In article <"001C83AF7EC4303B*/c=us/admd= /prmd=Cat/o=NOTES/s=Gosling/g
=Richard/i=B/"@MHS>, Richard B Gosling <Gosling_Richard_B@perkins.com>
writes
>
>Brian Wrote:
>...it was so hip to take my 13 yo son and then my 6 yo son for short rides, top
> down of course, on a cloudless, azure sky. Not too shabby.
>
>and Ray wrote:
>...I took my 9 year old daughter out for a glorious ride from our house to the
> Texas Motor Speedway.
>
>You don't even have to be that old to appreciate a Spitfire...
>
>My daughter is almost 20 months old...
>she has started to prefer Daffy to my wifes car ('88 Audi 100 Quattro
> Avant) - when we go out to drive somewhere she always walks towards Daffy and
> stands expectantly beside the passenger door, and has even cried a little when
> led by the hand towards Quentin (Quentin the Quattro!) instead.
>Then it came to me - the change has co-incided with me picking her up from
> nursery a few times with the top down! Even at that age, my daughter loves
> roof-less motoring!
The first few times I collected Charles (now aged five and one month)
from school, he would greet me with, "Oh, no! Not the SPITFIRE!!"
This was back in February.
Then I took him for a spin with the top down. His former predilection
for "the white car" (a dirty great Saab) has evaporated!
ATB
Mike
--
Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea,"
published by Greenhill Books on 28th March, 2001:
http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness_in_the_crimea.html
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