Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Anti-theft Device

[Charles Perry (charles]

I learned on a stick – 82 Volvo 240DL wagon with a four-speed and button overdrive. Under 100 hp. Great teaching car. After I learned to drive, I probably taught a dozen more friends to drive a stick on that car, and we still only went through three clutches in nearly 300,000 miles before rust finally ate it up.

 

Fun story – had to keep a pair of needle nosed pliers in the glovebox. If you got a little too joyful with the 1-2 shift, the shift knob would pop off in your hand. It was just a pressure fit to put back on, but the wiring for the overdrive button would always pop off the button terminals underneath, and so you’d have to pull over and use the needle nosed pliers to re-seat the two terminals inside the knob before you could reinstall the knob itself.

 

Ridiculously, I miss that car. Beige over brown, just like Nicholas Cage’s car in The Rock. And doubly amazing, the girl I dated all through college had that car’s identical twin, except hers was an 83. A guy here in town has one that’s nearly identical to what I had except that he slammed it and did an LS swap to it. It showed up at our Cars and Coffee and I had brief moments of wanting to buy it from him…

 

 

From: Ferrari [mailto:ferrari-bounces+charles=carolina-sound.com [at] ferrarilist.com] On Behalf Of Fellippe Galletta
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2016 4:07 PM
To: Charles Perry
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Anti-theft Device

 

How many of us first learned to drive on a stick?

 

I know we all know how to drive one, but did we all learn on one?

 

Helluva an experience. I think overall it's better than learning on an auto.

 

FG

 

ps - I also learned on non power steering, which is where the obsession must come from. :)

 

On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Stephen Sherman <stephensherman44 [at] gmail.com> wrote:

I have been telling my grandkids drive a stick and your car won't get stolen, like every thing I say they ignore, maybe they are ones who are deaf.

Stephen L Sherman

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On Feb 2, 2016, at 1:13 PM, Gary Reed <gary [at] garyreedsales.com> wrote:

Thought you guys might get a kick out this.

 

Gary

 

 

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