Off topic - my car is no more!!

[andy250]

Poo!!!!!! took my car for an mot today and it failed in a big way!!! £300.00 due to the sills are falling off!! its only a bloody M reg!!!! its a seat!!! says it all really its only done 85000 nothing for a petrol!!!

I am now opening a fund for Andy's next form of transport!!! come on the sillier the better.

I'll start a pogo stick!!!!!!!! (imagine doing an outdoor shoot with that!!!!)


regards

Andy
(ye of the waying in the tax disc)

[miss_stockings]

Not quite sure how it will help but here is my contribution!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNhh3FSL1f0

Keep pogoing!!!

Love Miss S x

lol

[andy250]

Nice one the link is fantastic, that Basque and the shoes!!!! i've gone all hot an bothered!!!!!.

I so now, want to be the toothpaste in that room....

he he he he !!!!!!!!!!

regards

Andy

[miss_stockings]

Clever, very clever lol!!!

[TottyMcGee]

Ouch, unlucky. I reckon it was the extra weight from the go-faster stripes that did it.

As for your next mode of transport, I recommend a giant hamster ball. Environmentally friendly and you get to mow down muggers and innocent passers-by alike as if they were skittles.

[the bulber]

What about a space hopper Andy, you can use my belly to practice your technique before you buy one.

[BillShipton]

Welcome to the wacky world of public transport, Andy.

My wheels are on the bottom of a variety of different sized suitcases that get rolled to the studio and back. Since cases aren't meant to be filled with heavy cartons of custard, the wheels don't last long. I have also had a variety of sack trucks. Perhaps one of those All Terrain Baby Buggies is called for.

Talking of public transport, Hayley isn't talking to be cos I have blown 60 quid on all four volumes of the British Transport Films compilations on DVD. You don't have to like trains, they are wonderfully nostalgic - and the commentaries are pure Harry Enfield.

Sorry, Hayley

[andy250]

I too feel the suitcase coming on wheels and all. Yep the buses round here are completely wacky never run on time. One company in Manchester has even been taken off the road due to the drivers cannot speak English.

regards

Andy

[muckypup]

What about http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=8959221252413764426?

[andy250]

Jeepers Muckypup that went some distance only prob is I am so fat these days I'd probably snap the cord!!!!!!

regards

Andy
(ye of the bus ticket!!)

[the bulber]

I'd love to see Clown Julie's tits trying to cope with the G forces of that sling shot.

[andy250]

Bill, you are so right about the world of 'wacky public transport' the buses are mad as cheese!!! they all turn up at once. Today was becuase of the bad weather yesterday!!!!!.

Plus i'm also getting Somerfield to deliver the gunge shopping downstairs to the florist!! I can some more questions heading in my direction.

Anyway heyho.

regards

Andy

[Lizzie_Claymore]

Talking of public transport, Hayley isn't talking to be cos I have blown 60 quid on all four volumes of the British Transport Films compilations on DVD. You don't have to like trains, they are wonderfully nostalgic - and the commentaries are pure Harry Enfield.

I did exactly the same as an Xmas present to myself. They are truly magnificent. I've always loved BTF's output. The production values are absolutely superb. It is astonishing to realise that this unassuming little industrial PR film unit won over 200 awards at film festivals, including 2 Baftas and an Oscar! (I assume you've seen this excellent site?)

Incidentally, I can heartily recommend a side order of "Geoffrey Jones: The Rhythm of Film". It features award-winning shorts: Snow (Oscar nominated), Rail and Locomotion for BTF, along with superb shorts for BP and Shell.

Poo!!!!!! took my car for an mot today and it failed in a big way!!! £300.00 due to the sills are falling off!!

Andy - sorry to hear about that but are you sure you want to scrap it? I usually pay less than that for my cars and keep them for several years! Everyone makes the mistake of saying that if the value of a car is less than it costs to repair then it's not worth it. This is actually illogical. If you have the choice to keep the thing going for, say, another 3 years by spending £300 or you have to spend, say, £3000 on something which depreciates £500/year and might go just as expensively wrong in a year (which is likely - more modern cars have much more to go wrong on them and are more expensive to fix when they do) then you might as well spend the £300 and keep motoring for <£100/year rather than >£500/year!

Oh - and don't get me started on the lunacy of bus deregulation again or we'll be here all night. There are various technical reasons why they all turn up at once but it all stems from the Transport Act 1985, which Nicholas Ridley (who introduced it for Maggie Thatcher) declared a 'great success' - yeah right! (When did he ever travel by bus?!)

C_W.

[andy250]

Thanks for the comments Claymore its the chassis thats going not the bodywork, once you start welding chassis it never ends i did last year, all the rust does is move somewhere else ie the other side of the weld.

I'm not sure what to do at the mo??? all thoughts would be gratefully recieved.

regards

Andy

[DungeonMasterOne]

Talking of public transport, Hayley isn't talking to be cos I have blown 60 quid on all four volumes of the British Transport Films compilations on DVD. You don't have to like trains, they are wonderfully nostalgic - and the commentaries are pure Harry Enfield.

Incidentally, I can heartily recommend a side order of "Geoffrey Jones: The Rhythm of Film". It features award-winning shorts: Snow (Oscar nominated), Rail and Locomotion for BTF, along with superb shorts for BP and Shell.

Ohh - think I might just have to get that! I've actually got Snow - was broadcast on Ch4 very late at night some time in the 80s, when I'd left a tape running after a recording (used to do that to "stretch the tape" before making important recordings), I found it again some years later by chance and transferred it to SVHS. Brilliant work, especially considering when it was done.

At the time I was making my own compilations by editing the videos of various tours and diesel galas I'd been to down to fit 4-minute rock and pop songs, edited to cut from scene to scene on the beats of the music. Home movies really are mich better when you cut out everything but the very best bits.

Thanks for the comments Claymore its the chassis thats going not the bodywork, once you start welding chassis it never ends i did last year, all the rust does is move somewhere else ie the other side of the weld.

I'm not sure what to do at the mo??? all thoughts would be gratefully recieved.

Chassis as in seperate underframe? Production cars havn't had those since the 1970s of earlier. Generally speaking the "sills" on modern cars are hollow box-sections that provide the main strength in the floorpan. Once they start to rust the vehicle is effectively dead, effective treatment is possible but costs a fortune, generally it's only worth doing for classics or high-value land rovers and the like.

You can buy cars with a few months MOT and tax really cheaply, though you've then got the headache of getting rid of them at the end, many breakers need paying to take away vehicles now.

TBH quite a lot of people have found that not having a car, but using taxis when needed, is actually cheaper - no tax, no servicing, no tyres or oil to worry about. Get a bike for local transport and to get to and from the nearest station, and use trains (on advance-purchase tickets it's a lot cheaper) to go distances, locking the bike up at the station for when you get back. The big supermarkets all do delivery services, I'd a mate who found that having a motorbike and paying a fiver for Tesco to deliver a big shop every now and then was cheaper than keeping his old Rover on the road.

Cycling has a load of health benefits too - it's the second best form of exercise known, after swimming, and swimming isn't much use for transport unless you live by a centrally heated canal!