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iTrader: (41)

neither have I since

Abx

iTrader: (15)

I loved mine back then, it was a great motor at the time, especially as I was about 20 and was the only one of my mates to have a soft top, mind you the essex jokes got a tad annoying!!

trails

iTrader: (41)

I had a 1600EFi mkV so no caning from this direction...i was only 19 at the time and it was brand new though

CupraDave

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I dont think its the abuse for havin an Escort Cab you need to worry about

Its the takin the keys out the ignition while driving

simog

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I had a little dink in my first car once...Vauxhall Nova 1.2 (please dont laugh!). Driving on my first day to my new job casually down a single carriageway and behind the usual morning traffic when I spot out of the corner of my eye a rather large dog. It was running towards the road and there was someone on the opposite side.

I thought no more of it until I found the dog was now pretty close.....Now I know that most of you by this point are thinking he hit a dog, evil git, but no.....the whopping great big great dane hit me!! It ran into my O/S wing, bounced up my passenger door and rear quater panel and then lay in a heap on the verge behind me. Stopped very quickly to get out and see if the dog was ok, noticed it had s*it itself all my the side of my car. Got to the dog and woe and behold it got up, licked me and ran to it's owner, the idiot on the other side of the road!!

Dog had a £25 vet bill for scratches....Nova written off!!! Needless to say I didn't make it to work that day. Just goes to show the build quality of my Nova though, must have been like bouncing off a sponge to the dog!!

[Davey]

Luck you wernt in the scoob, the pannels are even weaker

simog

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And more expensive too I bet!! Was quite nerve racking though seeing something that size trying to re-design my panel work!

Ray_li

I was getting a BJ off some girl when a security guard knocked on my window.
As soon as she started moving to look up she go it all in her face

trails

iTrader: (41)

lol been in a similar position in a traffic jam on the M25 except it was a van load of builders beeping their horn

CupraDave

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Ok so if we are going down this road then here is mine.
Similar situation but at the point of no return we came up to a roundabout, I kinda managed to hit the kerb on the roundabout itself, lost control of the car and hit a lamp post. My rear seats folded and my sub box cracked me in the back of the head. A taxi driver with a cab full of revelers i had just passed saw the whole thing

*edit* was in a Mk3 Escort at the time

WRX Blues

First scoob, 2 weeks into ownership and I managed to contrive a fabulous lift-off 4 wheel understeer which sent me flying into the kerb . As I had no clue what to do about rectifying the situation I had been trying to steer around the corner - when I hit the kerb the car re-gained traction and shot across the other side of the road colliding head-on with an XR3 before embedding in a pub wall.
Nobody hurt - and here's the embarressing part. Firstly, the pub was my local and crammed full of mickey taking mates (it was Boxing Day), the second, I had my mother in-laws best dinner service in the boot.
I was punished - scoob was a write-off and it took me 12 hours to get the car recovered. The landlord was chuffed to bits as the excitement of me enetering through the wall enticed his customers to continue drinking. Everyone profits somewhere down the line.

Squadron-Leader

Forgetting I put my wallet, my mobile and my Oakley sunglass case on top of the car while I put my daughter in her car seat.

As I turned out on to a local B road... I luckily looked in the mirror and noticed something falling off the back of the car and smashing on to the road. I immediately blamed the wife for leaving one of my daughters toys on the roof, and then realised what I'd done.

I pulled over fast and ran back. In the meantime a couple of cars had driven over where my wallet had fallen and strewn it's contents everywhere. I looked a right pilchard dodging cars as I tried to pick up the bits. I was also watched by a small audience from a local factory who found the whole thing rather funny.

Got everything in my wallet back, mobile was smashed a little... but the Oakley case was never to be seen again

J.

H4RDY-P1

iTrader: (46)

Mine was so shamefull,went out to a busy shopping area with our lass parked up,right outside the shops,got out and the car wouldn't lock,so of course it wouldn't un'arm the factory imobiliser,oh no,looked up and i was right under a bloody taxi anttena arial,all the girls from the hairdressers were stood outside on there *** break and loads of people walkin arround ,i had to ask a total stranger to help me push the car down the road away from the antenna,having to hold all the traffic up including the supertram to make a three point turn to go down hill instead of up after 50 yards the car locked and unlocked so off we went.It was also funny watchin our lass 8 months pregnant trying to turn the steering wheel with no power steering.

al-g

Mine was about 2 weeks after getting my STi, took a mate out for a blast near his house in Derby. Hooning round a roundabout, didn't mean for the back end to step out but it did. Held the slide for a moment but then the back came right the way round, stalled, trying to start the ****** the alarm starts singing, facing the wrong way. I was very embarrased, but to top it off 2 old ladies go past with the biggest smiles on their faces gave me a nod as if to say "mornin"

Couldn't wait to get back to my mates.

automodellistagt

very similar, i was in a petrol station

diesel + leather soled shoes = foot slipping of clutch and kangeroo hooping 3 times before i managed to stall, then it wouldnt restart first time

2nd time i remember was when the car was brand new and i was filling up the car for the first time, quite proud of myself. The Lamborghini Gallardo that pulled up next to me pee'd on my fire

uksouljahz

hmm that'll be another mcdonalds one from me... pulling up to the drive through window looking all dapper, had the car just a day. "Nice Car" goes the girl at the window, I replied "thanks" no longer had I said it I managed to stall the car jump about half a meter forward and almost give myself whiplash

davedipster

Missing a gear just shows you where trying, nothing wrong with that.

kingofturds

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In the subaru, trying to pull off in neutral on a **** off great hill just as a stag night was walking up. Que laughing as I bounce it off the rev limiter and roll backwards.

Most embarassing was when I was 19. Me and the missus pull over in sticker lay by for some back seat action just gettting into my stride when some perv comes up with a torch and starts tapping on the window Me and the missus were sat on the back seat,kacks round our ankles and me with a hard on until he fooked off. Thank **** the windows were steamed up.

uksouljahz

oooh just remembered another one, on the way back from collecting the car I stopped off to fill her up. Had to let my dad drive it as my insurance didnt come into effect until a few days later. Anyway there he is pumping petrol and the alarm starts going with loads of beeps chirps and sirens everyone looking. Having had the car for only an hour I didnt have a clue so theres me shouting at my dad press the f**kin unlock button and he's shouting back at me which ones the f**kin unlock button?? All the buttons are worn off!!
Anyway you get the idea, both of us looking like laurel and hardy with the whole station staring at us.

I've read the book and still cant work out the damn thing!
So if anyone else has a Clifford 600 gimme a shout!

markollyh

Picked my new scoob (and first) up last Friday and decided to drive home on the local bypass to test my new toy out.

Half way home 'P' Reg rover 8 series started to drive inches behind my rear bumper. Decided that at the next roundabout I would teach him a lesson and leave him for dead.

Dropped into 2nd pulling out of the roundabout and before I knew it I hit 100 mph. Looked in my rear view mirror again and the Rover had gone - He was overtaking me. I bottled out and watched him vanish into the sunset.

Don't know what he had under the bonnet but it was fast!

The Dogs B******s

Mine was:- where i live there's a hill with 2 lanes going up on my side of the road, for some reason all the traffic was in the left hand lane going very slowly,so i decided to boot it round them only to find a hearse at the top of the hill.(felt a right pr*ck)

WetPatch

Ive 2,

First was when i was gaetting ready to set off on a long journey i pulled into a garage to fill up and tryed to over fill the tank, resulting the petrol firing out of the tank and covering my jeans. I had to travel 500 k/m with the stick of petrol coming off me.

The 2nd was the time i was at a junction with a building site not far from it and the road was covered in mud, there was loads of traffic and a car flashed to let me out, but there wasnt of a gap in the traffic coming up the oppisite side of the traffic where i was trying to get to. Sooo i put my foot down and proceded to do nearly a full 180 in the middle of the road.....

Borat_Drives_A_Scooby

Mine was letting the Mrs use the scooby to do the shopping in as her car was in for service, i got a phone call and on the other end was the Mrs saying she can`t remember which multi storey she had parked the car in as we have 4 near our city centre.

I had to get a cab down to where she was, i asked her can she remember which level the car was on as that would be a starting point as i could go round each multi storey with the alarm fob and activating the alarm to let me know eher it might be. She didn`t have a clue what level either

After an hour i found it, never again will the car be in her hands

Marin

iTrader: (1)

Sure I've done a few daft things in the scoob but what springs to mind is driving a works Astra estate on site, many years ago. Parked up, went into building, came out, started reversing and wondered why the bloke walking past was giving me a funny look - gave hime the old 'what's your problem' glare and promptly reversed into the flat bed trailer that had been parked behind me while I was inside :-)

amahrap

My wife Tracie taking the scoob to work while i was on the train to Smoke
She overtook 2 cars round the inside of a wet roundabout when the rear wheels started to slide out. She over corrected the opposite lock which shot her back in the opposite direction handily enough lining her up with the exit road. By all accounts it was an impressive if totally flukey piece of driving!

I then get a phone call while on the train to say "nearly crashed the new car sliding around a roundabout" - just what you need on the way to work.

Later she said "don't worry, the tinted windows mean they couldn't see me driving so you will get the blame for being a boy racer!!!"

anthscooby01

Driving along seafront in Sunderland one Sunday afternoon in my first car, a Cavalier coupe. Sundays were basically for posing in your motor after clubbing Sat night and there were usually hundreds of us down there. I had just fitted a Blaupunkt stereo that morning (2 x 20 watts wow!) but had no connector blocks so just taped connections. Anyway after one pass along front I flicked the back end out on the roundabout turning for my second run past the gathered hordes. The connections must have touched somehow via the obvious massive G forces created by the 100bhp 2.0 litre iron lump in my motor. Just as I was passing the Zebra Crossing where 3 blonde birds sat that me and my mates had been eyeing in the club just hours earlier the dashboard caught fire and I instinctively ripped stereo out of dash frying my hand in process. Smoke was pouring out of windows and crowd found it highly entertaining! Needless to say I never pulled any of them birds!

dreamer_girl

These have really made me chuckle!

My only embarassing moment so far was turning right out of a junction and totally failing to notice the Honda CRV driving down the road in my direction. My passenger shouted BOOT IT, so I did Cold wet road, first gear, slide.. woooohooooo

I was so embarassed I had to turn off the main road and slink down a sidestreet until the CRV had gone! I am sure it looked impressive but still....

rob2006

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Sitting at the traffic lights in my old gtir on a super warm day in the middle of town. 19 years old and had the i look cool feeling...

Mate in the passenger seat distracts me for a moment only so he could pull it out of first and into neutral.... lights go green and i sit there looking like a complete plank as i rev the asre of it going nowhere.

Needless to say whenever he's in the car with me now and i'm faced with a junction or traffic lights of any sort my hand is left firmly on the gear stick.

corradoboy

Nipped out of w*rk to get a pizza one night. As I exited a roundabout 50 yards from the office I had chav'd Astra alongside and I heard him boot it. No chance I thought ! Planted my right foot and slowly over the next 1/2 mile he reeled in the car length he was behind, passed and was a car length in front when we got to the next roundabout. I'd only had the car 2 weeks and didn't know about the protection setting on the Prodrive map which limits boost until oil and water reach reasonable temperatures :

WRX300MAN

Having some east Europeans filming my car, as I was rolling slowly in traffic . . .Bless em!!!