A womans point of veiw

Peter Delaney

GT40s Supporter
"A modest amount of luggage" - Heresy !!!

If a couple of sets of bra's & g-strings & a make-up bag won't fit in the passenger door compartment, we have more than a storage problem !!

IMHO, the longer tail & higher front guards on the road-going MK3 spoiled the essence of the design - it just doesn't look "right" to me.

Kind Regards,

Peter D.
 
I don't understand all the difficulties with ex-wives! My airplane (years ago) survived 3 divorces! At the end of number 6 I sold my 308 and bought the CAV to celebrate. My current lady loves this stuff, yesterday, we got off a plane after 24 hours of no sleep and then saddled up the GT to join our friends, in the Pantera club, for a dinner run up to the mountains in Julian.
The good ones are out there, you just have to keep looking(the search can be fun also).
 

Doug S.

The protoplasm may be 72, but the spirit is 32!
Lifetime Supporter
Dalton said:
Sounds like most owners are driving solo.

Cheers

Dalton

I must admit to a bit of selfishness here. I've driven fast cars most of my life and it sure is more fun free from the screaming and crying.

As for luggage, a "credit card and a smile" is traditional fare.

Make the "S.O." try to keep up in the family sedan and keep in touch via cell phone.

Dugly
 
Dugly, I agree! That's how I've been driving for a long time. I would add one thing .... Duct tape !
 

Chris Kouba

Supporter
Duct tape:

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i know what duc tape, what i dont know is what is he using it for, and by the way he sayd it, i just know is something funny, but i cant put my thinger on it, hhhmm.....?!
 

Peter Delaney

GT40s Supporter
Raca, duct tape has been proven to be one the most effective sound-proofing materials ever used by motoring enthusiasts. Four or five inches applied across the source of the most annoying noise in a car has been known to lower the blood pressure of the driver by more than 20 points !!!

Kind Regards,

Peter D.

(Not very "PC", but old age is a wonderful excuse) !
 
hhhm i think i know what you mean x_X

but i dont think i will need any duct tape, my curent girlfriend advised me to go to another university so i could get a job with a biger pay check, to do what with it..... get a rcr40 :D, she sayd thoes are some of the beautifull weld she has seen btw: do you guys have any idea of what it would take to get a kit over the pond, i'm starting to make some plans, like a 10 to 12 year time frame
 
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Dalton, speaking of the bottom end; I guess a "Thong" would be as small and as light weight as you can get... yes? ... no?
 

Doug S.

The protoplasm may be 72, but the spirit is 32!
Lifetime Supporter
For me, the memory of what my "S.O." looks like in the thong is preferable. Every ounce of weight slows that 40 down and IMHO there is little benefit to be had from having a thong to view (or, if you are one of us sicko's, to smell).

Make the "S.O." carry the thong and the duct tape in her vehicle. If she gives you any grief about that, use the duct tape!

To be specific, driving in a spirited manner, which is what we build these vehicles for, is IMHO better enjoyed as what I call a "guilty pleasure". I'd rather feel guilty for having the "S.O." follow in the family sedan than for having used the duct tape on her, myself!

Dugly (Doug's evil alter-ego)
 
It's clear that most of us enjoy the freedom of fun drives, or racing, on our own. I don't yet have a GT40 (sob), but am older than most and happily married for many years. We each have our own hobbies. But back when I was young, many decades ago, I found that girls resented being taken out in a car that received more attention from bystanders than they did.

My wife is frequently overseas on consulting work, which is the perfect opportunity for taking a drive in my current classic performance car, even a scenic trip along the coast and overnighting, doing whatever you like. Giving the car some stick through the twisty bits, or sitting having a coffee where you can gaze at your parked car. May sound eccentric, but we all enjoy our cars, so there.

Dalton
 

Peter Delaney

GT40s Supporter
Raca, don't confuse "current girlfriend" with a "wife" - two different creatures !!

Reminds me a bit of those "transformer toys" that the kids used to love - buy the package that looks like a Ferrari, but when it gets home & feels comfortable, it can turn into a fire-breathing monster robot !!

Kind Regards,

Peter D.
 
delaneyp said:
Raca, don't confuse "current girlfriend" with a "wife" - two different creatures !!

Reminds me a bit of those "transformer toys" that the kids used to love - buy the package that looks like a Ferrari, but when it gets home & feels comfortable, it can turn into a fire-breathing monster robot !!

Reminds me of the (now) classic internet joke aout Girlfriend 1.0 and wife 1.0 software...

Desperately seeking technical support!

I'm currently running the latest version of Girlfriend 5.0 and having some problems. I've been running the same version of DrinkingBuddies 1.0 for years as my primary application, and all the Girlfriend releases have always conflicted with it. I hear that DrinkingBuddies won't crash if you minimize Girlfriend with the sound off, but since I can't find the switch to turn it off, I just run them separately and it works OK.

Girlfriend also seems to have a problem coexisting with Golfware, often trying to abort my Golf program with some sort of timing incompatibility. I probably should have stayed with Girlfriend 1.0, but I thought I might see better performance with Girlfriend 2.0.

After months of conflicts, I consulted a friend who has experience with Girlfriend 2.0. He said I probably didn't have enough cache to run Girlfriend 2.0 and eventually it would require a Token Ring upgrade to run properly. He was right. As soon as I purged my cache, Girlfriend 2.0 uninstalled itself.

Shortly after that, I installed a Girlfriend 3.0 beta. All the bugs were supposed to be gone, but the first time I used it, it gave me a virus. After a hard drive clean up and thorough virus scan I very cautiously upgraded to Girlfriend 4.0. This time using a SCSI probe and virus protection. It worked OK for a while until I discovered Girlfriend 1.0 wasn't completely uninstalled!

I tried to run Girlfriend 1.0 again with Girlfriend 4.0 still installed, but Girlfriend 4.0 has an unadvertised feature that automatically senses the presence of Girlfriend 1.0 and communicates with it in some way, resulting in the immediate removal of both versions!

The version I have now works pretty well, but, like all versions, there are still some problems. The Girlfriend package is written in some obscure language that I can't understand, much less reprogram. And I've never liked how Girlfriend is totally 'object-oriented.'

A year ago, a friend upgraded his version to GirlfriendPlus 1.0, which is a Terminate-and-Stay resident version. He discovered GirlfriendPlus 1.0 expires within a year if you don't upgrade to Fiance9e 1.0. So he did. But soon after that, you have to upgrade to Wife 1.0, which he describes as a 'huge resource hog.' It has taken up all his space, so he can't load anything else. One of the primary reasons that he upgraded to Wife is because it came bundled with FreeSex 1.0. Well, it turns out that the resource allocation module of Wife 1.0 sometimes prohibits access to FreeSex (particularly the new Plug and Play items he wanted to try). On top of that, Wife 1.0 must be running on a well warmed-up system before he can do anything. And, although he did not ask for it, Wife 1.0 came with MotherInLaw 1.0, which has an automatic popup feature he can't turn off.

I told him to install Mistress 1.0, but he said that he heard that if you try to run it without first uninstalling Wife, that Wife 1.0 will delete MSMoney files before uninstalling itself. Then Mistress 1.0 won't install anyway, due to insufficient resources. If anybody out there is able to offer technical advice...
 
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