Does Your Wife drive the model A?

Yes my wife can drive it better that I can. I am restoring my Dad's 28 Tudor and that is her favorite. She does not like my 31 Roadster because She says it only likes males. It is just that my Roadster has more bad habits! If the drive them we stay in the hobby longer!
 
When I met my wife in the early 1960's, she owned an Austin-Healy 100 with a 4 speed trans. Before that she drove a 1940 Plymouth with column shift that her grandfather gave her.

She wanted a Model A so when we bought her '29 Roadster, she learned to double-clutch the same day we got it. It is her car and she enjoyed driving it while she could. Unfortunately, she has rheumatoid arthritis and she has recently lost strength in her arms and legs so she can no longer drive it, but she joyed driving it while she could.

David Serrano
 
Hi Y-block

Not sure what a B777 is but do you have to "double clutch" it? :p:p It appears to be a little more complicated than my Town Sedan... (see avitar)

No more complicated than a Model A, and yes double clutch, off course.😉 With 2 x 100 thousand pound thrust engines( approx 185,000 hp each) you require fancy foot work if one of those donkies dies.😳
Here she is standing inside the engine cowl of the B777
 

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My wife doesn't care to learn how to drive a car with a manual. The few times I got to take my car around the parking lot of our apartment it wouldn't start when she sat in the car. As soon as she got out it would start just fine. Still haven't figured that out yet.
 
I would imagine that European women would cope with driving a Model A Ford as well as most European men and better than a lot of people in the USA. Why? That's simple, we still grow up with manual cars, automatic gearboxes are available on small cars but in general they are found in luxury cars. Most countries differentiate between licences for manual gearboxes and automatic only. If you pass a UK auto driving test you are not licenced to drive manual cars, if you pass the manual test you are licenced to drive everything. Very few people take the auto test as it restricts their choice in the future.
Sexual stereotyping is dangerous as well. We have been shown the photograph of the female pilot but my example is a bit more down to earth. At the back of my barn we've got a small Suzuki quad bike. When my children were young my daughter used it far more than either of my sons. Even now she is the only one who asks if she can get it out and use it. All three children love the Model A equally. My farming neighbour displays her high levels of skill when using a variety of agricultural machinery on a daily basis.
 
My wife doesn't care to learn how to drive a car with a manual. The few times I got to take my car around the parking lot of our apartment it wouldn't start when she sat in the car. As soon as she got out it would start just fine. Still haven't figured that out yet.

It's a sign. ;)
 
Mine has been driving her coupe since she bought it in high school with her baby sitting money. Now she's teaching then grand kids to drive it.
 
My wife handles the 28' Special coupe very well, but prefers my Dad's 29' Tudor. Still skittish driving the 31' AA Stake Bed, but learned The double clutch on Dad's 30 P/U.
All my Kids will know them before I go to the big garage in the sky.
 
I would imagine that European women would cope with driving a Model A Ford as well as most European men and better than a lot of people in the USA. Why? That's simple, we still grow up with manual cars, automatic gearboxes are available on small cars but in general they are found in luxury cars. Most countries differentiate between licences for manual gearboxes and automatic only. If you pass a UK auto driving test you are not licenced to drive manual cars, if you pass the manual test you are licenced to drive everything. Very few people take the auto test as it restricts their choice in the future.
Sexual stereotyping is dangerous as well. We have been shown the photograph of the female pilot but my example is a bit more down to earth. At the back of my barn we've got a small Suzuki quad bike. When my children were young my daughter used it far more than either of my sons. Even now she is the only one who asks if she can get it out and use it. All three children love the Model A equally. My farming neighbour displays her high levels of skill when using a variety of agricultural machinery on a daily basis.

I've heard of Seattle car thieves that after breaking into a manual transmission v vehicle give up and walk away.
 
Wife no, loves riding on tours but never had any desire to learn. My 27 year old daughter is another story, drives the T, A, EV8, Jeep...
 
My wife will learn to drive HER 31 Sport Coupe, when I get it done and on the road.
She can hardly wait.
 
Heck NO !

She can barely get in it with that suitcase she carries for a purse and she has smashed up every car we've had several times. She just wiped the lights off the golf cart and of course doesn't know how she did it.

Years ago she drove the old Land Rover I had at one time. You could hear her coming a mile away from the clashing/grinding of gears. Once I installed the 318/727 with transfer case she really liked driving it.

She rolled the Toyota Land Cruiser and when sliding down the road on its roof one fine day. That got a SBC installed after that incident.

So, again, NO, she doesn't drive any the old cars.
 
She drives her Porsche and our motor home...could care less about the A's
 

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