What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[overrun]

Banged the Escort into storage and dragged this home in it's place.

 

 

Time to rebuild it after it grenaded last summer.

 

Good timing with the car, IMO. I saw a spreading gritter tonight. #DoNotWant

 

I also grinned when I finally unwrapped the weird and wonderful engine from it's two rubble sacks and a hi-viz jacket, and it wasn't seized. I have worried about this for ages.

 

Same deal with the starter bendix. I bought a new one and bathed it in engine oil and cocooned it in a butter tub.

 

'Appy daze.

 

Just the one shite motor for me until the spring, now.

It seems to lose about 100 quid a week, so it feels well at home here.

[overrun]

Peugeot 405 man is selling another car. http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/volvo_driver_24/m.html?item=321221090085&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562

[MrDuke]

Still brand-new and unopened, in its invisible box. Clever buggers, those Chinese.

[vulgalour]

I am excited about tomorrow, off to pull bits off that brown Princess.  I've never been to Liverpool before, I suspect I'll never go again.

[phil_lihp]

Got one of those property sale TV programs on in the background starring Phil Spencer, reminded me of a few years back, parked the Astra company car up near Ilfracome seafront whilst seeing a client and came back to find him talking into a camera just behind the car.  I'm assuming they cut that segment, seeing as he had to try and compete with the sound of a tired Izuzu TD lump churning into life and a large cloud of black smoke drifting across the scene.

[Danblez]

I am excited about tomorrow, off to pull bits off that brown Princess. I've never been to Liverpool before, I suspect I'll never go again.

There are some nice bits, alas you aren't going to one of them! Good luck!

[overrun]

Got one of those property sale TV programs on in the background starring Phil Spencer, reminded me of a few years back, parked the Astra company car up near Ilfracome seafront whilst seeing a client and came back to find him talking into a camera just behind the car.  I'm assuming they cut that segment, seeing as he had to try and compete with the sound of a tired Izuzu TD lump churning into life and a large cloud of black smoke drifting across the scene.

Black smoke? Now I see why the programme is called 'Secret Agent'.

 

I saw it once where an Indian couple were perplexed as to why potential buyers would prefer a dining room table, instead of eating on the floor.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I used to enjoy Property Ladder. 

 

1: Budding 'property developer' buys wreck.

2: Sarah Beeney instructs them as per Tayne's transcript.

3: They paint all the beige bits neon lavender and make the house look like a factory dungeon, block off doors with copious amounts of unnecessary furniture they bought while going £50,000 over budget.

4: Sarah Beeney tells them they've botched it.

5: They immediately sell the house and make a monumental profit because the housing market was on crack.

[dollywobbler]

I used to enjoy Grand Designs.

 

1. Posh couple announce big plans, cue fancy graphics showing how it'll turn out.

2. To introduce an element of tension, Kevin describes the owners as mad for some colour choice or coving option.

3. The budget gets shot to pieces.

4a. The couple paid an architect so Kevin concludes it was brilliant.

4b. The couple ignored their architect/didn't really hire one so Kevin concludes it's challenged but finds some minor good point to trumpet.

5. The woman is pregnant by the end of the show.  

[RobT]

Do all these programmes still advocate knocking down walls to making open-plan living areas, or has that trend passed?  I've never understood that.  Many a perfectly well-proportioned 1930s semi has been knocked through so that kitchen smells then waft everywhere, and you can't hear the telly because the washing machine is going full pelt.

 

On the grin front, strolling to the station this morning in the drizzle I spotted Brett Sinclair driving past in a mint DBS.  Pure class!  There's a place near me that does Aston Martin restos so he must have been taking it for a spin post-restoration.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I like open plan houses, although you're right about the washing machine drowning out the telly. There's problems with heat too. Great in the summer and Christmas though.

 

I think I'll Grand Designs myself a large open plan house with retractable glass walls between the rooms (assuming it hasn't already been done by someone converting an AA callbox into an ecologically sound houseboat)

[RedSparrow]

^^^ I agree! My flat has had the kitchen, hall way and living room all knocked through. I thought it was standard til I saw some of the other (originally identical) flats in the building.

I'm going to section it all off again with 2x4 and MDF when I have the money.

[trigger]

Just been out in the Acclaim and Kiss FM was doing it's Kisstory show on the wireless, The Prodigys Out of Space came on as I was driving through B&Q car park and I found myself cranking it up loud and cruising slowly past the old folk like a boss.

 

Oldskool rave coming from grandad spec shite old car in DIY store car park FTWETC.

[Cavcraft]

Contagious: I came to work in the ZX and had 'Sonething' by Lasgo on full whack (about .000007 decibels) as I sang along. It's like the law and shit.

[beko1987]

I regularly play Above and Beyond at obscene volumes whilst driving through residential areas. And no one looks at me for it, always a more suitable car.

 

Must get the sub and amp in one day and get the bass pumping again!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dY9Y4jRIZE

[Rocket88]

I rate Grand Designs. Mr Mcleod is a bit of a petrol head.

[dugong]

CHAAAAAAVVVVVVVSSSSSS

[KruJoe]

Old repeated episodes of GD, filmed pre-2000, are gr8 for shite spotting.

[dugong]

Old episodes of Bugs on DVD, ditto

[eddyramrod]

I used to drive around in this...

...playing The Pirates Of Penzance at maximum speaker-rattle, and singing along!

 

Mind, this was 1988...

[mattblack]

Saved this from hitting the skip at work:

 

 

Anyone got any suitable knobs (fnarr fnarr) for it? They're 1/4" spindles.

[KruJoe]

Good save!

 

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/35-vintage-CONTROL-KNOBS-Bakelite-plastic-Valve-Radio-Amplifier-Volume-tone-/350915496137

[cobblers]

Van, home, finally (3 months late!)

 

 

Work paid for my wheels refurbed at a place we use, and they've done a flipping amazing job.

 

Today was a good day. 

[Wilko220]

Be careful, commuters

 

[vulgalour]

Spent many, many hours stripping out the brown Princess over in Liverpool.  All the metal bits bar the bonnet were utterly fubarred, surprisingly.  I am inordinately excited by the fact I now have a PROPER steering wheel for the HL and I can frisbee that appalling Ambassador thing that someone fitted.

 

Full update later, it was quite a haul and facilitated 6 solid hours of almost solo spannering.  When I was finished, there really wasn't much that I didn't take!

[TimothyClaypole]

Saved this from hitting the skip at work:

 

 

Anyone got any suitable knobs (fnarr fnarr) for it? They're 1/4" spindles.

 

Send me the one left on it and I'll have a go at making some new ones.

 

(the original won't be harmed in said process).

[Angrydicky]

Love the radio! I have quite a few vintage radios myself, including a couple of early console radios like that one. Sadly they're pretty worthless unless the condition is absolutely mint, I view them as like old motors, you're never going to make money with them unless you're lucky, they take up vast amounts of space and have a nice smell of old wood and electrical burning...Anyway, I hate seeing things like this skipped so well done for saving it.

[dollywobbler]

I'm a bit like that with musical instruments. I've got a 1927 Elysian upright piano which is in true Autoshite condition - quite knackered but usable - and an old reed organ which is the same. Both utterly worthless but the idea of binning them just doesn't seem right.

[DVee8]

We have a vintage wedding hire company.I have a 87 year old type writer a 50's type writer and a 70's one

Lots of old camera's,boxes and boxes of china.

[oman5]

I'm a bit like that with musical instruments. I've got a 1927 Elysian upright piano which is in true Autoshite condition - quite knackered but usable - and an old reed organ which is the same. Both utterly worthless but the idea of binning them just doesn't seem right.

Me too..I have a polish made Legnica Piano and an early 70's Hammond X5 organ plus a couple of accordions, one of which is in bits as I'm fixing it.

I'd love one of those old foot pump chapel reed organs