If this accident doesn't get you to smash your palm into your face, we don't know what will…
In less than a minute, the driver of this silver Daewoo - from what we can tell, somewhere in South Korea, managed to crash her small sedan not once, not twice but three times in a parking lot entry!
Sound impossible, but it is true and there's footage from a closed circuit television camera to prove it.
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To save space and transfer as many vehicles as possible, this company parked a bunch of small city cars side by side on what looks like a double decker, flatbed truck trailer.
Evidently, placing the cars this way on the truck is as difficult and dangerous as getting them out. See how this driver coped with the problem in the video after the jump.
Hat tip to Andrew for the video find!
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In a not so far, far away land called New York City, a man impersonating Darth Vader with a heavy-breathing Brooklyn accent was captured on film last month quibbling with a traffic cop over a parking ticket that he had received while promoting interest in Star Wars during a 5th Avenue Street fair in Brooklyn.
However, the traffic trooper completely snubbed Darth Vader...
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For the fifth time in the past two years, the Guinness World Record title for the tightest parallel parking job has changed hands.
Previous titleholders include Ronny Wechselberger from Germany, who parked a VW Polo in a space measuring 26cm (10.24-inches) longer than that of his car, Zheng Da Zong from China, who did the same but with a gap of 24cm (9.45-inches) and Patrik Folco from Italy who broke the record at 22cm (8.66 in).
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For a traffic-packed city like Manhattan where you are better off taking the subway or even just walking to your destination if possible instead of using your car, there seems to be a high demand for parking places.
In fact, so high is the demand, that the city's first million dollar parking space is a reality in Greenwich Village, a residential neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City. According to the New York Post, that is six times more than the national-average price of a single-family home!
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One of the fastest and expensive cars produced by Mercedes-Benz's parent company Daimler receiving a ticket by a man in the group's slowest and cheapest vehicle is not something you encounter every day.
You can watch the priceless scene of the officer in a Smart ForTwo writing up a ticket for the unattended and sticker-bombed Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren Roadster for parking in a loading zone in Beverly Hills in the video that follows right past the jump.
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How hard can it be to park your car in an empty lot with plenty of space for maneuvering? Harder than you think for a Chinese driver of what looks like the local market version of Nissan's Tiida five-door hatchback.
While in the beginning of the video everything seems to be going slow but smoothly, all of a sudden, the driver slams the gas pedal while in reverse with the car smashing through the wall behind it before it fell into the lake.
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Just reading the title of this story will make any man cringe, as this must be one of the worst ways to die…
The tragic incident took place in Haikou City in southern China earlier this week when an unnamed 41-year-old woman tried to park her scooter in front of a man's shop to pick up her kids from school.
According to reports from local news stations, the 42-year old owner of the shop came out and told her not to park in front of his store. The woman snapped back and words started flowing from both sides.
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A Turkish driver had the ride of his life when he tried to give way to a passing car at a parking lot in the city of Istanbul.
According to local news reports, the driver of the SUV applied to much pressure on the gas pedal and as a result, he went flying off the parking lot deck crashing onto an adjacent building before landing on the ground. Luckily, the man suffered only minor injuries.
The incident was captured on film by a security camera. You can watch the video after the break.
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What would you do if someone backed into your brand new sports car that you spent months building with your own two hands on the first day you took it out for a spin?
Well, chances are you would freak out, though we do not know how many of you would react in the same way Kevin Patrick did when a Ford Explorer SUV backed into his hand-built Exocet. The young man digressed into an angry series of profanities aimed at the Ford driver.
We'll have to assume that in his fury, Patrick missed the older man with the three children standing across the road…
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One of the most annoying experiences for a motorist is when another vehicle blocks your car, and as we recently saw in Greece when peeved drivers overturned an Audi A3 hatch, this can often lead to violent actions.
In the following incident that was filmed by a resident from a nearby house, the driver of a classic Lada saloon found his car blocked by an illegally parked Chevrolet Aveo Sedan.
The man evidently tried to call the owner, then headed over to the adjacent building to see if the driver was inside visiting someone, and even started shaking the Aveo to set off the alarm, but to no avail. So he then decided to take matters in his own hands. See what happened next in the clip after the break.
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A school or college campus has to be one of the worst places imaginable to be involved in a car accident (or any type of accident, for that matter…), regardless if you are a student or a teacher.
That said, something tells us that the person responsible for parking this minivan literally into the school facility won't hear the end of it for a very, very long time.
Watch the short clip in the video after the break.
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In today's congested cities, people are forced to learn how to park in very tight spaces if they don't want to drive in circles for hours on end, but as you have probably seen time and time again, not all manage to master the art of parking.
To promote the Active Park Assist system found in the new Focus, Ford of Europe set out to find the worst driver when it came to parking in an area of Paris.
The automaker installed a giant pinball over a free parking space flanked by two cars, the ends of which were programmed to react as pinball bumpers every time the driver hit the vehicles. The person with the highest score (i.e. the worst) had the opportunity to try out his or her luck with a Focus equipped with the automatic parking system.
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It’s probably happened to you at some point: for whatever reason, you fail to recall where you parked your car in the garage and you are going around in circles trying to find it.
In any other case, that would be a huge nuisance but not at this particular garage located somewhere in Northeast Florida.
If you're wondering why, then all you have to do is follow the break to watch the video and the answer will quickly become clear…
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1925 Monotrace found on http://flickriver.com/photos/jk1971/tags/monotrace
Racing legends Donnie Allison, Sid Collins, Roger McCluskey, Ed McCulloch, Augie Pabst, Bruce Penhall and Ed Winfield will be enshrined into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America when the organization stages its annual induction celebration on August 23 and 24, 2011 in Detroit.
Ed Winfield was regarded as one of the all-time great mechanical minds motorsports has ever known. He was an expert in engine design and carburation and played a major role in the development of the famed Novi engine with his brother, Bud. He is generally recognized as the “Father of the Racing Cam Business,” making his first performance camshaft in 1914 at age 13 and is credited with creative cylinder head designs and other engine advancements.
A Winfield exotic camshaft was in Bulchowsky's Old Yeller
http://www.landspeedproductions.biz/ed-winfield-finally-gets-the-nod-byt-the-motorsports-hall-of-fame.html
There is a motorcycle museum in France, the Chateau de Bosc http://www.expeditionportal.com/vehicules/motorcycles/70-other/342-discovering-a-secret-motorcycle-museum-in-france.html
from http://www.anshobijlmakers.nl/Home/Home.html originally, found on http://basskick.tumblr.com/
Never seen a primitive street sweeper before? Me neither
1936 Chicago, why aren't these viable parking stuctures now?
Looks like a knife sharpener, door to door, and probably early 1910's or 1920's
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