[s-cars] [S-list] was One-Lap; is French Parking

[Bob Rossato]

Heck I used to do that all the time in college.  Our fraternity had 1 or 2
more cars than parking spaces.  A friend and I used to routinely push the
other's car out of it's parking spot and into the driveway of the Armenian
church next to our parking lot whenever either one of us got back and there
wasn't a spot left.  What parking brake?  That's a locked automatic
transmission you're pushing against.  Of course, when you're dealing with
early '70s Detroit iron all you had to do was take a napkin and wipe down
the chrome on the bumper and it was good as new... not that new was that
good.

Bob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: s-car-list-admin at audifans.com
> [mailto:s-car-list-admin at audifans.com]On Behalf Of Mark Strangways
> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 7:35 PM
> To: CyberPoet; S-CAR-List at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] [S-list] was One-Lap; is French Parking
>
>
> I hope that stays in Paris. I don't have enough bullets to fix up
> all those
> people if they did that to my car !
> This particular car in front had its parking brakes on as the car
> was pushed
> forward with rear wheels sliding.
>
> It's hard to believe that this is allowed ?? Tolerated ??
> I would hate to see what that would get you in the streets of NY, Detroit,
> Chicago !!!
>
> On aside note, I did find the moped drivers very amusing. I guess
> that's why
> all the cafe's have the seating facing the streets.
> This way you get entertained, or at least ... see it coming in
> time to jump.
> I don't even wanna start into the required skills to cross the street.
>
> Mark S
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "CyberPoet" <thecyberpoet at cyberpoet.net>
> To: <S-CAR-List at audifans.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 7:08 PM
> Subject: [s-cars] [S-list] was One-Lap; is French Parking
>
>
> > Only in Paris, right?
> >
> > You might note that the end of each street has a steel or brass pole in
> > the center of the parking isle to keep the cars on the end from being
> > "pushed" into the streets. When I first stopped there, I popped by the
> > USO to get a hotel recommendation, and part of their advice was
> > straight-forward: park with your wheels dead straight, car in neutral,
> > parking brake off. I didn't understand, but complied. By the morning,
> > my car had drifted 45 feet down the way, and I still didn't understand
> > -- until I saw someone else park: nose in to push the cars in front,
> > then tail back to push the cars behind out of the way: instant parking
> > spot. You'd think they would engineer their bumpers differently for
> > just that reason.
> >
> > Cheers!
> > =-= Marc Glasgow
> >
> >
> >
> > MARK WROTE:
> > Myself and 10 others watched in amazement as a lady parking her little
> > Renault pushed the car in front of her about 3 feet until it hit the
> > car in
> > front of it. All this for a parking spot.
> > YIKES !
> >
> > For the rest of the trip we laughed at the front hoods of all these
> > cars !
> > Amazing !
> >
> > Mark
> >
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