Having bought the roadster for my 16 yr old son to have something to work on
(I pay, he watches sometimes while I work), and being 6'3", I feel about 12
when driving my little red go-cart around town. When I was 12, an older
neighbor built a cart that wouldn't pull him so I was the driver. Not
knowing what "lean into the turn" really meant, he had the good sense to
kill the motor when the thing rolled over on me and the spark plug was in
the middle of my back. That was the end of Richard Petty for me. Until
now.
-----Original Message-----
From: Terry and Donna Cost [mailto:tcost@vvm.com]
Sent: February 04, 2000 8:17 AM
To: Datsun Roadsters
Subject: age
I know I'm not the oldest, but at 56 I'm in the upper limits of this group.
A few years back the TDROC had a Spring meet and one of our members and his
wife drove to the meet in their one-owner 1500 three-seat roadster. They
were 80+ years old. They gave the roadster to their son when they couldn't
maintain it any more. It broke on them at the meet and we (TDROC) fixed it
enough to get them home.
By the way, I asked my wife (much younger than me, of course) how old she
"feels". She said sixteen. I've always felt about seventeen. When I start
to "act my age" I hurt.
Leisure Suit Terry
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