What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Metal Guru]

15 hours ago, hairnet said:

Ffs @Saabnut

They look like the little bit you have left at the end of a Cornetto. 

[Blunderguts]

Watching a video of a Bedford OB bus. Nothing beats a vehicle with a gearbox that sounds like an air raid siren.

[Zie]

Happy to see this is still around by me. 

[Vantman]

1 hour ago, Blunderguts said:

Watching a video of a Bedford OB bus. Nothing beats a vehicle with a gearbox that sounds like an air raid siren.

When I was 16 i knew every grease nipple quite well on this OB---

[Blunderguts]

12 minutes ago, Vantman said:

When I was 16 i knew every grease nipple quite well on this OB---

The one Dad rode in back in the day had a registration number that started DUD ***. Bucket list vehicles include bikes with DUD, MUD and PUD registration numbers (but not if they have suffix date letters).

[somewhatfoolish]

1 hour ago, Zie said:

Happy to see this is still around by me. 

G66, the mark of beelzebub Wartburg.

[andy18s]

Memories......

[motorpunk]

Japanese things.

[richardmorris]

[myglaren]

[High Jetter]

9 hours ago, Vantman said:

When I was 16 i knew every grease nipple quite well on this OB---

I can almost hear that, grinding

[wuvvum]

I never knew this about E38s.  Some proper James Bond shiz.  (In French but the subtitles are adequate.)

 

[Tayne]

Not sure I believe that…

[wuvvum]

Ah yes, it's bollocks.  Sorry, tired, brain not fully functional.

[Tayne]

I was interested when he started as both my e61 and my f11 had/have an SOS button. I don’t know whether the car has some emergency tracking and communication tech or it’s just relying on a Bluetooth connection to my phone. Never had the guts (or need) to press it.

[comfortablynumb]

10 hours ago, richardmorris said:

And how many millennials are going ' who's Evel Knievel??' 🤦

[EyesWeldedShut]

39 minutes ago, comfortablynumb said:

And how many millennials are going ' who's Evel Knievel??' 🤦

He's the retired Jedi Knight in StarWars Episode XIX, M9 - obs.  

[egg]

[DSdriver]

16 hours ago, myglaren said:

What about if you see a pair of boobs?

[myglaren]

6 minutes ago, DSdriver said:

What about if you see a pair of boobs?

That's a no-brainer.

[Volksy]

I've been able to bag the parking space right outside my office door in the centre of Leeds for the last couple of weeks. The amount of attention the old Battlecruiser gets is insane. I've had loads of people snapping photos, staring in the windows and two Chinese girls holding an impromptu fashion shoot with it this morning. 

The parking space used to be a taxi rank, before we built the building I'm now in, and all the restrictive signage was demolished as it was attached to the old strip club my building replaced. Therefore I've currently got free parking. - until the council catch on and slap signs or a payment system in. 

 

[Cavcraft]

Motor factor true story: During the pandemic (when you could travel for 'essential' stuff) a lady* travelled for one hour to get to the factors, waited one hour in the very long queue, got to the counter and the part that was supposed to be in stock, wasn't.

She then got in her car, and did a sort of expletive filled rodeo by driving round and round and round and round the car park for absolutely ages screaming abuse and obscenities, before wheel spinning off into obscurity.  

[vulgalour]

Somehow on the last fuel up in the Princess, without hypermiling or using motorways, over about 150 miles it returned 43mpg.  That's better than it should get, and the best economy its ever returned.  Who needs modern cars?

[808 Estate]

[richardmorris]

Just managed to get some pics of my barn owl.

[Vantman]

[Rightnider]

In spring it became obvious that we needed to do something about the French (?) drainage system, as well as the gutter drainage due to water seeping into the basement.

It’s now being done, I hate the process but it will be a massive relief when it’s finished. 

Now with an electric pump to get it out to the public sewers. 

[beko1987]

21 minutes ago, Rightnider said:

In spring it became obvious that we needed to do something about the French (?) drainage system, as well as the gutter drainage due to water seeping into the basement.

It’s now being done, I hate the process but it will be a massive relief when it’s finished. 

Now with an electric pump to get it out to the public sewers. 

Wow that's cool, your own moat! Should tank it up and keep it... 

[Rustybullethole]

And build a drawbridge👍🏽

[andy18s]

Another successful day at the local inspection centre for the Scoobies annual.

Being on lpg means no drama with emissions as the European overlords seem to be cracking down on them a bit more lately. 

A few classic car owners are panicking slightly about not passing but seeing as every other car you see is a mk3 Astra,Golf or 206 then testing can't be that strongly enforced..