I didn't have the BJ8 until our daughter was out of college working. Even
though she liked cars and driving, she didn't really know what love was until
she can home one vacation and we drove the Big Healey. The first thing she
said was, "This car is mine." We were talked about what she could get until
the Healey was hers and she did some Googling of old cars when she said, "I
really like the looks of old Porsches.
As with all things with our children,
it's a beginning.
Greg
--- On Fri, 6/10/11, ATIGHTPROD at aol.com
<ATIGHTPROD at aol.com> wrote:
> From: ATIGHTPROD at aol.com <ATIGHTPROD at aol.com>
>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Musings
> To: lapierrem at sbcglobal.net,
healeys at Autox.Team.Net
> Date: Friday, June 10, 2011, 2:51 PM
> Over twenty
years ago, I sold my
> third Austin Healey to pay for a vasectomy
>
reversal. My daughter, Austen, is soon to be twenty-one
> years old and
>
graduating from college in New Zealand. I now have my
> fourth Austin-Healey
and
> my daughter loves it. She still hasn't driven it, as
> she is afraid
of the
> old three speed manual, but she has helped from time
> to time with
the
> maintenance and every time I would return from a
> drive, she said she
loved the
> way it would make the garage smell. I'm hoping to get
> her
behind the wheel
> after she graduates and returns home, so we'll see,
> but
if she doesn't, one
> of my grand daughters is waiting in the wings and
>
chomping at the bit the
> drive grandpa's little red car.
>
> Steven
Kingsbury
> BN1 #598
>
>
>
> In a message dated 6/10/2011 11:19:31 A.M.
Pacific Daylight
> Time,
> lapierrem at sbcglobal.net
> writes:
>
> Damn you
guys are killing me. I
> wasn't even gonna open this thread up
> but
> I
did. Now I can't stop reading this
> thread. I can only hope that some
>
day my daughter will appreciate the fact that I am
> hanging on to an MGB-GT
> in hopes that some day she will be ready to invest
> some time an money in
> it.
> Sure would be a ton-o-fun even though she doesn't
> know the
> first
thing about turning a wrench .. But she sure
> enjoyed the times we
> spent
toolin around town in the MGA when she was
> little.
>
> Tried to teach her
to drive a stick once, at least
> we were still talking
> after that.
>
>
Time will only tell. At least I can still drive
> her around in my cars if
> she
> decides she doesn't want one of her own.
>
> But then she is getting
married next year. I
> might have to start
> planting
> the LBC seed in
her fiancis head. One trip around
> town in the Healey
> should
> take care
of that situation.
>
> Mark
>
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