Keys. Too much trouble to take shoes and socks off to Insert and turn them.
Posted on 06/20/2020 9:31:50 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Yep.
“Just roll it over and keep on going.”
And that is exactly what some highschool friends did after hitting a patch of wet leaves on a turn and over correcting.
Five or six in the car at the time.
But they did use a tire iron to back the fenders off the tires...
Don’t you just hate it when that happens?
Any landing you can walk away from....
I’ll have to check that out- thanks-
Keys. Too much trouble to take shoes and socks off to Insert and turn them.
Some of the old cars also had a foot operated starter, headlight dimmer switch, and possibly a parking brake pedal.
Sorry, but I was funnin' with you. My gramps has a 1940 Chevy Business coup he's restored and we go for drives in it and it has those foot buttons you were mentioning.
My ‘74 Pinto had the dimmer switch on the floor - and a 4-speed manual gearbox.
And not much else, being as it was a base model.
I don’t know how high the CG of a Polo is, but if it’s high enough it would also contribute to a rollover.
“Just roll it over and keep on going.”
There’s been more than one occasion I know of in Spec Miata racing where a car rolled, landed right-side-up.... and drove away. Miatas are a lot tougher than their small size would suggest.
And the average Spec Miata driver is bold. You have to be when everyone else around you is in basically the same car you’re driving.
“The Germans make fabulous cars but they aren’t “beautiful.””
True. But when things go wrong on a German car, they are expensive to fix - especially if it’s an electrical problem. My ‘82 Audi taught me the hard way that Bosch electricals aren’t much better than Lucas electricals. Or at least at that time they weren’t.
OTOH, the only electrical problem I’ve had on my ‘02 Benz has been a failed voltage regulator. While it’s part of the alternator, it’s mounted externally in such a way that you can swap it by itself. You could even do it without taking the alternator off the car if you have enough dexterity.
Fastest depreciation ever!
I drove a ‘71 Pinto for several years. It had the dimmer switch on the floor, the 4-speed manual gearbox, and a foot pedal parking brake.
It had a black vinyl top and black vinyl interior. And NO AC. In Georgia. I considered myself lucky to have a radio. Cruise control? What’s that?
I didn’t pick the car. My dad bought it a few years before I could drive. I think it was the one and only new car he ever bought.
There are times I wish I still had it!
(I now consider cruise control essential equipment. It the “keeping me from getting a ticket” device.)
A ‘71, eh? Did it have the Kent engine or the 2.0L OHC?
My ‘74 had the latter. It was the standard engine for that year - and only that year. The car also had dealer-installed A/C, which didn’t work for most of the time we had it.
But on the whole, it was a decent little car. I think Pintos get a bad rap. Still have a bit of a soft spot for them.
BTW, of all the cars I’ve owned throughout the years, only four of them have had cruise control (including my wife’s daily drivers). Dad and I ended up taking it off of my ‘80 Olds because it didn’t work properly and also caused problems with the speedometer.
Also BTW, both the Olds and my Pinto were brown. It was very appropriate for the Olds, because it was an absolute turd.
It would.
However, the swerving and over correcting still tells me that whoever was driving was on their first run.
And the Karmann Ghia?
My husband was a mechanical engineer and HIS choice for a car was anything that got us from point A to point B.
Once had an ME for a roommate. His choice was a Lotus Europa and a VW Rabbit at the time. Think he had a BMW 2002 for a while, too.
It is, er, was, a VW Polo.
Perhaps Geico would be a better choice, since it’s re-running its Marco Polo ad...
The Karmann Ghia is a pretty little car. And given that it’s heavier than the Type 1 Beetle it was based on, it’s a pretty slow little car too. :)
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