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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsDo you remember the first time you smoked rubber?
I have only driven cars with weak engines than can't pull the skin off a pudding, so I had to resort to test drives at the dealership. Always a let down when the salesman insists on coming with you.
bluedigger
(17,086 posts)Also good for a Code Brown. Jeep life.
mitch96
(13,912 posts)Let the clutch out like I normally did and woooosssshhhhh-skreet!
Y'all do remember what a clutch is, right? Thingy near your left foot??
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ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I had to install one when I switched my transmission from auto to manual...so I could peel out.
mitch96
(13,912 posts)b/c it has a clutch and they can't drive stick!! One of my most prized tools was a clutch alignment tool.. Can't leave home with out one... Hey that would be a good line for a commercial, eh?
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Harker
(14,024 posts)How that bit of rubber got in my baggie, I'll never know.
Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)Harker
(14,024 posts)dried bit of rubber band from between the couch cushions. I've probably burned a bit in my younger days.
Harker
(14,024 posts)I was sixteen. My ex-brother was giving me a driving lesson in his Jeep CJ-5. His words just prior to me letting off the clutch were, "whatever you do, don't peel out."
My first car was a '68 Firebird, which was eventually replaced by a '66 Chevelle 396 SS.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Chevelle SS?
Please tell you still have the Chevelle... oh please, please!
Harker
(14,024 posts)Last edited Thu Apr 11, 2019, 07:02 PM - Edit history (1)
Jan. 26, 1986. Bears win Superbowl. On a Colorado highway, a large deer leapt into my lane and stood there like a deer in the headlights. I missed him, but hit a lot of gravel at the center line, then went airborne... sideways. My door came open and caught a tree. I was at 45 degrees nose up, and surprised to be alive.
Next car... a '71 Beetle.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)60 whole horsepower from a 71 Beetle! You weren't burning any rubber.
I have to say, though, I wouldn't mind owning a Beetle. They are kind of funky and super easy to work on.
Harker
(14,024 posts)They can slow down time.
bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)1967 Cutlass Supreme on the Great Highway in San Francisco at Ocean Beach...
Wish I still had that car....
2naSalit
(86,647 posts)pipe or..?
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)2naSalit
(86,647 posts)Hasn't been a first time.