After killing off my first car, my dad helped me find a "new" one. The Opel Kadette had been reintroduced by Buick in the early 60's as the American answer to the VW Beetle. I have always wondered why the bigwigs at Buick never thought to question why the Germans had discontinued it in the first place. That vehicle had some quirks. This car presented challenges from the start. It had a manual transmission. Now, I had taken driver's education in high school and back then all the driver's ed. cars were manual transmission. I remember that I had done really well on the first written test after the introduction lectures (I did school well) and the instructor handed me my A+ test and remarked about how easy it was going to be to teach me how to drive. He changed that particular prediction as soon as he sat next to me behind the wheel and discovered I had no feel for the clutch at all. Let's just say my mechanical ineptitude is epic. ...
"A grandma is just an antique little girl"...unknown