What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[tonedepear]

That wash perked it up a bit! Any pictures of the interior?

 

Got round to it:

IMAG0596 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr

[Pillock]

Pete-M, on my facebook, two minutes ago.

[wuvvum]

A Chinook just went hooning over my house, at an altitude of around 200 feet. Rattled the windows, but made me grin. The racket those things make at low altitude is incredible.

[boobydoo]

My French pal popped round earlier and we somehow got talking about 'The Avengers' TV show. He said that in France it was called 'Chapeau Melon Et Bottes De Cuir'......'Bowler Hat And Leather Boots'. Then I made the mistake of showing him this..

 

 

Now I can't get this stupid song out my head!

[Lankytim]

Largish tax rebate. CASHBACK!

[CIH]

A Chinook just went hooning over my house, at an altitude of around 200 feet. Rattled the windows, but made me grin. The racket those things make at low altitude is incredible.

 

Where I work we're on some form of military flight path so we see all the big london flybys ie; WW2 memorial stuff, Queenies birthday etc. Not unusual for the odd Lancaster, Chinook or Apache to cruise by overhead. 99% I can tell straight away from the sound it's something interesting.

 

Watching an Apache cruise by it's hard not to be impressed by the sheer menace of the thing.

[TimothyClaypole]

Creme eggs for 10p at Morrisons.

[Volksy]

On Friday afternoon, a mate and I were sat outside a bar at Putney Bridge. Three Chinooks did a flyby along with a couple of Seakings. Awesome noise from the former, and you really can see the size of the things when followed by something smaller, not that seakings are tiny!

[Guest]

Ebay man caved to my IMPECCABLE LOGIC.

 

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

That wash perked it up a bit! Any pictures of the interior?

 

Got round to it:

IMAG0596 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr

 

That's the stuff! Looks in pretty good condition, especially the dash... really I just wanted to see how bad the carpet was! Heralds/Vitesses seem to have scruffy carpets on all but the most expensive examples.

 

I like those Vitesse steering wheels.

[autofive]

 

probably easier to view here; http://neoformix.com/2011/UKAuto.png

[tonedepear]

Spent a good hour earlier chatting heralds and modern drivers/cars being a load of shit (apart from his Perodua Kelisa - which he reckons is ace) with an 80 year old bloke from down the road. He was quite interested in the Impian as well, but mosly enjoying the Herald as he's had an early one himself. He also mentioned something about the post box at the top of the road which I'd never noticed cos I'm dosy. (I've only lived here 3 years...)

 

Virtual internet kudos for first to get it:

IMAG0598 by Tony Lloyd, on Flickr

[M'coli]

Other than the slight lean, you mean?

[autofive]

Tuesday only collection?

[tonedepear]

Other than the slight lean, you mean?

 

Yes, other than that.

[tonedepear]

Tuesday only collection?

 

Nah

[autofive]

liz the third you mean?

[tonedepear]

liz the third you mean?

 

Closer! (I'm feeling a bit better about not noticing it before now though)

[M'coli]

Ted the eighth!

[tonedepear]

Ted the eighth!

 

WINNAR!

[KruJoe]

Virtual internet kudos for first to get it:

On first read, I thought you said "... first to get in it"!

Enjoyed the piss stains on it anyhoo.

[CIH]

stab in the dark; "post office" and not "royal mail" ?

[kevin 900]

ER III?

[Cavcraft]

Is it on someone's driveway?

[M'coli]

ER III?

ER viii

Ted the eighth!

[kevin 900]

ER viii

 

Ahhh, yes! I see the 'v' now!

[ashmicro]

When the EIIR post boxes were first put up in Scotland, some of them were blown up by some oddball nationalists, as Her Majesty is not Elizabeth 2nd of Scotland, technically.

[Louise2cv]

They are TEH MEGA RAIR!!!!1!! are they not?

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

seeing a Hillman Hunter parked near the local university with a piece of paper in the windscreen stating "ONE-DAY PARKING PERMIT: This vehicle is allowed to enter the XYZ123 carpark and 'hunt' for a parking space" (I kid you not!).

[myglaren]

Finally got the round tuit and put a new MAF on the C5.

After months of misery and holding up traffic, it actually goes!

Usually leaving work is rather fraught as it involves coming out of an angled entrance on a blind curve at the foot of a steep hill and a steep hill to ascend to go homeward.

The damned thing would crawl out at best with the constant fear of it stalling in the middle of the road then creep up the hill collecting a caravan of irate followers. Not too bad once it warmed up but dismal until then.

Revs limited to 2800 combined with no power, no boost until 3300 revs, or when it felt like it more often than not.

 

It flies now, with accompanying tyre squeal.

Still need the boost pressure sensor changing and a pair of new injectors. Might be halfway decent after that.