What damage did you do to your parents cars ?
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Some hope. My tight-fisted short-tempered father let me borrow his car about twice unable to hide his irritation that I dared ask. You could cut his sour resentfulness with a knife.
Never put his hand in his pocket once to help me out with running my first car when I was earning a few quid working in a snotty posh department store.
When I eventually was issued with some fabulous company cars AND able to buy a nice sports car or two I rubbed his nose in it whenever I returned home. The tight b...d died lonely & I've never shed a tear.
Dads of today note BUT don't go the other way & over-indulge.
Never put his hand in his pocket once to help me out with running my first car when I was earning a few quid working in a snotty posh department store.
When I eventually was issued with some fabulous company cars AND able to buy a nice sports car or two I rubbed his nose in it whenever I returned home. The tight b...d died lonely & I've never shed a tear.
Dads of today note BUT don't go the other way & over-indulge.
Passed my test while on first year of my apprenticeship in Birmingham
Came home at weekend and borrowed my mums Mk1 Escort
Lost control on a hairpin and parked in on top of someones gatepost
So that was 3 days after passing and about 40 miles of unsupervised driving.
Never lived that down.
Police turned up and did me for a bald tyre, think that was the only reason I got away with it as dad felt guilty letting me drive it. The officer then said I had done well to reach the gate as his sergeant hadnt managed to hold it that long and had ended up in the ditch 10 yards earlier
No body damage but did managed to get through a set of brake pads in 3 weeks.....and about 1 miles of cumulative driving.
Story is my mum had a mk3 Mondeo auto estate, when I was 14/15 I was allowed to turn it around and park it on the drive, c. 100yds long....
I’d typically see how fast I got get it going (forwards) before having to emergency stop...this was done repeatedly before parking the car back up outside the house.
When it stated I must have finished off the old set of pads, new ones were fitted and went in the space of then3 week’s mentioned, thankfully as the pads were new she (oblivious to my antics) took it back to the mechanic, he fitted new ones FOC and sent the old ones back to the manufacturer, seeing the car had only done about 200 miles on them....a week later the 2nd gear selector pin in the autobox broke and the old mondeo battle bus was traded in for a 12m old fiesta which is still going strong.
Story is my mum had a mk3 Mondeo auto estate, when I was 14/15 I was allowed to turn it around and park it on the drive, c. 100yds long....
I’d typically see how fast I got get it going (forwards) before having to emergency stop...this was done repeatedly before parking the car back up outside the house.
When it stated I must have finished off the old set of pads, new ones were fitted and went in the space of then3 week’s mentioned, thankfully as the pads were new she (oblivious to my antics) took it back to the mechanic, he fitted new ones FOC and sent the old ones back to the manufacturer, seeing the car had only done about 200 miles on them....a week later the 2nd gear selector pin in the autobox broke and the old mondeo battle bus was traded in for a 12m old fiesta which is still going strong.
I drove my parents Volvo back from cambridge airport for the 1st time when I was 18 after dropping then off there , I'd never driven an auto before , as I approached the main road I instinctively went for the clutch and it stopped dead , no damage to report but the bloke behind shat himself
wack said:
I drove my parents Volvo back from cambridge airport for the 1st time when I was 18 after dropping then off there , I'd never driven an auto before , as I approached the main road I instinctively went for the clutch and it stopped dead , no damage to report but the bloke behind shat himself
Dads Ford Sierra a mighty 1.8GLX I gave that car some beatings as follows,
Black ice saw it go through a hedgerow into a field.
Youthful enthusiasm saw it land in a ditch.
A gap wasn't as big as it appeared which resulted in the right hand side scrapping down the side of a tractor.
Slid into the Armco joining the M180 way too fast.
It went everywhere at maximum revs and between us we did 100k in three years and surprisingly it never let us down once only my skills letting it down.
Sure there's others I can't remember.
I'm sure the plate was K461MUS a grey mismatch colour by the time I'd finished with it.
No idea why he kept lending it to me.
Black ice saw it go through a hedgerow into a field.
Youthful enthusiasm saw it land in a ditch.
A gap wasn't as big as it appeared which resulted in the right hand side scrapping down the side of a tractor.
Slid into the Armco joining the M180 way too fast.
It went everywhere at maximum revs and between us we did 100k in three years and surprisingly it never let us down once only my skills letting it down.
Sure there's others I can't remember.
I'm sure the plate was K461MUS a grey mismatch colour by the time I'd finished with it.
No idea why he kept lending it to me.
Rolled my mothers Mini 1000 into an absolute ball of snot, roof was touching the steering wheel, 3 weeks after passing my test at 17. Me and a mate walked away with barely a scratch and I never got done for it. The first copper to arrive just looked into the car, looked at us and just said "nice parking lads". MTE 606K I will never forget that reg no.
A year or two later I bought an MGB GT with a knackered engine. Took the engine out and decided to get the car welded and re-sprayed whilst I was about it. I got my dad to tow my engine less car down to the body shop with his 1.3L Austin Metro. All went well until we arrived at a roundabout where he decided to stop a bit sharpish for oncoming traffic. Cue Big Bang as my servo less MGB went straight into the back of the Metro with me shoving the brake pedal for all I'm worth. It's about the only time I saw him really pissed off.
A year or two later I bought an MGB GT with a knackered engine. Took the engine out and decided to get the car welded and re-sprayed whilst I was about it. I got my dad to tow my engine less car down to the body shop with his 1.3L Austin Metro. All went well until we arrived at a roundabout where he decided to stop a bit sharpish for oncoming traffic. Cue Big Bang as my servo less MGB went straight into the back of the Metro with me shoving the brake pedal for all I'm worth. It's about the only time I saw him really pissed off.
Damaged some of the suspension when I flew over a curb in my parents Talbot horizon - hit the throttle instead of the brake as I turned in to a little car park. I was 14 and teaching myself to drive on an industrial estate while my dad cleaned his lorry.
Cooked the brakes in my mum's 309 2 hours after passing my test. Handbrake turned the same car in to a wall messing about in the snow, but only knocked the bumper back a tiny bit. Pointed the damage out to her a couple of years later when she gave me the car.
Cooked the brakes in my mum's 309 2 hours after passing my test. Handbrake turned the same car in to a wall messing about in the snow, but only knocked the bumper back a tiny bit. Pointed the damage out to her a couple of years later when she gave me the car.
Not as dramatic as some, but I used to drive my mum's Peugeot 205 a lot. Loved that car!
Anyway, the driveway entrance was a touch narrow, and coming past the front of the house you had to swing out and turn quite sharply as the parking was back on yourself across the front of the house. So I came in too quick, at an insufficient angle, and scraped a huge chunk out of the side of the car and demolished the gate post! Felt awful but they were pretty good about it!
Anyway, the driveway entrance was a touch narrow, and coming past the front of the house you had to swing out and turn quite sharply as the parking was back on yourself across the front of the house. So I came in too quick, at an insufficient angle, and scraped a huge chunk out of the side of the car and demolished the gate post! Felt awful but they were pretty good about it!
My mum sent me in her Maestro to pick up a new washing machine. On the way back, over a hump backed bridge, the washing machine leapt up and smashed the back screen.
A couple of weeks later, my brother launched the car through the garage door, and blamed me for having left it in gear.
A couple of weeks later, my brother launched the car through the garage door, and blamed me for having left it in gear.
I creosote’d my dads mk1 Orange coloured Carlton. This was back in the day when it was like tar, not the water based rubbish you get now.
He chased me up the stairs smacking my arse and legs....
No idea why I thought this was a good idea. A nice hot sunny day and I was watching my dad doing jobs around the house. I think he went in for some lunch and I just picked up ththe brush and went to town on the drivers side door and wing.
He chased me up the stairs smacking my arse and legs....
No idea why I thought this was a good idea. A nice hot sunny day and I was watching my dad doing jobs around the house. I think he went in for some lunch and I just picked up ththe brush and went to town on the drivers side door and wing.
Edited by oldaudi on Sunday 9th December 19:16
Glad I am not the only kid who melted small circles into seats!
Many of my mates at 17/18 wrote off their parents cars.
Casualties included (with excuses in brackets)
Saab 99 into a bus shelter (black ice)
Ford Orion backwards and rolled across a roundabout (brakes failed)
Maestro into crash barrier and some trees (blow out)
Ford Fiesta into kerb and gate post (dog)
Motorbike of some description (diesel on roundabout)
5 series BMW into garden wall ( another brake failure)
Ambassador scraped every panel down drivers side (pure incompetence in a multi-storey - no excuse)
Being a passenger with a friend at that age was pretty scary!
Many of my mates at 17/18 wrote off their parents cars.
Casualties included (with excuses in brackets)
Saab 99 into a bus shelter (black ice)
Ford Orion backwards and rolled across a roundabout (brakes failed)
Maestro into crash barrier and some trees (blow out)
Ford Fiesta into kerb and gate post (dog)
Motorbike of some description (diesel on roundabout)
5 series BMW into garden wall ( another brake failure)
Ambassador scraped every panel down drivers side (pure incompetence in a multi-storey - no excuse)
Being a passenger with a friend at that age was pretty scary!
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