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Hay Sandy hang in there with the daughter. A lot could be learned from a 76 caddie.
When My oldest daughter started to get her license, I bought an 89 mustang with a stick shift and told her to learn to drive it. It wasn't what she wanted, but she never complained and did learn to drive it. It made her very nervous in traffic though and I found her an 89 GMC jimmy. It needed work, and had pealing paint, but she loved it. I wasn't pretty, but it was safe and reliable. She drove that truck all over this end of the state until she was in a position to buy her own truck. She bought a brand new 03 S-10. She now has a very deep respect and understanding of things like car payments and insurance, and she keeps her truck up so well that it would still pass as a new turck. My other daughter now drives the ugly jimmy, and even though it may get some laughs it gets her everywhere she wants to go. It now has about 270,000 miles on it, and is quite rusted with peeling paint, and the seats are now worn out to the foam in places, but she doesn't care. I think though that since there is a good possibility she will be going to UT in Knoxville, I may have to find her something with a few less miles to take to school. I will bet she will be just as pickey with her first new car ( and she will buy her own ) as my older daughter is.
Bill R.
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