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> From: Andre Mauboussin <andrem@cyberramp.net>
> To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> Subject: Re: DML: Auto vs 5-spd yet another reply
> Date: Tuesday, October 14, 1997 12:11 AM
>
> WillTier@aol.com wrote:
>
> > In a message dated 97-10-13 00:59:38 EDT, you write:
> >
> > << Gee, let's see...when the last yellow
> > comes on, I just stomp on the gas and hold it down. That requires
> > lots
> > of skill...NOT! BTW, haven't run into a similarly equipped auto
> > Dakota(or any for that matter) that can beat mine yet and I 60ft
> > @2.11
> > with STREET radials. Later slushboxheads ;-) >>
> >
> > Ho ho ho we slushboxheads have a lot of things to do other than what
> > you
> > think, like watching the rear view mirror for where the 5 speeds went
> > and
> > listening for which gear he is going to grind or miss all together and
> > then
> > in the shut down lane I wait up for him to sniff the burning clutch
> > smell
> > (what a high off that stuff) and I usually wait and let him or her
> > lead back
> > up the return road, and you think it is easy ole mighty gear grinder.
> > Bring
> > it on up here I'm ready for your 5 speed. I still have heard more
> > problems
> > with 5 speeds than autos on this list, I know there was a big
> > discussion on 5
> > speed problems some time back. You guys favorite character must be
> > Tony the
> > Tiger Grrrrrrriiiiinnnnnndddddddd.......
> >
> > Bill
>
> Two years of racing and I haven't missed a gear yet in eliminations.
> Have a buddy with an auto whose transmission has shifted earlier and
> later than it should have, costing him races. I won the whole No
> Electronics category once at the Motorplex last year and I've got two
> runner ups and one semi finals at the Musclecar Club challenge series
> this year(no missed gears, just too tentative at the tree or truck
> wouldn't run the numbers) so far. Let the same buddy drive the truck
> last week and he missed 3rd and went straight into 5th. Ya gotta be
> quick and good to drive the standard. Auto drivers too lazy to learn how
> to drive. Like my best freind the trucker says, that's the difference
> between a driver and a steering wheel holder.
>
Good comment, Andre. I call the ones with automatic, the "candyass"
models. No aspersions against the driver, you understand . . . <G>
> Aurevoir
>
> Andre Mauboussin
> 95 14.70@93.5mph No baby bottles
--Dick (& Geri) Campagna, Mt Laurel, NJ campagna@nothinbut.net
(Per favore, non mi rompere i coglioni. Grazie!)
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