What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[morris_ital_lover]

+1 Trig... Just watched that Load of Pheasants, top stuff. Could I be cheeky and plead with you to put up "Down in the Dumps" from the look at life series when you have the time, I found the pictures of that one bizarrely fascinating when they cropped up in the stills thread.

[Sigmund Fraud]

'Look at life' stuff is simply amazing ! They never fail to make me very (anachronistically) nostalgic !

 

Excellent work, once again, Trigger ! Many thanks !

[brickwall]

These guys. I've got to say they seemed really sound, the could have totally bummed me on those wheel bearings as I didn't know any better but they didn't.

I think the guy worked for taggarts then set up as a independant. The main guy's called Douglas and really seems to know his stuff. He had stuff from older X300's to S-Types and new XJ's in.

 

http://www.prestigejaguar.com/

 

Great, thanks.

[trigger]

They come from a DVD i bought after VIN's excellent thread a while ago and I'm now very naughtily uploading a few videos from it!

 

I'll upload Down in the dumps now for you Morris.

[trigger]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P-f1mssUeI&feature=youtu.be

 

Here you go.

[morris_ital_lover]

BEAUTIFUL! Thank you so much.

[Mr Livered]

What a fantastic video, many thanks for posting. Amazing that they just used to set fire to the interiors of cars that were to be scrapped, to burn the wood and upholstery away!

[Pillock]

Awesome. Can't believe how much has changed in the recycling business. I was speechless when I saw them lob a load of pez into the scrap car to "fire" it to get rid of the interior. There's even a fugging name for it, like it's just a normal thing to do.

 

And the bloke controlling the new crushing machine where the lob a whole car in - still with the fag hanging out of his mouth. Wonderful.

[cobblers]

the firing was deffo the best bit, I chuckled my plums off at them all stood round with black smoke chooching into the air. Good lads.

[John F]

This thread isn't about old cars.

[HillmanImp]

I just bought a new (old) car, so it is about old cars now....

 

Update to follow.

[M'coli]

Oh no? Thursday, I ripped into the sill stiffener and inner sill on the Cavalier with the plasma disc to expose the rear chassis rail completely: the verdict is, the chassis rail need a good clean-up, but is otherwise fine so I can weld in some Zintec and pop an outer on it and then get to work on the mechanical stuff.  Considering that there was 3mm thick of rust between the rail and the inner sill at the bottom when I started it, I was not looking forward to finding out just how high that stuff went.

 

That made me grin, I tell thee.

[nacho man]

 

If its good enough for Senna, its good enough for me.

 

Just gotta find a mk3 escort now.

[overrun]

ImageUploadedByTapatalk1382817357.094254.jpgIf its good enough for Senna, its good enough for me.Just gotta find a mk3 escort now.

Oooh. What have I missed? *reads previous posts*

 

It took me 20 minutes to do discs and pads yesterday. Then an hour to change an aerial base.

FKN MDRNS

[cobblers]

Got a free boiler fitted to my house, which was a nice touch - Now the heating "just works" without me having to take the boiler apart and dry the electrodes with a hot air gun every time.

 

Blokey who fitted it cottoned on to my skinflint ways and left the old boiler outside the house "until he comes back to finalize some pipework". I wasn't that arsed about weighing it in but have slung it in the back of the car just to stop the usual scumbags having hold of it - last week I left a sink on the drive for 4 hours and some twat smashed it to pieces to steal the taps, it's danny dyer territory here.

 

 

 

Anyway to celebrate my ~£8 scrap haul I spent many dozens of times that on a fancy DLSR camera.

[cort16]

How did you score that cobblers? Was it some council thing?

[Wilko220]

Without wishing to speak on his behalf, I expect it was the Green Deal

https://www.gov.uk/green-deal-energy-saving-measures

[beko1987]

The last hour didn't happen! Best drink all those beers again...

[Wilko220]

It's not clear from the article whether the revived Copen will actually go on sale here - but if this marks a return to the UK for Daihatsu then that gets the thumbs-up from me

 

http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/daihatsu-copen-set-return

[philibusmo]

A couple of days ago the plastic handle that opens the fridge snapped off for the eleventy-billionth time.

 

This has been resolved once and for all by flinging the original handle in the bin and welding a head bolt that came off my Ford Sierra 2.0 twincam about 2 years ago in its place.

I knew that if I kept hold of them for long enough those bolts would come in useful for something eventually.

[daverapid]

 That's as cool as whatever is in the fridge. 

[daveb47]

In our local paper it says that  a car overturned the cause of the accident was not known but involved a hedgehog although the police were unable to be more specific

[Richard]

Hedgehogs are troublemakers. A few years ago there was a domestic across the road that took two police vans, two police cars, two ambulances and several hours to sort out. It all started when the man brought a hedgehog into the house to show his wife.

[tooSavvy]

A couple of days ago the plastic handle that opens the fridge snapped off for the eleventy-billionth time.

 

This has been resolved once and for all by flinging the original handle in the bin and welding a head bolt that came off my Ford Sierra 2.0 twincam about 2 years ago in its place.

I knew that if I kept hold of them for long enough those bolts would come in useful for something eventually.

 

Kool..... nice to see an Automotive reference TO a fridge door.... rather than the boring, oft repeated, references to Nissan sportscar [fridge] door handles.

 

tooSavvy

[scruff]

Triggers latest upload onto the youtubes:

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llQUrH8eEHM

 

 

Cracking!

 

That's just made my evening, Norfolk to Milan in a ERF LV.... kin awesome.

[Pillock]

I'm glad tooSavvy is over whatever illness was causing him to make sense, and is back to completely bonkers full health

 

My grin today was doing the brakes on my Focus. Doesn't sound a lot to some of you I know but the amount of times I manage to fuck things up when I get the spanners out, or find more expensive work, or muller some bolts or whatever..... half an hour start to finish, working out in the street, including turning the car around to do the other side. It's the same job that he dealer quoted me £180 for because they were "completely worn out" on the last service - done 2500 miles since then, there was still a couple of mm on them and the discs were barely lipped. Parts cost £70 or so, that's £110 saved. With the Touran getting a service for £55 worth of stuff last week before we took it on holiday, I'm slowly building my confidence back up for home mechanics.

 

Previously, I've done gearboxes and alternators and radiators and stuff at home but that was always on old chod. I think newer stuff scares me, the bills if I strip the sump thread or snap a caliper slide bolt or something.

 

Finally, my neighbour stopped to chat to me whilst I was sat on the pavement doing them. I actually work outside their house, it's a bit of a wider bit of road but I always feel like I'm being a bit cheeky. She'd been shopping for a roast and some cheese, the grandkids were coming round for dinner so I jokingly invited myself around, laughed and carried on working. Knock on the door half an hour ago, she'd got left over posh cheese and would I like it?

[phil_lihp]

Saw a very ropey looking yellow and white Rover P6 being A-framed up the M6 yesterday on my way back from Manchester (less said about the journey up the better!), didn't really notice what was towing it but looked like something blue and modern.  Any of you lot want to own up?  Was about the only interesting car I've seen all weekend over 750 miles of motorway, very poor weekend for chod spotting otherwise!

[overrun]

Sunderland AFC. Also a fun WOT drive out in the Escort.

 

Gonna watch those trigger videos now.

[overrun]

Fantastic uploads, trigger!

 

I watched the ones about the continental wagons, the motorways/ports etc, car dumping and the other I forget.

I always hate to see cars dying! Matey is lucky he never fell in that incinerator!

 

The lack of health and safety and generally giving a fuck, is great to see!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I saw a Rover R8 tourer A-framing a second one behind it along the A500 in stoke yesterday. LIVING THE DREAM