do you approve of hillmans then?

( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:18, archived)

No, but I always wanted a husky as a pet
and since my apartment is too small for a husky (which is type of Hillman estate) I went for the smaller saloon version and got a cat called Minx.

When I picked up a kitten last summer the plan was to call it Imp since it's the smaller Hillman, but it turned out to be a female so it got called Pixie instead, which is very much like an Imp. The girlfriend wanted to call this one Husky though, claiming "it's the estate version of our other cat".
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:20, archived)

Oh how we laughed.

( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:21, archived)

council estate version?

( mongychops, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:25, archived)

"council" is a term used in car circles to describe all the bolt-on bullshit you get from Halfrauds

( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:27, archived)

i like cars as much as i like dogs

( mongychops, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:44, archived)

have you ever slept in a dog?

( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:48, archived)

i dont kiss and tell, you know that

( mongychops, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:51, archived)

That's some rather meaningful pet naming there.

( MONO!, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:22, archived)

calling it Avenger would be more ridiculous

( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:23, archived)

my cat is called stella.
i hope this helps.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:25, archived)

Oh my.

( MONO!, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:26, archived)

I agree.
I lived with two cats, not mine, that were called Flatus Maximus and Oderus Urungus
( MONO!, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:25, archived)

someone was talking about this the other day and I hope you can help.
what the fuck is a jensen interceptor?
( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:24, archived)

it's a big silver pile of testosterone, rust and awesomeness.

( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:25, archived)

mostly rust.

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:27, archived)

Speaking of awesomeness.
I might buy one of the new Delorians.
Either that or a new Schwimwagen
( MONO!, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:28, archived)

The fucking business, that's what.
www.joc.org.uk/newjoc/images/ceptor7.jpg

I think it featured in that playstation game, bit like gta but in london*.

*not gta london, the other one.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:26, archived)

so it's a rip off ford then.

( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:28, archived)

my next door neighbour had one when i was a kid.
he fired it up one sunday and my dad's shed windows fell out.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:30, archived)

I wish my shitty astra did that.
It sounds like a tractor because I've managed to blow all the silencing hair out the scrapyard exhaust.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:31, archived)

And the radiator is out of a corsa with stilts added to the bracket from an old clothes horse.

( Slippery Mick ‏, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:33, archived)

Astras seem to keep going forever though

( Major Turd for tonight only, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 14:16, archived)

It's possibly both the sexiest and most impractical object ever to leave an English factory
and was essentially an English shell made of leftover Ford bits with a 7.2 litre Chevy V8 stuffed under the bonnet. The Interceptor FF was also the first 4WD passenger car in the world, predating the quattro by nearly 15 years.

It's in my Top 5 Cars To Keep Forever
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:27, archived)

I wouldn't mind knowing what the other 4 are please?

( MONO!, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:29, archived)

The trouble is, I have a wider pool of Cars I'd Like To Own For A Bit
and some cars get upgraded. I'd love a Facel Vega and a Bristol, and both were in the Top 5, as was the Reliant Scimitar GTE and the Jaguar XJS, but I couldn't keep all five. So I'd have one of these as my Luxury Sedan, but also a Steyr Haflinger or a LuAZ for the weekends.
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:34, archived)

Not a classic Volkswagen then?

( MONO!, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:35, archived)

that's an oxymoron if ever I saw one
I'd properly sexually love an Audi Ur-quattro though
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:36, archived)

I'd love a 1940 Kubelwagen

( MONO!, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:38, archived)

Kubelwagen

Haflinger

LuAZ
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:42, archived)

Personally, it's kubelwagen all the way for me.
And not that shitty 1960's remake either.
I saw a 1945 kubelwagen for sale once, it was £45,000 :(
( MONO!, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:44, archived)

DubTax
Those VW owners will pay through the nose for anything with genuine Nazi heritage
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:45, archived)

Let's face it though.
Nazi stuff is cool.
ESPECIALLY Nazi Zombies.
( MONO!, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:50, archived)

Someone round the corner from me had a green scimitar.
Cool as fuck. Hard to believe the same company came out with the plastic pig.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:36, archived)

scimitar goddess
( MONO!, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:37, archived)

They are tasty, but you can't do body repairs to them
and the electrics are made of strawberry laces
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:38, archived)

what about a maserati cotsin zagato coupe?

( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:40, archived)

I don't really like supercars, I prefer Grand Tourers
I'd like to own a Morgan +4 for a bit though, because my grandfather did the Monte Carlo in one, and I also like the Ferrari Breadvan
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:44, archived)

fair enough but it's such a beautiful car.

( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:45, archived)

I don't deny it, almost every car from before the 60s was pretty in a way
but I prefer the cruising bruising bulk of the Tatra T603 or the sharkfin Tatra T87 to the curvaceous waves the Italians were producing.

De Tomaso Pantera though...
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:47, archived)

I'm reading that as "Classic VWs are pretty"

( MONO!, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:53, archived)

lucky old carlo eh, did they keep in touch?

( mongychops, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:46, archived)

no, but he pushed an Austrian's Bentley off a cliff

( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:48, archived)

lucky for Cliff he was there, and he survived?

( mongychops, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:50, archived)

andy survived?
No I'm afraid not, we lost Andy the next day

Over mucho Grande?

No I don't think I'll ever get over mucho Grande, those wounds run pretty deep

Lol
( mongychops, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:56, archived)

over, under. under, done.

( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:57, archived)

thanks for this info grrry.

( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:29, archived)

NO YOU'RE WELCOME.

( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:46, archived)

his was better.

( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:47, archived)

look, i'm being a girl that knows about cars, here.
stop harshing my mellow.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:50, archived)

Hey janet.
I appreciated your info as much as grrry's
( MONO!, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:52, archived)

sorry dave.

( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 12:54, archived)