What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[fordperv]

[cort16]

I actually had some time at my lockup today . Wasn't doing car stuff but but it was good to have some time not working in a computer or wiping babies erses.

 

I was planning to pull all the bulbs out the merc and try to fix the number plate lamp but some twat was parked in front of my garage and it was pissing with rain.

[Lacquer Peel]

This site chock full of old Argentinian road tests, lots of them featuring photos of weird South American specials (and cars more familiar to European eyes) being ragged senseless.

https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.testdelayer.com.ar/test.htm&usg=ALkJrhg_qZKPnBC8XlxKN2lXCkSg8MnuQg

 

 

 

 

 

It's class, check it out.

[320touring]

Lagalagalaga na big derv lumps with nae power in tiny lil cars.

 

Been a while but fairly good fun so far

[dollywobbler]

That is a brilliant find LP. I like the defects report on the 3CV. "Inadequate." Fair enough!

 

Interestingly, the Argentinian-built 2CVs were called 3CVs, which all 602cc 2CVs should be called as that's their fiscal rating. A Ferrari Testarossa is 32CV. I'm not sure why I know that.

[hairnet]

how the hell did the xant fit in there cavman

[trigger]

Not really a grin or a grump but yesterday I went to Harrods in London (seriously overpriced and overhyped version of Debenhams) and I actually brushed passed the one and only John Cleese in the Toy Kingdom! I was a bit star struck TBH, he's really tall and stern looking.

 

I also saw a race car simulator which was basically a PS4 with 3 TV screens and a racing seat that moves with the screen that was for sale for £125000 and this battery powered toy Atom car that was £39000!

 

 

[Negative Creep]

Thought I'd make a go of putting up a real Xmas tree since it's the first time I've had my own place. After getting the thing home and spending ages cutting off the bottom branches I have realised it's somewhat larger than I expected, so the 40 lights I bought with it looked utterly pathetic. But nowhere local has the style I want or the decorations to match, so I'm had to go all the way across town to get more, but the only had a pack of 80 in. At this point I basically thought sod it and just put both sets on along with everything I had. Luckily the cat has shown no interest in it.

 

 

Can't think of anything to top it off with though

[MrDuke]

Can't think of anything to top it off with though

 

 

[kinkersaab]

There is a woman i see at my daughters school at pick up who has started driving a yetti with the number F4KEW.... I decided to ask her if it was meant to read how it does? She embarrassedly explained it was " her husbands car". And from what she said it was his responce to her buying "her number plate" which she tels me reads " H1 1 KEW" as in clever. Made me grin, she seems a bit....well very dull, i would like to meet him as he sounds like he has a bit of humour about him.

[forddeliveryboy]

This site chock full of old Argentinian road tests, lots of them featuring photos of weird South American specials (and cars more familiar to European eyes) being ragged senseless.

https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.testdelayer.com.ar/test.htm&usg=ALkJrhg_qZKPnBC8XlxKN2lXCkSg8MnuQg

 

 

 

It's class, check it out.

 

 

Ragged senseless, great pics, interesting viewpoints on what matters in a car - great reading! There's even a tank test on there, and a car which manages to have its underbonnet spare wheel around the strut top.

[Slappy]

Rain-X. Which I bought for £2 in Asda the other week.

 

Hit a surprise heavy shower on the M27 yesterday and was chuffed that I reluctanctly had to turn the wipers up to constant from intermittant, such was the effect of the water beading properties on forward vision.

 

It also looks pretty first thing of a morning too if it's been raining the night before, but then, I am easily amused....

[gm]

copied from another forum

 

[dave21478]

.....this battery powered toy Atom car that was £39000!

 

 

 

 

JESUS FUCK.

 

yeah, yeah, I know....people can spend their money how they like....they earned it (maybe) so they can have fun with it.....

 

but you know what? I think there must be something fundamentally wrong with a society where people are spending over three times the yearly minimum wage on a kids toy car that will likely be played with for less than 6 months.

[vulgalour]

Torino Lutteral Comahue. I have been VERY good this year, so perhaps the fat man can see fit to leaving one of these under the tree for me? They're bloody awesome.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Look at the arse on it!!

[dollywobbler]

It's like someone has combined a Simca 1300, a Citroen SM and an Audi 100 Coupe, with a splash of Fintail Merc.

[vulgalour]

Hnnggg

 

[trigger]

It's a good episode too, the Amazon is stunning when finished.

[mercrocker]

Sorry to keep on, but that Lutteral....!  I thought the ordinary Torinos were cool but that is fucking unreal!    I just had the kind of feeling I did as a kid when I got the 1965 October Motor Show Review and discovered Oldsmobile Vista Cruisers.....

[TimothyClaypole]

While attempting  to de-Trebus my house I've just checked some coins I've had in a little tobacco tin for ever, Jubilee, Royal Wedding (Charles), Half a Crown, etc etc.

 

 

Out of all the tin the one thing that appears to have any value is a "fake" gold coin that you got with the Amiga game Dungeon Master II...

 

 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/200916401660?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

 

Bizarre. 

 

 

[cms206]

Local paper in idiot proofreader shocker.

 

 

(also free plug for my local car breakers, all round good eggs and saviours of varicose vein blue 340s)

[RoadworkUK]

A "Joke":

 

Q:) Why are lactose intolerant dyslexics typically really disorganised on a day-to-day basis?

 

A:) Because they're allergic to diary.

[spike60]

Amiga and coin related stuff, the 90's obsolete Commodore computer and associated games, monitor etc I sold last year fetched a tidy sum, the original silver 1886 US dollar I rediscovered at the same time isn't worth much, about £10......

[outlaw118]

****TOP TIP****

 

Mondeo ST220 drivers; when attempting to take on a fat grumpy man in a traffic light grand prix, make sure he's a) not run out of fags, and is on the way to Tesco Extra driving a Leon Cupra. 

You will not win.

 

You're welcome.

[fordperv]

went to see my mate at the bodyshop and saw this honey thats in for a respray

 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I can't work out if the Cambridge is pre or post re spray. It looks great but not like fresh paint, I'm confused.

[fordperv]

its pre respray just at the stripdown stage, it looks lovely and is a really straight car but the paint is flat and lifeless

[inconsistant]

Lorry carrying cheese catches fire on the M1

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/11282690/Cheese-lorry-catches-fire-on-M1.html

 

Apparently... "The section of tarmac where it happened was so badly damaged that it has had to be scraped into the bin with a knife."

[mrbenn]

Looking through some old photos, came across this: