I once owned a 3 litre reliant scimitar thats a surprise eh?
I lived at Mums at the time.
Anyway, it was misfiring, so I had it parked on Mums drive, bonnet up tinkering trying to find out what was causing the misfire. Drivers door open, engine running, Auto transmission in "N" for neutral.
I called it a day, couldnt find the fault - besides which the pub was calling - meeting the girlfriend at 9pm. So I half sat on drivers seat, one leg in the car the other not, engine still running, foot on brake, moved gear lever from N to P (Park) - or so I thought. However, inbetween N & P is R-Reverse,and I felt the car start to creep backwards. I was not sat in it properly as already mentioned so went to reapply foot brake, but hit the accelerator instead. Mums house was too close, and as the car shot back bye bye drivers door - ripped it off completely -smashed to various pieces of fibre glass.
Felt such a plonker!! Luckily a friend knew someone who made fibre glass body kits for Go Karts, so they scooped all the pieces up and managed to rescue the door for me all for the price of a couple of pints.
Still miss that car - it got stolen - never recovered
