[Healeys] [O/T] Manuals

[Bob Spidell]

One of my scariest Healey moments was driving up Gough--pronounced 
'Goff' I'm told--which is the backside approach to the famous Lombard 
Street ('The Crookedest Road in the World'). There are several 4-way 
stops to the 'summit.' Expecting the worst, I made sure to stop a car 
length or more behind the cars in front of me but on one there was a 
woman in a Volvo station wagon--you know the type ;)--who, when she 
tried going through the intersection couldn't get traction and started 
rolling back towards with her front tires spinning wildly toward my BJ8. 
My first thought was: "Hmmm, I didn't know Volvo made FWD cars," which 
immediately changed to: "Oh shit! She's going to front-end me!" I don't 
recall if there was a car behind me, but I probably couldn't have 
reacted in time anyway but, when she was just a foot or so away from my 
front bumper she was finally able to pull away, front tires still spinning.

My Mustang has 'hill assist,' and it's kind of cheating but I use it; I 
still get plenty of practice in my Healeys. The big drums in back make 
better parking/emergency brakes than most modern cars have (including my 
Mustang, whose p-brake is pretty wimpy).


On 3/7/2024 8:20 PM, cgmoog wrote:
> The story of my father prepping my mother for her driver's test. After 
> teaching mom to drive, my father drove the test area with her riding 
> shot gun, NYC tests new drivers on the street in designated 
> neighborhoods. There was a stop sign at the top of a hill. There was 
> also a recently filled in utility trench, creating a depression on the 
> right side of the travel lane. His instructions to mom were to place 
> the right front wheel in the depression so that there would be no roll 
> back (a failing offense) when stopping during the test.
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: ahbn6--- via Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net>
> Date: 3/7/24 1:34 PM (GMT-05:00)
> To: 'HealeyRick' <healeyrik at gmail.com>, 'Simon Lachlan' 
> <simon.lachlan at alexarevel.plus.com>
> Cc: 'Healeys' <healeys at autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] [O/T] Manuals
>
>     *I have a better one for you. Early in our marriage our Lincoln
>     Continental gave out and I bought my wife a Honda Civic stick
>     shift (I drove a company car). Anyway I had a devil of a time
>     teaching her to drive a manual transmission. She drove her
>     daughter to school. We lived at the bottom of a hill and the
>     school was at the top. There was a depression at the top to
>     channel water and she finally learned to go up the hill and stop
>     at the channel and stop there resting her front wheels there until
>     traffic cleared without sliding back.*
>
>     **
>
>     *John Sims*
>
>     *www.healey6.com <http://www.healey6.com>*
>
>     *Matawan, NJ*
>
>
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