Biggest thing you've squeezed into your car?

Biggest thing you've squeezed into your car?

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rj1986

1,107 posts

169 months

Monday 2nd April 2012
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My new home office in my X5

2x 6foot Billy book cases
1 4 foot desk top
Office chair
27" iMac
New drill
and weekly shop.

All fitted nicely with rear seats folded, no drama smile

But have had a 55" TV in the back of my mum's SHogun Pinin.
That was a box -on-top-of-passager-headrest job

SonicShadow

2,452 posts

155 months

Monday 2nd April 2012
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Christmas tree:



my bike:




I moved pretty much my whole life from home to uni in my old Corsa.... have to hire a van now though :lol:

Greg_D

6,542 posts

247 months

Monday 2nd April 2012
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my mate and i used to get a full nightclub spec pa system into his saxo every week for a club night we used to run this included 2x large bass speakers, 2x large mids and tweeters (all speakers the massive sort you can barely pick up), a large amp, several disco lights, speaker stands, mixer and bags of cables as well as the 2 of us up front.

There wasn't ever a spare inch in that car, completely packed tight....

geordieracer

1,312 posts

206 months

Monday 2nd April 2012
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3 kayaks and a passenger in a 1996 corsa - driving hunched over the steering wheel wasn't pleasant!

All my worldly possessions - including the kayak - in the aforementioned corsa to move 120 miles at extremely
short notice; it did well, except for stopping!

Greg_D

6,542 posts

247 months

Monday 2nd April 2012
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and on a lighter note, my mate once purchased a job lot of 10,000 dildos and had to transfer them in a merc sprinter (standard length and height)

about half way into loading them up it became clear that they weren't all going to fit, so he had to unload, ditch the packaging and load them just floor to ceiling in their naked rubber form, the van was absolutely and completely packed to the ceiling.

Now this next bit sounds completely made up, but i assure you it wasn't.
On the way back, he had a minor shunt in traffic and the load shifted and came flying forward and pretty much blocked him in his seat, when he opened his door to exchange details with the poor young lady he had just run into 100+ dildos tunbled out of his van. apparently her face was a picture.....

Vladimir

6,917 posts

159 months

Monday 2nd April 2012
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Three 6ft surfboards and three blokes into a Fiat 126.


GravelBen

15,695 posts

231 months

Monday 2nd April 2012
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Not as inventive as some on here, but I can confirm that you can get a single bed and mattress inside a Legacy wagon and still shut the boot.

kambites

67,584 posts

222 months

Monday 2nd April 2012
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I've transported some quite big things (like ladders and doors) with the Elise, but I don't think the word "in" is entirely appropriate.

Silverbullet767

10,712 posts

207 months

Monday 2nd April 2012
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SonicShadow said:
Christmas tree:



my bike:




I moved pretty much my whole life from home to uni in my old Corsa.... have to hire a van now though :lol:
rofl at both of those pictures!!

georgejones

45 posts

172 months

Monday 2nd April 2012
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Mk 4 fiesta in a citroen berlingo van.

goodwoodweirdo

307 posts

183 months

Monday 2nd April 2012
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Alfa sud, inc doors boot but minus shell in a Volvo V70 from Belgium to the UK.... try to explain whats in the car to customs :-)

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djfaulkner

1,103 posts

219 months

Monday 2nd April 2012
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Rear bumper of my vectra after 'meeting' with a dray lorry

BigMacDaddy

963 posts

182 months

Monday 2nd April 2012
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Just about managed to get three 2.6m flatpacked wardrobes plus associated fittings in the back of the Stagea on Saturday. This did involve my wife having to ride in the boot with them on the way home as I had to fold the front-passenger seat forward to get them in.

That'll teach her to give me the correct measurements before dragging me to IKEA....rolleyeslaugh

g00chy

40 posts

148 months

Monday 2nd April 2012
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my old omega estate became a serious workhorse when i discovered the front seat folded flat giving about a 13ft loadbed..many times the wife was sat behind me in the single split seat...
canoes,shed/kids playhose,decking, numerous tip runs,fridges,washing machines..

drove around in my 1.3 mk3 escort with an 1.6 engine in the boot for a week until i had time to fit it...performance was down a tad

silverfoxcc

7,690 posts

146 months

Monday 2nd April 2012
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Just getting back to my piccy of the young lady earlier. I would have thought it would have been done earlier!!!

And what does the term 'custard' mean? in the post ollowing, being new, i am still learning the patois

Thanks

Ron

carmadgaz

3,201 posts

184 months

Monday 2nd April 2012
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Relatively lightweight by the standards of some of the posts on here. The Landie is regularly fully loaded but it's a van, not a car

buzzer

3,543 posts

241 months

Monday 2nd April 2012
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three and a half 10 cubic foot bags of cavity wall insulation bead....

It was going to be four bags but while I was shoving the fourth one in, the bag split...

Five cubic foot of bead spilled out of the back of the car, all over me, and while I was trying to contain the spillage, the cars driving past on a busy main road were sucking it out the back of the car...

It was like a blizzard in July! It made and awful mess of the road!

SonicShadow

2,452 posts

155 months

Monday 2nd April 2012
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Silverbullet767 said:
rofl at both of those pictures!!
They are the pictures I show people when they say my car is impractical biggrin

carmadgaz

3,201 posts

184 months

Monday 2nd April 2012
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Oh and...



We may of had to hold the boot down but we got it all in smile

Huff

3,159 posts

192 months

Monday 2nd April 2012
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Harji said:
Once got fridge in a Saab, another time a washing machine. Once the flooring of a flat I used to own and it used to swallow my mountain bike as well
Classic 900s are bloody brilliant for shifting stuff. Used mine to move house for friends more than once.

And having a flat, flat loadbed that sleeps two in comfort with a view of the night sky is nice wink