<VV> Teens and 1st cars

[AeroNed at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/18/2007 7:36:43 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
dougmackintosh at yahoo.com writes:

I can  supply one data point in contradiction to the idea that boys are into 
working  on cars and girls are not.



Leave it the engineer to provide a "data point".... Let me add to the  
curve...
 
My oldest daughter loves cars. She was very excited to help change the oil  
in "her" Corsica, bragging to her friends. She keeps bugging me to go car  
shopping with her. She saved her money and now wants a Camaro. That's much  better 
than her first choice, a Mustang. She also want to autocross her car. I  know 
it would be a great educational experience for her. I'm just not sure I  want 
to deal with her beating me around the cones.
 
Anyhow, my co-worker and fellow autocrosser has a son that's a year younger  
than my daughter. My friend has tried everything to get the boy interested. He 
 bought a shifter car project for them to work on, didn't work. He offered 
him  the Porsche 924S to drive to school (really an excuse for him to buy a new  
autocross car). My friend has to almost beg the kid just to go practice  
driving.
 
Now, my second daughter is learning to drive. She's scared of the gas  pedal. 
Actually, that's OK with me, her nickname since she's been moving on her  own 
has been "Crash." And she's earned it...
 
OK plot that...
Ned



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