Date:         Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:14:17 -0700
Reply-To:     Tom Forhan <fourwdvw@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Tom Forhan <fourwdvw@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: teenagers and vanagons
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My seventeen y.o., Colin, learned to drive in our Mini
Cooper S: six speed, traction control, stability
control, super responsive brakes, handling and
acceleration, airbags everywhere.

After he got his license in the MCS, we started on the
Syncro Westfalia. Hard to imagine a vehicle more
different: learning to drive using momentum, planning
ahead, way tall, no abs, probably a hp/weight ratio a
quarter of the Cooper. He was very dubious, but after
a few miles around town he started to get the feel of
it, and after about an hour he looked over at me and
said "I can't believe it - this thing is fun!"

Tom F.

--- Jamie Foust <foust@CECLAC.COM> wrote:

> http://www.break.com/index/kid_cant_drive_stick.html
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> Please tell me that this is someone on the list's
> kid!   Teenagers and
> Vanagons don't mix.
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> jamie
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