[TR] Learning to drive a TR

[P Caffrey]

Thanks Chip and everyone.  I sure got a lot of good info....The niece, like
most kids her age (early 20s), learned to drive cars with power assist
brakes/steering plus auto trannys.  She currently has a late model Civic with
auto tranny....I was thinking today that the experience of driving a TR is
more than operating a manual tranny.  It's operating a manual tranny while
muscling the steering wheel at slow speeds, and actually using leg muscles to
operate brake/clutch pedals, plus doing this with the car vibrating and making
noise.  It may be a daunting experience for some of today's youth.

Another
option, is to just let her putt around in 2nd gear and not really teach her
how to drive the car.  There's a new but abandoned shopping mall (victim of
the economy) close to where I live and it has nice wide boulevards with little
traffic.

Thanks, again,
Pat




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From:
"Chip19474 at aol.com" <Chip19474 at aol.com>
To: pcaffrey at ymail.com;
triumphs at autox.team.net
Sent: Sun, March 28, 2010 9:05:03 AM
Subject: Re: [TR]
Learning to drive a TR

Pat,

Several years ago when I still had my '70 Spit
Mk3, I taught our youngest daughter how to use a manual trans on that car.  It
really wasn't as gruesome as I expected!!!  

She had been driving for a few
years (Honda Civic auto trans) but wanted to learn manual because her
boyfriend (now husband) had a Scion coupe 5 speed.  I guess it was less
stressful to their relationship if I taught her on the Spit!  She was very
attentive to the finer points of learning manual shifting....don't ride the
clutch, don't dump the clutch, etc.....younger people learn very well.....now,
when I tried to teach my wife on our old MGB many years ago, that didn't end
well (we are still married:)

Chip Krout
Delaware Valley Triumphs, Ltd.
Skippack, PA
1976 TR6 CF57822U

In a message dated 3/28/2010 12:06:35 A.M.
Eastern Daylight Time, pcaffrey at ymail.com writes:
....Anyone have
>this
experience?