Shocking stuff.

True quality car, the 360.

we had a little old lady who used to visit us once a month or so for petrol, we were the only non-self service station for miles.

Mrs Macrae as she came to be known, I forget her real name, pulled in one day for fuel, about a yard short of where the hose would reach so I asked her to move a yard or so forward.
It was an auto, and I think she probably forgot she already had it running, and in drive, so when she tried to start it she floored the throttle and it took off.
It was a village garage and opposite was an acre or so of common ground that the council had built an earth bank round to stop pikeys camping (and us filling with sales cars I expect) . Mrs Macrae hit the bank with the back wheels spinning and launched into the long grass, got it totally sideways through the boggy patch where a spring oozed out of the clay, continued in an arc, tail out until she hit the bank again, which lifted her completely airborne again back across the road into our neighbour's hedge. She hit the hedge about half way up, never touched the tarmac. and sat there with the back wheels spinning in the air until my mechanic, who had about a 20 yard start on me, got the door open and the keys out.
We dragged the car off the hedge and checked it over while the ambulance people looked at the driver, and the car was undamaged, front spoiler covered in mud from ploughing, and grass and twigs underneath, but the tracking wasn't even out.
We phoned her daughter, and arranged to meet her at home, and I drove her home in the Volvo and it drove very nicely. Gave the keys to her daughter and never saw her again.

Mrs McRae hahahahahaha I love that one, seen something similar with an old pensioner customer we had some years ago.

He'd bought a brand new Hyundai Coupe and we fitted reversed pedal controls for him due his right leg being damaged after a stroke.

We took the car back to his house and parked it on his drive with 3 miles on the clock.

He hobbled out and said "I'll put it in the garage in case it rains".
He sat in the car started it up to move it into his garage some 10 to 15 feet further down his drive and all hell broke loose!

He wasn't used to the new pedal layout (throttle on the left,) although he'd passed a test recently.

As soon as he put the car into drive he took off like an F1 car right through his garage doors with tyre's screeching, and the roof toppled onto the car............then instead of getting out and checking what had gone wrong he banged it into reverse and flew backwards (this time faster again), right through his garden gates, straight across a 6 lane carriageway over a grassed central reservation (6ft wide x 2ft high), somehow dodging all the traffic through traffic lights backwards and into a four lane carriageway with traffic heading in his direction about 500 yards away directly facing his house - he panicked veered left avoiding everything that had skidded to a halt and continued to hurtle backwards straight into a brand new Fiesta parked on the kerbside outside it's owners house.

There was total chaos for hours while they cleared the roads up and his destroyed garage and his gates which were on the central reservation!

Needless to say he didn't drive again, and the officer who attended the scene radioed to his buddies to come and see the mayhem.

The old guys answer to the officer when questioned about what had happened was......

"I thought I was pressing the brake and it wouldn't stop so I pressed it harder!!"

Classic, never seen anything like it

'nuff said