Summering in the French Riviera
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@Horace what was the trick for getting it in reverse? I drove a manual pick-up truck in Wisconsin a few years ago and to get it in reverse there was basically a secret way to move the shifter that only my BIL knew. Once I found out it was easy but WTF it was weird.
Thanks for the update, btw. I enjoyed seeing the pictures and reading the story.
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@89th said in Summering in the French Riviera:
@Horace what was the trick for getting it in reverse? I drove a manual pick-up truck in Wisconsin a few years ago and to get it in reverse there was basically a secret way to move the shifter that only my BIL knew. Once I found out it was easy but WTF it was weird.
There was a ring around the shift lever that you had to pull up. It wasn't obviously a moving or functional part. Back in my day there was no trick for putting a manual into reverse, but I guess too many people had too many accidents reversing accidentally.
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@Horace said in Summering in the French Riviera:
@89th said in Summering in the French Riviera:
@Horace what was the trick for getting it in reverse? I drove a manual pick-up truck in Wisconsin a few years ago and to get it in reverse there was basically a secret way to move the shifter that only my BIL knew. Once I found out it was easy but WTF it was weird.
There was a ring around the shift lever that you had to pull up. It wasn't obviously a moving or functional part. Back in my day there was no trick for putting a manual into reverse, but I guess too many people had too many accidents reversing accidentally.
Ever drive a VW Beetle? The old Beetle?
Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
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@Jolly said in Summering in the French Riviera:
@Horace said in Summering in the French Riviera:
@89th said in Summering in the French Riviera:
@Horace what was the trick for getting it in reverse? I drove a manual pick-up truck in Wisconsin a few years ago and to get it in reverse there was basically a secret way to move the shifter that only my BIL knew. Once I found out it was easy but WTF it was weird.
There was a ring around the shift lever that you had to pull up. It wasn't obviously a moving or functional part. Back in my day there was no trick for putting a manual into reverse, but I guess too many people had too many accidents reversing accidentally.
Ever drive a VW Beetle? The old Beetle?
Nope.
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@Jolly said in Summering in the French Riviera:
Ever drive a VW Beetle? The old Beetle?
I was too young to drive 'em, but my father had two Beetles.
The first was a 1957. It was a horrible, horrible car. Terribly uncomfortable (I know this because I sat in the back seat on a couple of trips from Chicago to Toronto). The windshield was literally in your face, and it had no gas gauge. You had to estimate how much fuel you had left by following your mileage. There was an auxiliary tank which held about 1 ½ gal, iirc. There was a lever on the firewall you used to engage it.
Not his, but you get the idea:
He replaced it with (I think) a 1963. It was beige and had a larger rear window. Still uncomfortable.
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My parents had two also. I think a 61 and a 67.
When I was born, that was our only car for a family of five. The next year they traded it in for a 69 Chevy Impala.
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Hitler's original sketch (yes, that Hitler).
Hitler stole Beetle design from a Jew
Adolf Hitler has always been given credit for sketching out the early concept for the Beetle during a meeting with car designer Ferdinand Porsche in 1935. But actually, the Nazi leader stole the idea from a Jewish engineer.```
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Well there goes his reputation.
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@jon-nyc said in Summering in the French Riviera:
Well there goes his reputation.
LOL.
DIdn't VW have an ad during the Super Bowl talking about all their innovations in the last 60 years? Conveniently, those innovations were only after 1950 or so.
