Friday Night Rants?

**Berries** · 22nd January 2016, 22:44

Originally Posted by RDJ

Good to know. Then I can ride safely without worrying about revenue-collecting obsessives on my six.

Just watch out for

- a WRX

- a Mondeo

- an XR6

- and a Nissan ute

and my Gran in her Austin 7.

Bad day today was it?

**gsxr** · 22nd January 2016, 23:23

Originally Posted by scumdog

Selling three 2.0 Cortina motors and a four-speed gearbox for $170.

Is that a fairprice or am I ripping myself off???

Im no expert but to me they are worth far more than 2 bottles of whiskey .

**scumdog** · 23rd January 2016, 18:11

Originally Posted by gsxr

Im no expert but to me they are worth far more than 2 bottles of whiskey .

Dang, too late - they're gone

**98tls** · 23rd January 2016, 20:03

Originally Posted by scumdog

Selling three 2.0 Cortina motors and a four-speed gearbox for $170.

Is that a fairprice or am I ripping myself off???

Vickys mum still gets about in a mk4 tina mate...only on Fridays for the trip to new world which everynow and then finds a "do you want to sell blah blah blah" note left on the windscreen

orrible things when new more so these days i reckon.

**ellipsis** · 23rd January 2016, 20:15

Originally Posted by scumdog

Dang, too late - they're gone

...rest easy...the whole lot were only worth a bottle...and cheap shit...

**Berries** · 23rd January 2016, 21:49

Originally Posted by 98tls

Vickys mum still gets about in a mk4 tina mate...only on Fridays for the trip to new world which everynow and then finds a "do you want to sell blah blah blah" note left on the windscreen

orrible things when new more so these days i reckon.

I was looking at a MK1 Lotus last weekend, brother in law said he liked the look of the MK5.

Where do you start?

**sidecar bob** · 29th January 2016, 20:14

Stupid old girl drove into the yard this afternoon, ignores the vacant car parks & the customer parking sign & attempts the most retarded three (or more) point turn in a space you couldn't swing a cat in.
I looked up waiting for the impact not entirely sure which corner it would be on, but confident there would be one none the less.
As she reversed for the third time it happened, she hit another vehicle with the left rear of her car.
I went over to the window & asked her to get out, so I could untangle the mess, only to discover that it was my fault that she had the accident, as while reversing, she was looking forward, searching my face for signs of panic so she knew when she was getting close to the other car. A fantastically resourceful & reliable method for reversing a vehicle in a confined space i thought.
Unfortunately for her, I was wearing my slightly annoyed poker face, & in doing so caused her to hit the other car.

**merv** · 29th January 2016, 20:17

So you'll be known as Bad News Bob from now on huh?

**sidecar bob** · 29th January 2016, 20:20

Originally Posted by merv

So you'll be known as Bad News Bob from now on huh?

Fortunately she hit the other car in a particularly robust spot & did no harm except to her car.
I'm sure she will remember me as a bit of an asshole bob to be perfectly honest.
I had never met the lady before & wasnt in the immediate vicinity of the retarded manouvere so it was a bit of a responsibility to load on to me with no prior arrangement.

**unstuck** · 29th January 2016, 21:13

Originally Posted by sidecar bob

Stupid old girl drove into the yard this afternoon, ignores the vacant car parks & the customer parking sign & attempts the most retarded three (or more) point turn in a space you couldn't swing a cat in.
I looked up waiting for the impact not entirely sure which corner it would be on, but confident there would be one none the less.
As she reversed for the third time it happened, she hit another vehicle with the left rear of her car.
I went over to the window & asked her to get out, so I could untangle the mess, only to discover that it was my fault that she had the accident, as while reversing, she was looking forward, searching my face for signs of panic so she knew when she was getting close to the other car. A fantastically resourceful method for reversing a vehicle in a confined space i thought.
Unfortunately for her, I was wearing my slightly annoyed poker face, & in doing so caused her to hit the other car.

I rolled around on the floor of the big shed at work for 40 mins, laughing myself silly, while one of my workmates tried to back the landcruiser out of the big double roller doors a couple of weeks ago
He managed to hit both sides of the doors, and almost every pallet of drums inside the shed, plus the workbench and two other trucks that were parked inside.
Stupid thing was, when he started, it was only the cruiser that was inside the shed. The trailer was on the outside.
By the time I took over the wheel, he was right inside the shed, wedged up against the far wall.

He wondered why I would not let him drive me to where we were going.

A couple of days later he reversed into one of the fire sheds, and lifted it of its foundations, and broke the pump.

He now wants to go for his truck licence, boy have we got some laughs coming.

On the rant front.............Nope, life is still pretty awesome.

**unstuck** · 5th February 2016, 16:37

Decided to go for a bit of a hoon down a really good twisty bit of gravel road on the way to work this morning, came over a rise and fuck me, there is a 2 tape electric fence right across the road

Managed to stay upright and just stopped inches from the thing.
Farmer raced across the paddock in his ute, and was very apologetic, And his excuse was he didn't expect anyone to come along.

Apart from that little incident, that threw me into angry man mode for a couple of minuets, life is still pretty AWESOME.

**eldog** · 5th February 2016, 16:47

Originally Posted by unstuck

Decided to go for a bit of a hoon down a really good twisty bit of gravel road on the way to work this morning, came over a rise and fuck me, there is a 2 tape electric fence right across the road

Managed to stay upright and just stopped inches from the thing.
Farmer raced across the paddock in his ute, and was very apologetic, And his excuse was he didn't expect anyone to come along.

Apart from that little incident, that threw me into angry man mode for a couple of minuets, life is still pretty AWESOME.

So, your ride in rural Gore wasn't ELECTRIFYING?