What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[fordperv]

Went for a huge walk today with mrs fp and the dog to my late dogs favourite walking place near our old house in Newcastle which is a country park with a huge wood by an old mine, to scatter some of his ashes at the highest point there where you can see literally the whole city all around you, I loved it so many happy memories

[fordperv]

this is the view (stolen from google images)

 

[jmsguzzi]

I noted the lack of Y10 (were they still sold in 1991?) because I had one of those, too!

Here's the list again:

 

 

I'll get that XM V6 page...

190E 1.8 please

[beko1987]

Saw yo mamma walking down the street carrying a cardboard box. Asked her what she was doing, she said moving!

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Bit of a price difference between the 800 and XM considering they were in the same segment!  An XM is definitely on my hit list, rust and leaky bits regardless.

Different ends of each range though, a Sterling would probably been more expensive than the XM . From memory in the company car scheme where I worked a basic 2.0 carb XM was in the same group as SRi Cavaliers and MG Montegos whereas the cheapest 800 was a couple of groups up with Granadas and Renault 25s. No diesels of any flavour though,how times change.

[KruJoe]

190E 1.8 please

 

 

[cms206]

Had a nosy earlier and Zaz still produce the old Daewoo Lanos looking more or less like a Daewoo Lanos. Further investigation found that a full twenty eight years after the Vauxhall Astra Belmont was introduced, you can still buy a Daewoo Nexia - not quite a graceful swan, but much better than the Nexia when we had it. I like it...

[phil_lihp]

That's quite smart, the Corsa alloys suit it too.

[KruJoe]

On the 190 write-up, notice how they stress that it's such a big car? They seem quite dinky these days!

The same magazine has a page of spy-shots near the front, which features the baby-Benz's replacement:

 

 

And remember how they said how dated the 825 SDT looked... here are the first shots of a Mk2 mule:

 

 

NB, Mk1 indicators!

[MrDuke]

I remember seeing a convoy of prototype Mk4 oval-grille Fiestas shortly before they were released. I genuinely thought the whole front-end was some elaborate anti-spy disguise, only to find out in due course that they really were that ugly.

[hairnet]

massively inappropriate text off me mother that made me drop the food i was eating

[trigger]

Let me guess, as it's "steak and blow job day" I'm guessing that your mum was texting your dad to tell him that his steak was cooked medium rare and that his blow job will be well done but she texted you instead accidentally?

[HillmanImp]

I like the way the 'Scoop' Rover 800 has BMW badges. Little did they know.

[Cavcraft]

That Rover didn't last long!

 

 

Date of Liability 01 06 1992 Date of First Registration 03 06 1991

[hairnet]

 

That Rover didn't last long!

 

 

Date of Liability 01 06 1992 Date of First Registration 03 06 1991

 

pre production ones usually dont - or modern ones anyway

[Pillock]

Awesome! Thanks for the heads-up on S&BJ day, I'd completely forgotten.

[dollywobbler]

Prototypes often have short, painful lives. Usually involving getting intimate with concrete blocks.

[hairnet]

Let me guess, as it's "steak and blow job day" I'm guessing that your mum was texting your dad to tell him that his steak was cooked medium rare and that his blow job will be well done but she texted you instead accidentally?

 

it was to do with wine and she is sober

[Richard]

Let me guess, as it's "steak and blow job day" I'm guessing that your mum was texting your dad to tell him that his steak was cooked medium rare and that his blow job will be well done but she texted you instead accidentally?

 

Is it really? I got steak for tea tonight.

[trigger]

Is it really? I got steak for tea tonight.

Tonight's your lucky night then!

 

[fordperv]

went to get mrs fps tyre sealed today as it was leaking air from the corroded paint where the bead was sat, a lovely lady pulled into the tyre place in a pug estate and look at the state of what was on the front passenger side (she didnt mind me taking a picture)

 

 

it wasnt just the outside edge that was bald

 

 

she was straight up in telling us she never checks her tyres, it was only because her dad spotted it when she went to visit him that her attention was drawn to it, the other 3 werent much better

[DSdriver]

Nothing wrong with the tracking though.

[vulgalour]

I have definitely been getting a better class of customers this year.  I'm still adjusting to customers with reasonable requests, who are less critical of my work than I am and that are happy with the prices quoted and time-scales I work to.  As a result, I'm feeling considerably more relaxed and finding work far less stressful and this in turn encourages me to do better and create more stuff.  Not only that, the quality of my work is increasing with each piece, noticeably enough for even me to see. 

 

So to anyone that's encouraged me, commissioned me and suggested things for me to draw since I decided to start doing the automotive art in earnest, have a big fat thank you.

[KruJoe]

Long may it continue.

[MrDuke]

I know it's not as funny as the last Benny Hill mashup, but 0:30 to 1:00 still leaves me in stitches every time.

 

[barefoot]

one magnetic tray from pound shop.

Please tell me more about the magnetic tray.

[Bobthebeard]

Recent grin caused by the local bin chaps.

Was out on the drive when they collected the recycling bins. One of the crew lifted the lid of the paper and cardboard bin, sucked his teeth, brought it back and slapped a sticker on it.

Soz mate, its got tissue paper in it. Thats banned......

What? This piece mate?

Yeah.

Ok.. I will take it out. Is that ok?

Yeah. Take it out and thats fine.

Ok..... Took it out.

Cheers Mate.

Sigh!

[Noel Tidybeard]

i dust this down every now and then just to be childish

 

http://www3.scania.com/en/V8/GB/The-V8-In-3D/

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Please tell me more about the magnetic tray.

 

It's pretty good. Very cool holding bolts in defiance of gravity. 

[wuvvum]

Whilst we're on the subject of Scania-related grins: