousers.

[gm]

I missed that, what a fanny ! (for both reasons, but especially the yellow troosers)  

[Wack]

I went about 15 years ago , there was a guy on the bentley stand who's job it was to wipe the fingerprints off the cars , he lost it a bit and shouted at some kids until their dad had a word , told him if they didn't touch the cars he wouldn't have a job,  in a manner that said speak to my kids like that again  and you'll be waking up tomorrow with a few less teeth.

[hairnet]

This is as far as I got to the FoD 

@Six-cylinder

[eddyramrod]

Just caught the end credits of a film called "Wolves."  One of the crew had the surname Fox.  Well it made me larf.

[High Jetter]

31 minutes ago, hairnet said:

This is as far as I got to the FoD 

@Six-cylinder

Isn't that @Tommyboy12's layby?

[Ohdearme]

You know its autumn when the leaf’s are falling (over)

[hairnet]

32 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Isn't that @Tommyboy12's layby?

Bit further south for him (even before he started)

[Skut]

14 hours ago, dome said:

Congratulations!

I'm sure I saw that Maestro van parked up just off the Edinburgh City Bypass, meant to grab a photo 

Thank you kindly. I need to get the birds Daihatsu through the MOT just so I can get another endorphin high. MOT passes would be an unusual addiction. 
 

The Maestro van was mega late and looked a little ‘odd’ somehow. Not quite how I remember them. 

[cobblers]

Found a more scenic route to work this morning. Fucking awesome. 

 

 

 

[ProgRocker]

It's a funeral so it shouldn't make me grin but check out this procession of cars:

Classic Citroens line street for car enthusiast's funeral

[Inca-mpetent]

My own stupidity: these things looked good, and my sleepy brain didn't pay attention to the box, thought it said orange candies


That was a rude awakening



Worst thing is: they didn't taste like orange
Sent from my Redmi Note 9 Pro

[hairnet]

The last paragraph lmao

[hairnet]

15 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Isn't that @Tommyboy12's layby?

it was a bus stop - id walked quite a long way to it

fek im old

[hairnet]

been one of them weekends

thought id use the local station to get to the main station where the full fat train was

from here on the bike its 15 mins to the main station

two trains to it and its 45 mins (and a 10 min walk)

got down there got to gig - as other post i dropped my phone when i got out of taxi - got it back so that saved me 55 quid (new train ticket)

but today

i have another trip in 3 weeks and im thinking of changing times so that i can find other things in (involving shite)

so i went on the app and was looking at times and farting about with it last night and this morning

got to end of train and not being able to carry on journey (if id carried on i wouldnt have had ticket to get out via the barrier)

i got off and bought another ticket via the app to where i wanted

got to the barrier and big fat nope (and people everywhere)

luckily there was a staff just where i was trying to scan - have you got ticket

yeah bought about 20 mins ago from x to here - showed the q code with the stations and todays date on it

yeah thats ok but its got the 5 of dec on it

WTF??!?!?!?!?!?!?

apparently when you search for stuff in the app for a certain date etc the next time you go into it it doesnt reset (in the case) to today

i went straight into it and just booked the next train but it was still on dec 5 which i didnt notice

nice lady let me throough and just said on ya go - she said youve paid for the journey so technically its ok - just dont travel on the 5th (which i wont be - see the first 4 sentences )

lack of food and sleep didnt help (and being old )

oh well shit happens

[808 Estate]

[S2000]

Wank……. Puffin. Last time I heard something that funny was Peter Kay and ‘Garlic Bread’

[High Jetter]

Someone had that last sentence as their sig on here.

[somewhatfoolish]

9 hours ago, hairnet said:

The last paragraph lmao

You've got to have a head that zips up the back to pay that for tyres.