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<blockquote data-quote="yukonjack" data-source="post: 2572654" data-attributes="member: 2939"><p>Please don't let the cat outta the bag. Once you figure it out it's smooth. I learned to drive on an old Chevy pickup that was a column shift in 1974. The drivers license examiner said while I missed using my turn signal a couple of times he was impressed that I could stop and start on a hill with 3 on the tree. </p><p></p><p>I owned a column shifter for 15 years until we moved to Fairbanks. Went out one morning to start my truck up at -50 degrees below zero. Something froze and I applied too much pressure to the gear shift handle and it broke off. Drug a dragon heater out, unfroze the truck, and figured out that properly tightened a pair of vice grips worked as a gear shift. Drove it like that for 3 months until the spring thaw and we could get into the salvage yard.</p><p></p><p>It's a lost art I tell ya. Now people just get in their cars and go. They don't really drive them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="yukonjack, post: 2572654, member: 2939"] Please don't let the cat outta the bag. Once you figure it out it's smooth. I learned to drive on an old Chevy pickup that was a column shift in 1974. The drivers license examiner said while I missed using my turn signal a couple of times he was impressed that I could stop and start on a hill with 3 on the tree. I owned a column shifter for 15 years until we moved to Fairbanks. Went out one morning to start my truck up at -50 degrees below zero. Something froze and I applied too much pressure to the gear shift handle and it broke off. Drug a dragon heater out, unfroze the truck, and figured out that properly tightened a pair of vice grips worked as a gear shift. Drove it like that for 3 months until the spring thaw and we could get into the salvage yard. It's a lost art I tell ya. Now people just get in their cars and go. They don't really drive them. [/QUOTE]
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