Hambiskit, that is a good story. I can just visualize that. My bride would have preferred to have some small, sedate, sporty looking "cute" car to drive, but since we could only afford two at a time, and I needed a truck for work, she drove the hot rods, and treated them nice. She adapted fairly well. Although, one chevy had a pretty lumpy cam and needed a lot of revs to get moving smoothly, and the first time she drove it, it was sort of like your experience, she did get it down, shortly.