What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[320touring]

29 minutes ago, goosey said:

Just noticed the Original first aid kit in my sons E36 expired in 1999, So I’ve binned it as I doubt the new owner will want old out of date medical stuff

@goosey

[goosey]

I’ve also binned this rather naff looking toolkit, imagine trying to undo a wheel nut with one of those little spanner’s, what were BMW thinking ?

[wuvvum]

I have a pair of those adjustable pliers which I "borrowed" from the tool kit of an E39 I once owned.  I can confirm that they are indeed shit.

[Dobloseven]

Never throw anything like that away. Original tools etc. add to desirability as cars get older. 

[jakebullet]

Went in the hive of scum and villainy that is CEX in town. Shop droid says have you got ID as this is rated 18. Er, no, I'm 48!

Fortunately my cex card had me down as being an old bastard. 

 

[808 Estate]

[richardmorris]

[vulgalour]

On 8/29/2022 at 8:56 AM, Spottedlaurel said:

Plenty of patina on these two. The Triumph has had the same owner since 1968.....

 

 

 

Great to see that Triumph hasn't changed since 2016 when I saw it at the Bourne show.  Owner seemed very sound, one of the cars of the show for me on that day.

[hairnet]

so was watching bangers and cash

turned over and hammond classic car thing is on

kinda watching it on mute - looking at grizz threads also

still on mute but had it on when he took the e type to prescott

it had a wee and mindy was driving - i dont think he blamed her

'do you think we got away with it?' as the pa bloke asked do you have float for su carb please  hammond is stuck

 

[gm]

having sold the roffle win 206gti, i had a few quid burning a hole in my pocket - the planned trackday was cancelled so i wazzed the lot on new tools  

the pillar drill even has a frikken laser on it  

[goosey]

6 hours ago, Dobloseven said:

Never throw anything like that away. Original tools etc. add to desirability as cars get older. 

It all went in the Bin with the original owners manual, wheel nut key, comprehensive service history and 2 spare sets of keys*
 

 

*nothing got binned really 

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, vulgalour said:

Great to see that Triumph hasn't changed since 2016 when I saw it at the Bourne show.  Owner seemed very sound, one of the cars of the show for me on that day.

The Bourne Identity?

[Datsuncog]

1 hour ago, goosey said:

nothing got binned really 

**Stops hyperventilating**

That's good to know. I trailed all sorts of useless crap out of my Subarus before they were taken away for recycling - no idea what I'll do with logbooks and history files for cars that no longer exist, but maybe some day I will.

Yes, my house is a shit-tip. How did you guess?

[myglaren]

 

[STUNO]

No photo...... saw a Tesla come through our town today. towing a caravan and with a large carrier on the car roof. I did wonder how far he was planning to go !!

[PhilA]

5 hours ago, STUNO said:

No photo...... saw a Tesla come through our town today. towing a caravan and with a large carrier on the car roof. I did wonder how far he was planning to go !!

That's a good plan.

 

Travel for vacation only as far as you're willing to walk back home.

[Remspoor]

19 hours ago, 808 Estate said:

Also UV glowing sockets, why?

[LightBulbFun]

37 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

Also UV glowing sockets, why?

so when they vanish into the 4th dimension you can pop in the UV tube you blagged from the local tanning saloon and get them glowing and known  

[Wack]

6 hours ago, STUNO said:

No photo...... saw a Tesla come through our town today. towing a caravan and with a large carrier on the car roof. I did wonder how far he was planning to go !!

It's becoming a problem on camping sites , they pick sites with unmetered electricity then expect to charge their car in the price 

I've just been to a site that've changed to metered electricity , the owner said her electricity cost is double the price cap so if people take the piss with heating awnings and charging cars that's the way all sites will go 

I don't expect a gallon of diesel to be waiting on my pitch so why should an ev charge for free 

[NorthernMonkey]

Convertible washing day today…

The grin is because it’s nearly time for the pub and tomorrow, we’re off to London for the weekend to drink shit loads of beer and see the Divine Comedy at the final night of their postponed and rearranged Barbican anniversary show with front row seats on Sunday night.

[NorthernMonkey]

This Z is really growing on me…so much so, I’ve owned it nearly a month and I’m not yet contemplating selling it (though I do have an hankering for that V8 X350 on here to match my green one and something is going to have to give shortly…)

In other totally* non related news, this may be up for grabs shortly once I’ve rebuilt the nearside front suspension as the knocking was doing my head in…

It was going to be a forever car but you can only drive so many…. 🙁🤔😂

[balford]

I never knew the 407 was available in limo form

[andy18s]

7 hours ago, STUNO said:

No photo...... saw a Tesla come through our town today. towing a caravan and with a large carrier on the car roof. I did wonder how far he was planning to go !!

Im sure they had a genny for the caravan...

[Metal Guru]

2 hours ago, PhilA said:

That's a good plan.

 

Travel for vacation only as far as you're willing to walk back home.

I did see a plan to extent EV range by basically towing a trailer full of batteries. So weeks of the year your 250 mile range is plenty , but for holidays et you could double the range with this. Could easily be extended to caravans. Pricey though unless you could hire them for two weeks.

[PhilA]

2 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

I did see a plan to extent EV range by basically towing a trailer full of batteries. So weeks of the year your 250 mile range is plenty , but for holidays et you could double the range with this. Could easily be extended to caravans. Pricey though unless you could hire them for two weeks.

What you need is a trailer for the trailer, containing an emergency backup diesel generator.

[myglaren]

45 minutes ago, balford said:

I never knew the 407 was available in limo form

Middle bit for kids and skinny folk?

[andy18s]

The wife has actually decided on her next car!

After looking at Tourag V10,Nissan Murano V6 and a Saab 95 soft top (!),she's finally settled on a Legacy 3.0 in auto flavour.

Fitted with lpg to help with the running costs which is still around 45ppl despite the increases,it has all the toys to keep her happy. 

It has the tiniest amount of rust creeping into the rear doors bottom but easily remedied. 

Collect from the local Kat office (dvla local) next week all registered and insured.

Seller had a few interesting projects kicking around too

[puddlethumper]

23 minutes ago, andy18s said:

The wife has actually decided on her next car!

After looking at Tourag V10,Nissan Murano V6 and a Saab 95 soft top (!),she's finally settled on a Legacy 3.0 in auto flavour.

Fitted with lpg to help with the running costs which is still around 45ppl despite the increases,it has all the toys to keep her happy. 

It has the tiniest amount of rust creeping into the rear doors bottom but easily remedied. 

Collect from the local Kat office (dvla local) next week all registered and insured.

Seller had a few interesting projects kicking around too

45ppl for lpg ????   Where are you getting it at that price ?

[andy18s]

27 minutes ago, puddlethumper said:

45ppl for lpg ????   Where are you getting it at that price ?

Bulgaria,where diesel has rocketed up to £1.30 a litre, and petrol to £1.25

[hairnet]

madman who lives in the outer hebrides

kia ev6 with caravan (1500 kg) was going to germany for a caravan show

got so far and swapped to a 1000 kg caravan

he was having to stop every 80 miles with the bigger caravan and the smaller van only added 15 miles to the range (!) (how much do they do not towing 175? 200?)

took him 3 days to get to dover

edit i watched the rest of the video - he was getting the ferry from harwich but dropped his dog off in dover first (!)

he did 632 miles and used 60 quids worth of juice - he got 75 miles one charge but doing 52 ish with the trucks from hook to dussel he got 122 miles with 25% left 

 still madness