In a message dated 98-07-26 21:58:43 EDT, Rikrock writes:
> Do I read you right? You were alone in your TR6, driving it from the
> passenger seat?
Rich,
Thanks for the welcome back!
I "sorta" drove from the passenger seat. I was alone, so I sat on the left
edge of the passenger seat, with my legs twisted, using my left foot on the
gas pedal. I could get by with this because I was driving on a very straight,
nearly flat, mostly empty, stretch of secondary highway going through Iowa.
When I was about to meet a car, I slipped back into the correct position till
it passed. I guess I met about one car an hour on that road, more or less.
No, wisdom doesn't always come with old age! It was probably not a good thing
to drive like that, but I was desperate, as the left side of my face was
nearing the "well done" state by then, and I had forgotten to pack my sun
screen. It was WAY too hot to raise the window and use a towel to screen the
sun.
Dan Masters,
Alcoa, TN
'71 TR6---------3000mile/year driver, fully restored
'71 TR6---------undergoing full restoration and Ford 5.0 V8 insertion - see:
http://www.sky.net/~boballen/mg/Masters/
'74 MGBGT---3000mile/year driver, original condition - slated for a V8 soon
'68 MGBGT---organ donor for the '74
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