RE: Auto vs stick vs driver

From: Bob Tufts (rbt@frontiernet.net)
Date: Tue Oct 14 1997 - 21:22:52 EDT


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Ok, you get around big cam/carb combo's with a higher stall converter.
I had a 64 Chrysler with a 727 that was push startable. It requires a rear pump
to do this. Since then advances in many areas have led to the removal of the
rear pump because it was/is rarely needed. If a jump won't start you you got
some problems. The only time a push start really comes in handy is if your
starter is dead. I'll agree that little 4 cylinders, like my wife's Neon,
really benefit from a stick but they perform just fine with an automatic, which
she has.

Thunderstruck...
>>>>>>>>>>

Yeah, I had a '66 Corvair PG you could push start, but the speed needed to be higher
than a stick to get it to kick over. Like you said, they don't make 'em like that these
days, so that option is gone.

Ever see someone's car that died when they tried to jump across an intersection
in the rain and couldn't restart? A stick can use its starter motor to get out of harms
way in those precarious situations. Ya never know... Gotta love the the flexablility! :-)

-Bob T.

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