An angry Reliant garage owner this morning
An angry Reliant garage owner this morning
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Rammy76

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1,054 posts

206 months

Saturday 5th March 2011
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Driving home from work this morning, I had to do a double take of the local Reliant specialist garage.

Seems like some drunks must've decided the vulnerable little 3 wheelers would be their choice of entertainment for a while.

Makes a change from cow tipping I suppose hehe

I suspect the garage owner will not be particularly happy to find this awaiting him in a normally sleepy part of the country.

Apologies for the poor picture quality


FraserLFA

5,083 posts

197 months

Saturday 5th March 2011
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Took me a second to work out what i was looking at.

Glad someone found amusement from destroying someone else's stuff...

soad

34,360 posts

199 months

Saturday 5th March 2011
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Maybe it was the strong gust of wind hehe

Should polish out nicely tongue out

saaby93

32,038 posts

201 months

Saturday 5th March 2011
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Amazing how you can do that to them and they're still ok yes
Imagine how happy any other dealer would be

Chas88

630 posts

189 months

Saturday 5th March 2011
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Perhaps he was going too quickly when he turned to park it tongue out

EDLT

15,421 posts

229 months

Saturday 5th March 2011
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Bit of t-cut will sort it out.

Jasandjules

72,009 posts

252 months

Saturday 5th March 2011
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Rammy76 said:
Seems like some drunks must've decided the vulnerable little 3 wheelers would be their choice of entertainment for a while.
A shame it looks like the car will be damaged as a result.

Acheron

643 posts

187 months

Saturday 5th March 2011
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQh56geU0X8

The only top gear moment to consistently crack me up every time.

Rammy76

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1,054 posts

206 months

Saturday 5th March 2011
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FraserLFA said:
Took me a second to work out what i was looking at.

Glad someone found amusement from destroying someone else's stuff...
I was driving home after a long nightshift so my photography skills weren't at their best!

It's the first time in years this has ever happened so hopefully just a one off, I don't particularly like to see other people's stuff tampered with either.

There was other little Reliants tipped round the side that I didn't get in the picture but from what I could see none looked particularly damaged thankfully.

thetapeworm

13,328 posts

262 months

Saturday 5th March 2011
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Is that the place near Selby?

Rammy76

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206 months

Saturday 5th March 2011
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thetapeworm said:
Is that the place near Selby?
Yeah little place called Chapel Haddlesey.

It's been a Reliant specialist for years, now also deals with little French things that sound like cement mixers hehe

LukeSi

5,780 posts

184 months

Saturday 5th March 2011
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Ok, who tried parking it?

Monkeylegend

28,455 posts

254 months

Saturday 5th March 2011
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LukeSi said:
Ok, who tried parking it?
JC

Cyberprog

2,304 posts

206 months

Saturday 5th March 2011
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I'm surprised they don't chain it down at night, in fact I'd say they were pretty stupid not to.

Papa Hotel

12,760 posts

205 months

Saturday 5th March 2011
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rolleyes
That's someone's car, it belongs to someone who spent their hard-earned money on it. It's not a hilarious TopGear-style prank, it's fking mindless vandalism.

EDLT

15,421 posts

229 months

Saturday 5th March 2011
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Rammy76 said:
thetapeworm said:
Is that the place near Selby?
Yeah little place called Chapel Haddlesey.

It's been a Reliant specialist for years, now also deals with little French things that sound like cement mixers hehe
Aixams? Someone up the road has got one, its st.

Animala

777 posts

185 months

Saturday 5th March 2011
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I heard somwhere that classic mini owners put lines of razors or barbed wire or whatever on the under side of the cars to stop people from doing this. Would solve the problem but I wouldn't think a very legal solution...

anonymous-user

77 months

Saturday 5th March 2011
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Rammy76 said:
thetapeworm said:
Is that the place near Selby?
Yeah little place called Chapel Haddlesey.

It's been a Reliant specialist for years, now also deals with little French things that sound like cement mixers hehe
Just before the bridge. Makes for a fun encounter when you come over the bridge/hill coming towards selby, and a reliant is pottering out of the junction

anonymous-user

77 months

Saturday 5th March 2011
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We all take pride in out car's, and that to me is the same as running over cars or dumping smarts into the canals in Amsterdam..

I am not a fan of these but it is sad people do this..

tr7v8

7,553 posts

251 months

Saturday 5th March 2011
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Papa Hotel said:
rolleyes
That's someone's car, it belongs to someone who spent their hard-earned money on it. It's not a hilarious TopGear-style prank, it's fking mindless vandalism.
My thoughts entirely. No different to keying or kicking a car.