What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[willswitchengage]

Just bought a new 'Halfords Advanced car cover' for the deux chevaux. Actually seems pretty well made for £50, would recommend to a m8

[fordperv]

A mate of mine popped to mine earlier to show me his new purchase, he knows I love them

 

It used to belong to a chap over on aronline, it's a nice thing, he won the eBay auction at a smidge over £200

 

I've just found a link on the car

 

http://www.aronline.co.uk/blogs/ar-cars/our-cars/mikes-rover-214sli/blog-friends-re-united/

[skattrd]

What? an R8 was recently sold that wasn't purchased by JohnK? I thought he was cornering the market in them.

[cobblers]

Went outside today to wash my car on my fairly wank street (Bolsover Model Village - its actually an interesting google) and ended up chatting to the old ish bloke over the road. Turns out he's pretty clues up with regards to vehicles and stuff, and we ended up spending 20 minutes talking about how my Ibiza megaturbo sounds like a "proper car" to him but my van sounds like a corsa even though its a proper car. We got into discussion about manifold runner lengths and everything, and none of it was down to me, I just wanted to wash the car before the water went cold or the hose blew off the tap.

The last time I washed the car I ended up talking to a smackhead who just wanted to tell me how he was upset that he had his kids taken away from him and someone had put the windows of his car through after he left it on some industrial wasteground for a month.

[Pillock]

You live in a model village? Isn't that a bit of a bind, with all the houses being really tiny and there being slightly off-scale cars glued down everywhere?

[vulgalour]

Cobblers, you sound like you moved onto my old street.

[Keymaster]

Never trust a smackhead who attempts to strike up a conversation with you while you're washing your car out front of your house. Its a diversion for his mate to try your possibly unlocked back door!

[vulgalour]

You credit Bolsover crims with too much intelligence there.

[Keymaster]

Ha, maybe. Scouse smackheads on the other hand are all devious, wirey little bastards. Used to get loads of them trying that trick when I lived on a terraced street. One got a painful surprise when the dog met him on the other side of the back wall!

[Lord Sterling]

Went for a walk a few times yesterday around the quaint old market town where Chez_Mo is located. What a wonderful place, people just milling about minding thier own business.

 

MANY MANY shite cars are to be spotted aswell, just looking out of my window or sitting on my doorstep I can often see tonnes of old/interesting and generally shite vehicles. Already today did I spot a shiny Mk1 Escort, a shiny Mk1 Capri, the twin of Vulgalours old Xantia, a Jensen + much, much more. Everyday is a shite spotting day!

 

I really need to get the Mk1 820E on the road...

[michael1703]

Deluxe double ended muff hammer

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Deluxe-Double-ended-Muff-Hammer-/171878748651?hash=item2804c591eb

[andy18s]

Deluxe double ended muff hammer

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Deluxe-Double-ended-Muff-Hammer-/171878748651?hash=item2804c591eb

What the hell were you searching for to come up with that?

[bub2006]

^^ all sticky patches removed and cleaned!

[the judge]

Never trust a smackhead who attempts to strike up a conversation with you while you're washing your car out front of your house. Its a diversion for his mate to try your possibly unlocked back door!

 

And talking so your mouth is open to see if you have any fillings they can weigh in. Dirty tracky,diiiirty trainees

[daveb47]

[dollywobbler]

There's an art to selling a car. This is not art.

[barmatt]

Without wanting to sound like a total bastard, there are some good deals to be had on houses because of this. We're thinking of moving to Kings Lynn and you can pick up some right bargains there due the previous owner no longer being on this mortal coil... It's a bit grim though

 

Why would you want to move to Kings Lynn, I try and avoid the place at all costs.

[purplebargeken]

Is it worse than Edmonton?

[skattrd]

Today I went to meet a member of the FB Sera group to collect the replacement dash for my horror. I turned up at the address in rural Norfolkshire and saw a sign that seemed familiar "Omicron". After meeting the chap and collecting the parts I asked where I might have heard the name before, his response was, "Oh, we deal with Lancias". I mentioned I had a couple of them and he says "I'd better show you round the workshop then".

Many apologies here, but I didn't take any pics as I didn't think it appropriate at the time, but there were Fulvias, Flavias, Flaminias, zagato bodied this, berlina that ... I might have drooled a bit. Oh, and there was also a Bristol (410?) in having a custom made power steering rack fitted.

 

Here's their website: http://www.omicron.uk.com/workshop/recent-projects/

 

*Omicron - yes I also thought of Omicron Persei 8 and a certain cartoon.

[hairnet]

madeleine peyroux

 

nana mouskouri

 

FTW!!!!

[richardmorris]

Before I went to the GS rally today I did an 8mile walk around Bourne, Tilford and Frensham. Bells ringing for the service at Frensham's 13th C church at 10am with a superb looking green DB6 parked outside on the road. Must be a posh area!

[Cheggers]

Back from a long boozy lunch with my daughters to celebrate my 50th tomorrow. We went for a walk along the seafront to clear our heads and saw an immaculate gold 1600E & Mark II RS2000...happy days

[DVee8]

All the best for tomorrow Mr Cheggers.

[wuvvum]

Is it worse than Edmonton?

It's bad in a different way.

[Cheggers]

Before I went to the GS rally today I did an 8mile walk around Bourne, Tilford and Frensham. Bells ringing for the service at Frensham's 13th C church at 10am with a superb looking green DB6 parked outside on the road. Must be a posh area!

Frensham is a proper "old money" area, definitely the DB6s natural habitat.

[myglaren]

madeleine peyroux

 

nana mouskouri

 

FTW!!!!

I thought I heard Madeleine Peyroux on the radio in daughter's fester this afternoon- was wrong though

If you Like Nana you may also like Georgia Dagaki:

 

[Pillock]

Today I went to Sutton-on-Sea to play on the beach. Long story short, my gran died earlier this year and it was the place my grandparents always took me and my sister as nippers, always the same caravan park, always went to the same beach, and on the last day of the holiday always went to the same chippy.

 

We thought it a fitting tribute to have a day out there. So I took the Saab Flopster just for a bit of a run out, couple of hundred miles round trip.

 

The beach has been actually improved, without an Autoshite Asterisk. It used to be quite flat, with a huge concrete flood defence at the top. It's had tonnes of rocks dumped onto it, and then sand on top so now it's hillier, has sand dunes developing and is much nicer as a beach.

 

I did sandcastle building. 

 

 

I went to the same chipshop that was there in 1986, and had the same massive fish and chips. In fact, I've grown considerably since I was 7 years old so I reckon this has scaled up too.

 

 

I then went in this secondhand shop which has also been there since I was invented. 

 

 

And bought this

 

 

See, there was an Autoshite reason for this post! It's got a bit of zinc pest (is that the term?) and the paint is flaking so I think it's due a repaint in something more..... brown.

 

Also, on a decent run - I reckon 230 miles because we popped down the cost to see a friend, and then came back via Mrs_P's childhood home, the Saab touched this

 

 

on the way there, and averaged 36mpg across the day with a bit of hoonage but mostly sedate driving.

[M'coli]

A local lad - he's about 18 - has bought a not-working 80cc engine kit for £20, got it working, and bolted it to a mountain bike. It's great fun! It's the sort of thing that I was thinking of for the "run-what-you-brung" in September!

 

On a more serious note, the fact that I trust his workmanship enough to ride it flat-out tells me that schools and academia has failed him - he has great hands-on skills and talents, so how can I help him to get to where his talent should go?

[Taff]

Taff Jr asked me to pull over earlier as he wanted a mooch at a car that was parked up, as it was "a bit mental, in a good way"

 

It was a J plate BX auto (TZ-something?) in pale metallic blue.  The concept of hydraulic suspension convinced him it's the perfect "first car"

 

I'm so proud.

[Taff]

oh yeah, nearly forgot. Tomorrows hire car got delivered this afternoon. First IA...