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To: US Navy Vet
I have had an MGA, Fiat 850 Spider, 2 VW Beatles, Mercedes 220 Diesel, Datsun Kingcab Diesel, Willies (Jeep) Pickup truck all with manual transmissions.

Nowadays, a vehicle with a manual transmission is almost theft proof. Most of the thugs stealing cars and trucks never learned to drive a standard.

107 posted on 06/01/2012 8:05:51 AM PDT by A. Patriot (Re-electing Obama is like the Titanic backing up to hit the iceberg again.)
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To: A. Patriot

My first car was an MGA. Boy, did I have fun with that!


112 posted on 06/01/2012 8:09:47 AM PDT by Fresh Wind ('People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
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Add to that several dirt bikes and a 4 wheeler.


113 posted on 06/01/2012 8:10:17 AM PDT by A. Patriot (Re-electing Obama is like the Titanic backing up to hit the iceberg again.)
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Mine were a MGA (had a crank start), two Spitfires, an English Ford Cortina GT (my favorite), a Dodge Coronet with three on the column, a '58 Olds, a VW bug and a VW 'square -back sedan'.

Once at a light on Sunrise Highway in my Coronet I was getting ready to race off the red with some guy who pulled up next to me. The car had three on the column and I had been driving nothing but four on the floor cars. When the light changed I tore out....full speed....backwards.

124 posted on 06/01/2012 8:15:14 AM PDT by wtc911 (Amigo - you've been had.)
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