Tried to park the car yesterday, only it didn't fit

 

WTH? How small IS that space? 14 feet?

That's just crazy.

- Eric

 

Happens all the time. I look for blind ends to park in

 

Didn't measure it but it would not be much more!

 

There are some garages your car will not fit in either.

 

I guess as long as your tires fit, your straight

 

The parking spaces down here in San Diego are so small even an A body Olds is too big. The building I live in is a joke. The advertised 2 parking spaces really means 1 in other parts of the country.

 

Around here we have a sizable percentage of drivers with Suburbans or four door pickups always having trouble to find suitable parking spaces.

Henry

 

I wonder why that is, I know we would not be able to park a full size or suburban in the city ( Adelaide) but this was country town!
There is no way I would even look at a high rise parking complex.

 

Easier to park closer to the end of the parking lot, no one next to me with the wide swinging doors, and I get a bit of exercise to boot.

 

I discovered that when looking for a house. I started carrying a measuring tape and the first thing I checked on a potential house was if the garage was big enough to fit the cars. Many were not.

 

We have these Coach houses being built in our city. Basically a 450 Square foot structure. They all require a "parking spot" or garage. My neighbours "garage is so small you could only park a Fiat or Smart car in there. Even a regular car like a Honda you might squeeze it in but you couldn't open the car door to get out.

 

yep, the world is definetly shrinking i have noticed this in restaurant booth's where you have to be 150 lbs or less to squeeze in between the seat and table and a surcharge for an airplane seat if you too husky

 

Here in Texas we have some of those tiny spaces but they are usually marked "For Compact Cars Only". Move down a little and the spaces are big, they have to be to fit all the crewcab pickup trucks. I never have trouble parking my 63.

 

I wouldn't worry about it, maybe some little punk with a turbocharged Mitsubishi that has a little "fart can" on it for a muffler will park in front of you. Your wheel base is inside the lines. Just make sure that little Mr. "Fast and Furious" doesn't hit the front of your car. Although, from the looks of it, your classic "tank" would suffer maybe a scratch, his fart can's little plastic/neoprene bumper would fall off. I guess it's time to talk to our city leaders and let them know, "Hey dummies, not all of us drive compacts, especially ones with little fart cans on them". LOL.....

 

There is a shopping center near me with almost all of the close spaces marked like this. It doesn't stop folks from parking their SUVs in them, though.

 

Close.

 

I created a similar thread a while back. Lots of great thoughts, comments and experiences.

https://classicoldsmobile.com/forums...imination.html

I back into that post every time I park there - soon it will fall out..

 

Boy that is tight !!
Sweet Caddy

 

Thanks! I sold it last fall. Been daily driving a 66 Toro since March.

 

Ouch. That's TOO nice.

- Eric

 

Good upgrade.

 

With driving either big classic cars or my crewcab truck, I park in the outskirts most always due to exactly what you are talking about. Don't own anything as long as a '59 Ods tho - awesome car. On the wishlist!

Nice '65 Cadillac z11375ss - even if it's down the road. I guess you moved to Olds to save on monthly payments too lol. I'm a big Cadillac guy along with Olds, but since CO is the best forum out there, it's the only place I hang out.

Here is a pic of my first $800 convertible ('66 DeVille) at age 22 in 1992... barely fit in the garage of my rental house with many roommates - note the cut-out in the back wall for the hood:

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Here are some pics of a few similar-era cadillacs that I no longer own (now only a '70 and '77 olds now for classics) if anyone cares:

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Exactly my approach when we were shopping for a new house. Owning 4 vehicles and being tired of parking the two daily drivers outside and scraping ice off the windows in the winter, I wanted acreage to build a nice house w/ a 2-car attached garage for the DDs and an out-building for the toys.

After looking at a few potential spots, my wife decided (dictated?) she wanted to live in a development "with sidewalks" for the kiddies. OK, then its got to either have a 4-car garage, or have a 3-car garage with a high enough ceiling and be deep enough to accomodate my toys on a 4-post lift (and not have the one on top interfere w/ the garage door opening fully). I was lucky that both my toys (the '68 Cutlass and '98 T/A) are nearly identical in height so either could go on top or bottom.

Started carrying a tape-rule when looking at potentials, and we found our house had a 3-car that was just high enough (w/ < 3" to spare total) and deep enough (had to adjust the GDO limit switch) to fit my toys on a 4-post lift. No more scraping ice off the windows in the winter! However, the reduced-height opening that resulted from adjusting the GDO limit switch limits the height of the vehicle parked next to the lift to ~66". My old Dakota R/T barely fit (the whip antenna would brush the door). Hard to find a replacement truck < 66" tall.

Cool thing is, there was a period we were talking to builders and discovered it was much more expensive to build that 4th car garage than it was to purchase the 4-post lift (not to mention the lift comes in handy when working on the underside of the car).

 

Beautiful Cadillacs. Dad had a '62 Sedan deVille, and gramps had a '67 Coupe deVille. That '67 barely fit length-wise in my dad's garage. I swear the trunk was big enough to hold a small spinnet piano. My favorite is the '67-'68 Eldorados, got to see two beatiful '67 examples yesterday up close at the Auburn auction grounds.

Also saw a sweet '59 Ninety Eight 'vert there, that too had a huge trunk!

 

The coupe too! just bought a 60" Tv and the salesman asked if I wanted it delivered. I said no just put it in the boot( trunk to you folk). He said he has never just lay a 60 inch TV in the boot of anything before let alone still have room !!