What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[beko1987]

Still haven't put the back seats back in the car... 

Won't be for a while now 🤷

[Rightnider]

5 hours ago, castros_bro said:

I've a load of heavy fire bricks for the base of of mine (version 2.0) which should get very hot and "regulate" the temperature  and many spares  if anyone what some for their own constructions.

No photos I’m afraid. This is made without bricks on a budget. He’s thinking of making one with bricks, but also about moving from home, and this is mobile 😀

[Wack]

On 7/4/2023 at 3:04 PM, Timewaster said:

You all make assumptions.

So do you , I might be a bit out of breath if she gets the angle wrong, but....

[Remspoor]

I am pished.

Local fiesta first a church mass. Which I never like. Then the food and wine, and  home made Apéritif.

 

[808 Estate]

[Wack]

9 minutes ago, 808 Estate said:

I wondered what the car they used to measure supermarket spaces was 

[Wack]

Mini my arse 

[EyesWeldedShut]

29 minutes ago, Wack said:

Mini my arse 

It's Mr Blobby's Mini.
Checkout the latest(ish) Clubman - 4 doors and stretched both sideways and lengthways - pretty much identical to my 940 in dimensions and height - the proportions look all wrong on it.
Maybe BMW should have bought the Maxi name (and we'd all call it a Baxi?)

[EyesWeldedShut]

Seems my wife's baking brake pads instead of bread this week. Mind you, maybe they work better than some cheapo stuff from FleaBay

[RoverFolkUs]

1 hour ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

Seems my wife's baking brake pads instead of bread this week. Mind you, maybe they work better than some cheapo stuff from FleaBay

Eicher written all over them... or is it Audura now 🤣

[Wack]

I've got a 4.2 supercharged range rover , went to put some E5 in it at the texaco,  the  robbing cunts wanted £1.67 V £1.41 for E10 

I needed some as the light had just come on so I put £10 in it 

I drove it 11 miles with a bit of a hoof along the A580 and the light was back on 

I think that's 9mpg 

Still like it though 

[Metal Guru]

4 hours ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

It's Mr Blobby's Mini.
Checkout the latest(ish) Clubman - 4 doors and stretched both sideways and lengthways - pretty much identical to my 940 in dimensions and height - the proportions look all wrong on it.
Maybe BMW should have bought the Maxi name (and we'd all call it a Baxi?)

That’s a Countryman not a Clubman.

[beko1987]

9 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Eicher written all over them... or is it Audura now 🤣

They still sell both, I had a look for the Xsara! Just couldn't pull the trigger though and gave Andyrew a pm instead 😂

I've run eicher before on zx's and corsa c's and they've been OK. But not sure I'd trust any less quality unless it was a dire emergency nor on something bigger needing more braking 

[Wack]

8 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

That’s a Countryman not a Clubman.

still not very mini

[Metal Guru]

3 hours ago, Wack said:

still not very mini

The latest countryman occupies just over TWICE the volume of the original.

(12.7 v 6.1 cu m)

[Remspoor]

All this speculating about the identity of the latest nonce to be exposed at the BBC- It turns out to be Mr Blobby.

[Wack]

I can't see the US going electric anytime soon 

[hairnet]

grand thrift auto dissing modern heroes latest video

@Skizzer bad man 

or will we be seeing martin wearing one of @Kiltox shirts

 

[808 Estate]

[Wack]

[320touring]

I think I may have a goal for a trip to do with the Oxford this year...

Caravan, canoe and 7 people in a 50bhp 4 speed...

[High Jetter]

That looks a bit bigger than a canoe

[320touring]

1 minute ago, High Jetter said:

That looks a bit bigger than a canoe

Trying to be optimistic. I don't think my Oxford has the roof strength for a trawler like that

[High Jetter]

8 minutes ago, 320touring said:

Trying to be optimistic. I don't think my Oxford has the roof strength for a trawler like that

Oh I dunno, might be worth a punt...

[Dyslexic Viking]

10 hours ago, 320touring said:

I think I may have a goal for a trip to do with the Oxford this year...

Caravan, canoe and 7 people in a 50bhp 4 speed...

DO IT!

I have considered the idea of a small old caravan for the Mercedes.

But I would have driven at night on the busy main roads as these towing a caravan is not exactly suitable for today's traffic.

[Metal Guru]

10 hours ago, 320touring said:

I think I may have a goal for a trip to do with the Oxford this year...

Caravan, canoe and 7 people in a 50bhp 4 speed...

When I was a kid in the 70s , we went on holiday with 7 of us in a Bedford CA Utilibrake ( Minibus), towing a caravan with all of 50bhp too, from Kent to the far north of Scotland. Used to take about a week to get there with stops at the Lake District, the Trossachs, and Glencoe / Fort William .

Never had a boat like that though. 

[DavieW]

I got swiftly overtaken this morning by a van with the name Hurry Bros!

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, DavieW said:

I got swiftly overtaken this morning by a van with the name Hurry Bros!

Makes a change to being stuck behind a caravan with Swift plastered all over it.

[Skizzer]

23 hours ago, hairnet said:

grand thrift auto dissing modern heroes latest video

@Skizzer bad man 

or will we be seeing martin wearing one of @Kiltox shirts

 

Ha! I would never say anything bad about Dr @Kiltox’s videos or even his shirts — I merely pointed out that I’d mistaken his actual cat’s actual arse for a BMW iX, which could happen to anybody.

[gm]

on the way back from Scotland last week, we stopped off at the garden centre in Dunbar. I was surprised to see they had a good selection of gins for sale :

and was even more surprised by the top quality security arrangements