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Parked my astra estate......
« on: 20 March 2018, 12:54:10 »
........next to an omega saloon in a car park this morning. The omega looked quite small (side on) compared to the astra. Cars must have been growing quite a bit over the last 20 years.
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Re: Parked my astra estate......
« Reply #1 on: 20 March 2018, 13:02:02 »
Yes....I followed an abortion of a car the other day. It was a real ugly f*ucker and huge with it.

Turned out to be a Mini Cooper S Countryman and was the size of a small planet.

And there was I thinking 'mini' means small and petite.
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Re: Parked my astra estate......
« Reply #2 on: 20 March 2018, 13:05:36 »
Car SOS and Wheeler Dealers are good examples. Mike Brewer wearing a Triumph Herald or a 70's BMW is a sight to behold.  ;D
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Re: Parked my astra estate......
« Reply #3 on: 20 March 2018, 13:17:22 »
But parking spaces have, at best, stayed the same size.
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Re: Parked my astra estate......
« Reply #4 on: 20 March 2018, 13:17:54 »
I saw a 1965 Zephyr Six at a classic car show. A large family car in it's day.

It looked positively small by the standards of today.

Cars have grown, parking spaces have not. :-\
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« Reply #5 on: 20 March 2018, 13:18:26 »
Quote from: Migv6 on 20 March 2018, 13:17:22
But parking spaces have, at best, stayed the same size.

You have beaten me to it. :P
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« Reply #6 on: 20 March 2018, 13:21:24 »
What else is new ?  :P ;D
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« Reply #7 on: 20 March 2018, 13:21:48 »
I saw a Fiat 500 XL parked next to Renault Scenic (I think, one of those people carriers), the Fiat dwarfed the Scenic.
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« Reply #8 on: 20 March 2018, 13:26:21 »
Yet a proper Fiat 500 was so small you needed one for each foot.
I fancy an original 500, for some reason, but they go for silly money now, like most other old things which have managed to survive - apart from me.
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« Reply #9 on: 20 March 2018, 13:50:07 »
Quote from: Migv6 on 20 March 2018, 13:26:21
Yet a proper Fiat 500 was so small you needed one for each foot.
I fancy an original 500, for some reason, but they go for silly money now, like most other old things which have managed to survive - apart from me.

Yes. Introduced in 1957. Two years before the original Mini.
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« Reply #10 on: 20 March 2018, 13:51:48 »
Quote from: Migv6 on 20 March 2018, 13:26:21
Yet a proper Fiat 500 was so small you needed one for each foot.
I fancy an original 500, for some reason, but they go for silly money now, like most other old things which have managed to survive - apart from me.

Anybody want to pay £10 for Mr Albitz to stop him being scrapped? ;D
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« Reply #11 on: 20 March 2018, 14:03:29 »
No-one who has met me will cough up.  :'(  ;D
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« Reply #12 on: 20 March 2018, 14:14:31 »
How many houses are there on the Astra estate?
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Re: Parked my astra estate......
« Reply #13 on: 20 March 2018, 18:04:55 »
I saw a New Mini Clubman parked next to one of them Transit Connect type Vans, the Transit looked tiny compared to the Mini.  :D
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Re: Parked my astra estate......
« Reply #14 on: 20 March 2018, 18:23:38 »
Ok....if we're gonna be silly. I saw a Fiat punto parked next to a chieftain tank and it made the tank look like a toy.
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