What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Nantwich Sainsbury's!

[retrogeezer]

yeh, £3 off a £20 spend voucher! I don't normally see new cars in my usual spot outside Aldi!

[ruffgeezer]

The Ax passed it's mot today, with only a chip on the screen to blot it's copybook, it's just a shame that the new shocks I fitted not 6k ago were leaking and had to be replaced, oh and they won't honour the warranty. GMAX SHOCKS ARE SHIT.

 

So that's that done, I now have 4 vehicles up and running, so the Ax will be next to leave the fleet all being well.

[retrogeezer]

oh, and this pulled into the Sainsbury's petrol station while I was there:

 

 

[cort16]

Does anyone watch fast & load on discovery? Yes it's scripted and they make out the owners skint when he actually sold his last business for $8 million dollars but it's kind of endearing as they're not very good at making money, which is what all american TV documentary programs are about. When he buys the cars he pays to much when it's old grannies or anyone with a story he's buying the cars off, he send their builds to auction and takes massive losses, they don't have a high tech workshop and most of their fixing involves hammer and finally they produce interesing stuff stuff that isn't all shiny like the usual american hotrod nonsense. I enjoy it.

 

I also liked the slightly later model and massively unfashionable challenger they had. Would!

 

 

[autofive]

i usually watch the download of fast and loud

 

just watched the F40 episode this morning

[cort16]

Is it on youtube? I saw some posts over on RR with links to it there but it was in 15 minute chunks. I think the Yanks are on series 3 and we're on 2?

[autofive]

series 3 episode 2

 

no its not on utube, full episode download or watch online

 

links have gone now, i ll PM them to you when new links appear

 

EDIT: links PM'ed

[vulgalour]

For a second there I thought someone had squashed a Wolseley 18/22... just for a second.

 

Edited to ask:  Is the toffee and black car a 1934 Lanchester?  If it is, I'm getting slightly better at identifying this era of car, if not I'm no better off.

[retrogeezer]

yes, it is a Lanchester and I'm sure the fella said it was 34 model.

[eddyramrod]

I now have a council lockup!    Once I've cleared my container into it (which should take a few weeks) I won't need that any longer, which will save me upwards of £80 a month.  It's the wrong side of town... in fact about as far from my house as you can get without leaving Barrow, but it'll do.

[Station]

CHECK THIS CRAZY SHIT

 

 

A FUCKING EASY OUT ACTUALLY WORKED! THIS MUST BE A WORLD FIRST

 

What are you supposed to fit the square end to? I have had some success with these, but only with small stuck steel bolts in an aluminium throttle body. If you've got an exhaust manifold bolt in a head, there's absolutely no chance really, though I'm sure I've had similar bolts out with that technique.

[vulgalour]

I'm not a professional dream interpreter, but I'd hazard a guess yours goes a little something like this.

 

[Cavcraft]

FANNY

 

http://m.flickr.com/lightbox?id=9100257382

[Bucketeer]

Was out walking earlier in a foul/hungover mood. Then I saw this and I don't know why but it cheered me right up. Strange what makes people happy.

 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

That's a coincidence - I was cheered up by a big ugly grey box this morning when I noticed it was called Lucy.

 

[richardthestag]

what cheered me up no end today is that the Range Rover passed its MoT Yay

 

Exhaust emissions amused me also,  actual values for my car in brackets

 

Fast Idle test

CO Max = 0.200 (0.002)

HC Max = 200 (14)

 

Natural Idle Test

CO % Vol Max 0.300 (0.000)

 

Gotta love LPG!

[philibusmo]

I did not know that Rhyl once had a monorail. I have a new favorite picture.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Wow! Thats mega!

[Cavcraft]

Blatant lack of council imagination there.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The least they could have done is make the building round shaped either side and maybe painted some hairs on it.

[philibusmo]

apparently it cost a vast amount to build, opened in 1980, ran for about 6 weeks and then was shut down due to some glaring design issues that they couldn't afford to fix and left a debt of £650000. That has to be the most autoshite tourist attraction of ever.

[cort16]

Bloody hell is that all that's left? Must have been possums in the fuse box. I call the big one bitey.

[messerschmitt owner]

Milngavie had a monorail like that too in the 1930s!

 

[cort16]

If train travel was like that now I might actually bother with it. Is that Milngavie as in 'mulg-aye' Glasgow ?

[catsinthewelder]

I like that a lot

 

 

not as much as the Listowel and Ballybunion in Ireland though

 

 

They've restored a bit of it too

 

[M'coli]

I've done some research into that Irish one, but I didn't realise they'd restored a bit of it!

[Richard]

The Rhyl one looks more like 1970 than 1980 to me. In fact I estimated the year as 1970 when I first saw the picture, based on the vehicles, the colouring of the photo and the style of the "scrotum" building.

 

Incidentally the cost of the Edinburgh tram project is approaching 2000 times the cost of the Rhyl monorail and is likely to be less successful.

[dollywobbler]

Missed a local classic/rally road run today, but they've just passed through. I had great fun chasing the rally boys in the 2CV last year.

[vulgalour]

Four tyre squeal on a 25mph corner.  No handling drama, not loss of control, but a Princess that must have looked like a badly dubbed Sweeney car chase to the outside world.  Brother and I found it hilarious because the noise was completely unexpected.  I guess I really do have shitty tyres.

[eddyramrod]

That Rhyl monorail looks like the set of Thunderbirds!  Marvellous, and a totally expected tale of council incompetence to go with it.  How very British!