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Re: Daily Driver

To: Richard B Gosling <Gosling_Richard_B@perkins.com>
Subject: Re: Daily Driver
From: mark holbrook <rolling_rock_12@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 15:36:32 -0700 (PDT)
I think driving it everyday is the way to go.  My GT6
Convertable is my only transportation and has been for
three years.  Cars are meant to be driven, not looked
at.
Mark
--- Richard B Gosling <Gosling_Richard_B@perkins.com>
wrote:
> 
> Jeff,
> 
> My understanding of a daily driver is a car that you
> drive every day.  That
>  means she is your main transport, takes you to work
> and back, everything.
>  Sorry Bill, but to me a reliable, often-used second
> car is still a second car.
> 
> I do all my driving in Daffy, except when with more
> than one other member of my
>  family (wife OK, baby OK, dog OK, but not all
> three!).  In the last year she
>  has covered about 16,000 miles.  Maybe this is why
> I spend so much time on
>  maintenance and minor repairs - that sort of
> mileage does take its toll!  I
>  don't see anything silly about taking a Spitfire to
> work (even when I do have
>  a choice, if my wife is not using her car) - it may
> just sit in a parking lot
>  all day, but it is still fun to drive there and
> back.  There may be about 5-10
>  days a year when it rains hard enough (and it is
> not Hardtop Season) that I
>  wish I was in another car...
> 
> Richard and Daffy


=====
-Mark Holbrook-

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