Tell Us Something Really Trivial About Your Life (Vol 32)
Discussion
I don't see anythinging wrong with that advert!!! 
Morning chaps
another 9hrs sleep on top of the 3 1/2hrs yesterday!!!
Today will be spent in the garden, needs a bit of tidying, I've neglected it the last couple of weeks or so, when we've finished we plan to spend the day playing games, with a BBQ later and then the evening with the firepit lit!!!
Whatever you have planned enjoy it!!
Fatboy my go to cure for a stinking cold is Lemsip with a good shot of whiskey and a dollop of honey!!!
Morning chaps
another 9hrs sleep on top of the 3 1/2hrs yesterday!!! Today will be spent in the garden, needs a bit of tidying, I've neglected it the last couple of weeks or so, when we've finished we plan to spend the day playing games, with a BBQ later and then the evening with the firepit lit!!!
Whatever you have planned enjoy it!!
Fatboy my go to cure for a stinking cold is Lemsip with a good shot of whiskey and a dollop of honey!!!
DickyC said:
"Bert?"
"Yes, Arry?"
"Have you posted that advert for the Aston?"
"I 'ave, Arry."
"Appy wiv it?"
"I am, Arry. I fink I dun a good job."
"So, I don't av to check it?"
"No, Arry, it's fine. Trust me."
They are in Somerset, so it would be more like:"Yes, Arry?"
"Have you posted that advert for the Aston?"
"I 'ave, Arry."
"Appy wiv it?"
"I am, Arry. I fink I dun a good job."
"So, I don't av to check it?"
"No, Arry, it's fine. Trust me."
"Bert?"
"Yes, Arry?"
"How be on that there advert for the Aaaaston?"
"Yer tiz, Arry."
"Appy wiv it?"
"I am, Arry. It’s a proper job."
"So, I don't av to check it?"
"No, Arry, it's gert lush. Innit."
DickyC said:
Oh how I wish it were so Dicky!!! Our day is now completely f
ked, fuel light comes on on the Focus, was decided to go to Sainsbury's instead as we have a 10p per litre voucher, we grab our lunch buys and go to fill the Focus up, I then proceeded to put £23 of unleaded into a diesel car!!!! 
Now waiting for the fuel rescue people to come and empty it and flush the system!!!! We've had petrol and diesel cars for over 2years and I've never done this before!!!!DickyC said:
Ah spose the other thing working in favour of the fakers is the Cooper S's bits and bobs being added or modded by Special Tuning in a shed in Abingdon and looking decidedly homespun even when new.
Indeed Dicky. On the other, building a really convincing fake S these days would be horrendously expensive and there'd be no gaurantee you'd get your money back. Even so there are still a few tryers about, there's a Mk1 S being hawked about by a trader known as 'Rolex Bob' which he's punting as ''the oldest Cooper S in existence'' except it's not, he's been trying to shift it for at least two years bless him. This is the oldest surviving 1071 S, it's the second one built, has a continuous history and is well known as one of two road tested by all the mags back in '63...
The first one built, '731 HOP' was used in the opening titles of Patrick McGoohan's 'Danger Man' series...
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=itc+dangerman...
Despite desperately wanting a Maser or an Interceptor I've got people offering me '60s Coopers like nobody's business, I might just have to give in soon...!
Just had a call that the fuel rescue guy is in his way, he's still 1/2 an hour away so I'm fairly confident that our day is over, he's got to get here, empty it, flush it and add 10lts before we can go anywhere, still annoyed with myself for doing it, but we have been amused by the fkwittery you see!!!!
kwittery you see!!!! Good afternoon everyone. We went walkies this morning as usual and met up with about 15 French huntsmen. They are all very jolly now the wild boar season is up and running and thier dogs were bounding around the Maize fields etc.
Mavis was very interested in it all,so she would be as she's from that local hunt kennels originally
Walkies finished and we went and had a look at a mk2 10th anniversary edition MX5.1999.
It's a smart blue car with a few nice little extras and only just over 28,000 miles.
The deals been done and we will collect it in October when the owners arrive back from America.
Allways nice to have something to look forward to.
Mavis was very interested in it all,so she would be as she's from that local hunt kennels originally
Walkies finished and we went and had a look at a mk2 10th anniversary edition MX5.1999.
It's a smart blue car with a few nice little extras and only just over 28,000 miles.
The deals been done and we will collect it in October when the owners arrive back from America.
Allways nice to have something to look forward to.
Bobberoo99 said:
Oh how I wish it were so Dicky!!! Our day is now completely fked, fuel light comes on on the Focus, was decided to go to Sainsbury's instead as we have a 10p per litre voucher, we grab our lunch buys and go to fill the Focus up, I then proceeded to put £23 of unleaded into a diesel car!!!! Now waiting for the fuel rescue people to come and empty it and flush the system!!!! We've had petrol and diesel cars for over 2years and I've never done this before!!!!
That's a bugger Bobberoo. It's easily done if you're attention was on something else chap!ked, fuel light comes on on the Focus, was decided to go to Sainsbury's instead as we have a 10p per litre voucher, we grab our lunch buys and go to fill the Focus up, I then proceeded to put £23 of unleaded into a diesel car!!!! Now waiting for the fuel rescue people to come and empty it and flush the system!!!! We've had petrol and diesel cars for over 2years and I've never done this before!!!!I hope it gets sorted easy enough. Good luck.
Bobberoo99 said:
Oh how I wish it were so Dicky!!! Our day is now completely fked, fuel light comes on on the Focus, was decided to go to Sainsbury's instead as we have a 10p per litre voucher, we grab our lunch buys and go to fill the Focus up, I then proceeded to put £23 of unleaded into a diesel car!!!! Now waiting for the fuel rescue people to come and empty it and flush the system!!!! We've had petrol and diesel cars for over 2years and I've never done this before!!!!
An expensive 10p coupon then, been there too it’s not great makes you wonder what life’s about, chasing some promotion crap. It’s too hot so I’m not moving from a deck chair despite having just devised a way to adapt Stalwart side lamps as rear indicator/tail/brake lights on the jeep.ked, fuel light comes on on the Focus, was decided to go to Sainsbury's instead as we have a 10p per litre voucher, we grab our lunch buys and go to fill the Focus up, I then proceeded to put £23 of unleaded into a diesel car!!!! Now waiting for the fuel rescue people to come and empty it and flush the system!!!! We've had petrol and diesel cars for over 2years and I've never done this before!!!!magooagain said:
Good afternoon everyone. We went walkies this morning as usual and met up with about 15 French huntsmen. They are all very jolly now the wild boar season is up and running and thier dogs were bounding around the Maize fields etc.
Mavis was very interested in it all,so she would be as she's from that local hunt kennels originally
Walkies finished and we went and had a look at a mk2 10th anniversary edition MX5.1999.
It's a smart blue car with a few nice little extras and only just over 28,000 miles.
The deals been done and we will collect it in October when the owners arrive back from America.
Allways nice to have something to look forward to.
I was alerted to the MX5 reading a mag in Norfolk as they’re doing a special limited edition in orange. Anyway I went on the Mazda website and configured a new motor - 2 lites with 27” wheels in dark grey = £22k. I went out to get something and bugger me if that exact spec car hadn’t just parked next to mine. Spooky.Mavis was very interested in it all,so she would be as she's from that local hunt kennels originally
Walkies finished and we went and had a look at a mk2 10th anniversary edition MX5.1999.
It's a smart blue car with a few nice little extras and only just over 28,000 miles.
The deals been done and we will collect it in October when the owners arrive back from America.
Allways nice to have something to look forward to.
P5BNij said:
Indeed Dicky. On the other, building a really convincing fake S these days would be horrendously expensive and there'd be no gaurantee you'd get your money back. Even so there are still a few tryers about, there's a Mk1 S being hawked about by a trader known as 'Rolex Bob' which he's punting as ''the oldest Cooper S in existence'' except it's not, he's been trying to shift it for at least two years bless him. This is the oldest surviving 1071 S, it's the second one built, has a continuous history and is well known as one of two road tested by all the mags back in '63...
The first one built, '731 HOP' was used in the opening titles of Patrick McGoohan's 'Danger Man' series...
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=itc+dangerman...
Despite desperately wanting a Maser or an Interceptor I've got people offering me '60s Coopers like nobody's business, I might just have to give in soon...!
I may have said this before but my old red with white roof 850 has now reappeared as a Cooper S. Reg 528 EMO.The first one built, '731 HOP' was used in the opening titles of Patrick McGoohan's 'Danger Man' series...
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=itc+dangerman...
Despite desperately wanting a Maser or an Interceptor I've got people offering me '60s Coopers like nobody's business, I might just have to give in soon...!
There are plenty just like yours V6. About ten years ago I went out to Brinklow to look at what was advertised as an original '69 Mk2 Cooper, as nice as it was (as a potential project) it turned out to be a standard Mk2 Mini 1000 with a genuine Cooper engine and remote gear change, Mk3 floor pans, Mk3 bootlid, a correct chassis number for a Mk2 Mini 1000 (which matched the one on the V5) but with a commission number tag from a completely different Mk2 Cooper, attached in the wrong place with self tappers! The stamped 'FE' number tag on the radiator cowling was missing which would have helped give an approximate build date for the bodyshell. It was tempting at only £4k but I found a kosher one a few weeks later. To be fair to the vendor, wasn't entirely sure what he'd got and changed his ebay ad accordingly once I'd told him about the good and bad bits, which doesn't happen very often.
A glass of mrs.P5B's finest tiffin has appeared, time for a snifter...
A glass of mrs.P5B's finest tiffin has appeared, time for a snifter...
Edited by P5BNij on Sunday 25th August 14:44
V6 Pushfit said:
I was alerted to the MX5 reading a mag in Norfolk as they’re doing a special limited edition in orange. Anyway I went on the Mazda website and configured a new motor - 2 lites with 27” wheels in dark grey = £22k. I went out to get something and bugger me if that exact spec car hadn’t just parked next to mine. Spooky.
27" wheels!!! That's huge no? Nice orange colour mind.Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff