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Forget gull wing doors
Found this last night, wonder if it will ever take off over here lol 😮
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😮 😮 😮
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Is it just me or does the dress styles and the babies clothing look a bit older than 2007 😕 😮 :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:
Is this for real or trick photography done quiet a few years back 😕
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cool 😀 now tesco can make their parking spaces even smaller 😕
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quote John Gregson:cool 😀 now tesco can make their parking spaces even smaller 😕
sorry to go off topic but I agree with ASDA and fining people for parking in the parents bays if they don’t have kids, I never did until I had a child and all I can say is unless you park on the other side of the parking lot so you have an empty car space next to you it is not so easy to get in and out with a small (or in my case a big) child 😮
It’s all about consideration and what goes around comes around.
OK back to topic 😉
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Warren, i always keep a couple of spare kiddy seats in case in need to go to tesco!! (just kidding!). that said, i’l use em after 8 or 9pm with no guilt, babies shouldn’y be out at that time of night (not for a general shopping trip!) and big kids have more enrgy than me!
anyways…
the door, it looks feasable, but, how do you open it if your emote goes flat, or even if the battery goes flat? also, how would a passer by open it in the case of an emergency? can’t see it passing the sva tests over here!
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Hugh, it opens by gravity and is powered shut?
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quote Peter Normington:Hugh, it opens by gravity and is powered shut?
Peterlol, still not convinced it’d work (and the window would be powered i guess), imaging….. tipping down with rain (or not), you open the door, jump out, and somehow there’s a power problem, the door wouldn’y shut!
at least a traditional door can be shut!
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quote Warren Beard:sorry to go off topic but I agree with ASDA and fining people for parking in the parents bays if they don’t have kidsOK, I understand why disabled spaces should be near the doors, but why mother and baby ones?
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brilliant concept, can’t see it passing our safety tests here though.
I guess also, if you have to ask ‘how much’, you probably couldn’t afford it!
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I can’t see anything. Is it just me?
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Its a text link Phill, the word "This".
i missed it too… 😳 :lol1:
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How do you like the door on my car?
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is that the one you just recently built phill?
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The one in the picture I built back in 1984/5. But I bought another one last summer to restore.
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ahh, ok i see… i do remember you getting another car to restore… so my next reply was going to be "that didnt take you long" 😮 :lol1: :lol1:
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quote John Childs:quote Warren Beard:sorry to go off topic but I agree with ASDA and fining people for parking in the parents bays if they don’t have kids
OK, I understand why disabled spaces should be near the doors, but why mother and baby ones?
The average size of parking spaces is tiny and with the new laws regarding children must be in a car seat until they are old enough to retire makes it very difficult to unstrap and lift a 20/30 kg child out a car without pulling some sort of muscle you never knew you had :lol1: It is just to make life easier, after all it’s what we all want 🙄
Even Phill’s car door is a great idea, if you open it while traveling on the motorway does it turn in to a glider :lol1:
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quote Warren Beard:The average size of parking spaces is tiny and with the new laws regarding children must be in a car seat until they are old enough to retire makes it very difficult to unstrap and lift a 20/30 kg child out a car without pulling some sort of muscle you never knew you had :lol1: It is just to make life easier, after all it’s what we all want 🙄
I’m not disputing the need for a bit more space Warren. I just wonder why they HAVE to be next to the door. Having a small child is not a disability. They can walk perfectly well, even if they are pushing a buggy. And before anybody has a pop at me for chauvinism, that’s the view of my wife who, for once, I agree with.
Now if we are talking about exactly who needs larger parking spaces, what about people with big cars? Again, they don’t need to be next to the supermarket door but somewhere to park without fellow shoppers having to open their doors onto my car would be nice.
Parking spaces is something the Americans have got right.
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quote John Childs:quote Warren Beard:The average size of parking spaces is tiny and with the new laws regarding children must be in a car seat until they are old enough to retire makes it very difficult to unstrap and lift a 20/30 kg child out a car without pulling some sort of muscle you never knew you had :lol1: It is just to make life easier, after all it’s what we all want 🙄
I’m not disputing the need for a bit more space Warren. I just wonder why they HAVE to be next to the door. Having a small child is not a disability. They can walk perfectly well, even if they are pushing a buggy. And before anybody has a pop at me for chauvinism, that’s the view of my wife who, for once, I agree with.
Now if we are talking about exactly who needs larger parking spaces, what about people with big cars? Again, they don’t need to be next to the supermarket door but somewhere to park without fellow shoppers having to open their doors onto my car would be nice.
Parking spaces is something the Americans have got right.
I agree 100% John, I don’t care where the parking is as long as there is space, this is not really a subject I feel strongly about and don’t know how or where it started but I I know is they are trying to protect disabled and parents parking from inconsiderate people and that is what I am for, where the parking is does not bother me that much besides if it is raining hard and my child gets drenched 😕
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that wont last 5 mins the ladies will hate it.
the older rileys had a rear hinged door that had to be dropped in latter models as the ladies refused to get out of them in a short skirt.
shame but there you go.chris
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I like the I dea have seen it some other site or tv a few mounts back. I would be wondering would insurance have a fit seeing as it a modified vehicle. My insurance company only like stock cars.
I like the idea in part as I am fat and when you fat you really have to squeeze to get out with some place. My cars small which helps but how some people get out of some car park spaces with the larger cars I don’t know must be paper thin or something. I like the parks that put the double looped line between cars instread of the single makemoremoney line.probably costs too much and not legal in this backwards country
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Michael, Fat is such a nasty word, I like to refer to myself as supersized! 😮
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Its not a new concept, but a reinvention of one used on a US car. When I was in Canada, a mate of mine had a station wagon (not sure of the make), but when opened the tail gate split in two, the door portion swung under the rear and the window portion slid up into the roof. I can see it becoming viable when side impact collision protection needs improving.
Phil, Nice car…..very Pink Panther, talking of which, I saw FAB1 on the back of a trailer heading north on the M40 lastweek.
Not getting into the parking space thing, Id be here all day…………. 😛 😛
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Phil
Thats a NOVA kit car?Use to build them years ago!
Ian
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That’s right Ian – Tell me more about your involvement with these kits :thumbsup:
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Will post more when ive finished work
Just finishing stitching Banners
Ian
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