[Fresh Wind]

I drove a good distance once after my throttle cable broke by tying a piece of wire to the throttle linkage and pulling on the wire to operate the throttle.

Worked great.

Also had a car with a bad ignition switch that wouldn’t operate the starter solenoid, so I became quite adept at bridging the contacts with a big socket to start the car (had to do it from below). Eventually, I installed a switch on the dashboard to do the same thing.

[cripplecreek]

Fishing line operated windshield wipers.

[freedomlover]

I drove a good distance once after my throttle cable broke by tying a piece of wire to the throttle linkage and pulling on the wire to operate the throttle.

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I helped an elderly couple stranded on the road just like that. Their 1960-something Ford was stranded on the road with a broken accel cable. I asked the old lady for her tennis shoelace and in 5 min dad was pulling on it with his right hand to accelerate and they got home OK.