Interesting timing on this discussion...
My first car was a 1973 FIAT 124 Spider, bought new in 1974, had 3
wrecks in that car, I rolled off a hill when it was 1 week old and did NOT
yet have a roll bar, less than a year later I rear ended someone with it
and a few months later I got rear ended on the freeway, then I learned to
drive :) My wife to be was with me for all 3 accidents. No more mishaps
since then. My daughter is now 15 1/2 and my wife and I decided to give
our daughter the 124 as her first car. We were both perfectly fine with
the idea and you would not believe the "crap" we have gotten from friends,
neighbors and family about how can we do that to our daughter and make her
drive a unsafe un-airbagged car, etc. So much crap that we are not
re-considering our idea. Her grand-father even told her to drive the 124
to the nearest Honda dealer and trade it in and he would pay half the
difference between the new car and the trade-in value, uh no, its my 124 :)
And this is my daughter who has logged unknown thousands of miles since
she was about 8 years old on the back of my motorcycle, a far more
dangerous practice than driving a car. And they don't complain when I take
my daughter again for thousands of miles over the years in my 53 Singer
with its wood-framed super-thin Aluminium body (required LBC to keep on
list topic).
I must admit that they have me thinking about the safety, as my wife
says we can't wrap her in bubble wrap all her life but maybe they have a
point. We have about 4 months to decide which it will be, today she is
getting a 124 Spider but maybe not...
Mike
~~~~~ I'd rather be sailing and ~~~ .oooO Oooo. ~~~~~~~~~~~
Mike Rambour ( ) ( )
Bug Writer er...Programmer \ ) ( /
mikey@b2systems.com \_) (_/
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