Date:         Tue, 19 Dec 1995 16:29:21 -0500
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From:         SyncroHead@aol.com
Subject:      Re: 3 feet and as many hands

In a message dated 95-12-19 13:09:21 EST, kennedy@admin.njit.edu (William R.
Kennedy, NJIT CIAT, 201-596-5648) writes:

>Peter DePaoli's mad puppeteer story reminds me of friends whose MGA broke
>its throttle-linkage far from home.  They hooked up two strings for the
>passenger to use: pull one to open throttle, pull the other to close.  After
>a few hours they had their timing teamwork down to where they could 
>doubleclutch on downshifts.

My brother & I had a similar situation in a Baja Bug.  We had cut (O.K., it
was in my youth, no flames please) the 62 bug into a truck shape.  We somehow
lost the throttle return spring and replaced it with a group of rubber bands.
 The rubber bands lasted long enough to get us several miles from home.  The
solution?  I got into the bed of the "truck" (called the Trug, for TRuck-bUG)
and reached out over the engine and acted as a human throttle return spring!
 What a ride!  Pretty stupid though.  I wouldn't dream of doing that today!

Jim Davis
87 Syncro
88 Wolfsburg