Or even better, disconnect the battery. If the car won't start.. they
usually give up.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-triumphs@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-triumphs@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Joe Curry
Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2000 4:59 AM
To: The Hubbards
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Pickup Car
Just 3 words: "Hide The Keys" :)
Joe
The Hubbards wrote:
>
> 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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