What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[HMC]

Sat by a barbecue reading old CAR, life is good!

[saucedoctor]

Did a round trip of nearly 100 miles today (in the Rover). I was sent for to investigate a server that "won't boot". I diagnosed "broken monitor". In the building less than 10 minutes.

 

It was a nice day for a drive in the country!

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Adobe should probably get their brakes checked. 

 

[Asimo]

Where VW got their reputation?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQhfcdQf1QA

 

I've never done it like this, it takes hardly 5 extra seconds to do it without the engine running. Adjustment...? maybe, later.

[trigger]

[Pillock]

Dealt with one of those car buying places today. This is the correct thread! Quoted me about £500 short of book, knocked £160 off for a dent and smashed windscreen but it took half an hour and apparently they don't know what a knackered DMF feels like, and didn't hear or care about the very vocal wheel bearings. I had to contribute to the finance payoff but pretty much broke even after my employers allowances over two years. I now have no car if you ignore the 1.2 Europcar Polo sat outside until my company car arrives.

[twosmoke300]

Whilst riding my ke175 home from work (grinworthy in itself) I spied a Spanish registered Renault 18

[saucedoctor]

A KE was one of the first bikes I ever rode. Old enough to have "KAWASAKI" all in caps on the tank. There can't be too many of those left!

[Cavcraft]

And we demand a picture of said KE!

[twosmoke300]

Will get one motto .

[beko1987]

Just added tomorrows purchase to our insurance! Will own 2 cars next week!

 

Anyone want a cheap XM?

[rml2345]

Grin 1; I've now got working wash/wipe on the Volvo for a cost of £0. Incidentally, the mechanism on those is quite elaborate.

Grin 2; Just moved the sister of a mate with same and it's one of the easiest flittings I've ever done.

[Gerald]

 

The Macc lads plus beige maestro (and other stuffI don't recognise... ).

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

In the eBay Tat thread, @Louise2cv said something about a seller who had obscured his mobile number written on the car he was selling, only to write it in the ad anyway. That reminded me that I used to collect examples of botched numberplate obscuration, and here they are:

 

 

 

Genius. Tape would have worked if only it was an acrylic plate. 

 

Well, not just any tape. 

 

The first picture on the listing:

 

The second:

 

...and the third:

 

This guy had at least remembered to obscure both the front and rear plates (with what looks like a windsock)...

 

...unfortunately he had forgotten to not take a close up photo of the tax disc. 

[Junkman]

Whilst riding my ke175 home from work (grinworthy in itself) I spied a Spanish registered Renault 18

 

Them damn immigrants.

[Junkman]

In the eBay Tat thread, @Louise2cv said something about a seller who had obscured his mobile number written on the car he was selling, only to write it in the ad anyway. That reminded me that I used to collect examples of botched numberplate obscuration, and here they are:

 

Do these people obscure their numberplate when they drive their car on public roads for anyone to see, and being photographed and stored in a database by the beloved guffament roughly 200 times before they as much as reach the other side of town?

 

Are they concerned that their phones are being tapped, their emails, google searches, downloads, and amazon orders carefully registered, as well as each and every one of their purchases paid by debit card, including the PIN number? That even the books they borrow from the public library are registered in a governmental database, including their name and address? That virtually every step they do is on camera and their conversations are recorded by microphones hidden in street lamps?

 

Number plate obscuration. What a bloody humbug.

[rml2345]

If these people are so worried about their licence plate being recognised, why don't they just throw the plates in a hedge or something?

[vulgalour]

Got to drive a 1.1 five door Saxo Forte tonight.  It was suprisingly really very comfortable and is the first car that's put a genuine silly grin on my face without me having to drive stupidly in a long time.  Very pleasantly surprised by this because I really didn't get the appeal of the Saxo until now.

[Cavcraft]

licence plate  hedge

 

 

Or better still, combine the two and get a privet reg, like this fella has done

 

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C461202

[Pillock]

I always assumed the covering of plates was because they were trying to make a massive profit and didn't want anyone to realise the sake car had already been through eBay.

 

Can't imagine the market for bilking using a Rover P6 is massive....

[saucedoctor]

Some people reckon that if their registration number is on the internet, then the car will get cloned.

[Wilko220]

This morning I met up with Purplebargeken of this here forum and his beige beast of a Volvo Amazon.

A very nice bloke (just like every AS person I've had the pleasure of meeting over the years) and a very interesting car.

[dugong]

Got to drive a 1.1 five door Saxo Forte tonight.  It was suprisingly really very comfortable and is the first car that's put a genuine silly grin on my face without me having to drive stupidly in a long time.  Very pleasantly surprised by this because I really didn't get the appeal of the Saxo until now.

 

Other than the pedal box being designed for ballerinas with shunken feet, and a crap driving position, no, they're great. Forgave a VTS and 106 Rallye that design fault because they were both great fun. 

 

 

Anyone else fiddling with BeamNG? It's best described as a car-crash simulator to test soft-body physics. You get a number of cars and drive around thumping them into the scenary. It's all open-ended and you can go wherever you man-handle the car into landing. 

 

It's a bit rough around the edges - the tyre modelling is a bit off, and the sound effects are crap - but it's early days. The Alpha release is £9 which buys you every amendment up to and including the full game. Eventually they'll be race modes and other cars \ tracks - or you can just free roam and see how many chunks you can take out of a generic American sedan. 

[Sloth in a bowl]

Just run a quick check on https://www.vehicleenquiry.service.gov.uk/ for my old V40, somebody has put it through a successful MOT last week.

 

Good to know that it's still being used and didn't become a breaker.

[RedSparrow]

Other than the pedal box being designed for ballerinas with shunken feet, and a crap driving position, no, they're great. Forgave a VTS and 106 Rallye that design fault because they were both great fun. 

 

 

 

Anyone else fiddling with BeamNG? It's best described as a car-crash simulator to test soft-body physics. You get a number of cars and drive around thumping them into the scenary. It's all open-ended and you can go wherever you man-handle the car into landing. 

 

It's a bit rough around the edges - the tyre modelling is a bit off, and the sound effects are crap - but it's early days. The Alpha release is £9 which buys you every amendment up to and including the full game. Eventually they'll be race modes and other cars \ tracks - or you can just free roam and see how many chunks you can take out of a generic American sedan. 

 

Yeah I had a look at that on youtube a while back. It's pretty impressive stuff. It'll be a while until I have a computer that can handle it.

This and DayZ  are the only computer games I've had a desire to play for about 5 years.

[tooSavvy]

This morning I met up with Purplebargeken of this here forum and his beige beast of a Volvo Amazon.

A very nice bloke (just like every AS person I've had the pleasure of meeting over the years) and a very interesting car.

 

.... you might, someday, meet me & introduce some 'balance' to that last comment...............

 

TS

[skattrd]

Apologies for non car related grin, but as a few on here are aware I am currently working in Germanland. My time in The Fatherland has been gr9.72 but it's coming to an end

Why am I posting in the grin thread? Well I may have just bagged a couple of weeks working in Beijing to finish off this contract.

I'm not usually one for spottages but promise to start if I get to China.

[twosmoke300]

All the old shite must be coming out of the woodwork in Cornwall . Saw an a reg white ambassador today. Complete with giffer driver and metal aa badges. Brick red interior ftw

[vulgalour]

Anything other than a black interior in an Ambassador seems not to survive, so that was quite a spot.

[Cavcraft]

Some people reckon that if their registration number is on the internet, then the car will get cloned.

Unbelievably this happened when I was selling my 306 estate. Some bastard cloned the plate and drove off with a tank of fuel from a petrol station. They got caught anyway which was probably lucky for me.