Tight squeeze
Richard
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I would love to see them get it out. I suspect that two people just pick it up and place it on the street.
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Maybe that's how they parked it in the first place.
Amazing.
I'd love to know if this was a driving-in parking exercise - or if it was moved by people power, how many people were needed? Hmm...
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I think the huge pot was put in place after they parked the car! good luck getting it out...
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Oh wow.....he must have picked it up and placed it there!
They weigh over 700 kg, so I doubt that two people capable of lifting it would fit inside
. And the planter behind it could easily weigh even more. When I was a kid, someone in the neighborhood had an Isetta, a three-wheeled, one cylinder Italian toy car. I have a vague memory of a bunch of friends dragging it to a different parking space just for laughs. Apparently, Isetta owners were used to that.
Can't imagine how else he got in there....crazy
An expression of fantastic parking skills...
I'm showing this to my bride to show what's possible...
Well, yeah, but don't try this with your BMW SUV. I think Rags probably has the right explanation. There is hardly any distance from the front wheel to the tip of the bumper, so a skilled driver could conceivably manage it. If it were a brand new model, I might have suspected a setup for an ad shoot, but it's an old one and there was no sign of pros at work. It wouldn't make a bad ad shot, come to think of it...
Maybe this guy had been on holiday?
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telegraph.co.uk/motoring/motoringvideo/11990594/Tightest-parallel-parking-new-Guinness-World-Record-set.html
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If I had to guess I suggest that if this is as tight a spot as it looks, even the Smart ForTwo with its turning radius of around 23 feet (apparently some sort of record) would have extreme difficulty making this work.
It's more likely that the car was parked close to the location, but parallel to the final resting spot. A set of flat tracks could be set below the car (see the brick roadway in Richard's image) and then a skid mover/pallet truck could be used to lift and place the car straight back. (Might also require a custom set of blocks to mate the undercarriage of the car.) Remove the skid mover/pallet truck and tracks and the car is physically locked in place.
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Alternately a fork truck with fork extensions wouldn't necessarily need tracks.
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Ha Ha !
Nice shot
I'd tend to agree ... maybe backed up by a couple of 'clues'?
So, maybe it's just an example of standard reverse parallel parting in a (very) tight space.
Car's reversed in along a line that's an extended diameter of cylinder, with LHS of car just missing wall end, then, when rear bumper is essentially forming a tangent (in plan view with cylinder) ... it's a case of extreme RH down?
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When I was in boarding school, we carried a master's VW Beetle into the auditorium and onto the stage.
Took 5 or 6 people, but motivation was strong.
My guess is people power.