What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Wilko220]

^ Never heard of that stuff before. Is it any better than WD40, etc?

[dollywobbler]

MUCH better. WD40 isn't really designed to act like a penetrating oil, it's just better than nothing at all. Proper penetrating oil can make a massive difference.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I bought a 5l can of that stuff for £20, I use it for diluting waxoyl to make it more sprayable

[beko1987]

I've always heard about it, just never pulled the trigger. That can cost me £7 delivered, hope it works well!

[vulgalour]

I've never used Plusgas, but I see it recommended a lot, something I'm planning to add to the toolkit to back up my WD40.

[vulgalour]

Feeling on a decidedly more even keel today. Replacement Princess bonnet due to arrive tomorrow. Jamiroquai Synkronized album rediscovered. Helicoil kit owner found, purchase cost probably therefore avoided. Council came out and improved (like properly, not with bodges) the shower that exploded the pressure regulator on me last night so it's not completely miserable to use anymore. Maybe it's the combination of manflu and medication, but I feel relaxed for the first time since I can remember, just enjoying wandering through Autoshite catching up on threads and doing very little other than browsing the internets. Today has been a welcome change of pace and this place has been keeping me pleasantly sane with the healthy combination of humour, crap cars, epic saves and silly whinges about stuff that doesn't actually matter.

[Cavcraft]

Saturday my lad and I went on Segways round Tatton park which was a right laugh, and tonight we joined ten of his mates go-karting in Sandycroft. I'm still shaking now, it was utter madness but such a laugh we're going again soon.

[Lord Sterling]

 

 

Had my first real drive of this car with the new exhaust and it is absolutely fantastic, smooth, powerful, comfortable. My passenger even thought it was a V8 as it does sound like a quiet V8, the remote central locking even works.

 

The wing will need to be sorted at some point and it will get a service soon. But for now its a fantastic commuting machine. It doesnt half drink petrol though.

 

Not going try and spend too much money on it in case it gives up.

[Spiny Norman]

Snatch meets Start Wars.

[skattrd]

I'm probably a bit late with this, but Jimmy Tourettes is making me grin

 

"What do we want?"

"A cure for Tourettes"

"When do we want it?"

"Cunts!"

Jimmy sings/swears:

Faceache: https://www.facebook.com/realjimmytoure ... ts&fref=ts

[Spiny Norman]

You've been able to get that on a Tshirt for quite a while.

 

[Guest]

Went to the car show at Event City this morning before work. It's in its third year and seems to get better each time. I still think the entrance fee is too high, there's too many ignorant clarts walking in front of the camera every time you try and take a shot, and the price of stuff on the stands is obscenely over-priced....but other than that, a good show - and it's still cheaper than Dunham with less tat to walk through. They'll have to be careful with that though - I don't see what soap and shit handbags have to do with classic cars.

 

They've tried to broaden the scope a bit this time by having a section of supercars to appeal to the Top Gear \ Pistonheads crowd, but there's American and British classics mingled in with the GT3s and the like, which confused me a bit. They're also going heavy on the hypercars in their promotions - but it's still a classic car show at heart. Anyone expecting halls full of the former would feel a bit gipped for their £12 entry fee.

[freebird]

Well some fella finally arrived today ( this afternoon) to pick up my old P6 V8 and drive it back from West Norfolk to Denbighshire North Wales.

No big deal, I know, but the car has barely turned a wheel since November and, as I made clear in the flea bay ad, I couldnt be sure it would make it out of my town let alone Cornwall or Cleethorpes.

So fella has turned up and driven off in it with no more than a bucket full of hope and his dick in his hand.

Fair play and Ive got my money!

[Pillock]

Somewhere, on a "different" Autoshite, there's a thread being written about going on a tat-mission to collect a dusty old P6 and drive it halfway across the country home, with loads of replies of "Wow, that's heroic" etc

[freebird]

Somewhere, on a "different" Autoshite, there's a thread being written about going on a tat-mission to collect a dusty old P6 and drive it halfway across the country home, with loads of replies of "Wow, that's heroic" etc

I like that idea.

I like it more than it breaking down somewhere around Derby, new owner fooking off to a Hotel for the night and coming back to it the next morning to find it has already been Hiabed onto a Pikey Ferrari and weighed in.

At least Ive got me money.

[Wilko220]

Spent a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon at Bletchley Park - http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/ - which I would thoroughly recommend to all.

Had a great tour by a very knowledgable volunteer and then a poke around lots of dilapidated huts full of old machinery, artefacts, even a few old motors.

Planning to go back soon as there's too much to see in one visit. Well worth a look if you're in the area.

[Mr Lobster]

Went to the car show at Event City this morning before work. It's in its third year and seems to get better each time. I still think the entrance fee is too high, there's too many ignorant clarts walking in front of the camera every time you try and take a shot, and the price of stuff on the stands is obscenely over-priced....but other than that, a good show - and it's still cheaper than Dunham with less tat to walk through. They'll have to be careful with that though - I don't see what soap and shit handbags have to do with classic cars.

 

They've tried to broaden the scope a bit this time by having a section of supercars to appeal to the Top Gear \ Pistonheads crowd, but there's American and British classics mingled in with the GT3s and the like, which confused me a bit. They're also going heavy on the hypercars in their promotions - but it's still a classic car show at heart. Anyone expecting halls full of the former would feel a bit gipped for their £12 entry fee.

 

I went this afternoon and was pretty pleased with it. They're trying to get to 1000 cars next year (about 750 now) although the entrance fee is a bit steep and it was very warm in there. Good show though.

 

Nice to catch up with Renault 18 of this parish as well.

[quicksilver]

Spent a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon at Bletchley Park - http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/ - which I would thoroughly recommend to all.

Had a great tour by a very knowledgable volunteer and then a poke around lots of dilapidated huts full of old machinery, artefacts, even a few old motors.

Planning to go back soon as there's too much to see in one visit. Well worth a look if you're in the area.

Bletchley Park is pretty awesome, I've been several times over the years and every time there's something new to look at. I could happily spend all day just in the computer museum reliving my youth by playing the old games but that would mean missing out on so much other interesting stuff. I'll be going again in May on a uni trip.

[outlaw118]

Finding old tapes, in the loft in preparation for the incoming moving/being thrown out shittery......

THIS:

 

Got it on in the background now.

Lovely.

probably not suitable for long car journeys.

YOUTOOB

[vulgalour]

I got to drive quite possibly the best Montego [Clarkson] in the world [/Clarkson] today, allbeit only for a short hop after it getting an Italian tune-up by my bro. It really does hustle along quite well. Something very rewarding about being trusted to drive someone else's pride and joy and then to be rewarded further by it actually being an enjoyable experience.

[Pete-M]

300 bhp. That'll be all.

[Lord Sterling]

The other day whilst at work I was looking at a colleagues P-reg Vauxhall Corsa, its a pretty base-spec model, but I was still shocked that it came with an original Philips-Vauxhall 'radio only' radio, no cassette tape, no CD changer, nothing:

 

 

It kind of made me grin too, I never knew they made 'radio only' radios that late into the 90s. Collegue wants to upgrade to a cassette or CD player but he'd like an original Philips-Vauxhall job, not some aftermarket thing. I might fetch him one from the scrappy or summat and swap it for this rare radio jobbie.

[vulgalour]

I'm surprised by the radio-only-radio too! What a find. My new thing I learned yesterday was that there's a 'Chinese' version of the MGF, identified by it's different grille. Today my new thing is the radio-only-radio. Good stuff.

[fotorabia]

Im on the single track road to recovery here up in the Highlands..volunteering at the Acharacle recycling centre..which is a laugh..gonna be fishing for trout on Loch Shiel...got a photo laminating job at Resipole Studios which are our lifelong neighbors...also gonna sit as a life model for a major national art award...im taking lotsa photographs of sunrise-sets of Loch Sunart...Mums off to Australia on holiday so i have to look after the pony...i start my intensive CBT therapy today in Glengarry...i keep waking up in the morning thinking ill jump in the Merc and go for coffee..until i realise theres no Merc or cafe and its not Melbourne...im off the valium and now on beta blockers...so all is going well....

[Cavcraft]

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Good stuff, sounds like the road to recovery is well under way, keep us posted, please.

[RedSparrow]

Rover were still putting cassette players in their cars as standard right up to the end in 2005...

[eddyramrod]

Im on the single track road to recovery here up in the Highlands.. ...so all is going well....

 

That's great Rab! Considering you've only been back half an hour, you've done brilliantly to get life so sorted, so soon. (And I love the single track image! )

[fotorabia]

Im on the single track road to recovery here up in the Highlands.. ...so all is going well....

 

That's great Rab! Considering you've only been back half an hour, you've done brilliantly to get life so sorted, so soon. (And I love the single track image! )

 

Thanks eddy...u guys have been very kind and the support is much appreciated...i have a very astute Mother who acts as my social shepherd...herding me thru all the right gates...and with her old social work contacts..they open with ease so to speak...and cars are kinda off the list due to no monies available...but one of my really old mates in Edinburgh has a rather nice Scimitar..and mebbe about to buy a Sherpa GT ...so ive got a classic car buff mate to keep me talking and dreamin!

[M'coli]

Great stuff, Rab it's good to hear you're on the mend, the Ardnamurchan peninsula must be a stunning place to be in spring.

 

On the subject of radio-only radios I seem to remember that after a certain amount of time, the Vauxhall radio-cassette versions were radio-only as I recall, and Ford ones were cassette-only. It's great fun sitting in a traffic jam with your passenger rummaging around in the boot for the Vauxhall stereo as you remove the Ford version from the slot in the dashboard just so you can see if the local radio traffic reports tell you how long the jam is! Skoda were still putting cassette players in the Fabia in 2005, too - but it may only have been for the hire-car fleets.

[Tayne]

 

 

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