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So funny!

Went out for a meal last night, pouring with rain. Pulled into the pub carpark and found a space on some heavily gravelled surface (4 inches thick).
Came out to the car about 2 hours later, could I shift the car? no... Now ordinarily my other half would have given me some serious 'advice' on the matter but fortunately she found it as funny as I did. The more wheel spin I got the deeper the car got.

Anyway, realising there was some solid concrete under all this gravel I managed to wheel spin my way out of trouble, running a 4k in 1st but bearly moving, a quick check of the car revealled no nasty suprises and I was on my way.

A lesson learned I feel, now I bet thats not in the manual.


Often.

 

Many moons ago, a young lady and I went to Cannock chase in my Daimler Sovereign for a picnic. Due to the fact that it pissed down heavily, we had the picnic in the car and were parked there for quite a long time afterwards! Little did we realise that the car had sunk slowly into the waterlogged ground whilst we were parked. When I came to drive off... nothing, and on getting out of the car, I could see it was down past the hub centres, back and front. I ws just about to start hiking to a phone box in the pouring rain, resigned to the fact that I was going to have to get my cheque book out, when a Chase Ranger and his mate in a Land Rover complete with winch, arrived and thankfully towed us to some firm ground.

The "I know,.... don't tell me, she's your secretary and she's been taking dictation" digs were a small price to pay.

 

Was she your secretary, Cedric ?

 

Well guys one of our Dutch owners had this happening a couple of months ago:

 

Reminds me of when my mate Stuart got his brand new huge Volvo stuck in the mud at work - a guy with a 1 litre Mini Metro pulled him out using a tow rope - it did look funny !

 

Last summer I saw a classic at Polzeath in Cornwall - there's a low tide only car park at the top of the beach. The tide was coming in. The only car left was a Volvo 960? estate. The waves are about 10 feet away. So, the family return to the car ... and start getting changed . Before they're done, water has washed up to the sills of the Volvo and retreated. They now belatedly decide to drive away... or not. Nope, a tank parked on soggy, almost quick sand ain't going nowhere. So, the kids (both under 5), and mother are left in the car as waves come and go lapping at the wheels, and the dad gets out to work out what to do. Lots of volunteers help push, but they are forgetting that this is a Volvo.
In the end, they are saved (but only after breaking a couple of ropes) by a nice man in a Land Rover - water now up to 2 feet deep at times.
It still amazes me to think that there are people this stupid around - to ignore the incoming tide and get changed instead, and then leave your kids, belted up in a car that may get washed away with the tide.
I suppose it takes all sorts

 

That brings back memories of a friend getting stuck in the sand dunes on the Skeleton Coast, in Namibia. We were rolling around laughing because he should not have got stuck even with deflated tyres. We pulling him out and had a couple of beers for our hard work.

 

Cedric, I can join the club.

Many, many years ago I got stuck in a similar situation in my Daimler Sovereign XJ6 on the downward grass slope of Winter Hill, between Marlow and Cookham, facing the river to take advantage of the view (it wasn't the view I was taking advantage of; the lady is now my wife). When we surfaced for air at dusk, a heavy dew had settled on the ground (no, we weren't outside a synagogue) and wheelspin just dug the car into the ground. Tried the floormats to get grip without success.

In desperation asked my companion to get out whilst I let off the handbrake and headed for the cliff edge - embarrassing questions if we had both been found in a crashed car at the foot of the cliff- and fortunately the car gained traction when I gently turned across the slope and majestically (sovereignally) the car climbed the hill. A good exercise in trying to keep the car in second gear with an automatic gearbox.