What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Pillock]

18,000 very very hard miles!

[simmo]

Classic nice little old lady called, Hilda rest of the car is pretty good though

[mat_the_cat]

I've now owned my BX for 10 years to the day, in which time I've covered 130,610 miles. So I thought I'd treat it to an oil and filter change (for the 26th time), new front brake pads (7th time) and cambelt (4th time). Not that I'm counting...

Although it appears to have taken up smoking!

 

[DSdriver]

Buy this, paint "Roadkill" on the side.

 

 

 

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/21899/lot/317/

 

I rather like the look of lot 325

 

1967 OSI 20M TS COUPÉ

Coachwork by Carrozzeria Ghia

[fotorabia]

Russian Batmobile..

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=384_1397338101

[spike60]

Russian Batmobile..

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=384_1397338101

Looks to be a mid engined kinda drag car, they must do things differently there. Can imagine the plodski would be thrilled to see that on the public highway!

[dollywobbler]

Selling my mk1 BX estate was one of the best things I've ever done. Now, the car is doing things like this!

[twosmoke300]

Aren't single axle car transporter trailers illegal these days ?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Not for Citroens

[twosmoke300]

Ahh the well known double chevron clause. 😃

[dollywobbler]

Not for Citroens

 

So it would seem. That shabby 2CV I had last year was taken away on a single-axle trailer. Towed by a Fiat Panda!

[nigel bickle]

I've a single axle trailer- propping up the shed. Tow choice of the desperate, frankly -and my very last choice.

 

Are they illegal? I wasn't aware of that.

 

Anyone point me at the legislation, please?

[fordperv]

Finally got around to fitting my dealer plates to the saph today after giving it a wash and polish, I'm so glad to get rid of the manky New style plates that were on

[Noel Tidybeard]

Anyone else remembering these when they look at the pics of that Russki Hydrofoil or is it just me?

 

funny enuff its exactly what i thort

[hairnet]

the coolest sci fi vehicle?? apart from at ats?

[twosmoke300]

The single axle trailer thing is just something my dad has always told me. Might not even be true . Might be because of the axle weight limit

[MrDuke]

the coolest sci fi vehicle?? apart from at ats?

 

It would have some stiff competition, including the modified P6s from Gattaca, any of the Barris cars from UFO and M.I., and the APC from Aliens. Oh, and the motorbikes from Akira. Of course, if you class Mad Max as sci-fi, then everything else is basically screwed.

[beko1987]

Asked Amy to get me a shitty jigsaw whilst she was out today so I can crack on with racking out the shed. She kindly did.

 

Then got home and saw one on facebay for £8, and told me to get it

 

 

She said she would take the £14 argos one back in the week. Win!

[scruff]

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Something fun I spotted at the Resto show, in a Mini based motorhome which had partially collapsed.

 

IMG_0314 by cdconelrad, on Flickr

 

Don't know whether you can make it out in that photo, but it's transfers of all the road signs and their meanings in 3pt text on the dash. Useful only if you intent to revise while stationary, because you sure as hell couldn't refer to it while in motion.

[trigger]

It's not always the single axle trailers that's the problem.

 

 

Someone i know spotted this on Friday coming out of Ipswich on the A14, nearly a hour later it was spotted again on it's side along with the Land Rover in a hedge near Newmarket, along with the emergency services and a 4 mile tailback...

[panhard65]

It's not always the single axle trailers that's the problem.

 

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Someone i know spotted this on Friday coming out of Ipswich on the A14, nearly a hour later it was spotted again on it's side along with the Land Rover in a hedge near Newmarket, along with the emergency services and a 4 mile tailback...

I don't think the trailer is the problem more likely the short wheelbase landrover. The trailer looks half decent and should go a couple of ton. I wouldn't of wanted to drag it too fast but it needs a bigger tow car. The 90 just isn't good enough.

[trigger]

Especially if it has fat mud tyres fitted too, god knows what the bloke was thinking, that much have fish tailed all over the place.

[KruJoe]

To me, twin axle trailers like that seem ridiculously unstable. WTF is wrong with a wheel at each corner (front pair steering) and why are they now illegal?

[vulgalour]

Every time I hear a story like that I expect it to become the basis of an eBay advert.

 

BARN FIND HURST

Light damage from towing accident, easy repair.

*picture of utterly mangled Cadillac with every pane of glass smashed and every bit of expensive chrome trim ruined, and some shrubbery*

£ELEVENTYBILLION

[twosmoke300]

The 90 is still rated to 3.5 ton towing weight though

[dave21478]

To me, twin axle trailers like that seem ridiculously unstable. WTF is wrong with a wheel at each corner (front pair steering) and why are they now illegal?

 

They are a nightmare to reverse. As far as I know, they are about to become illegal - didnt know they already were. I have never seen a flatbed with that setup, mostly exhibition trailers and the occasional large burger van.

[dave21478]

As for the choob in the Landy - Legally its good to tow 3.5 tons, the trailer looks like a 3.5 tonner, which normally weigh about 800kgs or so, giving him around 2.6 tons of load capacity, so he is probably just within the legal limits. However just because you CAN do something doesnt mean you SHOULD do something. 90's are terrible tow vehicles - very short wheelbase and very little weight over the back axle. As mentioned above, add in big balloon tyres with big knobbly treads and a trip to the ditch was pretty much inevitable.

 

A Disco or a Rangie would have been a somewhat better choice - but given how much that barge is hanging out over the back of the trailer it would act like a pendulum and amplify any fishtailing making the trip pretty unpleasant. I used to see stuff like this all the time in my old job....people think that towing their wee box trailer fill of hedge clippings down to the tip is enough experience to justify hiring a big trailer and picking up their ebay purchased chod and razzing up the motorway with it. Often ends badly.

[purplebargeken]

Yesterday gave the green MGF a wash and went zipping along some nice roads, all the way to Crews Hill. So that was one junction of the M25 and then the Ridgeway

 

However, my steam engine mate was bringing his 1926 Foden steam waggon up to steam and then we pottled off for a brief run around the outskirts of Enfield. It brought a lot of smiles and waves from random folk in cars and so on. Lovely. It had been about 3 years since I sat in the cab and it was great.

[saucedoctor]

Just been in EAMF and heard an old chap who frequents the place asking for a "Lambada sensor"

Not the first to ask for such a component, I recall someone asking for one before. When I worked there, we used to get an oul fella who came in asking for stuff that he'd made up names for, and that we were supposed to understand. "Wee cups" were core plugs and "bushes" were junior hacksaw blades. I don't think we ever did figure out what he meant by "bastard tape"