[TangoLimaSierra]

Last month I bought an old 2003 30' RV. My BIL offered his '94 Chevy diesel dually. We lost clutch halfway back. He stopped on the side of the road to look under the hood and found the master cylinder spurting fluid when depressing the clutch pedal. He was about to call for help.

I jumped into the driver's seat put it in first pushed the useless clutch and hit the starter. It chugged forward and started. I was surprised it did (especially since it was still attached to the trailer) but then I gave him a lesson in clutchless driving back to the house. Since I have had a lot of junkers I learned to to that a long time ago.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Something similar happened when I was riding with a friend in his Audi sedan. He was going to call a tow truck, but I told him how to shift without the clutch and we got where we were going.

When I drove VWs, sometimes I’d drive around for a week or more with a broken clutch cable before bothering to replace it.