do you permit fellow to drive your 911

[WolfeMacleod]

Originally posted by Moses
I had to beg him to let me out after two laps at Thunderhill. I'm pretty sure I was going to puke or get killed if I stayed in the car much longer.

That sounds like the kind of guy I'd like to take a ride with. I get the opposit of motion sickness. I find it very relaxing.

[Moses]

Originally posted by WolfeMacleod
That sounds like the kind of guy I'd like to take a ride with. I get the opposit of motion sickness. I find it very relaxing.

You come barrelling down a straightaway into a 90 degree turn. You keep thinking, "He'll hit the brakes pretty soon... he better hit the brakes NOW!...oh, SHEEE-ITTTT!"

On every turn all four tires are howling and threatening to let go, but somehow they don't. Relaxing? Hell, no.

[bivenator]

I let a friend drive last weekend. The weather was perfect, nice deserted roads, ideal conditions. He was so freaking excited thrilled pie-eyed gushing with enthusiasm that I was smiling ear to ear listening to him talk about how fun the car was. As a passenger on ride alongs he was always turning the radio up, when he drove the car it was radio off. He kept talking about motor sounds steering feel and the feel of driving the car. I made a believer of him.
He had just gotten a new Honda and we had been out in it earlier and he was bragging about all the electronic gizmos. When he got back into his ride after driving the Porsche he probably felt a little cheated.
I don't mind others driving my car. It gives them some insight into my sickness.

[svandamme]

only somebody i know well, and know his driving and when i'm with him

that's pretty much nobody

on the same note, i will always refuse driving somebody elses car , unless it's something i can pay myself without breaking my piggy bank

if i break my car, i'll have just myself to blame
if somebody elses car breaks on me , i'll also just have myself to blame

[DaveE]

I let my wife drive the SC two weeks ago, the first time since I bought it 2 years ago, with me in the passenger seat. She said I made HER nervous.

[MRM]

I used to. I am by nature generous and like to share my toys, although not my wife. But then I let an ex-cousin in law drive my 84 cab based on his claim to a history of driving performance cars and autocrossing. About two miles from home he did a 2-1 shift instead of 2-3 and blew the clutch. I should be happy he didn't wrap the valves around each other. Then he had the termidity to deny what happened and claim how was he to know that my clutch had only one shift left in it. No only did he refuse to pay for it and then refused to split the cost, he acted pissy that my car had broken down on him.

I had no idea he would damage my car or be such an ass after he did. We both would have been much better off if I had said no.

Unfortunately, I have changed my practice and my advice to others and now say that maybe nothing bad will happen if you loan it out, but you know nothing bad will happen if you don't let anyone else drive it. Keep your car to yourself.

[tabs]

Originally posted by DaveE
I let my wife drive the SC two weeks ago, the first time since I bought it 2 years ago, with me in the passenger seat. She said I made HER nervous.

I wonder fkin why??? U should change your name to "Old Nelly" the Queen of backseat driving.

[Gogar]

This past winter, I rode in about 20 different Pelicans' cars all across the country. Almost everyone offered to let me drive. Heck, Moses offered to let me drive his car on a twisty road in the rain. I declined. I found that I learned more by watching the respective owners drive their own cars than I might have learned by driving myself.

Either way, it was loads of fun. I wouldn't be too worried about letting a fellow enthusiast drive my car as long as I was in it. Would I let my girlfriend drive it to the supermarket? Probably not.

[tabs]

Originally posted by MRM
I let an ex-cousin in law drive my 84 cab

U LET THAT DUFUS OF "EX-COUSIN IN LAW" dive your Cab...What are U nuts..everybody knows what a clown he is...

[tabs]

Originally posted by Gogar
This past winter, I rode in about 20 different Pelicans' cars across the country. Almost everyone wanted me to drive. Heck, Moses offered to let me drive his car on a twisty road in the rain. I declined.

Heck I wouldn't want to drive THAT car either....

[WolfeMacleod]

Originally posted by Moses


On every turn all four tires are howling and threatening to let go, but somehow they don't. Relaxing? Hell, no.

I used to Joust. On horses, with lances.
Is ym helmet on? If so, I'm OK.

How do I meet this guy?

[Jims5543]

My wife drove it right after I brought it home. No incidents. She tooled around the neighborhood though.

Jeremy (Grogar) is the only other person to drive it other than me and my wife. I have offered drives to some other pelicans and they declined.

On Monday I am letting my 19 y/o helper drive it with me in it. He let me drive his brand new Honda Civic Si this afternoon. So I told him he could drive my P-car Monday after work. He used to have an 11 second Camaro and I trust him. He is a very respectful young man I have no reservations.

[Jims5543]

Originally posted by Moses
You come barrelling down a straightaway into a 90 degree turn. You keep thinking, "He'll hit the brakes pretty soon... he better hit the brakes NOW!...oh, SHEEE-ITTTT!"

On every turn all four tires are howling and threatening to let go, but somehow they don't. Relaxing? Hell, no.

I think I am on the slightly aggressive yet cautious side on the track. I thought I was pushing my RX7 to about 80% of it limits until I let a SCCA national champ take me for a ride in it.

He was braking so much deeper than I and you can call BS on this but we were going deeper than a Ferrari 430 in front of us heading into a 2nd gear turn at Homestead. Then on the exit he lifted in order not to rear end the Ferrari. I was delighfully terified in the passanger seat. My only regret was not having the camera filming this display.

It made me realize I was more at 50% out there.

[tabs]

Originally posted by WolfeMacleod
I used to Joust. On horses, with lances.
Is ym helmet on? If so, I'm OK.

I thought that kind of thing went out in the 16th Century. Or boy
U are really Retro....

I think that is kind of a useless skill to have, there don't seem to be many dragons around to slay, Holy Grails to find or Crusades to go on...Unless of course you think Iraq is a Crusade and then it wouldn't be a horse and a stick I would want to defend myself with.

[tabs]

Originally posted by Jim Cesiro


I was delighfully terified in the passanger seat.

I stopped thinking *****ting in my pants was delighfull when I was 4 years old.

[Moses]

Tabby, you are particularly cantankerous today. All this fishin' and not one bite!

[Moses]

Originally posted by WolfeMacleod
How do I meet this guy?

Tyson works at WEVO engineering in the Bay Area. He helps design parts that make our cars go even faster. He's frequently at all the NorCal tracks.

[tabs]

Originally posted by Moses
Tabby, you are particularly cantankerous today. All this fishin' and not one bite!

U shoulda figgered it out Moses, its not about fishin...its all one liners...

[WolfeMacleod]

Originally posted by tabs
I thought that kind of thing went out in the 16th Century. Or boy
U are really Retro....

I think that is kind of a useless skill to have, there don't seem to be many dragons around to slay, Holy Grails to find or Crusades to go on...Unless of course you think Iraq is a Crusade and then it wouldn't be a horse and a stick I would want to defend myself with.

My first profession was a knife and sword maker, and the manufacture of weapons and how to use them is a good skill to have. If technology fails, and war breaks out, you will be in very high demand.
Besides that, it's just plain fun. I've been SCA and playing with live swords since I was about 12 or 14.

[tabs]

Originally posted by WolfeMacleod
My first profession was a knife and sword maker

Not much call for sword making these days...what work there was probably got out sourced....