155V6 Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 Current bikeshite fleet includes the '86 GS450, '88 Honda CG125, '88 Yamaha TY250 and a Ural outfit. Lurking in the back of the garage lies a TDR250, GAS GAS EC250, and a brace of CB500's. The kids have a pair of 80's Honda QR50's (one for spares) and a Puch Magnum TDR 250's are GR973,here's my old one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wackywacerwill Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 TDR's FTW Mine's a bit like that with the panels missing between the tank and headlight, really needs to see the light of day and very soon. It's a world away from the Suzuki. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 Used the 2CV to transport a door today. Usual trick of stuffing it in through the top with the roof back. Certainly impressed the lads making some road improvements in the village! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 Check out this awrsum MG6 photo shoot. It took me about 30 seconds of looking at it to realise there was actually a car in the picture. Beneath the many layers of photoshop, that's Tintern Abbey. We stopped there after picking the Herald up. And I thought I was crap at HDR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parky Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 Took the Bini for it's MOT today and it passed with NO ADVISORIES! The guy there was a proper old school tester who does nothing but tests so has nothing to gain from finding faults. Nice little shop so can recommend any local Thurrock shiters to go to the Daneholes MOT place at Blackshots. I say passed with no problems ~ one of the indicators was very dim, so he wanged in a new bulb gratis which was decent of him. Either way, legal for another year so one less thing to worry about. Am I the only person who paces up and down chain smoking when my cars are being tested? I think becoming a dad for the first time was less stressful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDuke Posted March 3, 2012 Share Posted March 3, 2012 Scoring an Xbox360 for 99p (yes, that's right) off evilbay thanks to a dreadful advert and borked GPU. After the disappointment of finding it had already been 'repaired' once in its past, I pressed on and reflowed the GPU with a paint-burner After re-assembly, bugger me if it didn't work like a dream Do need some beefier fans though, as the last 'repair' has mangled 2 of the heatsink vanes. Still a result, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted March 3, 2012 Share Posted March 3, 2012 Hot 31.2mpg out of the Merc today and that's without using the cruise control. Even scored dead on 30 going over Woodhead Pass, quite impressed with that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted March 3, 2012 Share Posted March 3, 2012 Colin McRae having a bit of a moment (after several minutes of foot-to-the-floor stuff) in an OMG NOT CITY X METROhttp://youtu.be/JisYzYC57U4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryoldcortina Posted March 3, 2012 Share Posted March 3, 2012 Reverse engineering a bluetooth OBD adapter to use RS232 made me grin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warren t claim Posted March 3, 2012 Share Posted March 3, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattblack Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autofive Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 i would have had it towed along the street Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negative Creep Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 How can you park there without noticing it's someone's drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyramrod Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Ah yes A5, but you know people with towtrucks! We don't all, sadly. I used to live near Royal Birkdale golf course, you can imagine what street-parking was like when the Open was on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angrydicky Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Seems a bit strange really, when there's a perfectly good space over the road by the looks of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyramrod Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Agreed, but you can never underestimate the intelligence of the general public... However stupid you think they can be, they will always take your breath away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Ross Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Strange, nobody ever seems to be sporting enough to block my Land Rover in.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProgRocker Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Agreed, but you can never underestimate the intelligence of the general public... However stupid you think they can be, they will always take your breath away. As someone who works with the general public - too bloody right! I actually wonder if its a power thing going on there? Mr. thickasshit in his lardy Peugeot thinking he's da man and claiming some sort of moral superiority by obstructing a c.20 year old car parked in a driveway. On a slightly similar note it really pisses me off when someone parks in my designated space outside my flat. The last time I left a note on the windscreen of a Hiace van that did so and worded it as if I was telling off a misbehaving 3 year old - 'This is my parking space - Do not park here again!'. Sharp and direct - hasn't happened since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myglaren Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Put new tyres on my C5 and daughter's Astra yesterday. I call the tyre fitter 'talkative Bob', he's a very nice, helpful and skilled fitter but does enjoy a natter.Not that I have anything against it but it is generally when I have ten minutes to get somewhere else, usually back to work. He always has a story of customer idiocy and yesterday there were several. The best one, somewhat edited or we'd be here all day, was that a bloke and his son had turned up half an hour before closing time and wanted ten tyres swapping over..The story being that the car they were in was being sold that evening and they wanted the tyres off it and some others they had putting on it.These two were rather unpleasant to say the least, with much profanity, vulgarity etc. Bob looked in the car, where five wheels awaited. He said to the two that he couldn't do it. Much to their displeasure.Naturally they wanted to know why.He explained that, in the first place it was a three hour job and he closed in half an hour. That was problem one.Problem two was that the wheels in the boot were 13" rims, while the wheels on the car were 14". They seemed to think that that wasn't a problem and it could be done in half an hour. "The rubber will stretch" was their stance. Bob was unable to do other than invite them to go forth and multiply, taking their wheels with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autofive Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Ah yes A5, but you know people with towtrucks! We don't all, sadly. I used to live near Royal Birkdale golf course, you can imagine what street-parking was like when the Open was on. sling a rope around the steering rack and drag it or just superglue the doorhandles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black_GT Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 What a twat, definitely served him right. Loving the Rover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Another scan from a old magazine, This one from Car magazine, June 1993, features Richard Bremner buying a Simca 1204 Special for £60, DVLA says it's recently gone on SORN!. GPG 162K:Tax Status: SORN Not DueExpiry Date: 01/02/2013Registration Date: 01/08/1971 Buying a Simca 1204 Special Feature 1993 (1) by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr Buying a Simca 1204 Special Feature 1993 (2) by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr and here the original advert from 1970. Simca 1204 Special Advert 1970 by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Did some loft clearing today with an increasingly flu filled FATHA_WAT, and dug some of my old tat out of the loft. Amazing to see all my childhood tat again. Most of my Motor City survived us moving house, and I'm planning on selling off a couple of the larger Britains \ Corgis I had lying around, because they're fairly valuable. I rescued a huge pile from my idiot cousin a while back, and I'm sure more stuff will come to light. I'm still missing that Matchbox Superkings Rally Raid Peugeot 305 - that was one of my favourites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDuke Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cort16 Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrogeezer Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 ^^^^^^^^^ Looks great! This made me laugh.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autofive Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 found these on flickargh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John F Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobblers Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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