What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[vulgalour]

The sort of car show we'd all enjoy and have nerdgasms about would be featured on BBC Four with the opening credits being someone in Fred Dibner style attire opening the slightly rotten doors on an asbestos garage to reveal a meticulously oily garage packed to the rusty rafters with antediluvian tools and several ancient engineering machines of no known purpose.  Clear diction would be banned, all information must be mumbled past massive facial hair and/or a mug of something that is probably tea but is likely mostly medicinally fortified with something from a hip flask.

 

In fact, why don't BBC Four have their own version of Top Gear or whatever?  It would be fantastically entertaining and good telly for the likes of me, just like those super A **** is Born (not to be confused with Chop Shop which is similarly censored).

[fred]

 

 

 

 

Got an e-mail from the air suspension people regarding the Princess.  Apparently it's a little bit more challenging than they first thought but they're going to try and figure out an installation anyway.  That's quite exciting in its own way.

 

Oh My Lord - That would be fucking epic! Air bagged Princess - that would turn a under rated car into the upper echelons of awesome - This needs to be done

[vulgalour]

The only problem is that the installation will cost about 5 times what I paid for the car.

[fred]

Yes but an air bagged Princess, be the first in the world! Cool would not even come close

[garbaldy]

For the people that don't like wheeler dealers I recomend you go and watch that shite mud sweat and gears with johny and wookie, they take two vehicles and destroy them, two minutes on the build if you can call it that then straight on to the challenge's,

It is enough to have you praising wheeler dealers that's for sure.

[michael1703]

Despite listening to rock/heavy/thrash metal all day at work, I tend to start the day with music.

 

This mornings choice was ZZTop Eliminator, it's possibly the only album I still love 30 years after hearing it.

 

Bit late for work as a result

[Coprolalia]

The sort of car show we'd all enjoy and have nerdgasms about would be featured on BBC Four with the opening credits being someone in Fred Dibner style attire opening the slightly rotten doors on an asbestos garage to reveal a meticulously oily garage packed to the rusty rafters with antediluvian tools and several ancient engineering machines of no known purpose. Clear diction would be banned, all information must be mumbled past massive facial hair and/or a mug of something that is probably tea but is likely mostly medicinally fortified with something from a hip flask.

 

In fact, why don't BBC Four have their own version of Top Gear or whatever? It would be fantastically entertaining and good telly for the likes of me, just like those super A **** is Born (not to be confused with Chop Shop which is similarly censored).

Is this not Guy Martin?

His early series "How Britain Worked" was excellent.

I mean the fella rebuilds classic bikes in his kitchen.

 

 

One of us, one of us...

[fairkens]

The sort of car show we'd all enjoy and have nerdgasms about would be featured on BBC Four with the opening credits being someone in Fred Dibner style attire opening the slightly rotten doors on an asbestos garage to reveal a meticulously oily garage packed to the rusty rafters with antediluvian tools and several ancient engineering machines of no known purpose.  Clear diction would be banned, all information must be mumbled past massive facial hair and/or a mug of something that is probably tea but is likely mostly medicinally fortified with something from a hip flask.

 

 

So anything with Guy Martin in?

 

ETA beaten to it! *shakes fist*

[Coprolalia]

So anything with Guy Martin in?

 

ETA beaten to it! *shakes fist*

[phil_lihp]

I've not seen many of his programs but the one about restoring a Spitfire found under a French beach (read: building a new one using the original as a template) was brilliant, his enthusiasm is infectious.  

[Coprolalia]

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"... Came in and told me that's the most comprehensive spanner collection he'd ever seen. I was like a proud father."

[Pillock]

Get Guy Martin and the blokes from Binky. The ratings will be shit (approx. the same as the active users on this forum) but it'd be an outstanding program.

[castros_bro]

Went past a house in Krinau on the way to get some food from the village freezer and saw this through a glass garage door - though the thing I was more interested in was under a dust sheet with just the front 19 inch wheel and SLS brake drum.showing.

 

[Cavcraft]

I love Wheeler Dealers, and Ed China + Mike Brewer.

They get interesting cars on the telly. Both of them are genuinely good lads. Yes they seriously gloss over stuff and "play characters" but you have to swallow your pride and do that to make a successful telly program nowadays. The people who commission them are probably idiots and most of the people at the end of the remote control are definitely idiots, so sadly you have to cater for the audience.

 

WD do a fantastically good job all things considered. Compare it to the rest of the 100% scripted, bullshit "documentaries" they are having to fight against for airtime and I really can't help but admire how that pair have managed to evolve the show into something they can get past the network, but keep it mostly in the real world.

 

Yeah, as a saddo car geek I'd rather something a bit more in-depth, Mark Evans somewhat got away with it in A *** is born, and I saw some programs on the telly about 15 years ago where some old boys dug out their garden to put a model train round it which I enjoyed. I was filmed and edited by someone unfamiliar with digital technology. There was one where Suggs off of Madness, that bird and the rest of them used to fix up tanks and steam engines and windmills which was also good.

But which ones have managed to keep going for 13 years?

 

Most of us will watch a documentary on an old castle or something and go "oh, that was interesting, nice to know that they shat out of holes in the wall and it just landed on a pile 150 feet down" but the blokes that are REALLY INTO CASTLES will be foaming at the mouth moaning about how if wasn't just a hole, it had a flap to cover it and it was only 85 feet up, and that's how I feel about the people who kick off about Wheeler Dealers getting some cheap tyres cos they spent a day filming round the factory or whatever.

 

 

+1, I think their enthusiasm helps too, I love a programme where people actually really seem interested in what they're doing.

Have you seen George Clarke's 'Amazing Spaces'? One of the best programmes on the telly with one of the best presenters, too.

[fordperv]

The only problem is that the installation will cost about 5 times what I paid for the car.

Just imagine the look on sheeples faces pulling up at a car show and dumping it on its belly, you could also take the pee and park it one corner down so it looks like a displacer is borked.

[xtriple]

Very little at the moment to be honest, but, the value of my car has INCREASED in the year I've had it! I have never had that happen before in 35 years of happy motoring. Maybe it's all the lemmings  realising they want a shit Honda Hybrid 'cos of tax/mileage?

 

To be fair, it is a very good car and not boring at all, which is rare in this day and age. I still want a Bentley though... maybe now is the time?

[michael1703]

Guy martins TV presenting is making me begrudgingly like him after avoiding anything he say/does for the past 6 years.

 

He is hyped to fuck as a bike racer, he is a good 20 plus seconds behind the winner at the TT/NW200, hutchy/mcguiness/Dunlop making him look fairly average

[M'coli]

Guy Martin's one of the good guys.  He's a good enough (he's "thereabouts") road racer - if he hadn't had arguments with the Old Farts in Blazers and been banned fro the short circuits in the early years of his riding career, he'd never have had the media attention he has now.  If he ever gets to win one, just one, that's great.

 

Most of all, he's a grafter, and likes nowt better than working on lorries.  For example, in one of his programmes, he gets to meet Sebastian Loeb - ex-gymnast, most-winning and most-world champion rally driver - and Guy says in anticipation of meeting Seb, "He's a tradesman - he's an electrician". 

 

Above all, I really don't believe that he's that worried about what you think of him - but is more concerned by whether the next lorry he works on will pass the MOT.

What's not to like about him?

[dave21478]

And lo, for the Gods of sodapop did look down from upon high and see that he was thirsty, and a little homesick, and they sent from the gates of Valhalla all shiny and blue, a vision of carbonated perfection, sparking memories of the old times.

 

Although, the Gods did demand €1.20 per tin.

 

 

 

 

On the down-side. I hosed all four in about 15 minutes and now my head is spinning like a Chinook in trouble.

 

[Jazoli]

Guy Martin's one of the good guys. He's a good enough (he's "thereabouts") road racer - if he hadn't had arguments with the Old Farts in Blazers and been banned fro the short circuits in the early years of his riding career, he'd never have had the media attention he has now. If he ever gets to win one, just one, that's great.

 

Most of all, he's a grafter, and likes nowt better than working on lorries. For example, in one of his programmes, he gets to meet Sebastian Loeb - ex-gymnast, most-winning and most-world champion rally driver - and Guy says in anticipation of meeting Seb, "He's a tradesman - he's an electrician".

 

Above all, I really don't believe that he's that worried about what you think of him - but is more concerned by whether the next lorry he works on will pass the MOT.

 

What's not to like about him?

Tough cookie too, don't know how to link from fb but this is worth a read

[dollywobbler]

For the people that don't like wheeler dealers I recomend you go and watch that shite mud sweat and gears with johny and wookie, they take two vehicles and destroy them, two minutes on the build if you can call it that then straight on to the challenge's,

It is enough to have you praising wheeler dealers that's for sure.

 

Damned right. I'm still angry about the time I lost watching that utter shite. Complete drivel. I can't understand how anyone finds it even slightly entertaining.

[michael1703]

I'm not sure he was ever banned from short circuits, I raced in BSB in the superstock class a few times in 05/06 which is when it allegedly happened and still have friends in the paddock who know the stories.

 

He allegedly was getting told off by Stuart Higgs the BSB race director and the story goes that he slammed a laptop shut on his fingers and that he was banned.

 

Stuart only had the power to ban him from a BSB/MSVR race and nothing else and he is seen running around the back of the field in BSB ss 1000's in the 2010 film 'closer to the edge' so he was allowed to race there again

 

He is a drama queen, he says he likes racing because it's dangerous but I can think of at least 3 nw200 races where he has done a sighting lap and then boycotted/delayed the race saying it's not safe.

 

Anyway, I'll go back to my sentiment which was:

 

I think he's quite good at this telly lark

[fordperv]

My mk1 sierra is back on its wheels after taking the rear beam off to strip, paint, fit new polybushes, braided hoses and lsd, i also painted the floor of the car while it was stripped down.

[Cavcraft]

In response to the advert for my £350 Vectra: 

 

'Hi mate wats the low is u will take are as I am a gardener...'

 

I mean, seriously, why the fuck would I drop the price because he's a gardener? I don't care if he's Alan Bastard Titmash to be quite honest.

I've loved this car but I swear to God as every day goes by, it gets one step closer to the fragger.

[garbaldy]

I am also a gardener so with that in mind would you take £200 for it?

It would make a great planter if I chopped the roof off.

[Pillock]

Maybe he hopes you're a gardener too and you'll show GARDENER SOLIDARITY and drop fifty quid off.

 

Or maybe he's just a tit.

[HH-R]

It's like a euro car parts discount code, "ENTER 'GARDNER' AT CHECKOUT FOR DISCOUNT"

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Tell him to just knock up a couple of extra rockeries this week and pay the full asking.

[oldcars]

In response to the advert for my £350 Vectra: 

 

'Hi mate wats the low is u will take are as I am a gardener...'

 

I mean, seriously, why the fuck would I drop the price because he's a gardener? I don't care if he's Alan Bastard Titmash to be quite honest.

I've loved this car but I swear to God as every day goes by, it gets one step closer to the fragger.

thats class. Im a serial killer, 80QUID CASH 2NITE MATE 

[scdan4]

Happy days.

 

Made a lasagne, bread, been to the tip and toolstation and (hopefully) fixed the saab.

 

Turbo seems fine after I put loads of hoses back on. there's 3 vac hoses from the turbo running around the engine bay, and 2 off them had fallen off whatever they were meant to be attached to.

 

reattached, eml light off, noise gone. hurrah.