What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[jim89]

8 hours ago, DavieW said:

Can't seem to focus on Mark and Eric for some reason 😂

Simply the breast ....

[Hertz]

[scaryoldcortina]

I don't need to explain why it's a grin, do I?

[Joey spud]

[Rustybullethole]

18 hours ago, dome said:

Jag went off to its new owner today. Definitely a case of the right car at the wrong time. 

Why is this in the grin thread?

Tonight I cycled over to my lockup to recover this which had been lying there since the Jag arrived due to lack of space.

It's good to have this little noisy, uncomfortable but fast and amazing sounding heap back😍

 

Looks frickin gr11 on those wheels. 

[Bmwdumptruck]

22 hours ago, Wibble said:

Mk1 Escort

Or Mk2, estates were the same with just the nose altered for mk2s IIRC.

[Wibble]

5 minutes ago, Bmwdumptruck said:

Or Mk2, estates were the same with just the nose altered for mk2s IIRC.

True but this particular one is a Mk1 I believe.

[matt79]

20 hours ago, dome said:

Jag went off to its new owner today. Definitely a case of the right car at the wrong time. 

Why is this in the grin thread?

Tonight I cycled over to my lockup to recover this which had been lying there since the Jag arrived due to lack of space.

It's good to have this little noisy, uncomfortable but fast and amazing sounding heap back😍

 

That looks ace! Sleeper? (guess it's not standard running gear in there)

[dome]

4 hours ago, matt79 said:

That looks ace! Sleeper? (guess it's not standard running gear in there)

Thanks. Yeah, it's running a 2.0 engine from a Clio 182 so is slightly* faster than it was when new🤣

[hairnet]

Does sian know youve moved @brownnova :d

 

[62 Austin]

On 01/05/2026 at 11:17, angle said:

This Horizon. 

How'd you find a Plymouth Horizon in England? I didn't know they were sold there. Maybe they weren't...just like the joke about Range Rovers and BMWs not sold in Albania, but a lot of them mysteriously get there.

They were an attempt to copy the successful VW Rabbit. ..some even had  VW engines. This one looks like the suspension or the wheels are a little bit off.

[Mr Pastry]

46 minutes ago, 62 Austin said:

How'd you find a Plymouth Horizon in England? I didn't know they were sold there.

That's a Talbot Horizon.  Distantly related to the Plymouth, but it's not as similar as it looks.  They were sold widely here and in Europe.  Not many left though.

[horriblemercedes]

1 hour ago, Mr Pastry said:

That's a Talbot Horizon.  Distantly related to the Plymouth, but it's not as similar as it looks.  They were sold widely here and in Europe.  Not many left though.

They were even built in the UK if I recall correctly. At Ryton. First badged as Chrysler, then as Talbot 

[Mr Pastry]

8 hours ago, horriblemercedes said:

They were even built in the UK if I recall correctly. At Ryton. First badged as Chrysler, then as Talbot 

Yep they were an interesting design with Simca mechanicals and torsion bar suspension, IMO a bit more interesting than a Golf or Fiesta, but sadly not as well built.   We had them on the fleet where I worked, and they were quite nice to drive and very practical, but to me they always felt a bit tinny and plasticky. 

[adw1977]

Loads of info on the Horizon at AROnline .

[hairnet]

Swerved the rain woo

[fairkens]

Just had turf laid so happy to get a soaking

[myglaren]

 

[hairnet]

Metcalfe farmer bloke

Complains about the price of french petrol in 80k worth of jag

And the hotel that's 300 a night

 

[myglaren]

 

[62 Austin]

15 hours ago, Mr Pastry said:

Yep they were an interesting design with Simca mechanicals and torsion bar suspension, IMO a bit more interesting than a Golf or Fiesta, but sadly not as well built.   We had them on the fleet where I worked, and they were quite nice to drive and very practical, but to me they always felt a bit tinny and plasticky. 

The Horizons and Dodge Omnis are all off the road here in the States, but 4 stick in my mind. Chrysler was in a tailspin at the time, and those little Ersatz Rabbits were their biggest sellers. Eventually Daimler took them over for the reserves they could squeeze out of them. Aren't a couple of French companies doing the same now?

• a lady at work wrote me the the only Letter of Reference I ever got in my life - she drove a 1978 Omni, been 40 years, but I'll use the letter someday
• race car legend Carroll Shelby attached his name and a turbocharger to a special Shelby-Omni in 1986("a candle in a dim decade")/it was still a 2.2 L 4
  
   
• I stopped at 1:00 AM on I-80 because of a wreck wherein a loaded semi drove over the top of a Horizon with a single mom and three 5- to 10-year-old girls inside - some miracle preserved the life of all the victims
• I came across a Horizon that hit a 700-pound elk at 60 or 70 - the animal went thru the windscreen - blood everywhere - most of the elk was in the back seat - no clues as to what happened to the people

[myglaren]

 

[paulplom]

Just back from a trip to Skegness. Waiting for partner outside of Morrisons when this pulls up. What a beaut!

[High Jetter]

4 hours ago, paulplom said:

Just back from a trip to Skegness. Waiting for partner outside of Morrisons when this pulls up. What a beaut!

Wossat between your legs? 🤣

[hairnet]

Errr

[hairnet]

Well

[Remspoor]

1 hour ago, hairnet said:

Well

Escape to the Country with 

[Joey spud]

I was helping a friend of the wife's yesterday with some DIY and was supplied my tea in this mug.