What can you fit in your car
Discussion
My automotive cramming superlatives include:
- helping a friend collect a sideboard with my Mk4 Vauxhall Astra (we were 21, so having a Vauxhall Astra meant I was the friend with a BIG car lol)
- sufficient clothes etc for a week's trip around BENELUX in an MG TF, we bought plenty of Belgian beer etc and when we got to Franglais Vin found we still had enough room to buy a few cases of wine (my TF had the optional full-size spare wheel in the frunk)
- a camping holiday in Languedoc, including a three-bedroom high-ceiling tent, with fitted carpets, all manner of camp kitchen goodness, king-size divan-height bed, suitcases full of clothes (for her - and I had no less than THREE pairs of spare pants for the fortnight). That was in an estate Vectra C (the big one that came just before the Insignia... I miss that car, it was noticeably bigger than my E-class on the inside. No V8 though).
- two friends in the boot of an E-class Mercedes saloon... Nothing odd, they just wanted to see if they would fit. They did.
- a large garden furniture suite, new so in the huge original packaging, in the back of a Citroen Picasso... faces against the windscreen, I had to sit in the passenger seat as I couldn't even get in the driver's door!
- 7 people in a Fiat Uno.
- helping a friend collect a sideboard with my Mk4 Vauxhall Astra (we were 21, so having a Vauxhall Astra meant I was the friend with a BIG car lol)
- sufficient clothes etc for a week's trip around BENELUX in an MG TF, we bought plenty of Belgian beer etc and when we got to Franglais Vin found we still had enough room to buy a few cases of wine (my TF had the optional full-size spare wheel in the frunk)
- a camping holiday in Languedoc, including a three-bedroom high-ceiling tent, with fitted carpets, all manner of camp kitchen goodness, king-size divan-height bed, suitcases full of clothes (for her - and I had no less than THREE pairs of spare pants for the fortnight). That was in an estate Vectra C (the big one that came just before the Insignia... I miss that car, it was noticeably bigger than my E-class on the inside. No V8 though).
- two friends in the boot of an E-class Mercedes saloon... Nothing odd, they just wanted to see if they would fit. They did.
- a large garden furniture suite, new so in the huge original packaging, in the back of a Citroen Picasso... faces against the windscreen, I had to sit in the passenger seat as I couldn't even get in the driver's door!
- 7 people in a Fiat Uno.
Robmarriott said:
Escy said:
My old Multipla I got a single bed frame and mattress in.
Then another time I moved my brother in law from a student flat in liverpool to Manchester, got everything in in one trip (I had left the back seats at home so it was basically a big empty cube.
My current XF sportbrake I managed to get a dead fridge freezer in to take it to the tip, also got 4 blokes and all their camping gear in for LeMans.
Then another time I moved my brother in law from a student flat in liverpool to Manchester, got everything in in one trip (I had left the back seats at home so it was basically a big empty cube.
My current XF sportbrake I managed to get a dead fridge freezer in to take it to the tip, also got 4 blokes and all their camping gear in for LeMans.
I got one of these in my E91 with a little room to spare.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Keter-Store-Outdoor-Plast...
Handy piece of kit as it will take 8 wheels, so good for storing winters/summers!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Keter-Store-Outdoor-Plast...
Handy piece of kit as it will take 8 wheels, so good for storing winters/summers!
No pic sadly but I got my younger brother and his cello (in hard case) in an original FIAT 500- he was in the back seat, cello in the passenger seat sticking out of the open roof. I had to pull away from every junction in second gear as the case was in the way of where the gear lever would have to go to select first .
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