Jason Meshnick wrote:Just wondering if I'm crazy. I'm considering purchase
of a TR6 which will be used partly on a 1 hour daily commute that will
involve highways and traffic. It has o/d. Any thoughts-I'd love to be talked
out of this.
Jason,
Twenty years ago, I worked graveyard shift. I lived in Livermore, CA then
and my commute was 40 miles each way, most of it on a road that wound
through the hills to San Jose. During the time that I worked grave shift (3
years), I drove my TR6 to work almost every day and enjoyed almost every
mile of my commute. Later, when I was promoted and moved to day shift, I
found that my commute involved lots of traffic, and along with the traffic
came stop-and-go driving. I found that it was not as much fun to commute in
my TR6 and the stop-and-go driving seemed to cause a lot more wear and tear
on the car. I started using the TR for my weekend fun stuff and switched to
an automatic transmission, air-conditioned economy car for the commute
stuff.
Of course, YMMV
Hugh Barber
Hollister, CA
'73 TR6
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