Driveway tragedies

**DoubleChevron** · 28th November 2013, 01:58 PM

Originally Posted by UncleHo

Ooh! Shane

You arrogant generation "X"er, yes, my vehicles are "old" but I own them so if I want to drive them off a jetty there is no finance coy to worry about,most people have nice near new shiney vehicles to be better than their peers, I for one am long past that stage in life, as are probably a lot of people on here.

cheers

Edit: Oh crap, now I get it, I called you old, not the car

I didn't mean that.

I didn't mean offence ... I refer to my own cars as old heaps of ****

The most modern car I've ever owned is 1985 (yes it's sad when I think a 1985 car is modern). My wifes 407 is a post 2007 model

So modern and ****ty ...... Why do I have the urge to pull it's turbo diesel and 6spd manual gearbox out and put them into one of my old cars

The 407 only happened 'cos when the 3rd child arrived and the decision was made that we HAD to have something modern ( said wife thinks anything modern == reliable... especially if it doesn't wear a Citroen badge

). I sure can't complain about the fuel economy though.

I'm allergic to borrowing money for cars, I've fully owned every car I've ever owned ... except the Citroen CX GTi Turbo .... I purchased it from my father (who imported it from the UK) and paid him off over time.

seeya,
Shane L.

**ATH** · 30th November 2013, 09:57 AM

Most people I've seen coming out of driveways seem to think max speed is the way to go until they're in the centre of the road. Woman down the road nearly ran over our 2 G/kids as we walked past, just jumped straight into her car, turned the key and foot flat to the floor.
No looking around before she got in it. Totally self absorbed.
I spoke to the local coppers and they said the pavement was "a grey area" .....
Bloke round the road nearly crashed straight over me as he roared out the drive and I'm very careful when I see someone sitting in a car in the drive. He only noticed me when I banged on the roof and then he near crapped himself.
I reverse in and drive out, much easier to check the driveway as you go past slowly than to spend the rest of your life regretting killing a kiddy.
AlanH.

**manic** · 30th November 2013, 11:22 AM

Loved the Citroen. My g-ma had one in the south of france, still does. It sits real low when parked and raises the suspension when you start it up. Big windows, roomy' sounded nice. Little kid memories....

Anyway saw the postman reverse his van out of my driveway. Mother with pram coming across had to push the pram onto the nature strip and hurl her fists at the back of the van. He stopped, lots of foul language exchanged. She did well, reacted very quickly.

My drive is short and narrow, you come out blind. Only way is super slow creeper style with super fast round house mirror checks. Doing this I don't de how I could run anyone over unless they are sleeping under the rear tyre.

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**Graeme** · 30th November 2013, 11:30 AM

Originally Posted by ATH

Most people I've seen coming out of driveways seem to think max speed is the way to go until they're in the centre of the road.

It used to be the law, in NSW at least, that a vehicle had to stop at the property boundary before proceeding onto and across the footpath area.

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