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05-19-2024, 11:27 AM | #41 | |
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05-20-2024, 08:40 PM | #42 |
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I’m sure most people on here also complained when the rotary phone went away,
I wish they would bring back the rotary dial phone! That way we wouldn't have to "Push One For English"! |
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05-20-2024, 10:14 PM | #43 |
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Don’t forget about paddle shifters. We have them on my wife’s 04 Lexus and my 2010 BMW. I’ve never gotten comfortable using them because I don’t have much opportunity to use them but with experience I’m sure i would be able to use them effectively.
A lot of things are a matter of practice. I’m left handed but I’m sure it would be strange to shift with my left hand. At least you guys down under don’t put the gas petal on the left foot. David Serrano |
05-20-2024, 10:35 PM | #44 | |
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IMO, that is good eveidence that we CAN change
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05-21-2024, 06:37 AM | #45 |
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The "rolling coal" dingbats prefer the manual transmission diesel pickups.
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05-21-2024, 06:55 AM | #46 |
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OK, back to my Model A. I have the Miller overdrive and the Miller synchronized transmission. I use the overdrive in second for hilly backroad areas, going up or down. I will occasionally use the overdrive in low gear on really steep dirt roads. I am sure all you all also use the lower gears to help the brakes.
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05-21-2024, 06:55 AM | #47 |
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When in high school drivers training in the early 60s we took it in a compact ford donated by a local dealer who then sold it on his used car lot. As it was a 3 on the tree hopefully he replaced the clutch before it was sold! Anyway one of the tasks we had to accomplish was to stop at the top of a hill, shut the motor off, then restart it without rolling down backwards, the proceed up the hill. what fun!!
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05-21-2024, 10:06 AM | #48 |
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In high school I taught my girlfriend how to drive a standard.She was refusing to learn the stop and take off on a hill.So as we were going up the hill in town I hollered for her to stop.She slammed on the brakes,and she thought she was about to run over a cat or something.She wouldn't budge,so I got out of the car and said to pick me up at the top of the hill.I didn't think that 61 VW would spin the tires,but it did.She came up that hill and kept right on going.I had to walk a mile home,and she was sitting on the steps talking to my father.I think they were waiting to ride me about it,but the first thing I said was,see,you did it with no problem.She still drives a stick,but her husband of 45 years won't.He drives truck,and says he rows all day,and is not going to row anywhere if he's not getting paid to.
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05-21-2024, 10:30 AM | #49 |
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When I was in college (early 70’s) I had a Volvo sedan (long story) with a four speed. My girlfriend didn’t have a car, so I had to teach her to drive the four speed. She was game, did well, and her first car was an ‘64 Beetle (boy, do I wish I still had that car!). After we were married we didn’t get an automatic car or truck until well into the 90’s. I point this out to her whenever I ask her to drive the Model A, but she refuses. I think she figures that I’ll get tired of driving the Model As and get rid of them, but I don’t see that happening.
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05-21-2024, 07:08 PM | #51 |
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My friend teaching his replacement how to shift the Mack Quadraplex by double clutching. Replacement's answer to that was don't be foolin me, I know that other one is the brake.
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05-21-2024, 07:59 PM | #52 | |
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One of our clubs runs an annual event strictly for women drivers. We figure that if we are maybe 1,000 miles from home and the husband gets sick, she has to drive the car home. It has happened and fortunately, that wife was quite comfortable behind the wheel but most others wouldn't have a chance
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