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We've all been there

GazTheHat

I can laugh about it now.

Snowy day, family in the car, waiting to pull out of a T-Junction, right opposite the police station.

Decided i would use a little more throttle and powerslide out the junction. The car went straight across in a straight line, hit the kerb and damaged the alloy. The next car went past with his horn on as i was sideways on in the middle of the road.

Wifey just wet herself laughing, knowing it was me who damaged the alloys on our new car first.

Lesson learnt.....

Lee247

That cracked me up I never knew crisp packets could be so dangerous

The Chief

Some years ago my mate bought a kitted up Calibra - thinking back it really was a dogs dinner, lowered via chopped springs, hideous bodykit, ridiculous alloy wheels. anyway we were sat at the lights (Yorkshire i think) and there were kids hanging around at these shops watching, anyway an old fiesta pulls up next to us revving the engine you know the usual.

I turns to my buddy and said 'you'd better burn this piece of s**t off' so both sat there revving lights go to green....POW mate drops his clutch and roars off, we must have got about 20 yards tops before we heared a bang and a huge roar, half his exhaust system had fell off and was in the middle of the road.

This fiesta zoomed past whilst we stopped very sheepishly.

All these kids were p***ing themselves as my mate went to retrieve said exhaust but then picked it up not realising it was red hot.

'Arrrrrghhhhhh' as it took 4 layers of skin off his hands and he dropped it.

More laughter from the teenage kids stood outside the shops.

hrness

kawasaki gpz 600 pulling from lights pops wheelie, see fuel gauge in front of face is empty, garage on immediate left, lets wheel down rapidly, straight into a collapsed manhole, highsided and whilst in the air thought this is really gonna hurt, landed in a bus stop,, bits of bike everywhere, me in agony in bus lay by, guy jumps of the bench runs over, shouts nice crash mate, turns and goes back to waiting for his bus. broken hand ribs and collapsed lung.
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2 days after passing my test, i am in works drive, mate as passenger, in my escort, revs the crap out of it dump clutch, oh dear, in reverse straight into bosses, day old bmw. writing it off.

ChrisGrant

When I was 19 my mother in her love for her son, insured me on her 3-year-old Escort Jet black (hardly ever saw the same colour!) would wash and polish it every weekend
Of course whenever the boys went anywere we went in my car!

Needed to get some money out so went to Tesco's parked up opposite the cash point, got out did my super cool walk to the cash point (there were girls about) took out my money and walked back to the car counting my money, (got to make sure its all there) got in my car and stuck the key in the ignition when to turn the key but something was wrong..........
Looked to the passenger side and there was a strange woman looking at me she said WTF are you doing? I’m gob smacked who the hell is this? Look in the back empty no one there???? What the hells going on? Looked out of the drivers side and there is a car with four of my best mates all looking at me completely pi$$ing themselves. I just got out of the car, which yes was exactly like mine slowly walked around my car, and got in................
Dam it took a while for that one to die down!!!

davegtt

Although thats a funny story, Im about dead now from reading all that without any grammar in it. Gasping for air.

This = , is a comma, try to use it next time and save a life

Brendan Hughes

Do you need some punctuation?

d5hof

My most embarrassing moment was also one of the best moments...about 4 years ago I was driving through the high street in Tooting Broadway (new territory), it was a nice summers eve and I had the hood down on in my Celica. I see this bunch of girls and I lock eyes with this very pretty and petite little thing then suddenly BANG...I hit the bus right in front of me!!!

Everyone on the bloody street saw what happend. I didn't know where to hide. Anyways after exchange insurance details with the bus driver I turn around and see shes still standing there, she apologised as she felt it was her fault, we talked and one thing lead to another we ended up being together for 2 years...

Shof

Brendan Hughes

BANG again then?

d5hof

few many times

ScoobyDriverWannabe

When i was at college there was a few lads in my group with moped/scooters. This one lad had been on for weeks about the new scooter he was getting.

I remember this particular day it was the first time he brought it too college. There was about 5 of them riding down in convoy into the car park after lunch along side the workshop i was in working on my centre lathe. The lad with the new ped tried pulling a wheelie across the carpark which went quite well at first. Until he crashed straight into the security guards hut.

The front wheel went through the wall of the hut and there was a round dent above from where his helment banged off the wall.

Took him about 4 months too save up and get it repaired. Then when he finally got it back on the road he brought it back into college. They used too chain their bikes too the security guards hut. A van drove in, bloke got out cut the chain and they put it the back then drove off. Think he must only have done about 50 miles on the thing.

I originally got my licence when i was 17 but didnt drive much, im 24 now and my dad recently gave me his car. Because i hadnt drove in so long i had a few refresher driving lessons which i finished last week.

On monday i took the car out for the first time by my self, first time iv drove without somebody in the car. It was a little bit daunting and i was quite nervous but was ok.

Until i brought the car home and put it on the drive. The lass from next door was stood at the door talking too a few of her m8s.

Our drive is a bit of a pain since the gas board dug all the pavments up and relayed the driveways. The ramp is no were near the paving slabs on the drive and their is a lip between our garden and the pavement as they made the pavement a few inches higher.

So i pulled it on thought i did a good job, until i tried opening the door and realising i was only inches away from the wall.

So i had too reverse it off and pull it back on with enough room too get out. Reversing it over the lip i ended up stalling, i looked up too see everyone next door gigling and me and me dad looking out the front window with a look of horror on his face thinking id left half the car paintwork along the side of the wall.

j4ckos mate

I came bombing round a bend on the cargo centre at the airport and went straight into the car park via the bushes, and had to press the interom to get out via the barrier.
customs officer bollocked me as well.


i think my pb, was going to shartson tip in my old company car a carlton estate,
i pulled up and slipped getting out of the car only it wasnt in park it was in reverse, and very nearly ran my own legs over. looked a proper tit

Jerome

Blimey, where do I start...

As I was leaving the work car park in Jan last year, I thought I'd impress all my work colleagues by booting the car backwards out of the parking space, spinning on the snow in the car park, putting it in first and zooming off. Looking uber cool in the process. However, I underestimated how slippery the car park was and spun so fast that I wack into a kerb and ended up nearly in a big bush. Drove off as if nothing had happened, but got plenty of stick the next day. Buckled the alloy and knackered the track rod whilst looking uber cool.

First time I drove in the US, I not only got in the passenger seat, but did the seat belt up and went for the steering wheel. Twice. Still did the search through the glove box thing. Felt a right twanny.

Drove a load of mates somewhere and parked up in a car park. When we all got back into the car, I noticed the car in front of me had gone, so thought I do a short cut through the space. Straight into a concrete barrier. For some reason my mates found it rather amusing.

Coming up to a roundabout, I proceeded to tell my passenger how bad the roundabout was for losing the rear end. Proceeded to give the car a tiny bit of welly to demostrate only to do an 180 into the kerb. Within milliseconds, the previous deserted roundabout, was full of dozens of cars. Sheepishly had to do a 3 point turn (only stalled it once though), with an audience. At least I proved my point in the process of looking a ****.

Driving down a long straight in a 60 limit, overtook a long queue of cars following an old dear doing 25mph. Cue plenty of horn as I passed said old dear. Got about half a mile up the road, rounded a bend, to be confronted with a stationary queue of traffic. Slammed on the brakes and eventually slid into a ditch. The traffic moved off and then, just as I got out of the car to survey the damage, the same old dear crawls past shaking her head followed by the same queue of cars, most of whom were laughing for some reason. To say I wanted the ground to swallow me up would be an understatement!

Having read all that I am seriously considering handing my driving licence back.

Lastly:

An ex-girlfriend drove over one of those ramps, that recess into the road at the entrance to a car park, when it was down for the car in front of us. It raised while we were half way across. Good job it was a rear engined VW otherwise the exhaust would probably have been knackered.

AsifScoob

Great thread,

Back in 2001, when I first got my first Scooby, was driving down to the local shops, thinking I was the Dogs.

I pulled up, had my shades on, feeling good about myself and was suddenly surrounded by admirers. Now this was exactly the sort of reaction I was expecting at the time, except that the admirers consisted of 8 year old lads, all exclaiming, "Car Man!"

My head dropped, this was not quite the admiration from my peers I had hoped for. My Wife still takes the pi$$ out of me over this.

Couple of years ago, was driving through France and Spain. It was warm, the driving was long, so to get comfortable loosened my shorts by undoing the button and fly.

Pulling into a service station on the continent I always felt cool. As Scoobies are rarer over there, especially if loud, I always got lots of attention, not all of it wanted mind.

Anyway, Missus was dozing, I pulled up for fuel, there are loads of people about, including pretty French girls etc. I am not thinking, just pull up, engine burbling away for a few extra seconds, as I prepare to exit the car and show these continentals just how cool British drivers are.

I step out, shades on, looking good, then my shorts fell down! I pulled them up straight away, but the damage was done!

I couldn't drive off as I needed petrol, so just had to pretend all was ok, whistling loudly and nonchalantly, as if that sort of thing was perfectly normal.

Needless to say I didn't hang around, payed up, then shot off pronto!

At least the French girls got to see that Scooby drivers are well endowed!

Asif

Myles

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Un-be-lievable! I did exactly the same thing in a Daihatsu Cuore hire car! I remember Jeremy Clarkson saying about trying to brake clutch and accelerate with the wrong feet, so I did! On the A303 in a traffic jam! I was inches from disaster when the wife pulled the handbrake on!