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Date:         Wed, 11 Oct 2006 21:51:21 -0700
Reply-To:     Keith Ovregaard <kovregaard@COMCAST.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Keith Ovregaard <kovregaard@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: teenagers and vanagons
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Tonight my teenage daughter, who now proudly has a learners permit, asked to drive my Vanagon. Now let me tell you that she has only a few hours of driving around town in a small car with an automatic and only twice have I let her drive the syncro. Once in a big parking lot where she dumped the clutch/killed engine a bunch of times and nailed a few curbs. I was real calm and supportive, by the way. The second time was on the beach where she never got out of first, but had a blast cutting cookies and bouncing over the small dunes. But tonight, even though I was reeeealy not ready for her to drive into traffic with my treasured ride, I let her drive. And she did a fine job of shifting even though she drove up the the curb only twice! Moral of the story: give the kid lots more time behind the wheel of her mom's small car with the automatic! And if she crashes it, the car will be lots easier to replace.

Keith O. 90 Westy Syncro "VikingWagen"

PS Thanks Jeff for the great suggestion on how to get the hang of the clutch! (no gas and SLOWLY let out the clutch) It worked!


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