What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[MrDuke]

 

Would the black thing on the left, behind the Quattro, be a Citroen 15cv? Looks suspiciously like my old one - nowt special as a model, but was always one of my favourites for some bizarre reason...

[cort16]

The rear lights on the rover where looking a bit shite and I didn't fancy buying now ones so I spent a couple of hours fileing off the lettering, wet sanding them with 800grit then 1200grit before finally wizing over them with some compound.

Pretty chuffed with the results.

 

sd1light by cort16, on Flickr

[retrogeezer]

^^^^^^^^^ Looks great!

 

 

This made me laugh..

 

[autofive]

found these on flickargh

 

[vulgalour]

We have a problem with 'people' blocking one or both our cars in on a semi-regular basis. We'd been out in my car today and hadn't been back more than ten minutes when I looked out of the window to find that some ARSE had done it again, but they had made the mistake of parking with the driver's side facing my car. So...

 

 

I greatly enjoyed watching from the upstairs window as the dick struggled to get in.

 

You left him room to get in? A pro would've got the Rover so close that the bumper was only the thickness of a playing card away from his door so that even moving it would have been difficult to do without damaging anything, much less getting in.

[John F]

We have a problem with 'people' blocking one or both our cars in on a semi-regular basis. We'd been out in my car today and hadn't been back more than ten minutes when I looked out of the window to find that some ARSE had done it again, but they had made the mistake of parking with the driver's side facing my car. So...

 

 

I greatly enjoyed watching from the upstairs window as the dick struggled to get in.

 

Hm. That's totally unacceptable.

 

If you'd rather not have a polite but forceful word with the fucker that parked it there, or whichever of your neighbours it was visiting, perhaps you could get some mates around with trolley jacks to drag the car to the other side of the street and chain its rear axle to that drainage grate?

[cobblers]

You do have to wonder how someone who could park there, get out of the drivers door right and not realise/care that he's blocked two cars in. And how come someone like that hasn't already been murdered a few times by angry road rage meatheads by pulling similar dumbarse stunts

[rml2345]

Lovely refurbished SD1 rear light

 

That looks fab! I wonder if it would work on a discoloured headlight?

I made some front mats for the Yaris today using an Aldi hall runner and some electrical tape. Chuffed to bits with the results, and how easy it was to do.

Project 365+1 (63) by routemaster2345, on Flickr

They look a bit rough round the edges, but should stop grit and muck and other shite getting to the carpets...

[scaryoldcortina]

found these on flickargh

some pics

 

 

Blimey! they are old. How/where/why? (I mean where on flickr, I know where the yard is...)

[dollywobbler]

The wife is home! This is very grin-worthy. However, as this is a motoring forum, I shall focus on the Mini. It seemed to cope with the 600 mile trip without too much bother, no bad considering it's been used very little for over a year. It does occasionally misfire quite heavily though apparently. Time to check that points gap again - though I have an in-dizzy electronic ignition to try as well.

[MrDuke]

Lovely refurbished SD1 rear light

 

That looks fab! I wonder if it would work on a discoloured headlight?

 

+1 - One of the Ashtray's headlights was replaced just over a year ago, and the other one is so obviously yellow and clouded that it's mildly embarrassing. Although I imagine it'll be a royal PITA to get the actual lens off of a sealed unit anyway.

[Pete-M]

Outside my friends tyre garage the council have gone mental with double yellow lines. Even across the entrance to his garage, they've put double yellows in the loading bay outside (which has been a loading bay since 1889). It's insane, they want him to buy a parking pass for his vehicles and even then they're only allowed in allocated bays, for a certain amount of time. It's mental.

 

Mysteriously, someone has been taking the piss since.

 

[autofive]

found these on flickargh

some pics

 

 

Blimey! they are old. How/where/why? (I mean where on flickr, I know where the yard is...)

 

i put in a search for annfield plain and they were on page 4

[Cavcraft]

I swear to God this is true: the local fuckwitt (or one of the local fuckwitts, to be more accurate) has just offered me a part-exchange for his spaz chariot against mine. Naturally I intend to take him up on his offer.

[cort16]

Someone wants to PX their mobility against yours??? How did that conversation even come up?

[cort16]

That looks fab! I wonder if it would work on a discoloured headlight?

 

I don't see why not. Here the are on the car. Fruity!

Lights In by cort16, on Flickr

[Cavcraft]

Long story, it involves FaceAche (no, I'm not a member and never will be) and a a chance comment!

[cobblers]

Outside my friends tyre garage the council have gone mental with double yellow lines. Even across the entrance to his garage, they've put double yellows in the loading bay outside (which has been a loading bay since 1889).]

 

 

This kind of thing absolutely boils my piss! Some cretin in the council justifying his job by solving a parking "problem" that doesn't exist, massively inconveniencing the people who actually need to park there.

[Black_GT]

All the shite that's been appearing on Being Human makes me grin - F-reg Volvo 740 this week!

[Cavcraft]

Hey, this is how I'm rolling now

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Pride-Libre-L ... 19bb23d3c2

 

[cort16]

You lucky bastard. You should fit some daytime running lights.

[MrDuke]

In October I left a seething post on the 'Grump' thread about my cat going missing, presumed poisoned. At the time, I'd put up laminated posters all around the estate, and Mrs_Duke kept on at me to take the last remaining one, right at the entrance, down as it made her upset whenever she saw it.

This evening, after a random phonecall from a nursing home about 10 miles away, he was returned, which is easily the best thing that has happened to me since, well, sometime in 2010 I guess

Turns out the girl saw that one last poster this morning; he's been living at the home for 6 weeks, and one of the staff was about to adopt him. I am unreasonably and quite pathetically overjoyed. I should really make a concerted effort to get a life.

[eddyramrod]

That's great news MrDuke! We have cats so we feel your pain, and your elation (thankfully).

[RedSparrow]

Great cat news MrD! You must be so happy, I know I would be!

[Cavcraft]

Nothing wrong with being happy about a missing pet being found safe and well, that's great news!

[MrDuke]

Thanks for the warm fuzzy vibes, people Here's a suitably shite photo of the little brat, as of 10 minutes ago:

 

 

I would have changed the camera settings and taken a better one, but I've had too much vodka to really care.

[M'coli]

^^^ That's cool - great to have the cat back.

[ashmicro]

excellent news Sir!

[pompei]

I love a happy ending!

[rml2345]

Congrats Mr. Duke! He's a cute wee bugger too.