Yup! Riding shotgun takes real guts.
At work one day, I told a fellow that I had home made quiche for breakfast.Even though I am a stick shifter all the way, I will have to disagree.
"REAL MEN" do what they like, and don't care about what others have to say.![]()
At work one day, I told a fellow that I had home made quiche for breakfast.
He said, "real men don't eat quiche."
I replied, "Real men do as they please and don't follow bull (expletive deleted) real men rules."
I don't remember the specifics but it's basically just eggs beat with half and half. Add some sausage, ham, bacon or even some cooked spam. Some kinda meat and bake it in a pie crust.Well, I don't make quiche (too much labour intensive for someone who is lazy).
But I do eat quiche.![]()
I don't remember the specifics but it's basically just eggs beat with half and half. Add some sausage, ham, bacon or even some cooked spam. Some kinda meat and bake it in a pie crust.
Mack_C85 , Nice looking old rig! Those old beasts were great to drive, I loved it and to a certain extent I hated it when I made the switch to the officers seat!
I had the chance to buy that old T from the department we sold it to. Could of had it for $1800. and stupid me I didn't take it! I was already involved with a 50 Seagrave with a 12 cyl.. That was a short wheelbase Suburbanite but it was still a beast!
How I miss those days!![]()
Like I said in my first post due to a bed left knee I got my first Auto Vette. Had 6 more before this one, 3 had 4Spds and 3 were 6spds. I also had many other cars & trucks with manuals and drove CDL large trucks so I have shifted a stick a few times over the last 60 or so years.
So far no sort of problems with the slush box. I do miss rowing the boat some what, but I will live with it. Its a 8 spd auto, If the cylinder deactivation is that much of a PITA it can be eliminated in a auto, use the paddles for all your shifting and you will stay in V8 mode.
I thought the deactivation would bother me but I found it is not that bad. Driving on a interstate type road you cannot even tell if its in 8 or 4 mode. There is a display on the dash that will tell you if your in 8 or 4, most times you will not know! You step on the gas and you can take off rather well in a passing situation.
If it keeps on working fine then its no problem, but if it starts causing a lot of problems/codes that will be a different story. Yes I'm 72 but far from a slowpoke on the roads.I tend to have a lot of fun with my Vettes on the twisty mountain roads up here.![]()
My wife does the baking.It's the pie crust part that scares me.I couldn't bake to save my life.
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Edit. And now you're going to laugh. Most quiches I have eaten were vegetarian. And I am omnyvorous just like bears.![]()
Don't get me wrong, I like driving a good stick shift and have a manual in my Mini Cooper S. That car is so much fun I wake up thinking, "Ah, I get to drive to work," rather than, "Oh man, I have to drive to work."
Even so, I'll take an automatic for just about everything these days. I'm not trying to win any races and the brake pedal works just fine. If I'm going down a steep slope, I can select the proper gear. Especially if I'm stuck in traffic, the auto rules.
For a split second there , I thought this thread was about switching from boxers to briefs.
Yeah you can downshift an automatic but you just don't get the same compression brake benefit like ya do with a manual.
Most of my pick-ups have had manual trannies. Now I did have trouble with a Dodge D100. The three on the tree kept hanging up and I would have to get out and beat on the shift rods to get it to shift again.![]()