Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Anti-theft Device

[Charles Perry (charles]

My brother’s first “car” was a similar little Datsun pickup – actually an Isuzu P’up that Datsun was badging, at the time, I believe. It came with our business when we bought it. Baby blue with worn-out brown painted lettering from the previous owner of our  company.

 

David was driving to school one morning and the light changed and he stopped short. The hood, previously attached with thoroughly rusted hinges, continued on its journey without him, sailing through the intersection like a giant Frisbee, leaving a trail of sparks as it slid to rest on the asphalt at the far end of the intersection.

 

Nothing else to do – David applied the e-brake, walked through the intersection, drug the hood back to the truck and tossed it in the bed. Then continued on to school. His regaling tales of epic humiliation eventually guilted my parents into buying him the Honda CRX Si he’d been eyeing….

 

 

 

From: Ferrari [mailto:ferrari-bounces+charles=carolina-sound.com [at] ferrarilist.com] On Behalf Of Rick Moseley
Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2016 8:53 AM
To: Charles Perry
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Anti-theft Device

 

I don't remember which old geezer first made the statement about ill locating VW shifters but it was put to me they had all the precision fit of a baseball bat in a rain barrel. 

 

I guess since I grew up riding dirt bikes, I don't recall my first manual trans car being all that memorable... It was just a matter of swapping feet and hands.    I'm going to guess it was a Datsun pickup.

 

The first car I learned to drive....?  VW powered, hydrostatic transmission Zamboni.    After mastering that beast, driving a car on the street was a snap.   I could get spectacular 4 wheel drifts in my mom's VW square back station wagon.   

 

Rick