The grumpy thread

[Guest]

Most old vans ie Thames / Splittie have a crumple zone in the case of accident. Its called your face

[Negative Creep]

He bought a splitty van (scene tax free) which he restored except for the floor........then widened and lengthened it and mounted it onto a home built (again fantastically designed and finished) chassis with dodge viper running gear. Body then painted matt black - type in 'viper powered splitty' on you tube........ it is fuggin ace.

 

 

Saw that at Run to the Sun. I will agree it looks epic

[cobblers]

We were buying that other shed with the view to restore it (most panels are available, and it would have been good to be able to say "we did that" when turning something as shagged as that into something nice. They are crap, drive crap, cost loads but for some reason stacks of people like them - which makes restoring one economically viable. That way we can both do a job we enjoy for a few months, he can run the van round for a few years and when he wants to sell, he'll cover his costs and probably make a bit, too.

 

But the guy yesterday did us a favour, really - today we A framed this back about 150 miles or something

and it was only £500 more, but doesn't require any welding at all. It's 95% complete (the stuff is all in the back of the LT). A frame journey was fun, the back van has no dampers so was absolutely bouncing all over the shop.

 

My mate is really hoping the other bloke with the orange heap phones up on sunday after all the other people quite rightly decide it's shafted and offer him sod all.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I hope that happens too. Let us know if it does!

[Pillock]

I'd love a splitty.....

 

 

 

 

.... to turn up in the newsagents window, being sold by some old dear whose husband owned it from new but then carked it, for £250.

Once you get to post-£3000 numbers, then they make no sense - buy a CF, it has more room. Buy a Commer, it looks cooler. Buy a Transit, you won't get stung for a "restoration" job. I "get" VWs (I think) but I gave up on the idea of owning anything Type2 a long time ago. Go to any of the VW shows and nobody even camps in the things, all you see in the fields are really shoddy looking late bay windows, or modern campers, or tents. All the desirable ones are in the show 'n' shine with armed security alsations since the things cost more than a house round here. They're slow and uncomfortable too - I cadged a lift from a chap on VZi to Volksworld last year and went in his slammed split - any feelings of being "well cool" were demolished, along with my spine, as we dodged catseyes and failed to leave the requisite 4 miles braking distance at 50mph.

 

But when they turn up at a sensible price, they're OK. Easy to work on, plenty of parts available. Nice DIY and at the moment, unless you set it on fire and then defecate on the remains, you're assured a profit.

[andrew e]

The old man fired up the mobile Libary, sorry home this morning to be greeted by a Nascar sound... HE CAN HAZ NO CATZ

 

 

Dunno who is worse - the theiving toe rags, or the blind* men who own the metals yards...

[tonedepear]

The doctor is not making me grin currently. Couple of months of tests and scans and what not and he's put me on some medicine now which i started this morning. The issue I have is two fold. 1: I need a piss anything up to 20 times a day, and it's just silly. (all the time) 2: Sometimes I feel like I need a piss, but then I end up strraining and grunting and in all sorts of pain cos fuck all will come out - these times are pretty rare but usually last about 4-5 hours of me trying to go to sleep or get on with life but can't cos i need a piss oh so bad and it ain't happening.

So day 1 of these tablets, and it's removed issue 1 and traded it for a biblical sobbing in to my knees sat on the work throne 2 hours in to a 12 hour night shift edition of issue 2. A quick read of the instructions of my tablets and I notice it say "Do not take if you sometimes have trouble squeezing out a piss" or words to that effect. Fucking bonanza, Cheers doc.

 

Admittedly I probably should have read all the small print before I started taking them, but still.

 

*grits teeth and trudges back to the lav*

[eddyramrod]

Cheers doc.

 

Admittedly I probably should have read all the small print before I started taking them, but still.

 

Maybe so, but so should your doc! He's supposed to be aware of potential clashes/side effects, isn't he? Go back on Monday and have words, you can't be living like this.

 

And, er, get well soon, I hope.

[tonedepear]

Yeah, it'll likely be about 3 weeks before I can get an appt with him now. I have one booked for the 15th december already to see how it's going. I suspect I won't get another any sooner!

[CIH]

I'm grumpy. I've arrived at the conclusion I can no longer pretend I don't hate my job so I decided to look for local colleges. I did a couple of courses a few years ago back in Manchester in welding so I fanced picking that up but down here in Hemel there aren't any. None within a google-maps hour anyway.

[Polystratus]

I'm grumpy. I've arrived at the conclusion I can no longer pretend I don't hate my job so I decided to look for local colleges. I did a couple of courses a few years ago back in Manchester in welding so I fanced picking that up but down here in Hemel there aren't any. None within a google-maps hour anyway.

 

Same around here - some colleges did courses in welding /car repairs but you may find that a lot of colleges no longer offer this type of course - its all now in 'logistics' and call centres.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

The whole thing could be saved. Provided someone is willing to spend one hell of a lot of time putting the thing right.

 

Funnily enough, with it being a '58 splittie, it'd probably pay for itself and this 57 Samba Deluxe is now up and running after 36 years in a Norweigian lake.

 

I like Splitties. Especially when they're doing close to 90 on the M6.

 

Regarding impressive restorations on TheSamba.com: I'm not a massive Beetle fan, but the "VW38 Found in Lithuania" thread is astounding and well worth ploughing through.

[Polystratus]

Regarding impressive restorations on TheSamba.com: I'm not a massive Beetle fan, but the "VW38 Found in Lithuania" thread is astounding and well worth ploughing through.

 

 

Just had a quick look and agree well worth a read through - a big thank you.

[chaseracer]

Yeah, it'll likely be about 3 weeks before I can get an appt with him now. I have one booked for the 15th december already to see how it's going. I suspect I won't get another any sooner!

You will if you go back to the surgery and have a quiet word with a senior partner, inferring that a GMC complaint may not be out of the question...

[tonedepear]

Actually speaking to a Doctor? Blimey, I'll be lucky!

http://www.birleyhealthcentre.co.uk/who.html Any ideas who'd be best to speak to from that? it's Dr Davies who's been treating me for this, generally you just get whoever's got a space.

 

I'm going back Monday for something else, so I'll have a word with someone then.

 

I've just been straining so hard to squeeze a tiny trickle of piss out that I've shit myself. I'm willing to accept that's quite funny.

[Guest]

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[Pete-M]

Regarding impressive restorations on TheSamba.com: I'm not a massive Beetle fan, but the "VW38 Found in Lithuania" thread is astounding and well worth ploughing through.

 

That is an amazing restoration. I was awake until 4am reading the first 100 pages or continued reading it when I woke up this morning.. Eyes are hurting now.

 

Proper job though.

[chaseracer]

http://www.birleyhealthcentre.co.uk/who.html Any ideas who'd be best to speak to from that?

Chris Kearton, Practice Manager. Put your complaint in writing; email will do, initially.

[Albert Ross]

Regarding impressive restorations on TheSamba.com: I'm not a massive Beetle fan, but the "VW38 Found in Lithuania" thread is astounding and well worth ploughing through.

 

That is an amazing restoration. I was awake until 4am reading the first 100 pages or continued reading it when I woke up this morning.. Eyes are hurting now.

 

Proper job though.

 

I got to bed at 2:30.... page 80.

[morris_ital_lover]

+1 on that.

 

What a find and what a restoration. Lots struggle to get the basics like new wings/bumpers for 70s cars I can only imagine that trying to find parts for a preproduction beetle is more than a little hard. It is also amazing how it managed to survive for so long before and it must have been pretty close to being lost forever as no normal person could tell that from a normal old beetle.

[dollywobbler]

You bastards. My eyes are burning, even though I gave up at page 17 and then started using the excellent first page index to get straight to the key points! I'm going out later and am horrified at the thought of having to leave the discussion for a bit! I'm deliberately not focussing on what's further down the index than where I want to be next, so I don't ruin the surprise.

 

This shouldn't be in the Grumpy thread really!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I too am hammering that VW38 thing, its extraordinary.

[Cheggers]

I'm trying to persevere with it, but can't help but think it would be so much more interesting if it was a pre-production Tagora

[ashmicro]

For those of you who don't know the difference between "Great Britain" (Which is a geographical term), "Ireland" which is also a geographical term, and your obvious confusion over the fact that the Island of Ireland conatins TWO DISTINCT JURISDICTIONS. Do none of you have a passport? You don't even have to OPEN it to see that it says "Great Britain and Northern Ireland" on THE FRONT COVER.

 

Mandelscum said he was "Secretary of State for Ireland". Do you know how offensive that is? I will contact Trevor Philips! That's racist! Boo hoo. Someone called me a famine victim cos I'm from Belfast

[eddyramrod]

Mandy's a politician, Ash, you can't expect sense from him. And yes, his very existence is offensive.

[ashmicro]

UNITED KINGDOM is Great Britain and NORTHERN IRELAND. Look on your fucking passports. And excuse me if I AM PISSED OFF. I am as BRITISH as any of you English persons people. we love you, just you're wankers/

[Cavcraft]

I never understood the difference between United Kingdom and Great Britain until recently. I'm with you though, Ash. You're as British as the rest of us and that should continue forever.

[Craig the Princess]

The standard of reporting in this country

 

A man has died after being struck by a van on the M1 in Nottinghamshire.

 

The accident, involving a Ford Iveco, happened between junctions 25 and 26, after reports of a man walking on the hard shoulder at about 07:30 GMT.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-no ... e-15803690

[ashmicro]

Ding ding! 10 points and well spotted. I was wondering who'd be first to "get" that. Just to clarify, I am very proud to be British. We made the world-why does everyone want to speak English? I apologise to the English though - My family came here and someone shot a bloke in the eye round about Hastings way. Our lot did build some magnificent churches, though!

 

It is possible to be proud of ones Britishness and not be a BNP skinhead arsehole. Katie's great grandfather took himself, his family and all their money out of Germany in 1936 and got moving to Belfast. He was an engineer, and worked for Harland and Wolff as a draughtsman. He volunteered for service in the Royal Ulster Rifles when the War came, but he was chinned because he was (a) too old and ( Jewish and the Germans would have killed him out of hand.

 

I've got my NI Medal for our squalid little civil war, and yes one of my my mates was killed by the terrorists. Ranger Cyril http://www.army.mod.uk/infantry/regiments/5951.aspx was a local lad, quiet and focused on his objective.

 

One also finds out who ones true friends are: A chap who I considered a friend decided that he'd no longer speak to me because my girlfriend is Jewish, and he got the hump to the extent that he "wanted a word outside". He got put on his arse and sent away in a taxi.

 

My best mate Glenn (and we have been friends since we were too young to go to school, therefore 35 years) told me "I don't care if she's black, blue, red or yellow-green. She's really nice, she clearly loves you and you love her. You are my best mate and I'll go to Hell with you, but don't lose this one. She's beautiful, smart and fun "

[chaseracer]

Everyone needs a mate like Glenn; even if you haven't met or spoken for ages, the conversation carries on like it was a few minutes ago...