Tell me about it. Gas stations are the worst (looking at you, Kelso WA). Here's an Italian car leaving my favorite gas station in Cedar Flat, OR. — flat asphalt right up to the pumps. Just dodge that 4" high manhole cover.
(The light plane fuselage in the left rear belongs to a guy that used to own a KC-97, and who wants to drop it on a car chassis
Morelli used a similar strategy on his 'banana car', both laterally and longitudinally.