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Jun 24, 2019 19:44:17 GMT
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I rarely get a decent chat, more so if I'm washing the car I get the obligatory "want to come do mine" or if I'm playing with the Astra I'll get a sarcy "that old thing broken again" from next door. I'm quite antisocial though, if I've started doing something on the car I'm not going to pack up because someone has turned up unannounced, my free days off work are precious and my time to get stuff done. Let me know you're coming, and I wont start, turn up when I'm 5 minutes in and sorry sausage, but you're waiting till I've finished So true. I like to plan my days of, so if i plan to see people, i see people, if i plan to get stuff done, thats exactly what I'm doing until the stuff gets done. A quick call before turning up at my door wouldnt go amiss. As for being chatted too, i don't mind too much if someone is taking an interest, but i cant be doing with pointless chit chat. Whilst I'm on the subject of working outside on my drive, why do people assume its ok to park across my drive just because my bonnet is up. It not. MOVE IT! 'yeah but I'm just popping.....' MOVE IT! 'yeah mate, i wont be lon......' I don't know you, MOVE IT! 'If i.... 'I'm GOING OUT!'
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Jun 24, 2019 20:19:15 GMT
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Once I was outside working on my VFR 750 , didn't hear anyone walk up and was getting some what frustrated that the rear wheel chain adjuster wouldn't move , gave an almighty J---S C-----st and looked up and theres a bloke holding a copy of Watchtower , who just politely asked if Ted (Dad) was in.
Turns out Dad invites him in, gives him a cup of tea and a biscuit , Dads reason , if he's sat with him he's not bothering anyone else!
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retired with too many projects!
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Paul Y
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Jun 24, 2019 20:23:49 GMT
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But then every now and again.... Had a guy ride up my drive way when I had my 56 outside the garage doing something or rather. Always a little unsettling when somebody turns up like that but.... Ended up talking to him for hours. Turns out he was ex Ford and was responsible for engineering on the original xr3i. He often turns up when I am working in the garage, would even say he has become a friend of sorts. Then you get the other visitors who offer to tarmac your drive and then you catch red handed trying to break the garage door down 2 days later.... P.
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Jun 24, 2019 20:53:03 GMT
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You lot want to consider yourself lucky - I keep myself to myself to myself in the workshop - workshop door is always closed when I am working (part of my planning conditions) - yet Mr & Mrs Neighbour from hell opposite who happen to have X ray eyes & bionic hearing will report me at the drop of a hat pin - so anyone that wants call around my place for a loud chat outside about motors & putting the world to rights are made very welcome - especially when Mr & Mrs NfH are grovelling about in their vegetable plot that's opposite the workshop - if for any reason I think the conversation is going to end early I'll even offer to put the kettle on or raid the beer fridge to keep the conversation free flowing if i'm up you way ill pop in for a cuppa chris. sounds like you need my specialist skill set... being subtlety un-subtle...quietly un-quiet and most importantly blatantly out and out effin sarcastic. mr & mrs nfh would really love me!! Pete - You are very welcome has are any other RR waifs & strays - kettle is always on here
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Jun 24, 2019 21:01:05 GMT
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ill make sure i bring biccies.... hobnobs or custard creams?
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'80 s1 924 turbo..hibernating '80 golf gli cabriolet...doing impression of a skip '97 pug 106 commuter...continuing cheapness making me smile!
firm believer in the k.i.s.s and f.i.s.h principles.
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ill make sure i bring biccies.... hobnobs or custard creams? Coming from an impoverished background where I was brought up int gutter and given coal to play with on the pretence it was lego - means that I'm not overly fussy about the type of biccies on offer
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in that case to make up for having to wear the right hand cup from your mothers old bra as a school cap , you sir will have the king of biscuits ....cornish fairings!
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'80 s1 924 turbo..hibernating '80 golf gli cabriolet...doing impression of a skip '97 pug 106 commuter...continuing cheapness making me smile!
firm believer in the k.i.s.s and f.i.s.h principles.
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I never have any of this.
My layout means everything happens away from the street.
But company, intelligent or at least on the same wavelength as me, is always welcome.
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I was under my cortina, changing the clutch and heard a voice asking if 'god could help me?' , i said no thanks but could you pass the 13mm spanner, which he kindly did.Turns out he was from the Church of happy clappy praise de lord and was canvassing for converts. He stayed passing me tools for a good 30mins until his bus turned up and i bid him thanks and farewell.Really nice guy And it made a change from the usual scrote/d1ckhead and the " wots dat den mate" brigade.
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Jun 26, 2019 10:38:32 GMT
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I got fed up with a quick fix not being so quick whilst working on the drive as it's pretty embarrasing, the not yet mother in law usually turns up and starts bringing the neighbours round to chat whilst I'm mid job too, my driveway is side on to three houses who probably all stand in their Spammy spam spam spam, no thank you, man. cursing me for making the place look untidy. I have put a triple wide gate round the back to work in there on the quick fixes and have learnt to park my daily car round the corner so if people do turn up unannounced it looks like I'm out.
spammy spam spam spam = kitchen. no idea why that's auto changed it but if they want to stand in spam, that's fine by me.
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Jun 26, 2019 11:28:34 GMT
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I got fed up with a quick fix not being so quick whilst working on the drive as it's pretty embarrasing, the not yet mother in law usually turns up and starts bringing the neighbours round to chat whilst I'm mid job too, my driveway is side on to three houses who probably all stand in their Spammy spam spam spam, no thank you, man. cursing me for making the place look untidy. I have put a triple wide gate round the back to work in there on the quick fixes and have learnt to park my daily car round the corner so if people do turn up unannounced it looks like I'm out. spammy spam spam spam = kitchen. no idea why that's auto changed it but if they want to stand in spam, that's fine by me. Great story but undoubtedly for me the best bit is the kitchen autocorrect to spammy spam spam. That's just a whole new level of auto correct hell/hilarity.
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Jun 26, 2019 11:41:35 GMT
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I had a funny one last night. My daughter brought a new friend home from school to play. Her dad picked her up and I could hear him chatting to my wife downstairs and he sounded very excited. He also sounded like he was built like a brick s***house with a voice like tumbling granite boulders in concert at the Albert Hall. I say I could hear him but it's more accurate to say I felt him through the walls and floorboards. "Tim" my wife calls up the stairs "you have an admirer of your car ... wants to know about it". So I minced gaily down the stairs in my Britney Spears plimsoles and Kawaii onesie to arrive knee high to this mountain of tattoo and muscle wedged into my hallway. He didnt have a head he had a bomb proof military command module mounted at a tactically advantageous location, and he started raving enthusiastically about my car from it. I told his knees I'd had it for three years and it's a slow work in progress. He wanted to know what engine it had in it and I did my best to make an Essex V6 sound sexy, mean and dangerous... fortunately he knew nothing about cars at all so it sounded dead impressive with its rebore, Powermax pistols, hot cam and the various other things I didnt even do to the engine myself. So then he said "I'd love something like that. I am so bored of driving boring cars" and I asked he want he'd got "This" he said, as he removed the front door with one hand so I could see out between his legs "it's the M3 twin turbo... I think it's pretty fast but I bet it's nothing compared to yours". "Ermmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Well, mine is quite fast, so... it... you know, its, errrrrrrrrr" He had absolutely no idea at all and was ready to believe that a more or less standard 46 year old Scimitar might actually best a twin turbo M3. The moral of the story is... white letter tyres. They make anything faster than a twin turbo M3 as long as you don't actually drive them.
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Last Edit: Jun 26, 2019 12:42:54 GMT by Deleted
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Jun 26, 2019 18:36:15 GMT
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I've had a few over the years but I'll run though the notable ones:
A guy up the road from my parents would tell me that the cortina is unsafe and that I'll probably die driving it - he ran the neighbor hood watch and could only be described as beige...
When getting the car ready for moving the car to our new house the new postie saw the car and asked me if it was an Anglia. I said he wasn't far off it's a cortina, this disrupted his programming and told mr I was wrong despite me pointing out the cortina bonnet badge...
Where mrs jim and I live is great for drop ins, the neighbor's are friendly and knowledgeable which helps when I've run the compressor for a few hours or been bashing tin on an evening.
I'll generally talk to people who pass by but I seldom leave the doors wide open whilst I'm working just because I'm a tad concerned about degenerates but I haven't got time to worry- I've hog a car to finish!
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1966 Ford Cortina GT 2018 Ford Fiesta ST
Full time engineer, part time waffler on Youtube - see Jim_Builds
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Jun 26, 2019 20:02:26 GMT
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I love a good conversation with any neighbour or person walking there dog, I’ve been messing about with motors for 35 years and never get tired of people wanting to chat and share there car memories, I’ve been lucky enough to buy a couple of cars from people locally who know I like old sh#t as most of them think my cars are!! All I’m saying is cut people some slack, it’s good to talk about your motors ......now when a battered transit pulls up with two chavvies in it that’s a different matter!
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Last Edit: Jun 26, 2019 20:03:09 GMT by Mercdan68
Fraud owners club member 1999 Jaguar s type 1993 ford escort
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benhar
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Jun 26, 2019 20:32:46 GMT
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I am blighted by friendly chats any time I am doing anything. A ten minute fix can generally take up to two hours anyway once you get stuck in and realise there are complications, but I have to factor in at least an hour spent chatting to (or more accurately, listening to) people passing by. The problem is they're all neighbourhood residents and they're all nice enough people, so I never want to appear rude. Old Ted in his trilby has nobody else to talk to and he's a lovely old fella, so I always stop and give him the time he wants to spend chatting. He's always off to get his bags of Real McCoy crisps for the day so eventually he self-manages his own departure. One bloke though, also a nice old fella, parks on my road every day to go and get his lunch from the local café and I have to pack up quickly and run indoors until he's been and gone because once he gets going there is literally no stopping him. He likes to present me with his entire history of something... every car he's ever owned, or every accident he's ever had, or every job he's ever had and what was wrong with every boss. It can take hours and in his case I will sometimes just tune him out completely and get on with whatever I'm doing even if it means I'm lying under my car and he's just stood there talking to himself. Unfortunately he does tend to get the impression eventually that I'm too busy and not listening and he'll say goodbye and shuffle off looking a little bit hurt... but I just don't have time. I'm usually trying to make use of two hours between finishing my real work for the day and the wife and kids getting home from school. But my big problem is opportunist theives, or which there seem to be many round here. if I have to go back into the house for any reason at all, it requires me to pack everything away, completely, because anything left unattended for more than 60 seconds will magically walk off. Recently had my cordless drill and drill bits box lifted while I was actually out there, on the far side of the car trying to attach an exhaust bracket. Some scavenger actually stole them with me right there. So that's a major PITA for me... if I need a p1ss it's a full and complete pack away of everything just to go back indoors for two minutes. Get some CCTV?
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benhar
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Jun 26, 2019 20:46:51 GMT
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Its not about being anti social but concentration and being methodical is key to completing any work safely. Last time it was a simple case of unscrewing my hood scoop so I could re-wrap it. OH PLEASE JUST KILL ME NOW.
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Jun 26, 2019 20:52:54 GMT
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I had a funny one last night. My daughter brought a new friend home from school to play. Her dad picked her up and I could hear him chatting to my wife downstairs and he sounded very excited. He also sounded like he was built like a brick s***house with a voice like tumbling granite boulders in concert at the Albert Hall. I say I could hear him but it's more accurate to say I felt him through the walls and floorboards. "Tim" my wife calls up the stairs "you have an admirer of your car ... wants to know about it". So I minced gaily down the stairs in my Britney Spears plimsoles and Kawaii onesie to arrive knee high to this mountain of tattoo and muscle wedged into my hallway. He didnt have a head he had a bomb proof military command module mounted at a tactically advantageous location, and he started raving enthusiastically about my car from it. I told his knees I'd had it for three years and it's a slow work in progress. He wanted to know what engine it had in it and I did my best to make an Essex V6 sound sexy, mean and dangerous... fortunately he knew nothing about cars at all so it sounded dead impressive with its rebore, Powermax pistols, hot cam and the various other things I didnt even do to the engine myself. So then he said "I'd love something like that. I am so bored of driving boring cars" and I asked he want he'd got "This" he said, as he removed the front door with one hand so I could see out between his legs "it's the M3 twin turbo... I think it's pretty fast but I bet it's nothing compared to yours". "Ermmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Well, mine is quite fast, so... it... you know, its, errrrrrrrrr" He had absolutely no idea at all and was ready to believe that a more or less standard 46 year old Scimitar might actually best a twin turbo M3. The moral of the story is... white letter tyres. They make anything faster than a twin turbo M3 as long as you don't actually drive them. big man was he?
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2001 vauxhall corsa 1972 VW Beetle 1986 Ford Capri Laser1999 BMW E36 323i Touring 1991 Volvo 940 estate 2002 Mazda 323f 2.0 sport 2016 Mercedes Sprinter 1999 nissan almera 1.4 1995 lexus gs300 1995 lexus ls400 1975 bmw 1602 fiat punto 2003 ford fiesta something else...
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Jun 26, 2019 21:51:34 GMT
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This Thread Is Awesome!!!
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Jun 26, 2019 22:10:12 GMT
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I got fed up with a quick fix not being so quick whilst working on the drive as it's pretty embarrasing, the not yet mother in law usually turns up and starts bringing the neighbours round to chat whilst I'm mid job too, my driveway is side on to three houses who probably all stand in their Spammy spam spam spam, no thank you, man. cursing me for making the place look untidy. I have put a triple wide gate round the back to work in there on the quick fixes and have learnt to park my daily car round the corner so if people do turn up unannounced it looks like I'm out. spammy spam spam spam = kitchen. no idea why that's auto changed it but if they want to stand in spam, that's fine by me. I gotta say, for auto correct that almost makes sense in its own right. And I had to google cornish fairings. I need some now.
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Jun 27, 2019 14:08:54 GMT
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And I had to google cornish fairings. I need some now. so do i.... not had any for years!!
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'80 s1 924 turbo..hibernating '80 golf gli cabriolet...doing impression of a skip '97 pug 106 commuter...continuing cheapness making me smile!
firm believer in the k.i.s.s and f.i.s.h principles.
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