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Okay, I can safely say from experience here...that you won't eat for at least a week.
Lemme explain.
When I got my first S, it was a MY'00, NFR, and I had no place to keep it. I bought it in the winter...and my dad kept it at his shop in CT....in the garage with the other project cars. Since I was 400 miles away in D.C., I gave dad a set of keys and put him on my insurance as a partial driver of the car. This way if he had to move the car, or decided to move to a larger facility, he'd be able to drive it, and God forbid the worst happened, I'd be covered.
One day in December, I get a call from my dad, telling me that my S had been hit in a parking lot. My dad had taken the car Christmas shopping at the mall, and some Suburban or similar SUV backed into it while he was in the building, and took off. They hit the car so hard the driver's side tail light was in the TRUNK. I was furious. When I went home and checked the odo, I realized that dad had put over 5k miles on the car. I was now even more annoyed. Dad agreed to buy the car off of me for the price I paid for it to make up for my loss, and I was out an S2000 for at least a year. I found another one after a while, complete with a hardtop. And bought it in a private sale. I was happy again.
But I was still stuck with the same problem...I still don't have a garage to properly stow the car in when I don't use it. I had no choice...I had to keep it where I kept the old one....same rules applying. Dad still managed to drive it more in three months than I did, but at least he kept the mileage down to like 2000 over the three months. Even so...he still managed to f-up one of my rotors....How he did that? Your guess is as good as mine.
I have since confiscated the keys and the car. Seriously dude....it's just asking for trouble. You'll worry constantly.
I've let like 5 people drive my car. The last person was my friend Marc, who tried to "drift" around a corner and nearly ran off the road, with me in the car and without my permission. I'm not sure if I can trust another person to drive it again.
In Ninh's defense, maybe he has a brother like mine. I'd let my bro borrow it, because he wouldn't abuse it any more than I would, he would do proper maintenance, and he'd have to let me drive the Healey while he had my S