What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[quicksilver]

I certainly haven't so a team of non-car enthusiasts wouldn't stand a chance with something so obscure.

 

thats the point of only connect - obscure knowledge and connections

True, but I thought that was obscure even by their standards - Mitsubishi only built 59 Dignitys and sold them all in Japan. Must admit I did think of the Vauxhall Equus though, then dismissed it as not fitting with anything else.

[John F]

£9 for this transformation..

 

 

Nicely freshened-up Cav

 

(I assume it's not a 2.0 Calibra with the cloth seats, although it might be...)

[John F]

£9 for this transformation..

 

That was a pricey roll of parcel tape.....!

 

[Cavcraft]

C'mon Billy, spill!

 

Someone royally pissed me about over an item I was selling. Someone has also driven 18 miles and sat outside a bank for over an hour waiting for me. Only I'm not ther. Tomorrow I think he's going on a 30 mile round trip to my house. Except its not my house at all, but he won't know that until tomorrow.

[beko1987]

Payday subway time! (and possibly a haircut) Maybe not at the same time though

[vulgalour]

The Man Who Fell To Earth on iPlayer, a film I have not until now got around to watching. It has David Bowie in it, I don't care if it turns out to be rubbish (though I've been told it's not).

[Wilko220]

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One for those of you who follow marketing fads.

 

Here is Irn-Bru’s official response to Coca Cola's "names on bottles" gimmick...

 

[autofive]

The Man Who Fell To Earth on iPlayer, a film I have not until now got around to watching. It has David Bowie in it, I don't care if it turns out to be rubbish (though I've been told it's not).

 

it's rubbish

 

you have been warned

[vulgalour]

It was rubbish, and not in a good way. Sort of directionless in the same way that American Psycho was (recommended to me by the same people, actually). Still, got to see some awesome hats and a Stutz made an appearance in the chodtastic 70s American traffic so it wasn't all bad.

[vulgalour]

I had a dream last night that I owned a Morris Minor. I hadn't paid for it, someone had given it to me. The car leaked a lot of oil whenever it was parked, I thought it was the diff, but it turned out that the brake drums were just emptying themselves and it stopped doing it eventually. I was told this was normal because the brake drums fill up with oil when the car is sat for more than a day. The previous owner told me its colour was Disappointing Blue, a factory hue. It was one of those very bizarre but very real seeming dreams, so much so that I was surprised and then relieved that I didn't own the car... and then a little bit disappointed. Dreams are weird.

[dollywobbler]

Summer is making me grin a lot. Hippy chicks are making me grin a lot. The rattly-as-hell F-reg Fiat Ducato camper that pulled onto the sight last night made me grin a lot. Girls in tiny, tiny skirts and stupidly huge shoes, with hair that looks like plastic out on the mean streets of Aberystwyth last night just made me think WTF. In short though, Wales in the sunshine is hard to beat. It's absolutely splendid. Oh, and there's a Land Rover Discovery on my driveway. That's nice too.

[cobblers]

Bodywork on the van is finally coming together - it feels as though I've broken it's back now. A panel van is a lot of van to fill/prime/fill on your own, on the drive and I was getting a bit stressed trying to "plan" stuff so that I could do it all faster, IE putting some filler one one side, sanding another bit while the first was going off, then primer that and while that was going off I'd sand some other primer etc etc. In the end I just had a load of half finished bits and my head up my arse, so I just decided to concentrate on one bit, get that done and move on to the next. Had a half day off work and got cracking on the van at lunchtime and I've got the front panel, side panel and top half of the sliding door and rear quarter 100% done now, with the tailgate and front doors not far behind.

 

Also, my mate says he'll paint it for £200 if I drop it off to him primed and flatted to 400 grit - he'll flat to 800 and sort out any corners that are a bit "edgy" then wang basecoat and loads of lacquer on for me. Paint will be about £200 on top cos I've picked a colour that turns out to be a pearl, looks like metallic brown to me though.

£400 for a full colour change doesn't sound so bad, if you ignore the fact that I've already done about 45 hours prep on it!

[Cavcraft]

I don't think I could ever enjoy anything with David Bowie in it, he just seems to be a massive twat and is incredibly over-rated. You'd get more pleasure from heating up a tuning fork on a Bunsen burner then shoving it up your nostrils than listening to any of the music that knobhead has knocked up.

[cobblers]

Yeah, he's deffo a bit of a token, I reckon he'll be next in operation gumtree for packing his lunch so tightly in Labrinth.

[andrew e]

Spying this AUTOMOTIVE J-LO outside the fence at work, it wasn't moving, but parked...

 

 

Cheek out those wheel refurbs - OLD SKOOL

[retrogeezer]

Livin the dream...

 

[Lacquer Peel]

Any chance of some more photos of the Cavalier?

[retrogeezer]

yeh, if you like.

 

*edit*

 

Four of the car and a before/after of the gaiter change - hardly a lot is it. Sorry it's not your cup of tea.

[TimothyClaypole]

Sheffield Gumtree:

 

"I would require a cheep car, cheep on inshorience (young driver) and with tax and mot!"

 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

 

Some good suggestions there, cheers eBay

[cort16]

How does it know??

[willswitchengage]

This month's calendar picture. But who are those dashing young men in the background?

[dollywobbler]

Briefly home from festival merriment but this video is making me grin.

 

BMW-powered 2CV pwning some nice motors at Mallory Park. This is the chap who's currently servicing my fleet and who owns that fabulous Ami 6 I borrowed.

https://vimeo.com/67386766

[quicksilver]

Volksangyl's shite dream reminded me of one I had a few weeks ago and made me grin about it again. I dreamt that I owned an extremely tatty blue Austin Cambridge diesel with a red bootlid and a massive dent in the back bumper. It also had a huge roofrack and amber beacons for some reason and I drove it everywhere at 56mph in a cloud of black smoke taking great delight in pissing off Audi drivers. When I woke up I was genuinely quite disappointed not to own such a car.

 

Also, I ended up reading about Invacars yesterday (no idea how I got onto that subject). Apparently they could do 85mph - holy shit! I want to have a go in one now.

[garycox]

Ha! Actual LOL at xB's screenshot there.

[sporty-shite]

Si, that Cav shot could be straight out of a Vauxhall brochure, circa 1990. Top marks.

[vulgalour]

Demonstrating that a smokey old 1.7 Princess can keep up perfectly well with your 1.6 chavbox Vectravalier and can make you look stupid in the process. That'll teach em for overtaking me unnecessarily.

[barrett]

Today I got to drive one of my all-time favourite cars. I've never even sat in one before so it was a pretty special moment. Luckily it surpassed all my expectations and I really didn't want to give it back. i MUST have one as soon as possible.

Ami and Caddy by barrogance, on Flickr

[Cavcraft]

The utter stupidity of sellers like this one, check his feedback out...

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2002-CITROEN- ... 4855c6a628

 

...and yesterday he was selling a Renault that he's already sold* three times and received good feedback for. What a f*cking bum nugget

[Albert Ross]

I've been told off for using the words "cunt" and "piss" on the Classic Car Scrapyard finds/Banger racers unite EDL recruitment page on Facebook. I responded with this.

 

Fair comment like, You ask for less, but would you prefer no bad language, or are there limits? What words can I use? Or should I replace a random vowel with an asterix? C*nt. F*ck. B*ll*cks. W*nk*r. That kind of thing? Or would you prefer that I didn't swear at all? After all, the Country's greatest author invented most of the swear words we use today, and what a way he had with them! It would certainly be a shame to lose the ability to express oneself, especially considering that children probably hear more filth than you or I on a daily basis.... No?

 

I've been threatened with the "Banhammer".