What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Cavcraft]

Finding this for sale, today. It's the 2 wheeled equivalent of me finding a genuine Vauxhall Nova Sport for sale at a price I can afford.

 

[Ghosty]

Today has been an expensive day for me today, but it could quite easily have been a lot more.

 

 

Found these in a charity shop in Hebden Bridge. All the Led Zeppelin studio albums on early/first pressings, three mono Beatles albums and a few others.

 

Cost £1 each.

[vulgalour]

D:  That's quite a find!

[fordperv]

Finally got around to fitting the new crank seal and oil pump cover plate seal to the saph today and managed to get the crank pulley off without removing the radiator (all other times have been rad off for access) used a tiny puller that i bought the other day, it appears to have cured the leak but only time will tell, it's better than it was as it was peeing out, i cleaned and polished the slam panel inner wings and the underside of my bonnet as they were manky, i really need to clean the bits and bobs in the bay as they let it down

 

[dave21478]

Collection capers tomorrow - nothing exciting though, just a cheap runnabout. I have sold the C2 so need something normal-ish to run about it when not working so I dont have to plod everywhere in a Freelander full of tools.

Its a non-runner so will be a trailer job. Apparently, head gasket failure.

Its cheap enough that if it turns out to be completely kippered I can break it and should make a profit on the bits.

A person I know has one of these which I sourced for her a few years back - I quite rate them, tbh - a useful size and the drive nicely enough.

 

Looks like an interesting* place.

 

[AlabamaShrimp]

^^I hope that was registered in Jersey

[Cavcraft]

Today has been an expensive day for me today, but it could quite easily have been a lot more.

 

 

 

 

 

Found these in a charity shop in Hebden Bridge. All the Led Zeppelin studio albums on early/first pressings, three mono Beatles albums and a few others.

 

Cost £1 each.

 

I wonder if those Beatles ones would fit into a clay pigeon firer?

[Ghosty]

Ha, no idea. 

Don't touch Led Zep III though - first pressing, worth £££.

[purplebargeken]

Waitrose Lime and Coconut ice cream. Bloody yummy.

[steve_earwig]

Lidl here are selling cheddar cheese, it doesn't taste like soap either.

 

Now, if only someone would start selling pickle...

[HillmanImp]

Volksy came up yesterday afternoon to give me a hand with the bearing on the Visa. However we didn't do that instead looking at the water leak on the Shaguar.

 

It seems that a pipe under the inlet manifold has perished and was spraying out water. Obviously it was near impossible to access and took sodding ages. Mrs Imp wanted to go to the gym so she borrowed Volksy's Celica whilst we plodded on with Volksy doing all the work and me offering encouragement. 

 

When it was eventually removed we went to go to the motor factors to get some more hose but realised there was a problem:

 

 

There was a partially dismantled Shaguar blocking the Visa in.

 

Managed to roll the Jag back a couple of feet so it was actually in the garage and scraped the Visa out pretty much through the big bush. Obviously with the non working Shag half in the garage this meant that we had to go to the shop leaving the garage open but thankfully nothing seems to have been pilfered. 

[MrDuke]

Found these in a charity shop in Hebden Bridge. All the Led Zeppelin studio albums on early/first pressings, three mono Beatles albums and a few others.

 

Cost £1 each.

The only charity shops that seem to yield proper gems like that nowadays are the really small local ones, which unfortunately seem to come and go quite quickly. All the national charities, and even some of the regional organisations, are pretty sharp on valuations now, and anything collectable gets bunged in the glass cabinet and priced up. I know it's selfish to complain, and I shouldn't really begrudge them trying to get a bit more coin, but I do miss being able to find stuff like that ^^^ absolutely anywhere.

Usually even the clued-up shops charge slightly less than the stuff's actually worth, but they do get it annoyingly wrong sometimes, especially with film camera gear in my experience. Generally the same ones that have started selling so much brand-new tat, that they may as well drop the second-hand gear altogether and just be a normal shop.

[Ghosty]

I agree whole-heartedly with you - these were in a little West Yorkshire charity's shop, staff clearly didn't know what they had. Apparently another bloke had been in that morning and bought 13 - if he left a full set of Led Zep records (though admittedly some are German pressings) then I wonder what he got?

Oxfams are the worst offenders usually, as most of them seem to have at least one person with a way of looking up values - Hebden Bridge's had a Happy Mondays album up for £30.

If these little shops knew what they had they could have sold them to another record shop in the town, or sold them themselves and made £shitloads.

The Who Sell Out and Led Zep III in the conditions I've bought them in are probably worth £50 each.

[dome]

I have been offered a Renault Traffic minibus for free. Needless to say I said yes...

[messerschmitt owner]

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/someone-did-a-shit-so-bad-a-british-airways-flight-had-to-turn-around-and-land-475

 

 

Safe travels, rogue shitter. Peace be with your lower intestine.

[purplebargeken]

^^^^^ OOOOOooooooooh!

[cort16]

I was watching that classic car program will Quenton Welkspoon and he was pitching classics on the up.

he was bleating on about the m5 and how you want to go for the post 1992 3.8 v8 M5. Oh, v8 is that right Quenton?  That model with the famous straight six m power v8 engine is it? 

That's the kind of thing that gets producers punched in the face. That and under ripe avocados on the catering truck.

 

I just got a tiny bit of satisfaction out of that as he's such a smug know it all fucker.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Plus, he's fucking indistinguishable from Mr Burns out the Simpsons

[beko1987]

Saw a traffic collision just now!

 

Coming off the bypass, I get speed matched around the roundabout by an 07 astra coupe, who is in the wrong bastard lane and preventing me from moving over to the left. I think fuck you, as I always do and sped up a bit to see if I could slot in. Astra man speeds up as well and gets past me.

 

I notice traffic stopped ahead, and realised that I cant get over now, so I'll go straight over the roundabout and down by mums. However, I see a gap behind mr astra man, so nip in. Next thing I know, the traffic stops again, and astra man dinks the back of a 14 plate skoda...

 

Only realised this after a few minutes, I thought mr skoda man had broken down, infact when he got out of his car I took my belt off to get ready to offer a push. When he hammered on the window of mr astra man I put the window up, belt back on and lit a rolly! They moved off after 2 minutes down the road and when they pulled over I went past, fuck em.

 

If your going to speedmatch locals, make sure you know where to look incase you need to brake, which you do on that roundabout. When the local eases off, you probably shouldnt keep accelerating...

[fordperv]

What an utter twunt that'll teach him

 

my grin is i have been lucky enough to see the eclipse.

[MrDuke]

I can't see anything due, apparently, to POLLUSHUNZ. Thanks for ruining my eclipse with all your toxic smoke-belching crap cars, $hiters.

[AlabamaShrimp]

What an utter twunt that'll teach him

my grin is i have been lucky enough to see the eclipse.

 

I saw it too but for some reason my phone wouldn't photo it properly

[The Moog]

 

 

 

He looks like the pied piper of Citroens, playing a tune so the wee citroens will follow his merry dance ... 

[fordperv]

I saw it too but for some reason my phone wouldn't photo it properly

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I tried taking a picture through sunglasses i thought it would be a decent filter, but it was having none of it, glared just the same as your picture

[dollywobbler]

I was watching that classic car program will Quenton Welkspoon and he was pitching classics on the up.

he was bleating on about the m5 and how you want to go for the post 1992 3.8 v8 M5. Oh, v8 is that right Quenton?  That model with the famous straight six m power v8 engine is it? 

That's the kind of thing that gets producers punched in the face. That and under ripe avocados on the catering truck.

 

I just got a tiny bit of satisfaction out of that as he's such a smug know it all fucker.

 

He's the reason I can't watch that programme. He's the least knowledgeable knowledgeable person in the world. Full of incorrect facts that he presents as gospel. Go watch Jay Leno. There's a bloke I've got time for. Almost every fact is prefaced with 'I think' as if he's aware that he might be wrong. He's also got a proper love of engineering whereas Quentin seems to just have a love of wafting around in big barges, feeling smug. Twat.

[cort16]

Plus, he's fucking indistinguishable from Mr Burns out the Simpsons

 

It is uncanny

 

Quenton Willson

 

 

 

Mr Burns

 

[vulgalour]

The continued generosity of shiters and their ability to find obscure things to help out others just because.  Car seats, weird tea, vacuum cleaner parts, obscure exhaust systems... all of this and more has been acquired thanks to the efforts of the denizens of this forum and that's just the folks that have helped me out.  This forum still is what some have claimed it isn't anymore and that's a good thing.

[D Spares & Tyres]

No.

 

 

Unless the locals are dumping their own black bags, kids garden toys, sofa, mattress and left overs of fires for burning the insulation off cables (legally sourced I'm sure*)... Then no. The rubbish is solely the responsibility of the travellers.

 

Not going into what various police officers (before I got mine) have "tried not to say" at a couple of crime scenes.

 

Saw this regularly when living with my parents. It is an agricultural area so the veg picking brings them in. And I have seen numerous times the rubbish pile up next to the caravan then the rubbish abandoned next to a yellow square where the caravan used to be.

 

Speaking from experience not prejudice.

 

Maybe they can't all be tarred with the same brush but the ones I have seen have fulfilled stereotypes. If saying that makes me a bad person then I'm a bad person.

everyone is welcome to their opinions but you just took one line out of what I said.

 

From your logic though I can assume you are horrible. My ex next door neighbour was a horrible bitch, a woman who I worked with was a nasty mouth breather to name just two i have encountered. So can I now assume all women are horrible from these experiences??

 

Not trying to be funny with you or pick a fight but..... ah well........its too sunny out and I can`t be arsed.........

[D Spares & Tyres]

It is uncanny

 

Quenton Willson

 

 

 

Mr Burns

 

If there is anyone that knows Cleobury Mortimer, Mr Burns also used to run Lower Street garage....................

[quicksilver]

^ That's brilliant, I never noticed the resemblance before. In all honesty I think I'd rather watch a car show presented by Mr Burns. The Classic Car Show could be good if wasn't for the annoying presenters - Quent has become a right smarmy git and I hate the way he constantly mocks Alex Reilly for being an ignorant peasant because he features cheaper cars. As for Jodie Kidd, posh totty but can't present - she always sounds like she's reading someone else's lines on an autocue and doesn't seem to have any emotions.