Posted on 03/13/2017 2:41:35 PM PDT by Red Badger
“Duster 225 cubic inch Slant Six with 3 on the tree.”
With that drive train, you could give it to your kids. Those old slant sixes were bulletproof. Too bad the rest of car fell short.
The perps were Very Substandard.
Train The Wife to ride shotgun.
So they must mean - TWO BLACK FERAL MALES.
Hate to say it, but Houston is a “failed state” at this point. This is merely the latest in a string of deadly stranger-on-stranger robberies in the city. Most of which, I believe, remain unsolved.
You might as well live in South Africa if you’re living in Houston.
I find it hard to read a newspaper with a manual transmission.
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Manual transmissions is racis!
(so is algebra, and differential equations are terrorist)
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“Can’t drive a standard.”
Sorta dated. Say that to someone born, say in the 60’s & they are lost. But I do remember when a manual transmission was “standard” and an automatic was an option.
Three on the tree or four on the floor. Optional was a fifth under the seat.
Another dated saying: “Step on the starter”. I owned several of those.
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Thass cuz the budder on youse finner tips from da pop corn.
Manual transmission is like cursive writing—it’s old school.
No wonder the thugs went crazy.
I wouldn't own an automatic.
I wonder what color these two teens are.
Had a family member in Iceland last week.... much to his delight, the rental car he was given had a manual transmission. Never had a rental with a manual transmission since years ago in Europe.
Your tag line is from Cricklewood Green album ?
manual column shift." = a 3 {three} on a tree.
But then, that just me showing my age (64). I loved them Duster(s) when someone would put a HEMI- 440 in them, and just watched them at the Islip (Long Island, New York) 1/8 mile race track, LAUNCH them from the starting line, and pull the front wheels. Ah, the good old day's. You know, back when the driver of a dragster (NITRO-Fuel / Top Fuel) sat behind the engine. Yes I'm in full support of now having the driver sitting in front of the engine, but just stating what use to be.
For those who may not know who to credit for changing the position of where the driver sit(s) {rear vs front} credit goes to BIG DADDY DON GARLITS. After having I believe his right foot was cut in half, because of an exploding clutch assembly.
“Big Daddy’s” living legacy and race car design innovations are so significant that his record breaking Swamp Rat XXX is enshrined in the Smithsonian Museum of American History.
See: "Big Daddy" Don Garlits breaks 270 mph barrier; 1986 Gatornationals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65RO_JTIz3M
Read more if you care to @ http://garlits.com/don-garlits-biography/
Learned to drive (and fix cars) in a 1960 Rambler. Lay flat front seats, automatic transmission.
Push Button.
A least Texas has capital punishment, but sadly even if the perpetrators are captured, tried and convicted it could be a decade or more before justice is done. In cases like this justice should be swift and very public.
A Space in Time.
Why not?
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