My 17 year old daughter got her drivers license today. Guess what she was driving. My Lightning!

She did her father proud!

 

What did the examiner say....."holy s***!"?

Our son is working in San Fran and has not been home yet to see his dad's L---can't wait for him to get home and 'put his foot in it'!

Nice write-up in the zine...

Dan

 

 

Jay, Your a braver man than I ..............

FRITZ, Stock Silver 2001 "L"

 

Did she do a big smoking burn out in the DMV parking lot to celebrate? Cool to trust her with the truck. Hope she continues that when you are not there. Lots of hp for a novice driver.

 

Both of our kids have grown up around cars, and now trucks, with serious Hp. She is aware of the potential that the truck has. The beauty of the Lightning, is that the Hp is very controlable. That is, its only there when you want or need it.

I've always trusted my kids with my vehicles. They know the ground rules up front.

When Pam has had about a year of driving experience, its off to Phoenix, to visit the Bob Bondaurant School. There, they will teach her highly refined car control. The biggest problem with drivers these days, besides lack of attention span, is that lack basic car control skills.


My son has been through that program, and it has made him a much better driver. He has driven a blown, 383 powered Chevelle, since he was 17.

 

AGREE 100%

They don't drive, they AIM.

 

My daughter just turned 15 and is starting drivers ed in a few months so I took her out and let her idle the truck around she finally got it up to 10mph and she had a blast.

When I said come on lets go driving and then jumped in the L, She was not too sure that she wanted to drive Dads truck. Great Birthday present, I think that she will always remember her 15th.

Next I think I will try her in the Torino.

 

T-Bone,

We have a place out here called El Mirage Dry Lake. The LSR racers still use it once a month. It is about 2 miles long, and completely barren. Both of my kids got their first driving lessons there, for obvious reasons.

They can get the experience, without worring about other cars. Both of my children reached 50 MPH in their first time behind the wheel. I made them do all the driving stuff like turning, signaling, stopping, burnouts, etc. they were rewarded with a few higher speed blasts down the center of the lake.

Now you can see why I trust them with the fast cars. Oh ya, that is all we have.

 

We still have 4 more years before we have kids driving...4 more years of some color in my hair

Glad to see there are some parents who take a serious interest in their kid's driving habits, there's a lot who don't and it shows on the road every day. Scary.

 

My son was also driving my '89 F-150 Custom around a big local church parking lot at 13 years old.

That was a great truck, AM radio, rubber floor, vinyl bench seat, long box, 3 speed HD auto, dual gas tanks....now thats a truck!!! ...put the dog in it...smoke a cigar in it...load all kinds of brush and mulch in it...no worries. I had it for household projects during a time when i drove a car as my daily driver (95 Mustang GT). But too many cars around so I went to the comprimise below.

I thought breifly about a Lightning but too much snow around her to make them a year-round ideal for me.

 

Jay Lincoln,

Thats cool, I wish there was a place like that around here. The local High School here has a driving area for the new drivers that has parking spaces and red lights, blinking lights and things like that for new drivers to drive around. I took her there and she did great for never being behind the wheel of a car, Unless you can call playing Nascar 4 with dad driving class

I think that she was more scared of driving dads Lightning than the driving experence itself, She knows that the truck is one of my babys too.

 

Glad to see someone care enough about their kids to school them properly. So few do these days. I was fortunate enough that I started learning car control very early 9-10 years old (Karts). It is a continual learning process. Kept me out of trouble as a kid and adult.

 

My little girl loves going to the races... she gets so excited... and she is only 4 years old! She always begs me to let her ride with me when I race, but I have yet to let her. Maybe one day....

She even wants to "fix-up" her Barbie Jeep (Powerwheels)... I have actually seen a few at local car shows before believe it or not... lol....

 

I am just glad that at 15 she still has a good relationship with myself and her mother that she actually wants to be with us. I went out to Milan Dragway a few weeks backs and she wanted to go with me. I thought that she would be bored watching me race and just sitting in the stands taping the event.

But since she has found out if she wears bluejeans that she can ride with me, Well guess who will be with me next month at FME Test & Tune... But like I said I am glad that she wants to hang with dad at 15.

Adrenaline,

Thats neat, Help her turn that thing into a Hot Rod.