My name is Brian Hubbard. I live in a suburb of Vancouver Canada and
this is my first attempt to post to this list. Been a watcher for a
couple of weeks and even though my car is never mentioned I am
collecting lots of useful info and have even ordered The Book.
Mr Simmons' comments caught my eye and of course he's right. Yesterday I
collected my "brand new" 80 TR8 from the PO and when my wife and I got
home my 17 year old daughter shot out of the door to see the car. "Cool
car, Dad! Does the radio work? Can we go for a drive?"
So we go for a drive, top down of course, and en route we come up behind
a very new Miata driven by an attractive 30-ish woman. She just about
unscrewed her head trying to look at us as she drove along. I doubt
that she fancied me, I think it was the cool car (perhaps the Persian
Aqua paint or maybe she heard the rumbling exhaust over the non-noise of
her own car). But I did not expect results so quick!
My daughter usually drives our 88 Mercury Tracer wagon (the old family
car) and I think she is a concientious and careful driver, but to my
surprise she suddenly slammed it from fourth to third at 70km/hr and
floored it; in no time we were accelerating hard past 110 and I had to
tell her to slow down (the limit was 70). She was grinning like an
idiot. This normally taciturn kid then spent about and hour on the phone
to her friends telling them all about it. I hope I haven't made a
mistake letting her drive it.
BTW, I already have the beginings of a great oil patch on the garage
floor.
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 08:38:52 -0400
From: "John A. Simmons" <jsimmons@intrepid.net>
Subject: followup: just curious
...Speaking of wenches, while driving the TR6 yesterday two young girls,
about 17, and looking like only girls that young can look, yelled "nice
car, can we have a ride". After responding, "thanks, but I'm going
somewhere and I late" I drove off thinking how unfair, I have aged but
the car hasn't. When I drove one of these as a young man it was a great
"pick-up" car, and it still is...
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