I'm planning to teach my son (Grant, now 14 yrs) to drive in my BJ8.
My fondest hope is that he'll take his driving test in my Healey ... can
you imagine the look on the DMV guy's face? :)
bs
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Bob Spidell San Jose, CA bspidell@comcast.net
'67 Austin-Healey 3000 '56 Austin-Healey 100M
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Subject: Re: not directly Healey- teaching kids the clutch
> hi ron,
> don't worry about the healey. it's probably had more abuse from former
>owners.
> 3 of my brood of 5 learned to shift and operate the clutch on a side shift
>healey 3000.
> the primary caution is the non sychromesh low and reverse. just find a local
>school parking lot on the weekends and
> you'll find your kids are amazingly resourceful and pick up clutching and
>braking in no time. all of my kids first
> cars were stick shifts and i told them they could now drive anything since
>they learned in a BIG HEALEY !!
> happy healeying,
> jerry wall
> Ron Davies wrote:
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