What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Yoss]

That was me in 2012. Can't believe that was 13 years ago. 

[comfortablynumb]

Thought you were supposed to wear shorts @Yoss? 😆

[MikeR]

Car winter coat anyone ? 

[808 Estate]

Meanwhile at a No Kings rally.

 

[Remspoor]

On 14/06/2025 at 18:10, Yoss said:

That was me in 2012. Can't believe that was 13 years ago. 

You were off your trolley?

[808 Estate]

 

[andy18s]

Canadian PM Carney telling Trump to basically STFU and sit down at the G7 is most amusing.

[Yoss]

1 hour ago, Remspoor said:

You were off your trolley?

That's a mk1 HCT (high capacity trolley) too which dates it. We use mk2s now. 

[iainrcz]

Sat in the living room with the windows open, heard a car horn frantically beeping and a guy's faint voice say "fuck off" 😂

[Merryck]

I was lamenting my discovery of rust and fibreglass in the Midget a couple of weeks ago to a chap I know. He's a mechanic who has a unit nearby, about 25 minutes drive away from home. I said I'd been looking for a space to keep and work on my cars for well over 10 years and hadn't found anything remotely suitable. Around here if it's got a roof and three walls they want you paying full commercial prices.

Anyway, he goes "You should have said! I'm moving units and have two until September, you can bring the MG down, plenty of space."

So I took it up there on Saturday. Have ordered a few more panels and booked Friday off work. Going to make a start digging into it properly. I had written it off as I was storing it in a friend's garage which was absolutely rammed and the only place I could work on it was outside. No way to get underneath it and no space to store what would come off it if I needed to get it on a rotisserie.

Now I've got somewhere to work on it properly with a lift etc. all that can change! Going to get it to a point where it's safe to drive and largely rust free then enjoy it for a bit.

Hopefully once I've done the MG he'll be ok with me bringing the Mini along!

[Westbay]

"Hopefully once I've done the MG he'll be ok with me bringing the Mini along!"

 

Hang on - it's June now and he's only got it 'til September ! 😂

[Merryck]

33 minutes ago, Westbay said:

"Hopefully once I've done the MG he'll be ok with me bringing the Mini along!"

 

Hang on - it's June now and he's only got it 'til September ! 😂

It's worse than that, it's me doing the work evenings and weekends!

Not going for a full restoration on it, just get it usable and make sure any metal that can't be cut out and replaced is at least taken back and treated properly.

[reb]

I've just read all 187 pages of the public version of the National Risk Assessment, so I am now troublingly aware of how many potentially catastrophic events have a likelihood rating of 5 (<25% over the assessment period)

I'm now absolutely convinced WW3 is imminent, perhaps I shall get to fly a fighter jet...

 

 

...or at least one of those cardboard drones.

[Andyrew]

Went out for a walk today, I was having a bit of difficulty finding the place to park. I decided that I would look to see if there was any help in the reviews.

Armed with this information I manged to find it.

 

[Remspoor]

Driving out of a petrol station the misses clipped the island kerb. One rear tyre damaged enough to warrant a change. In Spain we have to have the same tread patten on the same axle. The old ones were the same age as the car. late 2014.

Two tyres now and some 245€ spent .

The grin is that these new tyres has made a huge transformation to the handling and the lowering of the road noise. Should have done this before.

[Snipes]

On 14/06/2025 at 10:35, Tenmil Socket said:

I’ve spotted myself twice on Google Street View during the last few years but I’ve been in my car.

 

 

 

There was a time when my S12 Silvia Turbo was visible in a kwik fit car park on the outskirts of Manchester, but it's no longer there nor in the archived "passes" from previous years.