I used to own a 1965 Lotus Super 7.

if you know these cars, you can take the windscreen off and install compact aero-shields.

I also did not have a roll bar fitted as was standard for a series 2 from the factory. Not safe, but it looked period.

I took the car for a run one Saturday, and towards the end my wife called and asked me to pick up some things on the way home.

I was heading through Melbourne so decided to stop at one of the multi story car parks in the city.

It of course was fitted with boom gates etc to stop you getting in and out without paying. As I drove up I noticed I could actually drive under the boom if I wanted, having no windscreen or roll bar to get in the way. But I didn’t, I got my ticket and went in.

The parking was supposed to be free in the first half hour, and then $5 and hour after that or something. The shopping took ages as it was a full house and I waited and waited.

Then when I came out, another line up as the Auto ticket machine was not working.

We had to wait again until it was fixed and the back log of people were put through.

By my calculations I was on the button for the first half hour to be free, but the car-parking guy who came to fix the machine was not interested. …

"Sorry mate.... yo'll ave ta pay"  .... or something similar to that spewed from his pimpled face.

So I casually walked away, hopped in the 7 and drove up to the boom gates, which were adjacent to the footpath.

Now, the 7 was not a very quiet car, so a few people had stopped to see what was making all that noise .....and were now watching as I approached the boom gates. I drove up, casually ducked under the boom gate, like I did this sort of thing all the time, and continued onwards and pulled out into the traffic, ........to the cheers of the small group of people who actually stopped and watched me do it.

Gotta love having a 7 ....