What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[nebuchenezer]

[DSdriver]

Fitted a set of Pallas air horns to the Safari today. It now has GET OUT OF MY WAY mode as well as the normal Get out of my way horns.

[Ghosty]

Good day for odd spots today.

 

Firstly, a local shop has one of the Gran Turismo classics as an advertising vehicle:

 

 

Daihatsu Midget!

 

 

Also, on the way home, what should come the other way but a fully kitted up and UK road registered HMMWV!

[gm]

I like to think I got my money's worth here

 

 

they lasted 6 whole months !

[Skizzer]

Four more sleeps until XJ-S collection capers.

[Aston Martin]

I'm watching Pound Shop Wars, theres this one prick manager who's "gonna get an area manager position. If my new store does well"

This store is in a high-end shopping centre and its 'student night upto 50% off stores'

 

This cunt gets pretty much every member of staff in on overtime pay, they aren't having any discounts. I'm no Warren Buffet, but at what point are the students gonna think "Fuck me, we need to get to poundworld and pay normal prices"

 

6 students wandered in the whole night.

 

Is this car related? No, but seeing this twat fail cheered me up.

[Lord Sterling]

I'm watching Pound Shop Wars, theres this one prick manager who's "gonna get an area manager position. If my new store does well"...

6 students wandered in the whole night.

Is this car related? No, but seeing this twat fail cheered me up.

Sadly chap, this is the way things are these days with many managers adopting the "fuck all of you/I'm alright Jack" attitude that seems to have been taught/become popular.

 

Car related: spent the day at Mahmoud's garage driving all sorts of miserable shite. The worst car I drove was a bit tragic; an utterly-fucked 55-plate BMW 730d, didn't look like it had ever been cleaned, had what looked like spilt White paint stains in the passenger footwell and a bit on the seat, it had various bumps, scratches and missing trim, it sometimes it wanted to or did cut out when in 'drive' or 'neutral' and creaked like bastard when steering the wheels. The only good to say was; it sounded great when revving it and it accelerated pretty well.

 

What got me thinking was how needlessly complicated some things were in the car, the kind of stuff you really need to get used to such as the on-board computer, the proceedure of gear changing which has an paddle that looks like all of the other paddles, slightly obscured behind the steering wheel which need pulling in and flicking up and down according to what gear you want (as in Park/Drive/Neutral) it was a nice car though (once).

 

Mahmoud was going to change the small cambelt on the right-side of the engine on my KV-shite but when they looked it over it was deemed too risky to make it worth-while without going through the proper proceedure. Never mind.

 

Motherly_Sterling had a puncture on the Micra a few weeks ago, so the little-used spare was shod on by the RAC man and Ma sadly then took the Micra to KwikShit. So today I changed the wheels and stuck the little-used spare (with it's 1998 factory-issued tyre) back into the wheel-well. As sad as it is, I like seeing never/little used spare wheels still as clean as the day they came from the factory.

 

Came home to Chez_Mo and luckily (which isn't very often) found a space in a nearby road. A tiny bit of touch parking had to ensue to the lack of manoeuvring room the space but at least the Sterling actually managed to fit in!

 

Tomorrow I'm visiting my Sterlings and Merc to fit them in spaces reserved for me at the yard. Should be fun :s

[Pillock]

I know at least half of you are sat there on a Friday night, wondering what a turbocharged Volvo 240-powered Tractor looks and goes like.

 

Wonder no more.

 

https://youtu.be/iq9AY6uyaB8

[Aston Martin]

Iplayer said "here's what we recommend"

House Of Cars: Follow the staff in Belfast at the largest car lot in Europe.

 

Why am I grinning? I don't have to work with these people.

[Slappy]

Just got home after Revival. Just bloody awesome really. The only bit of anything vaguely shite that I saw on my wander around the car park was a canary yellow mk5 Cortina, soz.

 

Unfortunately a couple of expensive looking Lotus' and an Alfa are a bit bent after some excursions, whoops

[willswitchengage]

https://youtu.be/tX_5I7Vu0cg

[oldcars]

Don't watch much tele but last night found some tarmac rally on Motors tv. It was class, there was guys using K11 Micra's and a Corsa B. There was also one of these never seen or heard of them but looks smart.

http://www.darrian.co.uk/index.html

[anonymous user]

Whilst looking for an image of Norman Wisdom in a J40 pedal car I found this

I want one.

[daveb47]

Loved these instructions.....

 

[cobblers]

I talked them into buying a 3D printer at work. They did and I brought it home on loan for a bit so I could spend some time getting my head round it, tweaking it etc etc and getting it ready for use.

 

I've made a handful of bits on it for work and the gaffer has said I might as well just keep it since it's already paid for itself, and they'll get another for use in the workshop. Top stuff!

[fordperv]

My car is all one colour again, George is just flat polishing the back so I can put everything on the back end.

[tooSavvy]

L_S.. Mintolla spares?

 

Savvy has its orig 'spacesavva' skinny unused... would like to roll on a set of 4 >> make it look like an Axiam haha.

 

 

TS

[Skizzer]

Loved these instructions.....

 

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I think what you have there Dave is the verse-by-verse lyrics to the T Bone Walker classic, "Shooting Methold Blues".

 

My motors don't run when changed [da da diddly-di dum]

No my motors don't run when changed [da da diddly-di dum]

Oh I think my juncks are loosen

Ah gotta imspect 'em all

 

etc

[Bren]

 

 

Suck it up you prick.........

[Asimo]

^^^ Looks like the sort of rancid oxygen-thief that tries to sell "barn find" ringing-kits on eBay.

[Sealtainn]

Agreeing your first AS purchase but having to wait several weeks to actually collect it due to work and "if you weren't so far away" etc

Rest assured though, all will be revealed in due course with a collection thread of epic (but cheap) proportions - your all going to have to wait till early November though

[UltraWomble]

I was sat in the Unlucky Fried Chicken with my family at lunchtime when my daughter piped up "that car is a Renault Fart"

 

I laughed so much cola came out of my nose.

[EssDeeWon]

Had a chav brat in a MK5 Golf GTi on my tail this afternoon, he then overtook me on hatching's and almost took out a traffic island, only to then get stuck behind a slow moving Insignia, but he couldn't overtake it. 

 

Two counts of dangerous driving (tailgating me and the Insignia) + one illegal maneuver (overtaking on hatching's) = Approx 0 seconds gained.   

 

Hehehehehehehehe 

[fordperv]

My car is all one colour again, George is just flat polishing the back so I can put everything on the back end.

This is how I left it earlier, also did a few other jobs, bolted the front bumper on, replaced the bonnet catch etc, i only need to put the c pillar trims back on, roof rails, mirrors and indicators, but that can be done on Tuesday

[hairnet]

Agreeing your first AS purchase but having to wait several weeks to actually collect it due to work and "if you weren't so far away" etc

Rest assured though, all will be revealed in due course with a collection thread of epic (but cheap) proportions - your all going to have to wait till early November though

you have excuse as theres a ferry in the way

 

are svm exporting a volvo

[hairnet]

the wind - thats what you have to do to get it on the back of the aa truck

[Sealtainn]

No Volvos will be exported in the making of this collection thread.

I have managed to keep the cost down below £50 to travel nearly 800 miles

[Richard]

That's pretty impressive, it costs my employers about £500 every time I go to Shetland.

[Stanky]

Won £4 off a £2 scratchcard last evening, went to cash my winnings this morning and decided I'd use my 'free' £2 to buy another scratchcard - usually a great way to get right back to square one, except this time I won a further £20! £4 invested, £24 returned.

 

I celebrated by buying a bottle of rum at 10am, then buying a broken mower at the dump for £4 on the basis it had a good, solid aluminium deck which I aim to bolt a good engine to from an ebay purchase which has a fucked deck to make a good mower and sell for cashmonies.

 

this weekend is shaping up well! It's obviously a sign that my lawnmower repair idea was fundamentally sound and the lottery goblins are telling me this via the medium of funding my new habit.

[danthecapriman]

Won £4 off a £2 scratchcard last evening, went to cash my winnings this morning and decided I'd use my 'free' £2 to buy another scratchcard - usually a great way to get right back to square one, except this time I won a further £20! £4 invested, £24 returned.

When I was out of work and literally completely out of money I bought a scratchcard with some spare change. I couldn't believe it, I'd won £50! It's not much at all but it bailed me out in the nik of time. Or so I thought.

The next day after collecting my winnings and feeling pretty good still I got a bank statement through the letter box. I'd been fined £75 for going overdrawn!! Bastards!

That was the only time in my life I'd ever won anything other than the odd £1 on a scratchcard and the shit bags at the bank ruined it and shafted me.