Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Anti-theft Device

[Hans E. Hansen (FList]

I was teaching my daughter to drive a stick.  At the time, I had a car dealership, and had driven home a Z28 Camaro. On a quiet Sunday we went to a side street in the quiet town where we live, and had her try it out.  Ease out the clutch, stall.  OK, a bit more throttle.  Ease out the clutch, jerk, jerk, stall.  OK, give it more throttle.  Big massive burnout with the car fishtailing all over the road.  Scary.

I took the Camaro back and brought home a GEO Metro for another much more successful attempt at clutch lessons.....

Hans.

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 10:12 AM, John Ashburne via Ferrari <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com> wrote:

Oh, and I taught my girlfriend (now wife) how to drive a manual on my Triumph TR-250. 

I'll never forget one startup at a stop sign on an uphill road where the lurch as she let the clutch out was so violent it caused the exhaust pipe to slip off. That was fun and loud. 

Same car, another time. We were driving back to Boston from the USGP at Watkins Glen in either '73 or '74 and, as I rolled down the window at a tollbooth on the NYS Thruway, the glass just crashed down inside the door and shattered.  Being October in upstate NY, the temperature was about freezing and it was pretty effing cold for the remaining 150 miles or so. 

Fun times!

John

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