Stupid car question

[*Wyche'sWarrior*]

(02-07-2019, 05:26 AM)grampahol Wrote: Nobody ever heard of a manual transmission and the good old fashioned push start? You remember popping the clutch? Jump in and pray you don't screw it up before you run out of hill? lol.. Of course it doesn't work so spiffy going up hill.. I don't even recall the last manual transmission I saw.. Last one I owned was an old GMC truck with a utility bed.. It had an old granny gear You could drag a train with and go all of about 2 mph before shifting to 1st gear.. (well 2nd I guess...nobody ever drove around starting off in 1st with one of those..)
My mom owned an old Falcon that never once had a working starter in it. Us kids would all have to get out and push wherever we went to get it started.. Fun times!   True story about that car.. A friend of our family was an old fashioned shade tree mechanic and installed the transmission linkage backwards so 1st gear was where 3rd was and 3rd where 1st was supposed to be.. It had something most kids today have never seen nor heard of..3 on the tree.. I learned to drive a clutch on that car.. Fun relearning on the next car she owned.. lol

My Honda is a 5 speed.....2nd gear on those roll starts.


My grandfather had a '68 C-10 Chevy pickup with a 3 on the tree.  Damn body and frame rusted around the engine and drivetrain back in the mid 90s.