There's a track down around Savannah, I don't know if they do track days
or what, i could find out. The guy up the road races (or used to) there.
--FT
On 12/1/16 10:59 AM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes wrote:
Keep it up, stirring some thoughts in my head about how to do this both
frugally and yet fun.
Chuck (?? last name escapes me now) used to autocross a 116 diesel with
his daughter, I really should track down something like that, so SWMBO and
I use what we know and know what we drive.
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Max
Charleston SC
On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Dan--- via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
wrote:
I couldn't do it with the spouse. I would end up a quivering mass of jelly.
I do think a day at Bondurant's defensive driving school at Sebring would
be money well spent, however.
Dan
Sent from my iPad
On Dec 1, 2016, at 10:10 AM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
For a Christmas present for you both enroll in a day at the BMW track in
Greer. It is a great time and you get to drive spiritedly on a track with
some high-performance luxury sedans that will do more than you are capable
of doing. The 2 of you can share a car and rag on each other. It is not
cheap but it will do wonders for confidence and it is also fun as hell.
--R
On 12/1/16 8:15 AM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes wrote:
I would actually prefer to enroll her in a driving course and improve
that
skill set. May not happen anytime soon, but I'd be more comfortable in
the
long run with that solution. I guess I'm the typical husband / male who
thinks his spouse can't drive, yet I'm the one with the speeding tickets
and the (few) fender-benders.
My wife spent many of her adult driving years in southern Italy, a place
where (it used to be) that stop lights and the lines on the road were
purely for decoration and few wore seat-belts (wearing a seat-belt, I
was
told, was a sign of fear in the wearer. Child safety seat for the
little
ones? What a waste of money!). Under stress, such a driver may revert
to
those habits, passing on left or right, on the shoulder or over the line
into oncoming traffic, whatever it takes to get from A to B in an
emergency. That works great in Italy or in a war zone, and probably in
many other parts of the world (Panama comes to mind, I've had some very
scary rides in taxicabs in Panama City), but in the U.S. of A., other
drivers just are not prepared for that type of behavior and some tend to
get violently angry when someone else "breaks the rules" and gets ahead
of
them or inconveniences them in any way.
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Max
Charleston SC
On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 7:42 AM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
One word: 4Matic. (Well, I can powerslide my 1999 4Matic wagon, but I
have
to
try. It takes a lot of wheelspin to annoy the 4Matic system to the
point
that it
takes the throttle away from me)
Mitch.
On November 30, 2016 at 9:38 PM Max Dillon via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
Too quick it turns out, put the car into a power slide and activated
the
ASD.
Contacted me later, thought she'd broken the car when the ASD light
came on
for a bit. Blames the car, not enough power she says.
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Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might
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