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Re: Whats The Worst Car You Have Ever Tried To Park
« Reply #30 on: 13 October 2008, 18:50:38 »
a 1982 leyland  coach with "semi " pas ????? wtf it weighs 12 tonne is 39ft long and has power steering that only works when you are moving or revving the nuts off it!!! AND it had the turning circle of a bloody capri!!! (on a larger scale of course)
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Re: Whats The Worst Car You Have Ever Tried To Park
« Reply #31 on: 13 October 2008, 19:02:46 »
A 1958 Duple 56 seater road coach (taxed as a "private car") that when I first started to drive it and backed it onto my drive for the first time (the neighbours couldn't believe what they were seeing! :o :o)  and took out a wooden fence post; but I missed the house!! :D :D ;)  Rear view virtually non existant!! ::) ::) ::) ::)
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Re: Whats The Worst Car You Have Ever Tried To Park
« Reply #32 on: 13 October 2008, 19:04:16 »
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A 1958 Duple 56 seater road coach  ...... and backed it onto my drive for the first time  .....

how big's your drive???  :o  :o
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« Reply #33 on: 13 October 2008, 19:08:48 »
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A 1958 Duple 56 seater road coach  ...... and backed it onto my drive for the first time  .....

how big's your drive???  :o  :o


It was just long enough to park it without overhanging the public pavement! 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)

I have a film picture of it parked up on the drive as I was so proud of my accomplishment, which I am soon going to have loaded up electronically which I will post one day!! ;)
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Re: Whats The Worst Car You Have Ever Tried To Park
« Reply #34 on: 13 October 2008, 19:14:12 »
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A 1958 Duple 56 seater road coach  ...... and backed it onto my drive for the first time  .....

how big's your drive???  :o  :o

It was just long enough to park it without overhanging the public pavement! 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)

I have a film picture of it parked up on the drive as I was so proud of my accomplishment, which I am soon going to have loaded up electronically which I will post one day!! ;)
Not a chance on my drive. Even if the gap at the side of my house was wide enough for a coach - I can reverse my caravan down there - there wouldn't be enough room to swing the front of the coach round. Harry - my neighbour across from me - is a BIG man & i don't think he's take too  kindly to me driving over his garden!  ;D  ;D  :y :y
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Re: Whats The Worst Car You Have Ever Tried To Park
« Reply #35 on: 13 October 2008, 19:28:30 »
Drove my ex-gaffers XJS a couple of times and it wasn't the best car to park. The funniest was a tiny little Fiat 126 which a complete stranger asked me to park after several failed attempts. You probably could have got a Mig in the space ;D ;D
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Re: Whats The Worst Car You Have Ever Tried To Park
« Reply #36 on: 13 October 2008, 19:40:18 »
An Austin Princess because it had a high back end and a Lada not because I couldn't see over the front of the bonnet or the boot its because I was ducking down with sheer embarrasment of driving it.
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Re: Whats The Worst Car You Have Ever Tried To Park
« Reply #37 on: 13 October 2008, 20:41:15 »
[size=14]Whats The Worst Car You Have Ever Tried To Park[/size]

Just reminding everyone of the title. ::) ::)

Tanks and busses etc are not cars.  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D :y :y
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Re: Whats The Worst Car You Have Ever Tried To Park
« Reply #38 on: 14 October 2008, 12:03:10 »
I hate to say it, but I have trouble parallel parking the Omega - don't know why - I don't normally have problems parking, and the Omega usually does everything I want it to.  No problem getting in and out of tight spaces but I just can't get the bloody thing to end up straight against the kerb. :-[ :-[ :-[

My Volvo 960 Estate was the easiest - you could get that into a space about 15" longer than the car with without too much trouble.  
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Re: Whats The Worst Car You Have Ever Tried To Park
« Reply #39 on: 14 October 2008, 16:41:52 »
I dont think the omega is a particularily easy car to park.
there is no visibility beyond the bottom of the screens - front and rear,and the car widens by a few inches at the bottom of the side windows.
I am used to it,but mrs Bitz hates trying to park it,despite the fact that she is (allegedly) a much better driver than me. ::) ::)
My duaghter had a clit for a while and could only park it if she found 3 empty parking spaces side by side. the driving test must be too easy these days. ::) ::)
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« Reply #40 on: 14 October 2008, 17:55:47 »
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Just reminding everyone of the title. ::) ::)

Tanks and busses etc are not cars.  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D :y :y

They are Skruntie when taxed as a 'private car' as the one I drove was!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;) It was also as far as the police were concerned then (1980s)! ;)

............and no car has ever been a trouble to me for parking, even that really large 56 seater one( ;)), but my father............well that is a different story........5 minutes frequently to park in a space with everything lined up correctly!! ;D ;D :D ;)

Woman are, as Dusty states :y, usually better parkers, apart from those in 4X4's.....now I must stop getting into my usual rant! >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
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Re: Whats The Worst Car You Have Ever Tried To Park
« Reply #41 on: 14 October 2008, 20:48:06 »
Was going to say being HGV positive gives me an unfair advantage but Skruntie reminded us it's a car post so hardest is the Mig because i'm scared of scuffing the alloys.
    Easiest was my Marina Van (if i'm allowed that as a car) because i was 19 & thought it was funny to handbrake turn into spaces, just a phase i went through when i had that vehicle & did'nt care.
     Silly thing is i got quite good at it!!!! ::)
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Re: Whats The Worst Car You Have Ever Tried To Park
« Reply #42 on: 15 October 2008, 13:15:07 »
Truth be known I find small cars hardest to park! Give me a big car and I'll squeeze it into the tiniest of spaces, likewise a lorry, but stick me in the likes of a clit and I have a real nightmare  :-[ :-[ :-[
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Re: Whats The Worst Car You Have Ever Tried To Park
« Reply #43 on: 15 October 2008, 14:53:32 »
A talbot  delivery Van - gear changes like stirring porridge and no power steering..
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Re: Whats The Worst Car You Have Ever Tried To Park
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Just reminding everyone of the title. ::) ::)

Tanks and busses etc are not cars.  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D :y :y

They are Skruntie when taxed as a 'private car' as the one I drove was!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;) It was also as far as the police were concerned then (1980s)! ;)

............and no car has ever been a trouble to me for parking, even that really large 56 seater one( ;)), but my father............well that is a different story........5 minutes frequently to park in a space with everything lined up correctly!! ;D ;D :D ;)

Woman are, as Dusty states :y, usually better parkers, apart from those in 4X4's.....now I must stop getting into my usual rant! >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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