What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Station]

Being able to disregard everything written in the highway code while passing mopeds with four people on them (with their lights off at 10pm) while doing 60mph on a main street paying pennies for petrol while not getting pulled by some Nazi in a white shirt.

[Cavcraft]

Being able to disregard everything written in the highway code while passing mopeds with four people on them (with their lights off at 10pm) while doing 60mph on a main street paying pennies for petrol while not getting pulled by some Nazi in a white shirt.

 

That reminds me, I haven't been to Ellesmere Port in a while now.

[cort16]

[cobblers]

Probably not safe for work if you work with Sir Prudey Prudesworth the third.

http://i.imgur.com/DzK8D.jpg

 

BLUB

[Richard]

Made me grin too

 

More vintage vulgarity here http://tijuanabibles.org/bibles/

[mattblack]

Seeing our old Astra today didn't exactly make me grin, but it was a suprise. Nice to see it hasn't been fragged, even it was a pretty dismal old chugga.

[M'coli]

Allycats are now adorning the Imp, shod with correct-height tyres - at last, the speedo reads somewhere like true!

 

This is great news and also something I should've done years previously! Any pics?

Drove it up to Boroughbridge today, it went really well, and the 185s on the back seems to have cured the slight skittishness that it seemed to have.

[Alexg]

I love allycats. I want a set for my MG Metro but finding it difficult finding some of an offset that won't poke out too far.

[seth]

Imp looks lovely on those wheels

[Jon]

I'm almost feeling bad for having had the Imp on Cosmics so long since those Alleycats look ace! Are they 13"? In no way do they look oversized, which was something I feared with going up from the standard 12" size. Glad to see you've sorted out the ride height at the front, too. Are you still wanting those old Motorsport mags and these, by any chance?

 

[scaryoldcortina]

 

My dad has been scanning his old slides again. Mostly family/baby/holiday shots, but for some reason there was this pic of their old morris 1100 - Last time I saw it I was 4 and waving bye to it as the scrapman towed it away. Strangely, I still have the numberplates.

[M'coli]

I'm almost feeling bad for having had the Imp on Cosmics so long since those Alleycats look ace! Are they 13"? In no way do they look oversized, which was something I feared with going up from the standard 12" size. Glad to see you've sorted out the ride height at the front, too. Are you still wanting those old Motorsport mags and these, by any chance?

 

The front wheels are 13", the rears are 14"! I don't think I'll have the room for the Motorsport magazines, unfortunately. Those are some WIDE banded steels! I won't be needing them - have someone stick them on RR with OMG BANDED STEELZ 13" WOBL BOLTZ VW etc., etc., I'm sure someone will buy them!

[mnde]

I'm going to have a good old computer shite nostalgia fest soon, because I've picked up my old copies of AMSTRAD ACTION from 1988 - 1992 that my mum found during a clear out

 

 

Mark.

[autofive]

 

[Cavcraft]

It's been about five hours since there's been a reply to that drivel fest about numberplates. If we can get it to five months (minimum) I'll be jumping for joy.

[Cavcraft]

Adults? Where?

[scaryoldcortina]

I'm quite surprised that Norm hasn't added some lyrics from the J. Geils band to the PU51 thread.

[Richard]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoP9AsrRF_Y ?

[scaryoldcortina]

There's always this

[Richard]

Or maybe this.

 

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhtNQBBr-9E

[warren t claim]

I'm quite surprised that Norm hasn't added some lyrics from the J. Geils band to the PU51 thread.

 

That's because I beat him to it. Deleted the post now though!

[mattblack]

Explaining to someone how you can use a bucket of water to measure the height of a flagpole made me grin today...

[autofive]

Explaining to someone how you can use a bucket of water to measure the height of a flagpole made me grin today...

 

 

go on then.....i'm game

[Richard]

Do you aim a stick at the top of the flagpole, measure the angle between the stick and the water and the distance from the flagpole then use trigonometry to work out the height?

[seth]

That's what I was thinking. Just need a shiny surface/mirror though not necessarily a bucket of water. However I suppose water guarantees that the reflective surface is horizontal.

[scaryoldcortina]

A team of engineers were required to measure the height of a flag pole. They only had a measuring tape, and were getting quite frustrated trying to keep the tape along the pole. A mathematician comes along, removes the pole from the ground and lays it on the ground, measuring it easily. When he leaves, one engineer says to the other: "Just like a mathematician! We need to know the height, and he gives us the length!"

[autofive]

its the water thats confusing me?

 

why is there water involved?

[M'coli]

I'd suggest hoisting the bucket up to the top and letting go, whilst timing how long it takes to descend.

[Negative Creep]

Seeing a man, suited and booted, driving a really old Land Rover with no roof or doors to work