OT: Why are 3 door cars allowed on the road?

UK insurance does the same, but you can use it to your advantage. My first accident, a woman reversed into the side of my car at great speed in my work's car park. Dented the central pillar, and both doors that side. Insurance said "not worth repairing" and gave me the value of the car in their opinion, which was £700. When I mentioned it in the coffee room, my boss said he had one of the same model that was hardly working, so I bought it for £70, managed to drive it 30 miles home, having to hold it in gear, and keep the heater on full to stop it melting the engine, removed the two doors and put them on mine. The pillar just needed a strong friend with a sledge hammer. The stupid thing about insurance is they never consider replacing a used part with a used part. Why should you get a new one?

My local friendly garage fitted two racing hood-pins after they failed to get mine straight. I'd hit a Vauxhall Astra that had better brakes than mine. Never go from an ABS car to a non-ABS car, you don't stop where you think you will.

I just love it when health and softy shoots itself in the foot.

I bought a car for £700 that a dealer had lying about, when everything else said over £3000. Obviously didn't want it there. I used it for a year before deciding it was too small, then sold it for £900!

The lockdown will kill more people than the virus.

British cars have brakes these days? Mirabele dictu. I had a '62 Sprite, the next year after the Bugeyes. It had a larger engine but still had the brakes that were marginal in the Bugeye. Stopping was an event to be planned well in advance.

On the plus side Austin-Healey were lying through their teeth when they said the vehicle would do 85. It was a fun car but like most British sports cars of that era would be sadly trounced by any current econobox.

i had one of those. with a good tune up it would do 85

If you waited long enough, had a tailwind, and a slight decline... Considering the interstate speed limit here is 80 it would be out of its element. For tooling around upstate NY and VT it was fine. On most of the paved cow paths you'd be hard pressed to do 85 with any vehicle.

This isn't about cycling; please chat without the xpost, TIA.

Thank you for xposting to tell us that.

Then tell him to wear a seatbelt, but don't force a complete stranger to.

Unlikely it's doing much moving after that, it'll have got stuck in a field, bent something, hit something, etc. And unlikely it does a whole number of rolls anyway.

If someone hits the side of your car, you won't be pushed out of your seat, unless the impact was severe, in which case the car wouldn't be controllable as the wheels would be f***ed.

If someone hits you from behind, you just accelerate and are pushed back into your seat anyway.

But for the important things like being able to keep running, not the silly things. The annual safety check doesn't make sure it won't break down.

I always laugh at the American use of "regular". Regular means the same all round, like a hexagon. Cars ain't like that. You meant normal.

Is that where I find the funny videos of cars that flex in the middle and still run?

Actually, an adult who usually sits in the front might do that. You get used to seeing what's behind you in the mirror. There should be mirrors on the back doors.

And most kids know where it is.

Unfortunately, 'normal' can also mean 'at rightangles to' or 'at 90 degrees to'.

I've been in a couple of rollovers. The vehicles didn't wind up back on their wheels and the only way they left the scene was on a wrecker.

I've never met an abnormal vehicle...

He can't see you as he removed cycling.

What part of OT didn't you understand?

M'colleague used to be a policeman, he rolled a police car and wasn't fired. Wanna f*ck about? Join the police force.