>
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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!)
>
>
>
I don't know what you have against autos, personally I like having the
freedom of focusing on the rest of the driving experience, being able to
finesse your way around a 90 degree curve at 10-20 mph above the
recommended speed, working your way in and out of traffic (I love the rush
of making it through a big cluster of cars on an interstate and getting to
be the leader of the pack), and best of all going fast, and the rush you
get by controlling something that is on the edge of out of control. To me
making the vehicle do what you want it to do and pushing it to it's limits
is the driving experience, not changing the gears. I take offense of
the term "candyass" in defense of every auto I've ever driven, none of
them have been candyasses <G>.
Later-
Bruce
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