What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[RedSparrow]

By coincidence, this slightly unusual variant was parked outside my window this morning:

 

[RedSparrow]

By coincidence, this slightly unusual variant was parked outside my window this morning:

 

[nigel bickle]

Coincidentally, I bought sam Glovers old Favorit van a couple of months back. Most of the repairs are now sorted & it should be returning to the road this Spring.

 

Overall it seems to bew an impressive old beast -well made and positively thought out. if it is as good as it seems, I'll be tempted to upgrade the running gear next lay up -to give it a bit more 'go'.

[nigel bickle]

Coincidentally, I bought sam Glovers old Favorit van a couple of months back. Most of the repairs are now sorted & it should be returning to the road this Spring.

 

Overall it seems to bew an impressive old beast -well made and positively thought out. if it is as good as it seems, I'll be tempted to upgrade the running gear next lay up -to give it a bit more 'go'.

[messerschmitt owner]

coming back out of London yesterday in my ratty XM 2.0TCT estate (24.9mpg from Ruardean to central London and back - average speed 49mph door to door, fully laden with half a ton over the back wheels), I followed a VW Golf Mk1 from near Ruislip to Beaconsfield services. It had been lowered, had a cherry bomb exhaust, those stretched banded steelies and the weirdest camber on the rear wheels and on every tiny imperfection on the road the heads of driver and passenger bounced about as they felt the equivalent of 6.9 on the RIchter scale!

 

Why do people do it - make your car crap and uncomfortable and undrivable. Was fun though as I floored it and overtook them, just shaking my head at them.

 

Lads, if you're gonna do all that modifying, can I suggest you make it in something that can go over 70 and that doesn't rattle your filling out at any speed above 15mph.

[messerschmitt owner]

coming back out of London yesterday in my ratty XM 2.0TCT estate (24.9mpg from Ruardean to central London and back - average speed 49mph door to door, fully laden with half a ton over the back wheels), I followed a VW Golf Mk1 from near Ruislip to Beaconsfield services. It had been lowered, had a cherry bomb exhaust, those stretched banded steelies and the weirdest camber on the rear wheels and on every tiny imperfection on the road the heads of driver and passenger bounced about as they felt the equivalent of 6.9 on the RIchter scale!

 

Why do people do it - make your car crap and uncomfortable and undrivable. Was fun though as I floored it and overtook them, just shaking my head at them.

 

Lads, if you're gonna do all that modifying, can I suggest you make it in something that can go over 70 and that doesn't rattle your filling out at any speed above 15mph.

[retrogeezer]

[retrogeezer]

[messerschmitt owner]

have booked my flight and ferry for collecting the new XM - guess which airport I am flying from? It's not where you'd expect!

[messerschmitt owner]

have booked my flight and ferry for collecting the new XM - guess which airport I am flying from? It's not where you'd expect!

[cort16]

have booked my flight and ferry for collecting the new XM - guess which airport I am flying from? It's not where you'd expect!

 

Dublin?

[cort16]

have booked my flight and ferry for collecting the new XM - guess which airport I am flying from? It's not where you'd expect!

 

Dublin?

[messerschmitt owner]

I'm flying from England to Belfast City on a 19-seater Russian built turboprop

[messerschmitt owner]

I'm flying from England to Belfast City on a 19-seater Russian built turboprop

[michael1703]

Music to get my wintery blues banished

 

[michael1703]

Music to get my wintery blues banished

 

[Spiny Norman]

According to the touchy-feely brigade you're not supposed to find these things funny but when I saw one of those Police Crash programmes the other night where the scrote who stole a Jag and smashed it into a wall ended up with two badly broken legs I felt just a teeny bit of schadenfreude.

 

A lot, actually. I may even have cheered slightly.....

[Spiny Norman]

According to the touchy-feely brigade you're not supposed to find these things funny but when I saw one of those Police Crash programmes the other night where the scrote who stole a Jag and smashed it into a wall ended up with two badly broken legs I felt just a teeny bit of schadenfreude.

 

A lot, actually. I may even have cheered slightly.....

[vulgalour]

Motorway Cops. He broke both his hands too, if I remember rightly. Made a proper mess of everything bar the wall he hit at about 70mph.

[vulgalour]

Motorway Cops. He broke both his hands too, if I remember rightly. Made a proper mess of everything bar the wall he hit at about 70mph.

[vulgalour]

My Dad's side of the family have always bought new or nearly new cars, except for when circumstances have meant something older had to be had. It was with some surprise then that I found out one of my relatives has this lovely slab of gold. To be fair, when I met Fred and Beryl today for the first time in what must have been at least ten years, they did strike me as the sort that might have a Jag or a Rover 75, so for them to be tooling about in a Sterling was a very pleasant surprise indeed. Fred and Beryl were just the sort of pleasant couple you'd expect to own a Sterling too being well turned out and polite to everyone and just as pleasant to be in the company of as their golden barge.

 

[vulgalour]

My Dad's side of the family have always bought new or nearly new cars, except for when circumstances have meant something older had to be had. It was with some surprise then that I found out one of my relatives has this lovely slab of gold. To be fair, when I met Fred and Beryl today for the first time in what must have been at least ten years, they did strike me as the sort that might have a Jag or a Rover 75, so for them to be tooling about in a Sterling was a very pleasant surprise indeed. Fred and Beryl were just the sort of pleasant couple you'd expect to own a Sterling too being well turned out and polite to everyone and just as pleasant to be in the company of as their golden barge.

 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Looks nice. I'm guessing they use the towbar to pull a caravan to the Norfolk coast every so often?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Looks nice. I'm guessing they use the towbar to pull a caravan to the Norfolk coast every so often?

[jonny69]

Something funny on the way to work this morning. I had some pushy asshat in an Audi behind me so I was doing my best to ignore him. The road goes to two lanes at the lights and quickly afterwards narrows back down to one. I just pulled away from the lights as normal and wasn't really watching, but noticed behind me that there was a BMW having a showdown with the Audi to see who was going to get in front. It turned out neither was, because neither of them was going to yield but there was a truck coming the other way and both of them had to nail the brakes, two abreast in a single lane

[jonny69]

Something funny on the way to work this morning. I had some pushy asshat in an Audi behind me so I was doing my best to ignore him. The road goes to two lanes at the lights and quickly afterwards narrows back down to one. I just pulled away from the lights as normal and wasn't really watching, but noticed behind me that there was a BMW having a showdown with the Audi to see who was going to get in front. It turned out neither was, because neither of them was going to yield but there was a truck coming the other way and both of them had to nail the brakes, two abreast in a single lane

[dollywobbler]

Took a passenger ride in a Discovery 3 today. I'm grinning because it's really quite awful. Lovely engine - smooth and powerful - but the ride is less good than a Rangie classic and the technology is hilariously awful. More bongs than a festival - there seems to be a warning for just about anything you can do. We did some gentle green laning in it, which upset the suspension, and then the Terrain Response system. The car needed 'rebooting' both times.

 

It was also incredibly uncomfortable. Fine in the front, but the rear bench is horrible, leaving your legs barely supported. Was very cosy three-up too.

 

Just a further reminder that OMG ALL MODERNS R KRAP.

[dollywobbler]

Took a passenger ride in a Discovery 3 today. I'm grinning because it's really quite awful. Lovely engine - smooth and powerful - but the ride is less good than a Rangie classic and the technology is hilariously awful. More bongs than a festival - there seems to be a warning for just about anything you can do. We did some gentle green laning in it, which upset the suspension, and then the Terrain Response system. The car needed 'rebooting' both times.

 

It was also incredibly uncomfortable. Fine in the front, but the rear bench is horrible, leaving your legs barely supported. Was very cosy three-up too.

 

Just a further reminder that OMG ALL MODERNS R KRAP.

[Spiny Norman]

The Daily Mash, getting it so right....

 

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/environment/people-who-know-how-to-fucking-park-on-brink-of-extinction-20070912397#1290743834113015507

[Spiny Norman]

The Daily Mash, getting it so right....

 

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/environment/people-who-know-how-to-fucking-park-on-brink-of-extinction-20070912397#1290743834113015507