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"Here in my car", said 80s pop hero Gary Numan, "I feel safest of all". He obviously never shared the same stretch of road as me, then. Automotive tales of mirth and woe, please.
( , Thu 22 Apr 2010, 12:34)
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... is easy if you know how. I have a 1981 Citroën CX Break, which is 16'7" long. That's 9" longer than either a Volvo V70 or a Hummer H2. It is A Big Car. Now it turns out that most of the parking spaces in Glasgow are a couple of inches shorter than that, so wherever I park I tend to have one of the massive stainless steel bumpers overhanging the line. This tends to attract the attention of the parking attendants. Apparently, however, they're only supposed to ticket vehicles that are outwith the marked bays *if* there was ever a chance of them fitting into the bay. Mostly they don't bother now.
( , Wed 28 Apr 2010, 13:03, 3 replies)
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It also has a matching rev counter, calibrated from 0 to 5500rpm (which is "going some" for the big heavy cast-iron 2.4 litre engine), with big red arrows at the top indicating that the red line has disappeared off to the left. At this speed in top (three-speed thirstymatic gearbox) you are approaching 130mph and consuming dead dinosaurs like an oil-well fire.
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And put a ticket on each end? OK, it'd cost you twice as much to park, but it wouldn't be flouting any regulations and would make it much easier to get out of the space!
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