Hired LP640 - crashed by numpties
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This sort of thing has gone on for years. I remember in the late eighties you could see hundreds of rental cars congregating at blackpool on the day of eid, often one licence would be used to hire several cars and this being before photo licences it was easily done. Police did get wise to the trick though and started stopping cars and photographing the drivers. As you can imagine a lot of young lads driving hire cars is a recipe for disaster and I know there were a lot of prangs although back then an XR3iCab. was about as flash as it got. Mind you the late eighties saw joy riders knicking XR3i's all year round.
God only knows what kind of stupidity most of us would have gotten up to in a LP640 at the tender age of twenty, I try and keep this in mind(accent on the try) whenever I see young kids driving like pillocks, which is either on the increase or Im getting old and noticing it more.
God only knows what kind of stupidity most of us would have gotten up to in a LP640 at the tender age of twenty, I try and keep this in mind(accent on the try) whenever I see young kids driving like pillocks, which is either on the increase or Im getting old and noticing it more.
Edited by singh on Wednesday 6th December 17:04
singh said:
This sort of thing has gone on for years.
Yup, when looking for a hire car in a remote location in Holland, I was looking through the yellow pages and noted the local car hire company had a Caterham in the logo.
Seemed like a fun idea, so I asked them if I could hire it in the period I was there.
The voice on the other side got a bit sterner. "No Sir, we used to have one and the driver killed himself, then we bought another.. and somebody killed himself with that one also. So we decided to stick to Fords and Fiats".
If that happens with a Caterham, imagine how easy it would have been for the moron in that Lambo to kill himself and several others.
So how about that 'sports car grade' driving license?
It's a miracle noone was killed. It is incredible that there are people who think it is OK to give a car like that to someone who has no insurance - this is not the hire companies fault of course. We suspected that one of our cars were being sub-hired to underage drivers, so we caught the guy red handed and took the car off him in the middle of Glasgow. Incerdibly the driver was 20 years old, and was not the same guy we had delivered the car to. Even more incredibly, the hirer than rang up to complain that we had acted in an unprofessional manner for recovering the car. He then said he would have smashed the car up and gladly have lost his £5k deposit to teach us a lesson. He lost his deposit anyway.
northo said:
It's a miracle noone was killed. It is incredible that there are people who think it is OK to give a car like that to someone who has no insurance - this is not the hire companies fault of course. We suspected that one of our cars were being sub-hired to underage drivers, so we caught the guy red handed and took the car off him in the middle of Glasgow. Incerdibly the driver was 20 years old, and was not the same guy we had delivered the car to. Even more incredibly, the hirer than rang up to complain that we had acted in an unprofessional manner for recovering the car. He then said he would have smashed the car up and gladly have lost his £5k deposit to teach us a lesson. He lost his deposit anyway.
Cheeky sh1tcvnt.
northo said:
It's a miracle noone was killed. It is incredible that there are people who think it is OK to give a car like that to someone who has no insurance - this is not the hire companies fault of course. We suspected that one of our cars were being sub-hired to underage drivers, so we caught the guy red handed and took the car off him in the middle of Glasgow. Incerdibly the driver was 20 years old, and was not the same guy we had delivered the car to. Even more incredibly, the hirer than rang up to complain that we had acted in an unprofessional manner for recovering the car. He then said he would have smashed the car up and gladly have lost his £5k deposit to teach us a lesson. He lost his deposit anyway.
So basically somebody hires the car for a weekend for example 2K, then they sub lets it per hour at say £200p/h all weekend to various kids. Would explain the times when "suddenly" you end up seeing the same Ferrari being driven by young kids all over the place but just over one weekend.
northo said:
It's a miracle noone was killed. It is incredible that there are people who think it is OK to give a car like that to someone who has no insurance - this is not the hire companies fault of course. We suspected that one of our cars were being sub-hired to underage drivers, so we caught the guy red handed and took the car off him in the middle of Glasgow. Incerdibly the driver was 20 years old, and was not the same guy we had delivered the car to. Even more incredibly, the hirer than rang up to complain that we had acted in an unprofessional manner for recovering the car. He then said he would have smashed the car up and gladly have lost his £5k deposit to teach us a lesson. He lost his deposit anyway.
ing hell mate. The further away you are from those sort of people, the better.
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