i'm definately gonna keep a photo journal of this car from sunday!!

My wife likes my 1200 but she won't drive it since the CA went in. She will quite often point out other 1200s while we are driving too.
Matty

i wanna get personalised paltes but the ones i wanna get i have to pay like $500 a yr for..the cheapest is $430 a yr....my hubby suggested the plate "name"

My wife wants me to get another Datto 1200 to re-live my youth. I sold my last datto 10 years ago, a neat lilttle coupe. Joined the forum to get back up too date on whats what and let me tell you what modifications some people are doing, its far better now than 10 years ago!!!

I know how she drives, she will drive it harder than me. I will stick to normally aspirated for that reason!!!

why don't you look at investing into 2 of them? i don't know what your financial circumstances are, so it may not be possible, but that way she can drive hers as hard n fast as she wants and you can drive yours "normally"!!!!

"Perfect world senario!" but the problem is she would be forever breaking her car and not leaving enough time for me to work on mine!!!

she should do a womens' mechanical course - like at a community college or something just so she can learn to do the basics

Slightly off topic.....but I think a few million P plater guys out there could benefit from that course too.

A guy broke down outside my place this morn, asking for a jump start - I wandered out and looked at his car....the water pump pulley (on his commodore V6) was rattling around in the wind...serpentine belt falling off - as the alternator, power steer, air con and waterpump are on this belt his symptoms of getting hot, battery going dead were easy to diagnose....just wonder how he managed to tear the waterpump shaft out of it's bearing - i think his serpentine belt must have been reefed to extra tight!

Anyway point is he was driving around with it like this for the last day or two...wondering why his battery kept going flat, a couple of days of engine course should be almost mandatory for everyone - would be less people for dodgy mechanics to rip off too.

my mechanic is THE greatest! i haven't done any course in mechanics but my genuine interest lead me to ask my mechanic if i can learn about the engines n stuff and he said yeah! that was 2yrs ago. but i plan on asking him when i can return - i took last yr off as was pregnant - so will do that in about a month or so. each saturday i was there - and not being paid - i went coz i want to learn ....

Personally I think having a wife or girlfriend that likes cars would be a terrible thing.

They'ed always be wanting to know what your doing and they themselfs might want a race car ect then you'ed be paying 2 lots of bills.

I'd much rather a woman that broke my balls on the subject.