parallel parking
Aug 14th 2011, 12:25 pm
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parallel parking
how to park in a spot 26 m longer than your car and its not going backwards and forwards a million times!
http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/12082011/74...rking-job.html
http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/12082011/74...rking-job.html
Aug 14th 2011, 1:16 pm
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Re: parallel parking
The Honda way:
Safety first
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Safety first
.Last edited by Charismatic; Aug 14th 2011 at 1:19 pm.
Aug 14th 2011, 1:23 pm
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Re: parallel parking
A British bloke called Russ Swift was doing this kind of stuff more than twenty years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Swift.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Swift.
Last edited by OleJanx; Aug 14th 2011 at 1:27 pm.
Aug 14th 2011, 2:12 pm
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Re: parallel parking
A British bloke called Russ Swift was doing this kind of stuff more than twenty years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Swift.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Swift.
Russ Swift
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QykhZUnMuk
Arthur Fowler
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73rKQXCRHeA
Aug 14th 2011, 4:46 pm
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Re: parallel parking
Doing it in a Montego must be like having one hand tied behind your back and holding a glass of wine in the other 
. My mum had a Rover Metro from that era and she deserved a medal for coaxing it to life on cold mornings much less doing handbrake turns! 
. My mum had a Rover Metro from that era and she deserved a medal for coaxing it to life on cold mornings much less doing handbrake turns!
Aug 15th 2011, 2:48 pm
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Re: parallel parking
Be Careful! - It could have been much worse! - A 'Morris Marina!'
Aug 15th 2011, 3:02 pm
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Aug 15th 2011, 5:51 pm
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