The grumpy thread

[whitevanman]

I had hoped that the stereotype was wrong...but seemingly not

[Minimad5]

I break, MM5 will sort. There is hope........

Hurry up an get the floor pan, i can't wait to start

 

Also on the same note of rust.

The Mk1 has gathered plenty more of the stuff, so i need to buy metal and yield the welder at it. Pictures shall be uploaded soon.

[Gompo]

Cancer is a bastard isn't it?

 

Uncle died from it on Monday, and my Auntie has been diagnosed with Cancer of throat and liver in past couple of weeks too. 2 funerals in a month (first one not cancer, but a mate in a slightly strange accident) and probably another before X-mas. My Mum, like many, still thinks there's a 'god' though.

For fuck' sake. Apologies for being a miserable twat but just found out another associate (who strangely the longest I've spoken to recently was at the my mates funeral) has died in a motorbike accident Tuesday morning.

 

I've managed a few laughs tonight though, courtesy of AS.

 

Cheers.

[Lankytim]

Shit! Lifes a bastard sometimes aint it!

[dollywobbler]

This makes me grumpy.

http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.c ... read=86168

 

Take a stunning Metro, and ruin it with typical cheap "yeah, it'll look shit hot if I black the lights" tricks. I might end up buying this just to save the poor thing.

[trigger]

Without wanting at start another anti RR stream of posts (and this isn't just aimmed at RR), but that Metro is one of the reasons i rarely look at the readers rides, I see many lovely looking cars fall foul of 'sceners' who just end up fucking up what was once a gem, get bored half way through and end up scrapping them.

 

That Metro was stunning, those rear lights, wheels and taking of the original coachline has just killed it IMHO.

[Marshall]

I agree. It WAS nice that. It would look great towing my Mirror dinghy!

[Lankytim]

I wouldnt worry too much.. that front valence looks chock full of filler!

 

I dont understand why he removed the City decals though. They are the best bit of the car!

 

On a slightly different note... Theres a phone box on the opposite side of the road to our house. It only ever seems to be used by extremely dodgy looking male chavs with hoodies or baseball caps, they all seem to be in their early-mid 20's the routine is always the same. One guy goes into the phone box and makes a 2 minute call while the other stands outside the box and keeps watch over who is going past, then they walk off drinking their special brew or strongbow. This routine happens several times a day and I oftensee the same people twice in one day.

 

Ok, i'm a nosy git at the best of times but I like to see whats going on in my neighbourhood. Ive heard theres a bit of a drug problem here in Stoke (no more than nay other city i'll add)... could the phone box be being used by people ringing dealers to buy drugs rather than using their own phone? I dunno. Just call me paranoid...

[Albert Ross]

Let BT know. They will tap it, and then Plod will keep a car round the corner when they hear the " Yeah mate, the 9 bar is here " message. Then swoop.

 

Oh wait. No. That's what happens on the telly. In reality, you will get nowhere.

[Pillock]

Maybe their mums worry about them.

[Mr Lobster]

Going back to that RR Metro. To be fair, most of the posts are saying it looks shit. And it does.

 

I don't mind modifiying cars that are relatively rare. I think the right mods can look pretty good on anything, but when its done on a budget of about a quid the results are almost always tragic.

 

Anyway, heres the car in happier times as it was in my spotted thread back in March -

 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Hide a tape recorder in the phone box. Curiosity satisfied.

 

Just make sure not to leave a "PROPERTY OF LANKYTIM" dymo label on it.

[pogweasel]

Even though I 'h8' metros, even I can see that is not going to end well.

Anyone who considers that (a) blackout lights are still 'cool' and that ( a great way to achieve them is through the use of hosiery is clearly the sort of clueless fucknugget who should be prohibited from ownership of any kind of motor vehicle. But then I am just a miserable old c*nt, so what do I know.

[dollywobbler]

Actually, with that Metro, you could argue that whoever put the chrome wheelarch trim on it needs shooting! BLING MI CITY INNIT!

[lancashireclamper]

I wouldnt worry too much.. that front valence looks chock full of filler!

 

I dont understand why he removed the City decals though. They are the best bit of the car!

 

On a slightly different note... Theres a phone box on the opposite side of the road to our house. It only ever seems to be used by extremely dodgy looking male chavs with hoodies or baseball caps, they all seem to be in their early-mid 20's the routine is always the same. One guy goes into the phone box and makes a 2 minute call while the other stands outside the box and keeps watch over who is going past, then they walk off drinking their special brew or strongbow. This routine happens several times a day and I oftensee the same people twice in one day.

 

Ok, i'm a nosy git at the best of times but I like to see whats going on in my neighbourhood. Ive heard theres a bit of a drug problem here in Stoke (no more than nay other city i'll add)... could the phone box be being used by people ringing dealers to buy drugs rather than using their own phone? I dunno. Just call me paranoid...

Stupid question perhaps but they are actually making a phonecall, not just using the box as a drop off point for the devils dandruff?

A callbox near me was used that way a couple of years ago, a neighbour in your position noticed a sharp increase in chavs using the box but no calls were being logged, apparently the local plod and BT engineer took it apart and found 80p in the coinbox and enough weed to blow the tits off a hyena.

[Cavcraft]

Same phone box problem applies round here too. Though sometimes it's mildy amusing watching people trying to act casual then run like fuck to the next phone box, then around the corner to 'meet a friend'.

[lancashireclamper]

Bloody scandalous isn't it? phoneboxes being misused for criminal purposes, had to wait 10 minutes to have a piss in my usual one last week

[autofive]

i can feel no love for metros,

although clean and (previously) unmolested, it will still handle like a three legged dog on ritalin and my knees would still hit the dash board when decelerating.

 

maybe thats all he could find for a fortnights giro,

or its all a huge pisstake by 3 loons from a vw forum

[dollywobbler]

Bad handling on a Metro? Seems odd. Mine used to corner like a bloomin' maglev. They are just a bigger Mini after all.

 

Ride comfort was appalling and it very often didn't work, so while I like them, I don't love them.

[trigger]

This is the Metro my dad bought whilst on holiday in North Wales, we drove back through the Horseshoe pass in it, 4 up with a weeks worth of luggage, I still suffer from flash backs from the journey .

 

We didn't keep it long as dad hated the thing and only bought it as mum was learned to drive.

 

[Guest]

Yeah, and my arse he paid '£800-900' for it in the first place.

[dollywobbler]

Here's mine.

T'was a 1.3HLS. Sporty, and one of the last miniMetros. Sadly, it was scabby and had clutch issues. Then it dropped a valve 20 miles from home. My wife still drove it home... holey piston Batman! Fair play to the car for making it though...

 

Went to someone on RR who dropped a new engine in it, unlicenced since 2009...

[trigger]

Bo1 you bad egg!

 

Class metro! (Until the half-arsed unable-to-leave-stuff-alone 'modding' got underway that is)

[Polystratus]

Even though I 'h8' metros, even I can see that is not going to end well.

Anyone who considers that (a) blackout lights are still 'cool' and that ( a great way to achieve them is through the use of hosiery is clearly the sort of clueless fucknugget who should be prohibited from ownership of any kind of motor vehicle. But then I am just a miserable old c*nt, so what do I know.

Father Ted is a bit of a Metro lover so hope he don't see this, well it may go the way of that rare low milage Mk1 Fiesta that some one brought and stripped it right out and put in a roll cage and other associated crap, at the end of the day it's their car and if they want to crap it up.

[eddyramrod]

Even I had a Metro; a clean one with not a lot of mileage on it. I did keep it 18 months, which is pretty good considering it was exactly what I was trying to avoid buying at the time. It had a towbar, which seemed heroically stupid on a 998 A+, and even more so when I put my trailer behind it, but it soldiered on, uncomplaining...

[wuvvum]

Early (pre-facelift) Metros handle GR8 - just like an overgrown Mini, as DW says. Unfortunately when the car was facelifted they buggered about with the suspension and ruined it a bit (although a late '80s Metro will still piss rings round a Mk2 Fester on a twisty road).

[Mr_Bo11ox]

If they want to crap it up, then they should go right ahead and ingnore miserable old twats like me! I would. Whats it got to do with me? Nowt! Get those tights on your lights, just expect to accept some abuse.

[Marshall]

....Get those tights on your lights.........

 

Sounds like the autoshite version of "Hands off cocks on with socks!" LOL

(or maybe the chav version?)

[Cavcraft]

Another spineless wanker being talked about on R2, and this time not a DJ.

 

Some horrible, gutless, selfish waste-of-oxygen pissed his missus off. She left him and eventually found someone else.

Said dickhead killed his ex-missus and kid then killed himself.

Is there honestly a more cowardly, shit house way of ending things like that? If he took his own life that's gutless enough, but to kill kis child and ex-missus first is the true mark of an absolute and utter shit house.

[trigger]

I was listening to that as well, it was gut welching listen to her new partners story of how he found them, there are some sick fucks out there in society.