Just be glad that you don't have to deal with Southern California freeway
driving with your kid, Paul! I'm going to be a nervous WRECK!
Cheers,
Jeff in San Diego
'67 RHD Spitfire Mk3
www.ohms.com/spitfire/spitfire.shtml
Jeff's Classic '67 Spitfire Mk3 Site
P.S. The religious use of SEATBELTS can never be emphasized enough. I
speak from experience. lost my mother five years ago because she wasn't
wearing hers...
----- Original Message -----
From: Mostrom, Paul <Mostrom.Paul@principal.com>
To: 'Carter Shore' <clshore@yahoo.com>; Jeff McNeal <jmcneal@ohms.com>;
Spitfire List <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 5:53 AM
Subject: RE: Tense driving lately
> Thanks you two for making me feel so much better!
>
> My son just turned 14, the age that he can get his learner's permit in
Iowa.
>
> Thanks,
> Paul Mostrom
> '77 Spitfire 1500
> '80 Ford F-100 (Triumph Support Vehicle)
>
>
> 'Black holes, where God divided by zero......'
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carter Shore [mailto:clshore@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 7:37 AM
> To: Jeff McNeal; Spitfire List
> Subject: Re: Tense driving lately
>
>
>
> Jeff,
> Waaay back when, SCCA used to require both passenger
> and driver seats in cars used for driver's school.
> This, so that the instructor could 'take the student
> for a ride', to familiarize them with how a racecar
> should be properly driven. My instructor was Hurley
> Heywood, and I still remember that ride. We were using
> the infield portion of the Daytona course. Up to that
> point, I had no idea that a car could be made to go
> around a corner at such speeds (and slip angles).
>
> But it was nothing compared to riding with my teenage
> son on our first outing.
>
> So I feel for you, buddy! (It does get better, if you
> survive)
>
> Carter
>
> --- Jeff McNeal <jmcneal@ohms.com> wrote:
> >
> > It's been a real strange three days of driving.
> > ... Then, this
> > evening, I let my 15-year-old son drive me around in
> > our 12-year-old Maxima ...
> >
> Do You Yahoo!?
>
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