I never had a real problem learning to use the clutch, but my sister did. I
remember my mum and her coming back from one lesson weeping with laughter...
apparently in a moment of exasperation my Mum had shouted "Depress the
crotch! depress the crotch!" Ah, what a wonderful language
hee hee he
Joe.
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Dr. Joseph Garner
University of California
Department of Animal Science
One Shields Avenue
Davis
CA 95616
USA
Phone: (530) 754 5291
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dennis J. Buster [mailto:dbuster@integramn.net]
> Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 4:17 PM
> To: mgs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Teens & clutches OT
>
>
> Carl--
>
> I remember my dad trying to teach me to drive a stick shift
> back in the Dark
> Ages. First day was pretty rocky -- lots of stalls and jumpy
> starts. That
> evening, as I was lying in bed, I tried to "see" myself using
> the gas and
> clutch in my mind's eye. Same way, I guess, that a ballplayer
> envisions how
> he's going to hit a pitch. It actually worked. Went out the
> next day and had
> absolutely no problems. Just tried to imagine what it would
> look like --
> depressing the clutch in the same proportion as I was letting
> up on the gas
> pedal and then pressing the gas pedal in the same proportion as I was
> releasing the clutch. It actually worked. Used that trick
> lots of other
> times when I was a kid, and it worked every time.
>
> Dennis Buster
> '71 and '73 Midgets
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