How fortunate you are to have access to such a fount of wisdom as the 964 Register in general and me in particular ! I have a sprog who is now knocking on four. Yet despite that we regularly drive down to the South of France or Tuscany and with pretty much all the bloody paraphernalia that sprogs drag along with them, including a pushchair.

What we did is this :-

1. Buy an ex army kitbag from a surplus store for about a fiver ( we died ours black in the washing machine and it matches the Porker).

2. Obtain a six inch length of suitable interior dimension metal pipe and cut it into two equal bits, first having drilled a suitably sized hole right through the buggers....one hole thru' the end about a half inch from the end.

3. Saw the handles off the pushchair and fit the lengths of pipe to the chair stumps using a pop rivet gun, self tappers, whatever making SURE that the ends with the holes are the females to the sawn-off handles male.

4. Slid in the males and mark off where the holes are. Then drill the same sized holes in the chairs handles in order to pop suitable sized bolt and wingnut in place to lock the whole bangshoot in place.

If you put the shortened chair in the kitbag it will keep it all quiet, stop it banging about and MOST IMPORTANTLY still fit in the bloody boot with a lot of useable space all around it. Or if boot space is important you can always stow the loaded kitbag away next to the child carseat with one end resting on the "transmission" tunnel. It works and it works well. You can get the whole bloody thing assembled and away in about 60 seconds......time me, I'm an expert at it ! Marlin.

5th July, 2001 - At last - an alternative to Marlin's "butchered pushchair" . For those with a sprog - single pushchair made by Mamas & Papas, model Aria - £99 from John Lewis and others - will fit under the front bonnet of my C4. Still plenty of space around it for the nappies, bottles & toys.... Peter H