Disabled Noble

[mark cundy]

Returned to get the Noble from Valet parking at Gatwick and they had stuck it in a disabled bay – rather amusing!

[Ian Perry]

Two schools of thought,it's a lovely car I'll park it where some inconsiderate dick can't open his car door on it ,or if he's had it a while the drivers bound to have a bad back crawling in and out of it.

[dave sutton]

Could it be something to do with the (lack of) turning circle?

[mark cundy]

Good answers - do not drive her as often as I should and had to miss Rockingham this year. Is hard work to navigate Gatwick parking without crunched wheels and maybe should apply for a blue badge - after five years must have a bad back by now!

[AMG Merc]

Good space, I like

[johns355]

I park in disabled bays with the noble a lot- however that's when I have my disabled daughter with me. She's a blue badge holder. Over the years we've devised a method of getting my daughter in and out the car. One of the main reasons I run a sporty second car is for some quality dad/daughter time, she's forever asking me to drive down certain roads so we can "pose" ! Did have an occasion a couple of years ago where there was a note saying "disabled my ass" on it, I wrote to the local paper asking them to anonymously print my article to enlighten people it's the person who gets a blue badge not the car- and some people get them who are on the autistic spectrum- rightfully so! I even had a researcher from the Jeremy vine show phone me and ask if I'd join I phone debate? All in all, I had more grief when I had the Ferrari! :-)

[bernhund]

johns355 said:

I park in disabled bays with the noble a lot- however that's when I have my disabled daughter with me. She's a blue badge holder. Over the years we've devised a method of getting my daughter in and out the car. One of the main reasons I run a sporty second car is for some quality dad/daughter time, she's forever asking me to drive down certain roads so we can "pose" ! Did have an occasion a couple of years ago where there was a note saying "disabled my ass" on it, I wrote to the local paper asking them to anonymously print my article to enlighten people it's the person who gets a blue badge not the car- and some people get them who are on the autistic spectrum- rightfully so! I even had a researcher from the Jeremy vine show phone me and ask if I'd join I phone debate? All in all, I had more grief when I had the Ferrari! :-)

I saw a Saab pull up on the disabled bay today in the Wickes/Currys car park in Sevenoaks. An old dear got out the passenger side and went to the boot, opened it and took a pair of wheels out. She then got the wheelchair out and I thought 'Don't tell me she's gonna get in that chair and happily wheel herself around Currys in it when I just watched her assemble it with relative ease before my eyes'. No. She took it around to the drivers door and handed the wheels to someone inside, then she walked into Currys.
Two minutes later an arm reached out, grabbed the chair and stuck the wheels on. Then an old boy hauled himself out into the chair, wheeled himself around to the boot, reached up with a coat hanger and pulled the tailgate down. Then he wheeled himself off to Wickes!
All in all, very impressive and a badge rightly deserved. You never can tell can you?!

[V1DL3R]

I have two disabled friends I drive with all the time. One has an R8 and the other has a new GT3. It always amazes me how they deal with it, especially filling up for fuel.