What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Mr Lobster]

ALL VOXHALLS ARE EYESORES

 

[Craig the Princess]

Or is this part 2 of that sodding Corsa advert?

[fordperv]

The location of shitefest 2015?

[michael1703]

If you can, find the Team Rock Radio live version. They can be heard sniggering as they sing it when one of them starts to improv lines.

Heard that too, it goes something like

 

"When a robot flicks through a freemans catalogue and reaches the white goods section, he gets a tingle"

[cort16]

I've got a new PC so I was moving stuff over and found some pictures of old cars past I'm going to force you to look at.

 

525e I got in aberdeen. This car was NICE. It has some weird options like keep fit windows but m-tec front seats and spoiler.

I recon if I'd spent 400 or so quid in it it'd been one of the best e28's out there as it was totally solid. Unfortunately I found it dull so flogged it to an airline pilot.

 

 

This was a nice car but dull dull dull . I bought it from Arnold Clark who lost the v5 and it didn't turn up for a year meaning they ended up taxing it for this period. SUKERZ. I sold it for £5500 and the guy turned up with cash money. I did consider legging it to costa del sausage with the proceeds.

 

 

BMW 535i Sport. This was mega tidy until I OMG drifted it into a ditch when I hit black ice hence the desperate dan beard bumper. I swear I spotted it in the background on homes under the hammer last year.

 

 

This was a 2.3GL Mk2 Granada estate. Made lots of noise but didn't go very fast. The boot isn't any funny sized sportswagon bollocks these are setup for living in or transporting small air craft.

 

 

OMG drift. One of the few cars I wish I'd kept. Rusty as fuck but went like stink and had a supa rare manual box.

 

 

Check out this POS. It was a 2.3 manual. I dragged this back unseen (obviously) from Fort William on a trailer towed by my mates borrowed Frontera, which proceeded to blow it's head gasket on the way home. Good times*

I sold it on yahoo auctions, which dates it a bit.

 

 

 

The yellow peril. This was a S350 v8 with mechanical fuel injection that got about 12 mpg. The steering box was as tight as Katie Price's front bottom so was terrifying to drive. I'd have another.

 

 

[AlabamaShrimp]

Because all the metros have been pillaged for Mini bits.*

 

 

 

*which was Vulgalours point

And mine too

[drum]

I feel compelled to correct the bad maths on this thread.

 

1 British gallon = 4.55 litres

$2 = £1.33

 

Jammy sods are paying 34p per litre

[bub2006]

I know how many litres are in a gallon,was just a bit unsure on the current exchange rate! Still very cheap

[MarvinsMom]

i remember me dad complaining bitterly when petrol went over £2 a gallon...

[beko1987]

ALL VOXHALLS ARE EYESORES

 

I thought this looked familiar

 

 

Lucky bastard gets a free pot of wax!

[Inspector Morose]

Prominent AS member has an off.

He's okay.

[MarvinsMom]

charlie brooker on tonights telly have had a montage for twatgear, it summed the program up perfectly. bloody rubbish.

[155V6]

My ex posting this picture from about 1993 of me on Facebook,both of the Cortinas were hers 

 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

 

Mercy!

[Richard]

This picture appeared on a bike forum thread about transporting bikes...

 

[quicksilver]

I've been laid low with the flu (which is definitely not a grin) but my flu-addled brain did provide a moment of unexpected genius when in the midst of my slumber it made a very surprising connection and came up with a car called the Ferrari Dido. It sounded quite pleasant the first time I heard it but gradually got more and more bland until it just blended into the background noise and eventually faded away completely. No idea what it looked like, seemingly quite attractive but a bit generic and nondescript with no really distinctive features if it's anything like its namesake I guess.

[320touring]

It is friday,and nearly friday afternoon

[EssDeeWon]

And mine too. Trying to find metro parts are nigh on impossible and mini specialists seem to have a scene tax

 

I hate Mini's, all driven by people who drive around waving at each other because they are sooo 'Quirky'

 

Please find a really nice one with FSH and long MOT then break it for your rare Metro, then stick the remainder of the Mini on Ebay stating the engine and box have been removed to save a Metro, highlighting the fact it was a low mileage one owner example with FSH.

[bub2006]

I like that idea! Trouble is the price of minis cancel out that idea

[dave21478]

Dont do that - When I chopped up a perfectly rust-free mini shell to use as a panels and floor donor when rebuilding the van I had, the mini forum I posted the thread on went completely ape-shit. 

 

Most single-marque forums tend to be a bit quick with the pitchforks and flaming torches but mini ones seem even worse than normal!

[bub2006]

I'd love to see that. They don't care when they are trashing good solid metros for the engine though!

[M'coli]

We're back on the beige! Thanks Dave.

[Bucketeer]

[mat_the_cat]

I found a tenner in Sainsburys. I picked it up and handed it in, the lady on customer services looked at me like I was crazy.

 

When I was about 5 or 6 I found a pound coin in Marks and Spencers (I'd wandered off from my family, clearly bored) and handed it in. The lady said that if no-one claimed it after 4 weeks, I could keep it. And with great excitement I went back there a month later to find that (unsurprisingly) nobody had stepped forward and I was rich!

[steve_earwig]

When I was a kid I found a credit card tucked down the side of the centre console of an Alpine (I think) my dad had just bought and tasked me with cleaning out. I took it to the bank indicated and they gave me a new pound note as a reward, the first time I'd seen one of the smaller notes so that probably dates that ( Wiki says February 1978, so I'd have been 12)

[Luckythirteen]

I found a newish Iphone and a purse quite near each other, outside a McD's last year. I went back in to hand them over, and the guy behind the counter looked bewildered!

After the manager came, he struggled to find the right book to take my name and address.

I assume they were claimed, cos I didn't get free money/phone. I wouldn't buy an Iphone (again) but I'd take a free one...

[beko1987]

An old lady dropped a tenner in the queue in front of me earlier in Clintons. I picked it up, gave it to Eva and told her to give it back to the old lady.

 

She nearly cried with joy when she was tapped on the leg by a 2 year old and asked if she'd dropped this money. She turned to me, I confirmed she had and she was very thankful.

 

Teach them young! I thanked Eva by driving the long way home and twatting it through every puddle I found at speed so it covered the windscreen. Was fun

[andy18s]

Found out the Disco has a heated front screen this morning,and has (sort of) working aircon !

Needs a re-gas I think but it's definately blowing colder than ambient temperature

JUst got the cruise control to look at now and it will be a full house as it gets prepped for it's mot

[Rover414]

Another shot of the freshly cleaned car this time:

 

 

I realise I didn't give a lot away about it in the last post, excitement took over a bit. It's done 92,000 miles but had a factory recall brand new engine at around 65,000 miles and has had loads of money spent on it by its previous owner. Solid in all the usual rot spots and everything works, it only really needs a few bits and pieces sorting for it to be almost perfect but as it stands is well usable at the moment.

[hairnet]

watching motorway patrol on pick (waiting for final score)

 

someone crashes off nz motorway into a small ditch at side

 

as the traffic is going poast - a cockfluffer obv not watching what theyre doing crashes 75 ft from the first one into the same ditch

 

they called an ambulance and it was an ldv

 

2nd cockfluffer got fined 200 for not being in proper control lol