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TR2/3/3A My daughter takes a rock to my TR3

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Hey Sam, just think of the mileage you will be able to get out of this incident as you constantly remind her as she grows up. You've got a lot of leverage to use there, and boy, will you need it.
ps, I've got a 22 year old daughter and need all the leverage I can get.
 
Hey, I have done lots of work on my GT6 and never drive it. My now 17 year old son drives it all the time. Last year he came home and was very upset. Someone kicked the door in. My reaction, are you ok. His reaction, Yes. Then that is all that matters. It is only a car.

I feel for you. I use to let it upset me but I have learned to let it go. I use to pray for alot to behave better in these situations but found God tested my more when I preyed for this. So look at it from a positive. Now you can have the car repainted and that other nick fixed.
 
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I would say that the wife looks at this as sweet revenge.

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I resent this remark, stereotypical male knee jerk reaction.

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the car was in gear and jumped forward into another car parked in front of it.

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Just about every American I know who has a stick leaves it parked in gear at all times... WHY?? What's wrong with the parking brake? You have to use it sometimes, may as well be when you park up cause we all know you don't use it for starting off correctly from inclines do you? Pet peeve of mine,if you haven't figured it out! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/hammer.gif

And as for the 22 month old and the rock, I'd wait until she's about 6 and finally gets the bike of her dreams for Christmas..... and then I'd take a rock to it the next day!!! Probably explains a lot about why I don't have kids!

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Glad to see from the tone of your later posts that the moment has passed, Sammy!
My contribution: when my son was about 8 he decided to see how high he could make a golf ball bounce off the paved drive, it was coming down on the bonnet (hood) of my friends 1958 Mercedes 190sl until I made a spectacular one-handed catch, ending up sprawled over the front of the car, and slightly denting what I had been trying to save!
Simon.
 
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Just about every American I know who has a stick leaves it parked in gear at all times... WHY?? What's wrong with the parking brake? You have to use it sometimes, may as well be when you park up cause we all know you don't use it for starting off correctly from inclines do you? Pet peeve of mine,if you haven't figured it out! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/hammer.gif



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This is a knee jerk reaction too. I have know many Americans who use the parking brake. Whenever I teach people to drive shift, I tell them to apply the parking brake first, then let clutch out leaving the car in gear. This way you are double protected from the car rolling away. Also, you are not stressing the trans with the weight of the vehicle.

Just like a park interlock for auto trans, every "modern" car I have driven won't let you start it without the clutch pedal depressed. Some Americans do know how to drive stick, and more seem to be younger.....
 
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Just about every American I know who has a stick leaves it parked in gear at all times... WHY?? What's wrong with the parking brake? You have to use it sometimes, may as well be when you park up cause we all know you don't use it for starting off correctly from inclines do you? Pet peeve of mine,if you haven't figured it out! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/hammer.gif


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Ever driven a 70's Jeep CJ-7? AMC came up with a wonderful design for an auto-adjusting drum brake setup that never seems to apply enough pressure to keep the jeep from rolling backwards down a hill (or a level surface if leaned against hard enough) That's why I leave mine in gear all the time. It's just a habit now. It's not that the parking brake isn't set, it's a double insurance. After all, what's it going to hurt being left in gear?
 
It isn't only 2 year olds....
My Forman, who lost his wife to cancer last year, has a 20 year old lump who still lives at home, won't go back to school (dropped out in grade 10), and won't go get a job, stays up all night on the computer and sleeps all day. Well, Howie, who is the most giving guy in the world decided to buy this Lump of a lad a totally restored 1969 Firebird, beautiful car..... as an incentive for him to go back to school.
He even paid the $7,000.00 yearly insurance on it for him.
Howie went to the auto store and bought all the appropriate cleaning stuff to keep this Beaut. the way it was. After three weeks of the Lump driving it, not putting in gas, and not washing it, Howie finally got him to go out and wash it. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
An hour later, out Howie went to see what kind of job he was doing....And what did he see???? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif
The Lump was cleaning the car down with a GREEN SCOTCH SCOURING PAD. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cryin.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cryin.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cryin.gif
As I said...

They arn't all 2 years old.
 
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Just about every American I know who has a stick leaves it parked in gear at all times... WHY?? What's wrong with the parking brake? You have to use it sometimes, may as well be when you park up cause we all know you don't use it for starting off correctly from inclines do you? Pet peeve of mine,if you haven't figured it out! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/hammer.gif


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Ever driven a 70's Jeep CJ-7? AMC came up with a wonderful design for an auto-adjusting drum brake setup that never seems to apply enough pressure to keep the jeep from rolling backwards down a hill (or a level surface if leaned against hard enough) That's why I leave mine in gear all the time. It's just a habit now. It's not that the parking brake isn't set, it's a double insurance. After all, what's it going to hurt being left in gear?

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My Wedge has a self adjusting drum parking break.. and I never have a problem with the parking break. Left it in first one time only while parked up a hill in front of a bank... Almost took out a woman's knees when I tried to start it. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif
I guess Triumph was way ahead of Jeep.
 
Every American car I've owned from the 60's and 70's has never had a parking brake that has worked decently backwards (and some not forwards either), so I also got into the habit, as my father taught me, to put the car in 1st when parked. I think alot of Americans do this for the same reason, American cars of yore were not known for having strong parking brakes. After I started driving imports and more modern cars it took a long time for me to get out of the habit of putting the car in 1st when parked. Now, I never do that unless the incline is very steep, the parking brake in my new Subie could hold the car verticle I think anyway.

Someone mentioned that modern cars need to have the clutch pedal depressed to start the engine which would save you had you parked with the car in 1st, not true in all cases. My 1995 Jeep Wrangler did not have this interlock feature and my dad would borrow the car occasionally and always leave it parked in my driveway in 1st. I would come out, get in and hit the key and the thing would jump and buck like crazy before I'd released the ignition. Strangely, that Jeep had one of the strongest parking brakes I've ever owned, seems Jeep did eventually get it right.
 
perhaps GOD is telling you ...YOU HAVE TOO darn MANY COOL CARS!!!!
Kidding of course...that really sucks...but she is only 22 months old....
Take pictures...record the costs...when she gets married hand her new husbnd the bill!

Just a suggestion...

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My contribution,

20 year old is helping me with yard work, but forgets to watch for TR-6 when he's manuevering the wheelbarrow in the garage. Scrape! Nice big scratch in my newly restored car. On the way home from the painters last weekend, after having the hood repainted, drivers side mirror falls off, but not before hitting the door on its way rearward at 60 mph! Guess I should have checked that mirror retaining nut more closely. Slowly but surely, I'll have the entire car repainted again!! I feel your pain Sammy, but it's only a car and life goes on. Ya have to laugh, right?

Mark
1970 TR-6
 
Sammy,
Sorry to hear the news... I'll share one of horror stories with you...
When the Miata LE (the one pictured in my avatar) was two weeks out of the showroom at Speedway Mazda, I took a trip to Florida. My first stop in Orlando, before heading to Disney's Grand Floridian was at a drug store to get some shaving supplies, etc... Two ditzy (not to be mean, just being honest) teen girls got into a new Camry three or four rows ahead of me in the lot. They proceeded to back straight into the glossy black nose of my brand new car... mind you three parking rows, without so much as turning the steering wheel. It was like I had a magnet pulling them into me.
I got their info and their "oh, my, how could this happens" and sent them on their way. At this point the car had about 1000 miles. Back in Indiana, State Farm ran the info, Dr. So and So in Pennsylvania, the father, and determined that he didn't exist. It fell to my insurance to pay the repair. Speedway Mazda did a beautiful job repairing the damage and I was happy again, and out $500.00 for the deductible due to a poor title/ DMV search on the part of State Farm, I assume.
About six months later, at about 2000 miles, I heard a knock at the door late one evening. A voice said that my pretty car was about to take the brunt of an eviction I had filed on a friend of the person at the door. I went for the phone and as I was dialing the police, I heard the most horrible scraping and crunching I had ever heard (because I knew what was happening I think) coming from my driveway. I immediately slammed down the phone and ran outside in my robe to see the entire driver door, front fender and a bit of the rear nearly caved in from a pair of steel-toed boots, apparently worn by the town psychotic with some axe to grind on behalf of a friend /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazyeyes.gif ...... the car was trashed!
Again, State Farm to the rescue...... They felt that body filler would cure the damage, no new door skin needed, etc.
From that point on, I had a gorgeous black Miata that looked like a spray-painted rippled potato chip on one side. I never bothered to pay to have the new door metal put in, the body shop fought hard to convince the insurance company it was needed to make the car look right, but neither they nor I would budge a penny. So it stayed that way until I sold the car.
There are much worse heartbreaks in life, but we "car nuts" take things like this so much harder than most. Many people don't understand your pain, but I think most of us in the forum have been there a time or two. Glad your daughter is smiling and making it all better!

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