What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[junkyarddog]

170ish pictures now uploaded at https://www.flickr.com/photos/113220255@N05/sets/72157649244187876/

 

Many of them shite quality as the lighting and crowds in the NEC is a pain in the arse

That standard Vangard converted to a recovery wagon has got me very aroused

 

Great photos,thanks

[trigger]

I went along yesterday, It was a blinding day, Sadly it didn't start so well though, my mate drove us all down in his company Mondeo, as we pulled onto the M6 we hit a pothole in the 2nd lane, next thing we knew the tyre blew out and we had to drive a mile down along the hard shoulder to a slip road so we could fit a spare, which then meant a 50mph drive there and back home again.

 

 

I don't think we'll be fixing that!

 

 

Anyway the show itself was excellent as always, Really we could have done another day as we had to skip over some stuff like the autojumble, plus i got a invite to a pub crawl in Coventry with the Practical classics guys which i had to turn down as i was only there for the one day.

 

It was good to meet AlexG too who i inevitably managed to pap whilst perving over Sam Glovers old Princess.

 

 

A highlight for me was seeing Swampy at last, the Mk3 Cortina that was saved from a Essex field and features on the massive rebuild video stream on Youtube.

 

 

and this very blue interior in a 20000 mile Allegro!

 

 

The rest of my photos are on Facebook if you want to take a look.

 

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152537440392087.1073741865.667292086&type=1&l=9490df8529

[fordperv]

Popped with a few friends to a car cruise in Chorley, i grinned like a Cheshire cat because people were making a b line to look at my standard looking saph in a carpark of modified cars, then on the way home my mate needed fuel so we stopped at the services and a lovely chap who worked at the petrol station came out specially to look around the saph and have a chat with me about sierras and the ones he had.

[Honey Badger]

New civic Type R is a turbo I think, so no more screaming yer tits off at 8000rpm I'm afraid, it's the same as all the other fast hatches now.

[Keymaster]

I went to the nec too...... it was so busy and now I'm proper knackered. I took exactly 0 pictures and bought only some cake. Was still OK though

 

Are you me?

[purplebargeken]

Triumph Dolomite stand features my mate's lovely blue 1300FWD and his barn find red 1300FWD. 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

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https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152537440392087.1073741865.667292086&type=1&l=9490df8529

Great pictures on Trigger's Chavbook page,but this one is amazing

Was it as good in the flesh? What engine has it got, I found a build thread on RodsnSods but it only covers the body mods.

The same bloke also built this a few years ago apparently

Like the Cortina all steel and fabricated by the owner.

[trigger]

From what i could see of it it looked fantastic, it's come a long way since the last time i saw it too.

 

 

[spike60]

The Cortina appears to have lost some doors!

[tooSavvy]

The Cortina appears to have lost some doors!... 

 

..and found '2 door' doors?

 

TS

[HillmanImp]

I found a build thread on RodsnSods 

 

Just had a read of that (well what I assume was that, there can't be many):

 

http://www.rodsnsods.co.uk/forum/garage/4-door-cortina-estate-converted-2-door-72314

[RoadworkUK]

 

Hi-Fidelity gardening. My old speakers as planters. A sound idea.

[DVee8]

Well that's not a bad thing. Where do you work?

I work for Nissan's biggest supplier making pressed steel components ie most of the skeleton of the car,door pillars,sills,roof rails,all the engine bay,chassis parts,wheel housings,panels behind the dash and the seat pans and seat backs.for the Nissan products in the UK,Spain and Russia.

A lot  of these are also shared with Renault so are shipped to France and Rumania.

 

We also make panels for Honda in Swindon,for the Civic,Jazz and CRV. We also make some panels for Toyota.

[dave21478]

Found some footage of Shiply professionals* at work.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc0EKmITTf4

[Pillock]

Took the MG into town, because misty and raining is perfect* soft-top weather. Pulled over to put the roof up when the rain-roadspeed equation became unworkable and just as I pulled out from the lay by, a white MGF came by. And then a vomit coloured Aggro.

 

 

You can just make out the white F in the distance, Mrs_P was quick on the camera but the weather was miserable.

 

Overtook them both going through a 50, then as it opened back out to a NSL I saw a pair of headlights bearing down on me....the Aggro! He came past, I was cruising at 85mph (this all happened on my driveway, or something) and was just holding on. He was shifting!

 

From there we jostled positions at every junction but that thing wasn't hanging around....

 

[xtriple]

My insanity makes me grin (sometimes!), to whit, I have just eaten four slices of toast... with a knife and fork! Realised somewhere onto the third slice what I was doing, but it was to late by then, the cutlery was already dirty!

 

What a fooking prat  

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Jesus man you are a total fruitcake

[saucedoctor]

STILL for sale! I sat in this car, in this showroom the guts of 30 years ago when my Dad was looking at a Maestro. The B had 5000 miles on it then, as well.

 

http://www.sslogancars.co.uk/used-cars/mg-mgb-newtownabbey-201405214372424

 

 

[plasticvandan]

This evening I'm down the bottom of the garden in my shed,Tilly lamp hissing away providing both light and heat,painting a model steam roller with some 40 yr old humbrol, cup of tea on the go.good times,good smells

[scruff]

Mate has just popped round with his latest purchase. 1957, has been in the same ownership for over fifty years and until this afternoon had never left Yorkshire since the day it was delivered! Has a 2.2 BMC diesel in it which is amazingly sweet running - sounds just like a black cab in a sixties Brit flick. It's an older restoration but wants nothing doing. Lucky sod

 

[twosmoke300]

Finally got round to fitting a better tyre to the Aprilia pegaso and taking it green laning . Great fun and very slippy. was out with a mate on a 13 plate BMW 800gs . My 700 pound banger got up several hills that the beemer couldn't . Ha

[vulgalour]

Stockton-on-Tees to Portsmouth without a hitch in a 37 year old Alfa.

 

 

Mikeknight, chompy_snake and I got back at 2am this morning (we set off at 7:30am the previous morning) after a mammoth mission to deliver the Alfa to its new owner in Portsmouth.  It's a 6 hour drive from where we are to where the customer was, plenty of horrendous weather including some of the thickest fog I've ever seen and the little Alfa was uncharacteristally for the marque flawless for the entire journey.  Sadly, I was just too uncomfortable to tolerate more than the first two hours of the journey, I'm really disappointed that I'm the wrong shape for the Spider, especially when I saw how stupidly happy the new owner was after a short blat in it around Portsmouth.

 

Mission accomplished we can now get on with more great jobs, like changing the clutch on the Xantia tomorrow.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

That 2-dr cortina wagon is beyond amaze. It has a turbo BDA engine (think its a BDA anyway, its defo a rare old 16V head on a ford block and its not a Lotus) andf the rear windows are proper glass items and are bonded in!!!! Its a flipping work of art man.

[willswitchengage]

http://www.vauxhall.co.uk/vehicles/vauxhall-range/vans/vivaro/siberia-challenge/tracking-the-journey.html

 

This came up as an advert on Redtube Youtube.

 

 

Vauxhall's latest PR stunt is driving their new Vivaro van 12000 miles across Siberia, essentially the Mongol rally. Not an easy route by any means, watchers of 'Long way round' will testify to this. Actually looks like an impressive feat considering you'd have thought this would be a woefully unsuitable vehicle (uncomfy, bad off road, complicated). Still wouldn't buy one though.

[plasticvandan]

I'm sharing this grin. Mate of mine had his rebel on the reliant club stand at the NEC,apparently during the "any questions for mike brewer?" Segment on the WD stand,my mate asked "why are you such a twat?". I so hope my mate filmed it

[wuvvum]

Watching Dogtanian episodes on Youtube.  I'd forgotten quite how shonky the animation was.  Still brilliant though.

[HillmanImp]

Mate of mine had his rebel on the reliant club stand 

 

As partially seen in my photo here:

IMAG1260 by Afalseicon, on Flickr

 

I actually thought I had taken a photo of it as my mate and I were discussing how cool it was.

[trigger]

I've just spotted that my wife is your profile photo Plasticvandan!

[seth]

Today we had an 80th birthday party for my father in law. 

 

A year ago he was not in good health. He and my mother in law were struggling to cope and were 200+miles away from their children. 9 months ago he was diagnosed with prostate cancer that, through lack of prior diagnosis, had spread to his spine causing him agony and disability. 8 months ago he had major back surgery, removing 3 vertebrae and fitting a load of titanium in to his back (courtesy of the NHS). He was bed ridden for 8 weeks and we expected him to be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life.  While he was in hospital their house sale went through and they moved to be closer to their grandchildren in London.

 

Today, with much determined physio, he can stand up from a chair unaided, can walk with a stick (or a frame for going further/to the shops), and is not dependent on others for everything.  And they both get to see the grandchildren all the time and are happier than I suspect they have been in years.  Today family members and friends came together to celebrate 80 years and to prove, I think, that it's never too late.

 

 

 

(Apologies for the mushy nature of this post)

 

 

 

 

[fordperv]

the only picture i deemed worthy to take a picture of last night whilst in chorley, i congratulated the driver on being a winner