What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[cort16]

PIKTOR

 

[vulgalour]

yay! oh... I was expecting something a little less... silver.

[cms206]

As someone who really doesn't find Jaaaaaaaags all that exciting, that actually looks fit as. Good work!

[cort16]

Cheers. Not just silver, several different shades of Silver.

 

I'm reconning it's going to be terrifying as I've had fast cars before but nothing anything like this.

I think I'll probably end up with a 2p in my pants after my first drive.

 

Power
 370bhp @ 6150rpm
 
Torque
 387lb ft @ 3000rpm
 
0-60mph  
 5.6sec
 
Top speed

 

 I’m probably going to die
 155mph (limited)
 
 

[Spiny Norman]

That's the colour of XJ I was after but I just couldn't find one when I was looking. Unlike everyone else on the planet, I actually LIKE silver cars, preferably with a totally black interior, but trying to find a Jag like that proved well nigh impossible.

 

That looks the mutt's nuts, I really fancy an XJR before all the petrol disappears.

[cort16]

This one has black leather interior and Carlsburg in passenger foot well. . The owner replaced the wings as they'd rotted out but the paint match isn't exact. I think I can live with it.

 

[Spiny Norman]

Yup, that's exactly the colour combo I'd want in a Jag, including the dark wood. Except I'd want the all black leather wheel.

 

And black buttons that light up black when you push them....

NIce. Don't offer it for sale too soon, or too cheap or I may have a dilemma.

[inconsistant]

[Cavcraft]

Jag=aceness, very jealous!

 

Found a fab little pair of birds that are obviously nesting round here. After some investigation and a false dawn on them being really rare, someone with more knowledge has found them to be Little Ringed Plovers. Fascinating little things that make a right racket as they run round and round in circles looking for insects. I'm trying to find their ground nest with my binoculars so as not to disturb them.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Hey the interior of that Jag is a bit like my Mondeo so you're onto a winner there

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Flicking through a pile of these 1960s DIY magazines. Many of them feature people doing DIY in unsuitable clothes (why wouldn't you wear a tie while varnishing a floor?) but this superb one crossed the line into completely ridiculous:

 

 

So much so that letters prompted them to redraw it in a more accurate style for a future issue:

 

 

Also from the stack is this Isopon advert which reads like a Viz spoof. I wonder if Mrs CK's husband suffered any ill effects from unknowingly smoking a pipe made from car body filler. I also wonder how long they spent sitting around the ad agency office dreaming up fake uses for Isopon before settling on "making an artificial limb for a dog". 

 

 

[wuvvum]

Driving back up the A11 yesterday evening, along the single carriageway bit through Elveden Forest, and coming in the other direction was an old giffer in a battered C-plate Talbot Horizon, trundling along with a great long queue of traffic behind him.  It was like travelling back to 1995.

[beko1987]

Daughter is in stoke mandeville hospital with some sort of bacterial infection, so amys car's been parked there 2 days solid, me for most of it too. We've both got UKPC tickets. No payment as UKPC annoy me beyond reason anyway, as do stoke hospital generally. Plus payment was at the back of our minds to start wth.

 

Since neither of our cars are capable of paying the fine, we laughed it off, then I had a brainwave which has worked so far on day 2. I left the tickets on the windscreen, took mine off to drive home and back, and put it back under the wipers. I moved amys car earlier as it was parked under a tree and getting covered in sap and looking a bit abandoned, and put hers back when I'd parked.

 

So far, no extra tickets. Amys is parked up now with it under the wipers, so we shall see tomorrow when I return if it worked or not!

[chaseracer]

Hope Miss_miniBeko mends soon 

[dollywobbler]

Making me grin today - Miss Lisicki's legs. Also other tennisy stuff. Just watched the end of the first men's semi-final down the pub. Astonishing. Almost five hours of battle. Heroic.

[Station]

I've just received a question about a bike I'm selling:

 

'Would you swap for a set of Merseyside Police Italia 1990 World Cup England Collectors Cards?'

 

W.T actual F?

Ask him 'wotz the looest yule take m8' on your own bike. And then make out like he's selling your bike. Reverse psychology.

[mattblack]

Making me grin today;

 

1. Called in at the local garage this morning to book the V****a in to get the rear suspension bushes done that were advised on the last MOT... the guy was stressed out because someone had bought a Focus in for service and he couldn't get the wheels off as they hadn't left the key for the locking nuts... MUST RESIST.

 

2. Got chatting to a bloke at the petrol station with an Austin Cambridge countryman, he was filling up cans to mix some 2-stroke for his other classic, a Bond minicar.

 

3. Out in the Cortina this afternoon, got/gave a big wave from a bloke in another MK5 coming the other way, Crusader I think.

[autofive]

3. Out in the Cortina this afternoon, got/gave a big wave from a bloke in another MK5 coming the other way, Crusader I think.

 

 

if he was heading to the holy land to to kill non-christians, dragging some children along to mate with the infedels, taking over sites sacred to Islam and generally pillaging artifacts to enhance the wealth of a secretive group than he was a Crusader

 

if, on the other hand he was riding a painted horse round and round, that's a Carousel

[chaseracer]

On the telly now...

 

 

[catsinthewelder]

Making me grin is the fact that all my kids were daft enough to go on this Autoshite water slide

 

 

No serious injuries either

 

[Angrydicky]

Is that from Morse, Chaseracer?

[chaseracer]

Close.  'The Inspector Lynley Mysteries'.

[Lord Sterling]

Today, after getting the Rover 820E picked up and tucking it safely away in its new home I went to Walsall to meet up with Burnside + bro, I also got to drive a 1990 Fiat Uno, what a fun little Italian car to drive!!!

 

It was great to meet up with you guys!!!!

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Cats: that's a great action shot!

[catsinthewelder]

Cheers Peter.  I took loads,  clicking when they were just starting to slide down and waiting for the camera to do something.

 

 

The slide started life with Messerschmitt owner,

[beko1987]

Saw the ZX at Asda this morning! Doesn't look like it's been cleaned since I last did it before selling, it has different hubcaps on the front now, and a new tailpipe poking out of the back. Has a few more dents now though, and the interior is a skip.

 

Still, good to see the old girl! They are now my favourite 'ah shit I need a car' vehicle!

 

 

Still has no front foglight lenses though, and they are looking very rusty now!

 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

What makes me grin is getting home from work to find the wheelie bin in the drive. It proper cheers me up if I can just pull onto the drive and wallop it Frank Drebin-style.

[Dr Mike Oxgreen]

Made me grin yesterday:

 

Meeting a litter of six 2-week old kittens, and the most placid mother cat imaginable who was quite happy for them to be handled by strangers. I've never held such a tiny, helpless animal - they're not yet supporting themselves fully on their legs, so they're like little beanbags when you put them down.

[MrDuke]

they're not yet supporting themselves fully on their legs, so they're like little beanbags when you put them down.

 

 

You probably shouldn't be trying to sit on them.

[Volksy]

Had a rather confused phone call from a guest this morning. (Bare in mind this is a guy over to work for IBM being paid megabucks)

Guest: My AC isn't working!
Me: We don't have Air Conditioning I'm afraid.
Guest: Well I've turned it up to Maximum and its really hot!
Me: That'll be the heating then
Guest: *Pause* Well how do I make it cooler?
Me: Turn the heating off?