What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[TimothyClaypole]

Dogs is it? 

 

 

 

[vulgalour]

I have finally resolved the quandary over the lights I wanted to fit on the back of the Princess, better yet they're none of the ideas offered, I wasn't looking for them and hadn't even considered them.  Not only that, but they're exactly the right size and I love the design of them, they also have enough space to modify them to accept ultra-bright LED reversing lights almost invisibly into the casings - drill through the casting inboard of the red lens and stick an LED in the hole.

 

Dead chuffed about that.

 

 

There's a nice little coincidental nod to the old Princess units in them too with the trapezoidal reflectors.  Here's a rough mock-up of it with the bumpers reinstated, as I'll have to keep the bumpers in place to make this work.

[Vantman]

I hope you vetted the new owner of the Saab v carefully.

 

I certainly did,although he did arrive in a Saab and he knew where to look for problems. I felt quite chuffed when he said that he couldn't find anything wrong with the car so he wasn't going to try and beat my asking price down.

[Cavcraft]

That Princess looks like it's crying. Which is quite apt, sorry to say.

[vulgalour]

That's because the angle of the lights I used in the rough photoshop is wrong for the angle of the car.  In person they don't sit all droopy looking like that, they sit more like the lights on the back of a classic estate from everyones favourite manufacturer.

 

[Cavcraft]

A very apt number plate.

[AlabamaShrimp]

That new wheeler dealers program is unwatchable due to how he fucking quotes every price In dollars even though he's in the uk, Australia or what ever.

So you're asking 5000 dollars for your car?

No fuck off I live in accrington not Alabama I want 3500 POUNDS.

Think it's because they show it in America and their too thick to work out the difference, Oh and Brewers a twat

[Noel Tidybeard]

I have finally resolved the quandary over the lights I wanted to fit on the back of the Princess, better yet they're none of the ideas offered, I wasn't looking for them and hadn't even considered them.  Not only that, but they're exactly the right size and I love the design of them, they also have enough space to modify them to accept ultra-bright LED reversing lights almost invisibly into the casings - drill through the casting inboard of the red lens and stick an LED in the hole.

 

There's a nice little coincidental nod to the old Princess units in them too with the trapezoidal reflectors.  Here's a rough mock-up of it with the bumpers reinstated, as I'll have to keep the bumpers in place to make this work.

dont drill the casting for reverse lights get some marina estate items for under the bumper and engineer the right hand one to be the fog light this is they fitted to an early coupe

[Cavcraft]

As if it needed pointing out, but the absolute stupidity of some Facebook users is beyond compare. There's a story on there about a death row inmate in America who supposedly wants a small child for his last meal, and the authorities have agreed and are buying him an ill child from Africa, or some such bollocks, and people actually believe it. 

How are some people so fucking stupid they can breathe in/out without being told?

[wuvvum]

Youtube isn't much better.  The comments on videos from channels such as the Onion News Network beggar belief sometimes.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfsMMVgIToA

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGXSPf9b-xI

[Cavcraft]

Oh well, at least my new job is ok.

 

I'm a triangle player in a reggae band. I just stand at the back and ting.

[nacho man]

My artwork from vulgalour came today, my missus had a odd look on her face when she asked what it was and I said a drawing of a coach.

 

 

It looks ace close up, just gotta decide what to do with it now.

[nacho man]

Also you know it's from a shiter when the plastic sleeve thingy me bob protecting it has this on it.

 

[castros_bro]

ex Rusty_Rocket  106  with new MOTtery full of WIN

 

 

 

 

 

After a year of being left unattended at various free roadside parking areas of the Portugal land interspersed with long distance meanders in the scorchio scoricho peri peri sunshine the 106 passed an MOT so will now get an oil change,  new second-hand boots, massage of the rear brake bits and the return of it rear wiper then be sent back south for more road salt free motoring.

[cort16]

I was watching chasing classic cars the other night, which featured him looking at a Volvo 960. Not a normal 960 but Paul Newmans 960.

Not just that but also Paul Newmans Volvo 960 he'd had fitted with a super charged 5.0 Ford V8. He must have had it built for high speed salad dressing. delivery.

 

He also persuaded David Letterman to buy one.

 

 

 

Paul Newman calls me up and he says, "Dave, I'm thinking of getting me a Volvo station wagon, and I'm gonna stuff a Ford 302 V8 engine into it. Do you want one?"

So you know, I'm thinking a Volvo station wagon looks like something you'd make in metal shop, and every time you see a Volvo it's got three kids getting car sick on a golden retriever, and I'm thinking these cars are so safe because in traffic other motorists slow down to check out how ugly they are. So intellectually I don't want a Volvo, but of course, internally it's Paul Newman. I say, "Yes, I'd like one."

So I'm aware of the fact Paul is more excited about this than I am. He calls me up from time to time and he says, "Have you picked out the interior yet?" And I said, "No, I haven't." Then he calls two weeks ago, and he says, "Dave, the cars are ready. WE got two, on for me, one for you. I've got to ask you a question. Do you want a puffer?"

I'm thinking, well, is that like a special inflatable seat? And I said, "Well Paul, are you getting a puffer on yours?" And Paul says, "Yeah, yeah, I'm getting a puffer on mine. It's a supercharger. This thing will turn about 400 horsepower, so if you pop the clutch you're gonna tear up the rear end. I tell ya, from 20 to a hundred you can chew anybody's ass."

And, you know, I'm thinking to myself, what circumstance would Paul find himself in driving around in a Volvo station wagon where he feels like he's gotta chew somebody's ass? But when Paul Newman offers you a puffer, I mean, you take it. You don't turn down Paul Newman.

 

 

http://www.swedespeed.com/news/publish/Features/printer_33.html

[Parky]

New job is going well so far, weather has been nice, and a girl in Pret said I had nice eyes.

 

Today has been a good day!

[Cavcraft]

I hope they were looking at her tits at the time.

[Parky]

They were actually looking at a particularly juicy looking blueberry muffin.

 

Mrs P thinks that Pret have a new policy of complimenting the munter customers to make them feel better about themselves, thus more likely to buy an extra blueberry muffin. Bloody worked!

[Cavcraft]

juicy muffin.

 

 

 

 

Ok, you win.

[robinmasters]

A metro as shed of the week on pistonheads:)

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=23&t=1455190&nmt=RE%3A+Shed+Of+The+Week%3A+Rover+Metro

I think the thread may be a touch bumpy..

Reading that thread has made me grin-I'm not one of them!

[EssDeeWon]

Sally Bretton butt naked in 'Not Going Out' tonight

[Mr Lobster]

Dammit. Forgot that was on. Looks like I will catch it on iplayer over the weekend.

 

<checks for kleenex>

[KruJoe]

Christ alive, that SHARKNADO film is so shockingly bad, it's almost good.

[hairnet]

wreck rescue - aec matador

[Noel Tidybeard]

Sally Bretton butt naked in 'Not Going Out' tonight

rather pert buttocks

[drum]

[Pillock]

MG can has tax.

£20.18 but don't have to pay first installment until 17th, or as I like to call it "after payday"

[fordperv]

Berry blast jammy dodgers

[dollywobbler]

XM has a boot full of wood picked up yesterday from a friend, and I have received a tax refund for the Rover. Excellent.

 

Had to finally give in and put some fuel in the XM too after 650 miles. I like that.

[fordperv]

Followed a 106 with 2 old fellas in that stunk of veg oil, made me smile