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October 7, 2010
Parking Lot Protection Win
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
After discovering in the course of my bodywork project how much of a hassle it really is to iron out every ding left by a careless motorist flinging open their door, I have made up my mind to never park next to anyone in any of my cars ever again. Or I could just get a bunch of giant styrafoam and fortify my rides like this guy. Via ThereIFixedIt.
September 29, 2010
Hyundai Parking In-Fusion
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These shots were taken by a co-worker during what would normally be a quiet Saturday at the office. The story behind it was, the young driver was involved in a heated text conversation, while parking her car in the open space in the foreground. What doesn’t make sense, is the fact that her car drove over the curb, through a fence, and onto someone’s new Ford Fusion. Thankfully nobody was hurt, and hopefully she puts down her phone next time she parks!
More photos after the jump!
August 2, 2010
Gearhead Living in Hermosa Beach
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
When pondering the question of whether or not I’d want to live in a given locale, it always comes down to the issue of vehicle storage. LA’s Hermosa Beach is pretty, but I’d have some reservations about parking all my rides in the street on an incline in a drunken-frat-boy part of town. Whoever owns this collection–and I’m guessing, just a hunch, that the trio of tan pickups plus what I suspected to be a suicide-doors Continental under a car cover all belong to the same person–seems to be making it work. Or not? The International camper was slowly accumulating parking tickets, and it’s hard to guess where you’d wrench on anything. More pics below the jump.
July 21, 2010
Trees Always Win
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
I hate trees. I’m not an anti-environmentalist maniac or a climate-change-denier or anything like that–trees have a place, and that place is out in the forest, far from anywhere that cars might wish to park or drive. But trees in urban areas? In mall parking lots? On “tree-lined streets”? Ugh. They were clearly put there by people who don’t give a crap about cars.
In addition to the more obvious and brutal ways in which trees win–as in, for example, when you collide with one, or when a storm tips one over onto your ride–the true insidiousness of their evil lies in their secretions. My least favorite kind of tree are those scrawny little sap-dripping deals that landscape designers seem intent on planting anywhere that large numbers of cars tend to congregate. Why are these trees installed in business parks and mall parking lots? They provide little or no shade, no sound deadening or privacy, and they’re sure as hell not scenic. They seem to exist primarily as full-time misting-machines for tree sap. How is this appealing, how does it benefit anyone? It’s like planting something that exists solely to dispense bird droppings–which trees, on occasion, do as well. Read more…
Photo from Bruce’s ride page.
June 17, 2010
Vandalized!
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
This is why I’d never advise parking your car across two spaces, no matter how cool you think your paint is. All it takes is one psychopath with a rattle-can. Or a key. Photo via Hooniverse.
April 29, 2010
Seattle Parking Enforcement, Owned
March 16, 2010
Parking On The Street Is Bad
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
I learned my lesson about street parking after some idiot ineptly parallel-parking his rented moving truck hit my Escort GT. Then a buddy of mine’s car got accordioned while parked overnight by a kid joyriding in his parents’ Suburban, and my sister’s mint ’82 Bonneville was totaled by a drunk-driving scumbag while she had the car legally pulled over at the curb. But as it turns out, even if you drive a car that’s the color and shape of traffic cone, leave it on the street and some moron is going to figure out a way to plow into it. Poor Lambo. More pics below the jump, via WreckedExotics.
March 26, 2009
Fremont Day Four: The Concord Takes One For The Team
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
My Concord is the lucky recipient of the first CarDomain staff parking ticket since our HQ moved to Fremont! In yesterday’s poll, none of you predicted it–which is good, because now that I’m 38 bucks in the hole, I can’t afford to send anyone a T-shirt. The thing is, the Concord might look nondescript, but when it’s amidst a sea of Obama-stickered Priuses and biodiesel-sipping TDI Jetta wagons, a weird old red-blooded American car stands out like a turd in a punchbowl. Add to that a hostile local populace who’d give up their last bite of organic fair-trade wheatgrass risotto to see such a car get tagged, and you’ve got the perfect storm. Today, my luck ran out.
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March 24, 2009
The Ultimate Guide To Parking Wherever The Hell You Want
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
Jalopnik is running this pretty hilarious how to about getting away with parking like a total jerk, and it’s pretty timely for those of us who just moved to Fremont. I agree with most of their advice, especially this one: if you’re going to park where you want, you’ve got to accept the occasional ticket. Cost of doing business, right? I used to have this awesome secret “Visitor Parking” space on my campus, tucked under a suspension footbridge, a 2-minute walk to my office. The 1 hour limit never got enforced because the parking cowboys were too lazy to get themselves all the way over to that end of the gorge. Hey, if they got me maybe once or twice per semester with a 20-dollar ticket, it sure beat the hell out of paying hundreds of dollars a year for the privilege of parking in the godforsaken B-lot, 4 miles from the nearest university-owned building.
How about you–how do you score a sweet parking space while all the other chumps just circle the block?
March 23, 2009
5th-Wheel Parking Solution
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
Tight parking spaces? No problem. Check out what people are coming up with in other parts of the world to avoid buying Smart cars. I bet it’d work great for moving non-running vehicles around the garage too!
