At 06:27 PM 11/27/2013, Thomas Witt wrote:
>The economy cars out of Asia have been a traditional "manual installed"
>vehicle. Three years ago my wife went looking for a Civic with a manual 5
>speed. It turned out to be quite a search. Apparently the Civic with
manual
>installations is below 10%. Over on the Studebaker site there was quite a
>discussion going on about how so few kids today can even drive a manual
car.
>
> The irony..., the first time my wife rented a car with an automatic she
>had to ask how to use it. LOL
First, I am 63 years old. Second, I have never
owned a slide-o-matic. I had to drive one in the
mandatory training course when I was in High
School but I never really understood them and
still do not. My wife drives a slide-o-matic
Hyundai Sonata but my Hyundai Santa Fe has a
five-speed and, yes, I am quite capable of
shifting it even in a stop and go traffic jam.
I was a maintenance officer in the Army when we
made the conversion from manuals to
automatics. Enough said about that. And, yes, I
have rebuilt ten or twenty manual transmissions along the day.
Now, tomorrow, Thanksgiving in the US, my wife
and I will be lugging a six-foot table and
buckets and buckets and ice chests of food to one
of her daughters who lives about two and a half
hours of driving from us. My wife has offered to
drive part of the way and, Lord!, she's a
farm-raised Michigander, so who am I to
argue? If you don't hear from me again well,
think kind thoughts in our memory! <he grins>
I still have Alpine parts around this Palace of
Earthly Delights, even running to a Series V
crank, but I have nothing Tiger for sale.
Manuals are the answer as the driver is in
CONTROL. Robert Heinlein noted in one of his
science fiction novels that politics was the only
game in town for adults to play. The same
argument can be made for stick shifts.
Marc
msmall@aya.yale.edu
Cha robh b`s fir gun ghr`s fir!
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