BE OBESE............Anyones??

Vampyrebat

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I know this should have gone in 'Spotted'
Whilst shopping in the Boughton (near Chester) Retail outlet in-between Christmas and new Year I came across this rather nice GS and wondered if it belongs to anyone on the forum or if anyone knows of it?

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Oh, and I wish you all the very best for 2017!!

Stu
 

Slowly

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Is that a special obese parking space? I imagine it would be difficult for a markedly obese person to get out of the GS - the leather is slippery and one is quite low down. Sometimes I find even a BMI of ~20 doesn't make for a graceful exit.

Someone who was in my year at uni specialises in bariatric surgery / banding with, though he is slim, nominative determinism - his surname is Super [size?] but the last time I saw him he favoured an Aston Martin with the mis-spaced plate S11PER.
 

2b1ask1

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Well it is not mine and I don't have any problems getting in or out of mine! @ > 130kg
 

dickygrace

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I've seen it at Autoshield. Think he has a health food business or something.
 

CatmanV2

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Surely, also (depending on weight) wouldn't this distort/bend the receiver after time so the door wouldn't shut properly

I think it's unlikely in honesty. That's a structural point and needs to be strong enough to prevent the door impinging on the passenger compartment in event of a side impact.

Still not recommending it, mind.

C
 

Vampyrebat

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I think the day I need an aid to get out of my car will be the day I sell it to pay for my SAGA holiday!!
 

Slowly

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I think the day I need an aid to get out of my car will be the day I sell it to pay for my SAGA holiday!!

SAGA get onto you at ~ 55. Remember that the baby boomers are a very wealthy and numerous potential client base. You may still feel that your Maserati is "you" when decrepit - there was a woman who lived near us (now gone) who had a picture of Elvis on the back of her anti-rain tent on her mobility scooter - in her head she was clearly still a blue suede shoes jiver.
Have you seen the Pegasus retirement home ads in the FT? Sadly I can't find them on the web but they have pictures of longhairs smoking joints at the Isle of Wight festival [probably not in the photo, but clearly they were] with a strapline about "our generation" or similar...there are pictures of Mods on their site... https://www.pegasuslife.co.uk/
also lots of Japanese style woodcuts to appeal to the now-late-60s/early-70s who are thinking about a place which they can downsize to without too much worry and continue to enjoy life.... STIs are booming amongst the elderly who are (obvs) not worried about pregnancy or now, HIV, given that there are very good treatments...

ETA - hasn't Mick Jagger just had another child at ?75.. What would your children think, should they know, what you were thinking as you gallantly stopped for that young woman at the zebra crossing?
 

MrMickS

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SAGA started sending me things before I was 50. Probably something to do with my parents having been on every cruise going with them and me being down as next of kin. I've moved since and they've not caught up with me yet.


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Vampyrebat

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I bought my car from a very nice gentleman called Bob from South Wales. He was 76 yrs old and the reason he was selling was because he was now buying a GranTourismo as the manual box was becoming a bit of a handful!!.........I took my hat off to him.