I know. I replaced my furnance and insulated my house but the gains were offset by the increased oil costs. Course if I hadn't I'd be worse off now.mishi8 said:
Do you have a manual or Automatic transmission.
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sumthin fishy said:
I drive an automatic now, but one of my former cars was a VW bug (god, it was fun!), and one was a Toyota Camry; both were manual trans.
My husband, an ex truck driver, would always forget to use the clutch in my Camry-and I wouldn't notice he was doing it until he ground gears!
You gave me a good laugh, remembering that-I'd reach over & punch him in the arm whenever I heard that awful grinding!
My Town Car is an automatic, but if I could find a nice LS manual trans I'd probably go for it.
My best story about driving a stick-shift happened in a Ford Escort. I was on my way home from high school on an afternoon when new snow had fallen.
On the way there was a L-shaped church parking lot that cut the corner of a city block. I pulled in there to spin a few doughnuts in the new snow. I got up to 20MPH or so, turned the steering wheel a bit and then pulled up hard on the emergency brake.
I spun around 720 degrees and came to a stop facing directly into a cop car who had been sitting there running radar on both streets. :hi:
What could I do but wave? He stared me down but never flashed his lights. I slowly drove away and went home. LOL!
My best story about driving a stick-shift happened in a Ford Escort. I was on my way home from high school on an afternoon when new snow had fallen.
On the way there was a L-shaped church parking lot that cut the corner of a city block. I pulled in there to spin a few doughnuts in the new snow. I got up to 20MPH or so, turned the steering wheel a bit and then pulled up hard on the emergency brake.
I spun around 720 degrees and came to a stop facing directly into a cop car who had been sitting there running radar on both streets. :hi:
What could I do but wave? He stared me down but never flashed his lights. I slowly drove away and went home. LOL!
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who uses the church parking lot for this purpose!!!! Never had a cop catch me doin it though
sumthin fishy said:
I have a great stroy about this, its off topic but I have to share it.
I was dickin around and doin donuts in my Vette(before i crashed it
) in a mall parking lot. there wasnt any snow but it had just rained a little so I knew I could do it without leaving big black circles all over the place. I am wippin around powersliding and stuff just having fun when all of a sudden two cop cars come flying into the parkig lot with their lights flashing and come right for me. They stop just infornt of my car. they jump out and tell me to get out of my car. I get out waiting to be cuffed or something, when the one comes up and is like "Pop the hood". I am like "WOAH!?". He repaeats himself and I oblige. I pop the hood and he lets out a little gasp. He then says "I have heard so much about this car form my son. I just had to see it myself" Then he starts asking me question about it, "how much power it has?" "How fast can it go?" etc. And the kicker, he then asks " Since your here dickin around anyways, why dont you take us for a rip around the parking lot?" I burst out laughing and then obliged. He told me the only time they can fine you for this type of thing is if you are leaving black marks on the pavement or if there is risk of hurting somebody else, I knew about the black marks part but not the second part, I figured reckless driving would be what they would call it. I took the other cop for a ride, then when they were about to leave they said tey would keep an eye out for me on the road. Whats funny is I actually never even got pulled over in that car ever again after that. So I asked my uncle(cop) what the deal was cause I was clearly seen speeding a few times after by cops but never pulled over, he then said that they all decided to let me get away with it as long as I wasnt being an idiot and was only doing a little over the limit.Who says cops are all arse holes?
P.S. the big deal was that I had a 570+ horsepower 1998 Vette. And it was one of the first in my town, and was by far the fastest, if not the fastest car in my town. But it ended up almost putting me into bankruptsy, after I crashed it(not speeding or racing) and insurance decided not to cover me cause it was a modified car.
Nice, Those mods sure do get you though. My brother works for a european auto specialty mechanic. He got to DRAG RACE a cop car in a '69 ferrari. lucky duck
I have a manual transmission for a number of reasons, most of which people have listed previously:
1. More "get-up-n-go" out of a small engine.
2. Better gas mileage.
3. No one listed this one that I saw: able to rock vehicle to get unstuck out of snow.
4. Cheaper to fix transmission problems, if any.
1. More "get-up-n-go" out of a small engine.
2. Better gas mileage.
3. No one listed this one that I saw: able to rock vehicle to get unstuck out of snow.
4. Cheaper to fix transmission problems, if any.
