Date:         Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:22:06 -0700
Reply-To:     Sam Scholten <undergroundboy01@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Sam Scholten <undergroundboy01@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Duh! What gear we in?
Comments: To: westydriver <westydriver@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO>
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I inherited a Ford Aspire (and its car payments) three
years ago because I needed a newer commuter car that
could do 90-mile-a day commuting and my friend needed
to get out of the payments (long story).

It DIDN'T MATTER what gear the car was in... it drove
the same regardless; the only difference was the
exhaust note.

It was probably the opposite experience to yours, as
the clutch pedal's action was so light that I felt
like I was about to put a Flinstone hole through the
floor every time I shifted!

Sam

--- westydriver <westydriver@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO> wrote:
> how many with military experience in the old duece
> and a halfs.  they
> had a rather strange shift pattern with normal
> positions for 3rd and
> 4th switched.  deploy for a couple months of heavy
> time in one of those
> get back to home station and wonder what the fff is
> wrong with your
> transmission, not to mention almost punching my
> clutch pedal through
> the floor on the first shift.
> jimt
>
> On Friday, Oct 11, 2002, at 09:48 America/Denver,
> Donna Stewart wrote:
>
> > I seem to weirdly have the opposite problem from
> time to time - I
> > drove four speeds for so long that sometimes I
> drive along in my New
> > Beetle and forget to shift into 5th.  I don't seem
> to space out and
> > look for 5th gear in my Vanagons.  Strange.


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