Saw this picture over at STF. Check out the driveway of this house. A 30 horsepower old VW with cable brakes might have a bit of a problem navigating it.:o)
It's an optical illusion - the house is actually 30 yards further away than the bottom of the drive and the drive angles towards it uphill. You don't notice it because the drive is much wider at the top than at the bottom, hahaha.
Either that or I've had too much eggnog!
Or this is in that place where they had the earthquake last week.
We owned a house that looked a lot like that in Danville Illinois when I was a kid. We did manage to get an air-cooled vehicle into the garage, but it was a Corvair. It was only the 80 horse engine and it had the Powerslide transmission, so it isn't that much more powerful than a 40hp. We did get it up the driveway even in the winter. I took my driver's test on it back in 1974,.
Charles in Palatine
How do they pour a driveway like that? Or is it prestressed 'crete?
They didn't pour ours, it was ashphalt.
Charles of Palatine
Actually, it was a photoshop image.
It looks like a really good place to work underneath a bus - except that mine, with the extended front bumper wouldn't make the transition!
this house. A 30
problem navigating
Ours wasn't a photo shop image. I had to walk my bicycle up it for 3 years. Was fun running a sleigh on it before we shoveled it in the winter. That and our street also was on a good grade, we managed one year to get going pretty fast before we hit the gravel in the driveway at the end of the street.
Charles
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