[Healeys] Clutch

[RThrift]

Wow!  You just brought back a childhood memory I had totally forgotten for the past almost 50 years.  My Dad had a TR3, and now that you point it out, I do seem to remember him starting it by hand cranking occasionally.  I was so little at the time I probably thought all cars started that way; more recently I figured hand cranking went out WAY before my time.  Cool!

When it got totaled he bought the BT7 (which I now have). He preferred the TR3

Thanks!
Richard Thrift
p.s. on new manual trans cars, isn't there some means to override the interlock that prevents starting unless the clutch is depressed? My 2002 automatic won't go out of Park unless the brake pedal is depressed, but there IS a way to override that if necessary.  (Most owners just won't RTFM  and so probably won't know about it even though they see the covered button every time they get in the car.)  But then the modern approach would be "Don't drive the car if the clutch is out of commission, Fool! " so maybe the clutch pedal override is not provided. 


---- Fred Wescoe <fredwescoe at windstream.net> wrote: 
My first car was a TR3 and I was told not to depress the clutch and to keep it
in neutral.  It would always crank faster that way.  Of course it was the only
way the hand crank worked and I did use that often when the battery was low.

Healeys have the starting dog but no ability to start with a hand crank.
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I wonder how we are to get a new car, with a clutch, started and home when we loose the clutch.  Any ideas? 
 
Fred 
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