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February 6, 2009
Is It Possible to Park Cool?
Weston Henderson
I rolled into CarDomain world headquarters this morning with a distinct mission in mind: to park cool. I caught this sweet sideways spot with plenty of room to angle my car in so that anyone whipping around the corner would be forced to stare at the most gorgeous car in the garage. Ryan apparently had the same mission this morning, because he decided to angle his whip in behind me and engage in a stance competition. This whole ordeal got me thinking about parking style.
So my question is… is it possible to park cool?
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Thinkfas
Jan 22, 2010 at 9:54 am
you can park both of them VW’s in the JUNKYARD,lets see which one has a Check Engine Light ON that would be COOL.
parking wars
Feb 9, 2009 at 7:04 am
bro, there are times to park cool. that is the best example of parking cool so far today. If sherriffs didn’t patrol the parking lot, I would park cool at the college all the time. good job on the V dub parked extreamly cool
Connie
Feb 9, 2009 at 4:53 am
BudMan#27
Feb 6, 2009 at 1:04 pm
No, no it’s not. However, it is possible to park like you’re trying to park cool thinking you have a sweet ride. This works with Ferrari’s, Lambo’s, any exotic car. When you’re doing it with a GTI with the intention of trying to look cool…like when you have a mission to look cool, like when you said you pulled in to the parking garage with the intention of looking cool…like when you said you wanted everyone to see your gorgeous ride…gorgeous BTW…that makes you an arrogant douche-bag. I think someone should take a dump on your hood.
I would just like to let everyone know that I nor my husband ever wrote this!! I have no idea how it got linked to my page! I haven’t even been on this blog before! Sorry…
Connie
None of ur bizness
Feb 8, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Sik Ridez
Ryan
Feb 7, 2009 at 9:24 pm
In before the lock! You guys are ridiculous.
Fenix
Feb 7, 2009 at 3:26 pm
I think both of those rides look sweet and are parked very cool, haha.
Ron
Feb 7, 2009 at 9:45 am
This has to be the lamest topics I’ve ever seen. I can’t wait for the follow up post asking “What kind of shoelaces go best with my floormats?” or “What wallet will show off my eyes and stick shift the best?”.
Dhillaz
Feb 7, 2009 at 7:50 am
Swinging a donut to parallel park.
JaZod
Feb 6, 2009 at 10:38 pm
It doesnt matter, because it is friday night and all these people are posting on a blog. So ask cool people who dont stay in on Friday night and post things on the internet
7ur7le
Feb 6, 2009 at 10:07 pm
agree with fortyfordsedan
Jeremy
Feb 6, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Actually i sometimes do park with my front end uphill, it makes it look like my trucks lifted a little higher haha. I feel like a total douche sometimes but it’s kind of a habit.
GTwildfire
Feb 6, 2009 at 8:50 pm
I think it is possible for parking certain ways to be perceived as being “cool” by some but of course not all. Some think parking a car is just that, and if anything is “cool” about the whole situation it would have to be the car itself.
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As I see things, a first-person encounter with anything is equal to a photograph. There are subjects, settings and circumstances in a perpetual string from the time we wake till we fall asleep at night. Moments in life that capture people’s attention are dictated by interests and whether or not they realize it, the setting and circumstances almost always affects what takes their interest in the first place.
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As far as parking is concerned, lets say someone parks diagonally across two spaces right in front of a convenience store. The beauty of his or her ride would be overshadowed by their disregard for others. Take the same ride parked the same way in a far corner of a mall parking lot with blooming flowers and clean pavement on a sunny day and the perception will be a hell of a lot better for both the car and owner.
FordRulesAll
Feb 6, 2009 at 8:48 pm
You gotta by a real car guy/girl to talk about how to park cool
Mike
Feb 6, 2009 at 8:30 pm
Its all about parking out in the open away from all the other cars. Works well if you have a nice car, and eye catching paint.
Also, in parking garages, park in the open, and under a light!
ken
Feb 6, 2009 at 7:22 pm
it depends on da car,, SUM cars with massive LIPS on da rims, need to have the steering wheeel turned alot,, other cars like mayb R34 or supras, or RX7 dont matter how u park,,there gonna get noticed,, i thnk wen u park far away from evryone,,,looks cooler,, like a supra parked far ass hell from evryone looks NASTY
Bobby
Feb 6, 2009 at 5:44 pm
haha it depends I guess. You definitely can at work with your buddies out back if theres space, or like how you guys did. BTW, both of those rides are SICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MPV TT
Feb 6, 2009 at 5:40 pm
i have always been bad at parking forward and can back into a stall with my eyes closed. One of my friends from Arizona said “only gangstah’s back in.” I can always angle my wheels when i park next to a car of greatness, in hopes that they might catch a glimpse of my sidemounts when they back out of their stall and look in their sideview mirrors.
you can always look cool when you back in and park with the GIANT silver window shade in your window shield!
SouthernGuy8503
Feb 6, 2009 at 5:24 pm
people, its just parking, get over it, just park it like you should, when i see any car/truck parked sideways taking up 2 or more spots i don’t think “thats a cool car” or “they parked real cool” i think “what a douche”, a few years back i would see 2 or 3 cars parked at a grocery store and obviosuly they worked there because i’d see the same cars everyday for a long time parking in the same spots, the parking spots are at an angle but they parked the opposite direction facing the wrong way and taking up 2 spots, just trying to attract attention on main street, this is almost the same thing why a ricer would put a 3+ foot tall wing on the back of their car, especially on a front wheel drive, they think its cool but really its no reason for it and just makes them look like an idiot, just my opinion lol
FordRulesAll
Feb 6, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Yeah actually I agree with fortyfordsedan too
1988montecarloss
Feb 6, 2009 at 4:30 pm
fortyfordsedan couldnt be more correct
BudMan#27
Feb 6, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Hey Weston and Ryan, are you two dating? Between trips to LA (or was it S.F.), wearing matching T-shirts and parking together one begins to wonder. Maybe Weston woke up this morning, nudged Ryan and said “Hey, let’s park together today and Blog about it.” And then you shared a gentle kiss and headed off to work. It’s awfully sweet, you guys are really f’n cute together.
fortyfordsedan
Feb 6, 2009 at 4:11 pm
It seems like the harder you try to look cool, the more the opposite happens. If it looks like you are parking in a way to be cool, it instantly becomes uncool.
Chad
Feb 6, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Definitely possible to park cool. Definitely can see friends and I at the movie theater taking up two parking spots each parked diagonally.
James
Feb 6, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Wow, lots of haters. It’s one thing to be a douche bag and take up two spots in a crowded parking lot, but to have some fun in your own work’s lot isn’t a big deal. Chill out!
Ryan Porter
Feb 6, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Here’s the story. Weston jacked my spot this morning. You see these two spots are nearly at the bottom of the garage and when I drive the Audi I take it to the bottom of the garage for more room, etc.
I don’t think the car is the greatest thing in the world. It’s not an exotic, and it’s not even hard to get but the fact is I like to keep my car clean of door dings out of personal pride. So when it comes to that extra walk across the lot or another two flight of stairs, I’m that guy. I may be going to Costco but it looks like I parked at the bank 200 yards from the front door of Costco. That’s my life!
spoonman
Feb 6, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Hell yeah you can park cool. I park diagonally across 3 handicapped spots. Plus, everyone gets to check out your car, because the handicap spots are up front.
sarahsmile90
Feb 6, 2009 at 3:49 pm
haha….no, it’s really not.
FordRulesAll
Feb 6, 2009 at 3:36 pm
In my opinion parking cool is to park with another car(or more),mind you the cars have to look cool(which the A5 and GTI do) to do this cause it gives the impression that the cars are worth something that they have a meaning and belong to a certain group. For example you see some dude all dressed nice but sittin by his self, your gonna say there’s an idiot, but if that dude has other nicely dressed people by him your gonna say hey I wanna be in that group. OR You could park like a jerk which is cool but only to you and your party which means to take up as many spaces as you can.
nes
Feb 6, 2009 at 3:01 pm
Yeah you can park cool. Just make sure your car is straight in the space and when you open your doors make sure not to hit the car next to you.
Weston Henderson
Feb 6, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Wow you guys are taking this one seriously! Hopefully you all know that this was entirely sarcastic on my part.
cknarf
Feb 6, 2009 at 2:02 pm
I parked my 88 camry on a 3ft. snow hill. it looked like it was on display or somethin…
Chris J
Feb 6, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Parking “cool” will get you key’d up where i live.
Maffew
Feb 6, 2009 at 1:31 pm
hell yea its possible to park cool… when wheel angles and sideways parking isnt available to do, backing is a good stand-by. I back in every day at work.
GTR
Feb 6, 2009 at 1:22 pm
WOW that A5 is sweet.
Fuck the GTI, its ugly. who gives a shit about GTI’s?
Devo
Feb 6, 2009 at 1:21 pm
WOW… that picture is awsome amazing! Id say you both proved that you can definitly park cool like. I usually just park at the back of a parking lot where theres no cars so everyone can see mine. And angle my front tires a bit
And lol at budman#27
Josh
Feb 6, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Ha, ha 1988montecarloss! That’s so true! How many times have you tried to park in a parking garage and seen some dickhead park his car over two spaces or parked his behemoth pickup/SUV in a COMPACT ONLY spot! Lowriders just park everywhich way during a show while tuners & exotics seem to just line up strait…As far as parking cool for a photo, it matters on environmnet, lighting and camera angle. Not how the car is parked! There, question answered.
BudMan#27
Feb 6, 2009 at 1:04 pm
No, no it’s not. However, it is possible to park like you’re trying to park cool thinking you have a sweet ride. This works with Ferrari’s, Lambo’s, any exotic car. When you’re doing it with a GTI with the intention of trying to look cool…like when you have a mission to look cool, like when you said you pulled in to the parking garage with the intention of looking cool…like when you said you wanted everyone to see your gorgeous ride…gorgeous BTW…that makes you an arrogant douche-bag. I think someone should take a dump on your hood.
James
Feb 6, 2009 at 12:44 pm
IMO, parking cool is all about how your wheels are pointed. I have a lifted truck with 32′s and having your steering wheel locked to one side makes the tires look bigger and just makes the front end look mean. I’ve found the same goes for my Mazda, even with just 18″ rims and summer tires.
JoshuaS
Feb 6, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Don’t those blue stripes mean something?…
kori
Feb 6, 2009 at 12:30 pm
as far as parking cool, in So. Cal. all the people who want to show off their car back into their parking spots (where everyone else just..pulls in)
i personally don’t think its any cooler…but thats what they do…lol
1988montecarloss
Feb 6, 2009 at 12:30 pm
no….but it is possible to park like an asshole