What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[ShiteRider]

All over the country beer gardens are full of happy smiling people enjoying the sun........and i'm stripping off 30 year old underseal.

But tomorrow they'll have sunburn/hangovers and i'll have another quarter century of protection in war against the rust monster.

[jakebullet]

Went to fit air horns to my disco only to find after removing the grill there are 3 factory drilled holes that are ideal for fitting cheap ebay air horn components to. It looks dead neat and now sounds like get out the fuggin way instead of weedy.

[Cavcraft]

Not a bad day, so far. Sold the Corsa then offloaded a fairly expensive bike, which enabled me to tell the tit who kept asking me to meet him miles away that's it'd gone now. 

Just scored another couple of bargain bikes plus some rather tasty rechargeable cycle lights for a good price.

[Richard]

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[bub2006]

That's ace!

[messerschmitt owner]

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Fuck off Facebook. There I said it.

[Richard]

I did try to work out how to get it off Facebook, but I couldn't. It's an attractive woman walking past a line of increasingly posh cars, whose drivers are all holding the passenger door open expectantly. She walks past them all and gets into a scruffy Fiat Panda (the 1980s kind).

[messerschmitt owner]

Facebook. Great at getting your info but rubbish at letting you use it elsewhere.

 

Ta.

[nacho man]

 

Dad rang me " smokes coming from the stags dash vents"

 

Oh crap only just flogged it him and it's shagged.

 

Shot over and after investigation, it was just a breather hose had come off and a drop of oil had dropped onto the manifold. Quick bit of pipe and a cheap breather filter, and it was back to normal service.

[beko1987]

 

Could buy a lot of chod for the winning bids on these new old Hoovers, some as old as 20 years old!

[drum]

Cars don't like not being used. The diesel audi that I bought for family hols abroad came out of winter hibernation with things not working. The fuel sender is stuck on empty and the oil warning light is coming on. There was plenty oil in it but I gave it an oil change anyway however it still comes on intermittently. Hopefully it's the sensor or whatever. Airbag light was on and both underseat connectors needed attention.

 

As well as play in a suspension control arm, it failed the mot on excessive fluctuation on the brakes. They were fine when I laid it up. Anyway, the grin is that having tried to clean up the discs then resigning myself to buying new ones, the motor factors didn't have any in stock so directed me to the place across the road that skims discs.

 

£18 later

No judder through the pedal anymore so back in for the retest tomorrow.

[Richard]

Facebook. Great at getting your info but rubbish at letting you use it elsewhere.

 

Ta.

 

I agree. I felt a bit dirty posting a Facebook link so I found out how to download the video and put it on Youtube.

 

[richardmorris]

 

Dad rang me " smokes coming from the stags dash vents"

 

Oh crap only just flogged it him and it's shagged.

 

Shot over and after investigation, it was just a breather hose had come off and a drop of oil had dropped onto the manifold. Quick bit of pipe and a cheap breather filter, and it was back to normal service.

 

 

 

What you need is

 

Have you inadvertantly let the smoke out of the wires on your classic British car? This, then, is the solution to your problem!

 

Here is presented for your perusal one Lucas Replacement Wiring Harness Smoke kit, P/N 530433, along with the very rare Churchill Tool 18G548BS adapter tube and metering valve. These kits were supplied surreptitiously to Lucas factory technicians as a trouble-shooting and repair aid for the rectification of chronic electrical problems on a plethora of British cars. The smoke is metered, through the fuse box, into the circuit which has released it's original smoke until the leak is located and repaired. The affected circuit is then rectified and the replacement smoke re-introduced. An advantage over the cheap repro smoke kits currently available is the exceptionally rare Churchill metering valve and fuse box adapter. It enables the intrepid and highly skilled British Car Technician to meter the precise amount of genuine Lucas smoke required by the circuit.

[chaseracer]

Today, as well as pedalling the Blingo to THAT LONDON (cf. Grump thread) to observe the International Percussionist in action with the NYO then hie him homeward, I shall be collecting a set of 14" steelies with decent 175s from my good friend Mr. Brian Damaged.  Should make Frankie the 205 diesel of doom stick a bit.

[mat_the_cat]

Getting this bastard out made me grin!

 

 

I'm doing a cambelt change on the van, and there's 4 bolts holding the vibration damper to the crank - 3 came out but one rounded off. To make matters worse, they're recessed so couldn't grind the head off, and drilling out needed a right angled drill. After trying to drill, with little effect (they're high tensile bolts) I ground down a Torx bit to a taper, and managed to hammer that in!

 

 

[trigger]

Someone over on the buysellcortina forum has found this 14000 mile Cortina 2.0S MkIV and is asking what it's worth is. I find it amazing that this kind of stuff is still out there. The_Doctor would have a field day with the write up on this.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

That's got to be worth £1m if unmolested. It looks sweet!!!

[fordperv]

Saw a beat up mk3.5 fiesta today driven by an old boy who had a huge grin on his face while he was driving

[Pillock]

That Cortina looks absolutely awesome, great stuff. Well into five figures I reckon, aren't the 2.0S models quite sought-after?

[andy18s]

I'm sure that cortina will have a very white room photoshoot before long......

[alf892]

Grin1 Went to the annual opening of Sywell museum in a mates Willys jeep and spent a pleasant few hours looking a bits of mangled WWII planes and a flyover by a Hurricane.

 

Grin 2 was hurricane then landed and came close up.....what a sound.......then watched it take off on grass

 

Grin 3 got home had a quick kip......woken up by an old work mate coming round in his home built viper engined VW. He took me out for a run up the bypass. What a machine......it just goes. I have never been in anything so effortlessly quick........and I've been in some quick motors. Fantastically built too. Chassis built from scratch and van body widen ended and lengthened before he decided he would rather have a pick up. Amazing detailed engineering......and did I say quick........I looked at speedo after he slowed down (a lot!) and we were doing 95 at under 2000rpm

 

A good day.....

[M'coli]

M'coli and Mrs M'coli in new car shocker: my wife has never had a car that is either a hand-me-down or a desperate purchase after the hand-me-down has been worn-out or written-off. 

 

Today, she picked up this, her new Kia Picanto.  Considering that the last hand-me-down, the buck-shee Pug 106, is now in its 8th year of our ownership, the Kia 7-year warranty was part of the attraction.  That, and the fact that it's comfy and makes her smile have made me grin too.

 

As have the 3 years servicing thrown in free, and that whilst we ordered the steel spare wheel and toolkit - Tuesday morning's puncture in the 205 confirmed just how sensible this is - the dealers accidently ordered an alloy and absorbing the cost of that too.

 

[eddyramrod]

eddyramrod

 

tell them.....

Because it was my birthday, and I had to work, I consoled myself by phoning up the Ken Bruce show to get on Popmaster, which was being looked after by Michael Ball while Ken is on holiday. Well, they accepted me and put me on first. I scored 21, most of it on my Bonus questions. Then the next bloke came on and look, he scored 21 too, we went to a tie-break which got Michael all excited. I lost on the tie-break, no shame there I think! So I get a T-shirt, which was the prize I really wanted anyway. Now bear in mind it's Easter week... it arrived today!

[phil_lihp]

Those Picantos are good little cars, my mate bought one new at the same time I got my C'eed and it's been well used but apart from a recall on the handbrake has been trouble-free.  Comfortable little thing to run around in and they put a lot of kit on the pricier models.

[Gerald]

This 110 is the second it eighteen years to physically arouse me.

 

...... Gmmmmmnnnnnnnppppphhhhhhh.....

 

Sorry, she has beautiful camoflage...

 

 

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[mattblack]

Seeing a mint looking, giffer piloted V plate maxi in Asda car park.

[retrogeezer]

Because it was my birthday, and I had to work, I consoled myself by phoning up the Ken Bruce show to get on Popmaster, which was being looked after by Michael Ball while Ken is on holiday. Well, they accepted me and put me on first. I scored 21, most of it on my Bonus questions. Then the next bloke came on and look, he scored 21 too, we went to a tie-break which got Michael all excited. I lost on the tie-break, no shame there I think! So I get a T-shirt, which was the prize I really wanted anyway. Now bear in mind it's Easter week... it arrived today!

 

We were listening in the caravan on holiday and I was shouting at the radio 'I know Eddie Rafter' !!!   

[retrogeezer]

p.s - I was also shouting 'Desree'!

[overrun]

Sunderland AFC

 

Twice this week!

[richardmorris]

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