warren t claim Posted October 12, 2011 Posted October 12, 2011 Back in the good old days a trip to the seaside meant fitting three adults, three kids and a large dog into a mk1 Escort estate. Try the same thing nowadays and BRAKE would send social services around to your house to have your kids taken into care. What's your vehicular overloading record?
autofive Posted October 12, 2011 Posted October 12, 2011 does a pub fruit machine in a scimitar count?(although it didnt want to stay in the car for long)
Craig the Princess Posted October 12, 2011 Posted October 12, 2011 6"6 double bed, matress and headboard in the back of a 6" Maestro van? Two weeks ago, I drove into a small post, then drove 125 miles home with the seats as far forward as the go then pushed to angle even further forward. No leg room, had to get in using the only possible way, left leg bent then slide in and lean leftwards to get the right it. Bruising to the shin every time I changed gear, 4th is the best gear really
Alexg Posted October 12, 2011 Posted October 12, 2011 I remember when I was about 12 going on a UK camping holiday in a Volvo 340. My Mum, Dad, younger sister and me, Jasper the dog and a huge tent, all the camping stove and stuff needed for 2 weeks. The car was full, the roof rack was full plus we had a rack on the boot with two Raleigh mountain bikes. OMG slammed YO!!! Cramped, but it worked for us. Now nothing short of a Zafira will do for any couple expecting their first child
rml2345 Posted October 12, 2011 Posted October 12, 2011 Wasn't myself, but I was once 9 up in FATHA_RML245's Mk1 Rover 800 fastback. Two in the front (Including driver) and 7 in the back... We were kids right enough!Was fine until my little cousin decided to projectile vomit down the centre of the car...
dollywobbler Posted October 12, 2011 Posted October 12, 2011 From my childhood, our family of six once had nothing bigger than a Talbot Samba (early 1990s) and while on holiday in Devon, I'm pretty sure on one extended family trip (in the mid-1980s) that we managed to get twelve of us into a Morris Oxford Series VI Traveller. Bench seats and a big boot. Sorted! We didn't travel far like that, but I'm pretty sure we were on public roads for at least a bit of it. Factoid - we were staying at Efford House, used in Sense and Sensibility (and therefore suddenly becoming far more expensive than my family could afford!). Seem to remember quite often going shopping with my dad in his borrowed works Bedford Rascal at one point, with my little sister strapped into her pushchair in the back and me holding on to it to stop it rolling back and forth. Also remember going to a party in the back of a Ford Transit Mk2 when I was probably about seven. Amazed I survived!
Pete-M Posted October 12, 2011 Posted October 12, 2011 Three passengers in the XJ. Reverse tardis, that thing.
eddyramrod Posted October 12, 2011 Posted October 12, 2011 7 young ladies on their way to a night out, in my first A40! And I never got to date even one of them, ungrateful bitches...
Shep Shepherd Posted October 12, 2011 Posted October 12, 2011 Myself, two passengers, a double mattress (bent double) and a 24" CRT television in my Mark 3 Fiesta. I was glad when that journey came to an end!
eddyramrod Posted October 12, 2011 Posted October 12, 2011 When I had my CF I used it to transport a boat and a piano (two different occasions, lol).
mnde Posted October 12, 2011 Posted October 12, 2011 I remember going to Utrecht in a GSA four or five-up, buying some panels etc near the end of the show and not really thinking about how we were going to fit it all in for the journey back... The rear passengers sat with various gubbins arrayed across our laps. When we went on family holidays to stay with the grandparents, we would go out on outings six-up in Grandad's Capri 2.0 S. Gran and Grandad in the front, Mum and us three kids in the back. And there were speedbumps near the house, which was interesting, especially if you happened to be the one sitting on the uncomfortable hump in the middle of the back seat. Those were the days. Mark.
Father Ted Posted October 12, 2011 Posted October 12, 2011 18 boy scouts in a commer Spacevan with bench seats.2 leaders (me & Bob) 4 patrol tents and a couple of gas bottles and burners. Things were a bit more lax in those days
Lord Sterling Posted October 12, 2011 Posted October 12, 2011 Whn I was young a stupid, doing the yoof drivng hiz mumz car around aimlessly thing, I managed to cram 6 mates including myself in the Micra, that and climbing Clent hill didnt do it any good, you could really feel poor thing struggling up the steep hill. These days, thankfully, it spends most of its time doing short journeys transporting MA_STERLING to and from the local train station/supermarket and being washed/polished by me.
j-j Posted October 12, 2011 Posted October 12, 2011 I feel like I'm lying when I say this but I am SURE we got 8 people and a dog in my hand-me-down Panda (my first car) back in 1998. Only drove from a Safeways car park to my house (about a mile) but one hill saw clutch smoke billowing out from the wheel arches. It was on the stops front and back and the dog named Tyke, got the comfiest ride in the front passenger footwell, shared with 2 others. Yea, it was 2 in the front passenger seat, 5 on the back seat (3 on the seat and 2 chix on their knees) and of cousrse dog in the front. (it means the boot was still empty!)
warren t claim Posted October 12, 2011 Author Posted October 12, 2011 3 on the seat and 2 chix on their knees This sounds most interesting. Would you like to elaborate?
wuvvum Posted October 12, 2011 Posted October 12, 2011 A mate of mine once managed to get 12 people into an AX for a short journey. One of them did end up with two cracked ribs though. The best I remember as a kid was 10 in my dad's Montego estate - two in the front, five in the back and three in the boot, which was also part full of beach-related gear. Climbing the 1:5 hill from the beach was interesting...
mouseflakes Posted October 12, 2011 Posted October 12, 2011 18 boy scouts in a commer Spacevan with bench seats.2 leaders (me & Bob) 4 patrol tents and a couple of gas bottles and burners. Things were a bit more lax in those days Too right ! When I was a cub scout we used to go off to camp in the back of a removals truck. Patrol, canteen and latrine tents, water containers, trestle tables, cooking pots and a load of kids all rattling around in the back of a truck. The top halves of the back doors were latched open so we could lean out the back and wave at the cars behind as we bowled along. It's only recently that I've realised how mental this would seem now.
Albert Ross Posted October 12, 2011 Posted October 12, 2011 14 in a Super Minx... just for a laugh, and a 1/4 mile "dash" to the pub. 12 (10 girls, my mate Colin the cheese mechanic, and me driving) in a SWB Land Rover to go to see Dr Feelgood in the Tivoli Gardens in Buckley. 1989ish. I was allowed to use the coach park, as I had more than 11 in! Even Plod never said a word as I loaded up at the end of the night! My fee for driving was to get pissed the next weekend. I was bought a pint from each of them! What a night!
Des Posted October 12, 2011 Posted October 12, 2011 Used to do the cramming thing lots, can't remember how many, but I remember sometimes being so cramped that a passenger would have to do the gearchanging, not something I'd ever plan, it would just happen after a nightclub or whatever, one night I had 4 tossers I sort of knew being all friendlier than usual and buying me drinks once they became aware I had a car outside, it was early hours and out in the sticks, priceless look on their faces when they find I'm in a TR7 and leave them standing in a cloud of coolant rich exhaust and tyre smoke. The best I ever saw was my brother riding 4 up on his little Kawasaki AR80.
trigger Posted October 12, 2011 Posted October 12, 2011 I got 7 of us in my old Sierra once, 4 in the back me and a passenger in the front and my mate in the boot, Sadly for him i forgot about the 6" screws in the parcel shelf for my 6x9 speakers, he wasn't best pleased when i decided to start doing doughnuts around a nightclub car park with him in the boot. He soon got over it once i bought him a beer though. I also remember being in Turkey about 8 years ago and a group of us accepting a lift of a pissed Turk in a Fiat 124, 6 of us plus the driver heading down a steep cliff with no crash barriers serving from side to side before he crashed into a curb and blow the tyre, We all bundled out in shock and he drove off with the flat tyre still whilst shouting "Fuckin Hell" at the top of his voice!
Guest Posted October 13, 2011 Posted October 13, 2011 9 people in a Ford Ka. 2001. Then my mate farted.
The Moog Posted October 13, 2011 Posted October 13, 2011 8 in my mums old cavalier K reg 1.6 L ex plod spec. 2 in front, 3 in back 2 lying across back people and 1 in boot (he was stoned and happy). Of course didnt slow down any!
Guest mjrose Posted October 13, 2011 Posted October 13, 2011 10 in a 1.3 montego saloon on the way back from the pub. 3 in the front, 5 in the back and 2 in the boot! Unfortunately we were spotted by the cops on the way back; who were shocked when 8 people popped out. I got a 30min bollocking (I was just a yoof) in the back of the patrol car whilst my passengers whispered to those in the boot to keep quiet. The cops then checked the car for any other illegalities, but by some miracle failed to open the boot! I got away with it. At the time I was convinced I going to be doing hard time
Father Ted Posted October 13, 2011 Posted October 13, 2011 18 boy scouts in a commer Spacevan When I was a cub scout we used to go off to camp in the back of a removals truck.The top halves of the back doors were latched open so we could lean out the back and wave at the cars behind as we bowled along. It's only recently that I've realised how mental this would seem now. Some of my happiest memories as a child in a car were being transported in the back of a Morris 1000 pick up with David Woodley, a dog a couple of push bikes and several bales of hay - I used to think it was brilliant and not at all dangerous. Then there was the scout group bowling down Kirkham Road on the back of one of Mick Trellys flat bed wagons on the way back from Kirkham Club Day, no sides, no safety rail, nothing - and a troop of very happy scouts leaning over the edges And of course dad had a Bedford HA van which I used to sit in the back of as a nipper rattling round (literally). Ahhh, happy days before H&S went mad.
boobydoo Posted October 13, 2011 Posted October 13, 2011 Nine school mates in my first car...a Moggie Minor, reg no 144DJB. We decided to go on a tour of Bath which as you may know is very hilly. We got to the top of one particularly long, steep road and had to turn right or left at the junction. Being a very inexperienced driver, I just couldn't hill start the car with all that weight so had to resort to reversing all the way back down again with no rear-ward vision as I had no wing mirrors and the rear rear window was blocked by big sixth-form lads.Everyone was screaming like a load of girls as we careened backwards in to what seemed like unavoidable oblivion!!
ashmicro Posted October 13, 2011 Posted October 13, 2011 Mum, Dad, my sister and me, and a imperial fuckload of stuff in a 1979 Chevette from Stranraer to Kent. No rear seatbelts, and no spare wheel. My ex-girlfriends Tomos moped from Belfast to Carrickfergus hanging out the back of my Samba (the moped, not Angela). We were on the M2/M5 out of Belfast and were passed by a police Land Rover. The cop in the front gaves us the thumbs up! 11 people in a Rover 216S from Carrick to Whitehead. 2 in the boot. 14 in mark 4 Escort MkIV van (about 3 miles and the rad top hose blew)
dollywobbler Posted October 13, 2011 Posted October 13, 2011 Just remembered another one. When I was in the Boys Brigade, we'd take part in an annual float competition. One year, we used a Series II Land Rover made up to look like a ship (proper wood ship bolted to the Land Rover) towing a not-road-legal Ford Transit Mk1 done up to look like a prison ship! My dad has photos. I might have to ask him to dig them out. The two drivers had two-way radios as they were co-ordinating gearchanges. The Transit wasn't running, but they did use the engine braking (rather wisely!) to avoid overpowering the Landy's brakes. Not sure this was very legal at the time, let alone now! The next year, it was just the Land Rover,dressed as a ship again, but with about six kids clinging on to the roof rack to appear to be 'on deck' of the ship.
wuvvum Posted October 13, 2011 Posted October 13, 2011 My ex-girlfriends Tomos moped from Belfast to Carrickfergus hanging out the back of my SambaWhen I was about 15 and living in France I bought an old moped from a flea market one Sunday for about £30. Not wanting to have to push it the eight miles home I turned it upside down and bungee strapped it onto the luggage rack of my Mobylette. Made cornering interesting and I had to keep reminding myself that I couldn't filter through traffic, but I made it home OK without getting tugged by the gendarmes.
gdhaydock Posted October 13, 2011 Posted October 13, 2011 Managed 6 people in the front of a Land Rover 109 (truck cab) Took 3 seperate people to 'drive' as no one person could reach the pedals, gearchange or steering Seem to remember a lot of gearbox crunching due to lack of co-ordination between the clutch pedal operator and the gear change operator. It was absolutely pissing down, so putting the excess bodies outside in the load bed wasn't really an option.
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