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To: george76

Buy a car with a standard transmission.

Won’t stop a professional, but most people under 30 won’t be able to drive it.


17 posted on 06/14/2013 2:16:31 PM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (RINOS like Romney, McCain, Dole are sure losers. No more!)
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To: TheThirdRuffian

Buy a car with a standard transmission. Won’t stop a professional, but most people under 30 won’t be able to drive it.”

This is so true in the city but not out in the farmland where kids learn to drive everything that has wheels by the time they are ten or so.

Interesting story in Houston paper not long ago about guy who tried to steal two different cars but couldn’t drive either because he “couldn’t figure out what that extra pedal was for and there was no D (for drive) on the panel”. Seems that he thought it was some kind of brake, pushed it in, stepped on the gas and lurched into the car parked in front of the one he was trying to steal.

Hard to find a car with a standard transmission any more. Great to drive in the snow and ice but horrible if you have to stop in the middle of a hill.


18 posted on 06/14/2013 2:30:55 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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