Keep it up, stirring some thoughts in my head about how to do this both frugally and yet fun.
Chuck (?? last name escapes me now) used to autocross a 116 diesel with his daughter, I really should track down something like that, so SWMBO and I use what we know and know what we drive. ------------- Max Charleston SC On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Dan--- via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I couldn't do it with the spouse. I would end up a quivering mass of jelly. > > I do think a day at Bondurant's defensive driving school at Sebring would > be money well spent, however. > > Dan > > Sent from my iPad > > > On Dec 1, 2016, at 10:10 AM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > For a Christmas present for you both enroll in a day at the BMW track in > Greer. It is a great time and you get to drive spiritedly on a track with > some high-performance luxury sedans that will do more than you are capable > of doing. The 2 of you can share a car and rag on each other. It is not > cheap but it will do wonders for confidence and it is also fun as hell. > > > > --R > > > >> On 12/1/16 8:15 AM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes wrote: > >> I would actually prefer to enroll her in a driving course and improve > that > >> skill set. May not happen anytime soon, but I'd be more comfortable in > the > >> long run with that solution. I guess I'm the typical husband / male who > >> thinks his spouse can't drive, yet I'm the one with the speeding tickets > >> and the (few) fender-benders. > >> > >> My wife spent many of her adult driving years in southern Italy, a place > >> where (it used to be) that stop lights and the lines on the road were > >> purely for decoration and few wore seat-belts (wearing a seat-belt, I > was > >> told, was a sign of fear in the wearer. Child safety seat for the > little > >> ones? What a waste of money!). Under stress, such a driver may revert > to > >> those habits, passing on left or right, on the shoulder or over the line > >> into oncoming traffic, whatever it takes to get from A to B in an > >> emergency. That works great in Italy or in a war zone, and probably in > >> many other parts of the world (Panama comes to mind, I've had some very > >> scary rides in taxicabs in Panama City), but in the U.S. of A., other > >> drivers just are not prepared for that type of behavior and some tend to > >> get violently angry when someone else "breaks the rules" and gets ahead > of > >> them or inconveniences them in any way. > >> > >> > >> > >> ------------- > >> Max > >> Charleston SC > >> > >> On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 7:42 AM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes < > >> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> > >>> One word: 4Matic. (Well, I can powerslide my 1999 4Matic wagon, but I > have > >>> to > >>> try. It takes a lot of wheelspin to annoy the 4Matic system to the > point > >>> that it > >>> takes the throttle away from me) > >>> > >>> Mitch. > >>>> On November 30, 2016 at 9:38 PM Max Dillon via Mercedes > >>>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Too quick it turns out, put the car into a power slide and activated > the > >>> ASD. > >>>> Contacted me later, thought she'd broken the car when the ASD light > >>> came on > >>>> for a bit. Blames the car, not enough power she says. > >>> _______________________________________ > >>> http://www.okiebenz.com > >>> > >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >>> > >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > >>> > >>> > >> _______________________________________ > >> http://www.okiebenz.com > >> > >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >> > >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > >> > > > > -- > > --FT > > Winston Churchill: > > “Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, > large or petty, > > never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. > > Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might > of the enemy.” > > > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
