What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[jakebullet]

Brilliant targeted advertising there evilbay...

 

[gordonbennet]

My sis took on our old Volvo 940td when we were stupid enough to sell it, her Volvo artic would always go flat over Christmas or any extended break unless she turned it off at the mains (glass carrier so pressure plates always working), the times she jump started the bloody thing straight off the soddin great Varta battery (9/10 years that i know of) under the cars bonnet, not once did the 24v surge worry the car in the least.

 

They really do not make cars like that any more, if they still made the 940 estate exactly the same with that wonderful old 6 pot VW van engine i'd buy a brand new bugger.

[Station]

Got a genuine Vauxhall tow bar from scrappy for 20 quid. Car had blanks in the body that only needed to be hole punched to fit!

Now I can a frame more cars I don't need/want without relying on a £40 train journey.

[Station]

Was an absolute shit to remove though, due to me having minimal tools - had to use a wheel nut tool for the bolts (awful!) and a car jack to literally tear off the rear bumper to access the mounting plate.

[oman5]

My sis took on our old Volvo 940td when we were stupid enough to sell it, her Volvo artic would always go flat over Christmas or any extended break unless she turned it off at the mains (glass carrier so pressure plates always working), the times she jump started the bloody thing straight off the soddin great Varta battery (9/10 years that i know of) under the cars bonnet, not once did the 24v surge worry the car in the least.

 

They really do not make cars like that any more, if they still made the 940 estate exactly the same with that wonderful old 6 pot VW van engine i'd buy a brand new bugger.

I am in full agreement. I had a 740 td 7 years ago and stupidly got rid of it. I missed it immediately and it took me ages to find a decent 940 td and I'm never selling that. they are brilliant.

[Cavcraft]

Someone who works at a kids clothes shop in town obviously has a sense of humour. Saw this last night and had to do a double take!

 

 

 

[Station]

What is it meant to say?

[Cavcraft]

I honestly have no idea, perhaps it did say 'Come in for a browse or just a chat'?

[scruff]

Kwality editing on the "Yellow" thread. Nice one mods

[jakebullet]

Went to a model show. Amongst the shiny stuff was a bloke with a truck scrap yard

 

[Cavcraft]

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Fair play, that's really good.

[daveb47]

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Fair play, that's really good.

Not that good,no mud,brambles or stinging nettles........

[Lord Sterling]

Housemate fucked off with his girlfriemd to England for a few day (she is French and wanted to see London) she left her utterly fucked Peugeot 306 in our garage, this car has never been cleaned, polished or received any sort of valeting. It drives quite strangely like its not connected to the chassis or summat, basically, it's not as tight as it used to be but it has had a regular service and cambelt has been changed.

 

Yesterday I set about it with the hose and a bucket of water, car shampoo and a few old rags, it looks a lot better now, the roof was full of Green slime that forms when cars are never washed, the interior hoovered out and now plastic bumpers have some sort of stuff wiped into it making it blacker and shinier. This is of course after the can nearly exploded whilst I tried to discover a way of extracting more from the can after it seemingly ran out of pressure.

 

I really like wiping some life back into old unlooked after things, the car I mean.....

 

Company Skoda was also (as it is always) treated to a wash, hoover and screen clean.

[Cavcraft]

I really like wiping some life back into old unlooked after things

 

 

That's my excuse when I crack one off in the shower.

[dollywobbler]

I bet she's going to be livid when she gets back! Isn't mistreating an old car a French badge of honour?

[Mr Livered]

Housemate fucked off with his girlfriemd to England for a few day (she is French and wanted to see London) she left her utterly fucked Peugeot 306 in our garage, this car has never been cleaned, polished or received any sort of valeting. It drives quite strangely like its not connected to the chassis or summat, basically, it's not as tight as it used to be but it has had a regular service and cambelt has been changed.Yesterday I set about it with the hose and a bucket of water, car shampoo and a few old rags, it looks a lot better now, the roof was full of Green slime that forms when cars are never washed, the interior hoovered out and now plastic bumpers have some sort of stuff wiped into it making it blacker and shinier... I really like wiping some life back into old unlooked after things, the car I mean...

Would you like to come and stay at my house? You can come when I'm away if you like; I'll leave my cars at your disposal

[Bren]

Would you like to come and stay at my house? You can come when I'm away if you like; I'll leave my cars at your disposal

I had a quick glance over this post and saw the words "fucked" "girlfriend"and "slime."

 

Now that it pertains to cleaning an old pug i am, to say the least, a tad fucking disappointed.

[fordperv]

it's not as tight as it used to be but it has had a regular service

Atcnbe

[anonymous user]

Brilliant targeted advertising there evilbay...

 

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From the sponsored links I can only assume that you snapped your banjo string and it ruined your favourite sock

[cort16]

Junkmans trousers in classic car buyer magazine

[trigger]

 

It would appear Top Gear will be featuring a classy 304 Cabriolet in the next series.

 

http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/11201711.Burford_bites_back_on_Top_Gear_presenter_James_May___gallery_of_12_pictures/

[HMC]

^ Nice looking pug! I wonder what they will inflict on it!

[Pillock]

From the Yellow Thread, fixmystreet.com

 

The amount of bitching about non-events.... There's a car that hasn't moved (so?), there's some dog poo by the post box (step over it!). I'd love to have problems that trivial.

[Wilko220]

I can't begin to imagine how hilarious it'll be watching that Peugeot get trashed. PMSL etc.

 

My grin is that today, after ages and ages of not seeing any, I encountered FIVE mk3 Cavaliers on just a short, 10 mile drive. This included one which was obviously a giffer pride and joy complete with personlised reg and another which looked like it had been dragged out of a hedge. Cheered me up no end!

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

From the Yellow Thread, fixmystreet.com

 

The amount of bitching about non-events.... There's a car that hasn't moved (so?), there's some dog poo by the post box (step over it!). I'd love to have problems that trivial.

 

Fixmystreet is great, my favourite thing I saw on there was someone complaining that trees dripped sap on his car, with a response from someone at the council asking what exactly the complaint was as they "aren't going to chop down all the trees on [road]"

[spike60]

I went on fixmystreet to see I hadn't been mentioned in dispatches and it seems the most pressing problem here is the telescopes aren't working on the seafront at the mo. It can't be bad if that's best/worst anyone has come up with. I'll have to try harder!

[inconsistant]

There's not many cars I can look down at from the comfort of my low slung van engined sports coupe, so it was nice to be overtaken on the A3 yesterday by a Ford GT40.

[Junkman]

[inconsistant]

Also this:

 

[wackywacerwill]

Last weekend, the bank holiday.

 

Fantastic weekend away in Wales with good friends, beer and motorcycles. Kind of a working holiday but with lots of riding off road before crawling to my hammock in the back of a van to sleep for what's left of the night then getting uo and doing it all over again.

 

Great ride back down to the bridge with a good pal on some of the best roads of ever before diving off to Devon to see my folks in their holiday cottage which happens to be their new home. Plan was to pop in unannounced and say hello then get on the road back to London though they weren't in. Found them in the pub which scuppered the original plan somewhat but the beer, dinner, bath and comfy bed were more than welcome. Up early the next day and away at 8 a few hours later, stopped to see my aunt and uncle in Wiltshire after some delay with a rear wheel blowout. Great to see everyone though the need to get back to see the Mrs and kids had me on the road again and pushing hard to make up for the down time.

 

I had a bit of a wobble coming of a roundabout on the 303 but put it down to the knobbly tyres and blown rear shock which had let go back up on the welsh mountainside, throttle kept it on track and a dab of rear brake or more throttle smooths the bouncing. A few little splutters towards the end of the 303 had me reaching for reserve then pulling in for gas at Popham. The bike only took a tenner or so to brim it and it was then I noticed that the rear was going down again and that the tyre I had hopefully reinforced the side wall off with cardboard at the last tyre change had split so you could poke your hand in and touch the tube!

 

Luckily there's a MX track around the back of the services and although 17's are not a popular size hoop I found half buried in the woods a cracked up ancient old tyre which once I'd scooped out the wildlife and mud looked like a winner. A stick was obtained this time so I didn't have to use my skid lid as a bike stand again and once patched up with a wilkos cycle puncture patch the tube was shoved back in the new* tyre and wrestled back on the rim.

 

Back on the road and gunning hard again I made it another 60 miles or so before it started to cut out now and again. After ignoring it and thinking it was crap in the carb I passed the next service thinking I could be back in an hour. So, yeah after pushing it back and having a fag I worked out I had burnt a load of oil in my haste and it was hotter than a muthaflipper. Bummed at the garage for a bottle of Castrol and back at more sensible pace the old donkey made it home.

 

Great weekend, great weather, lucky find and great adventure.