Re: New list member

[VWMikeLVW@aol.com]

In a message dated 12/17/00 9:52:36 PM Pacific Standard Time, kpa@wizvax.net 
writes:


> ok, call me crazy but....(warning technical stuff is waaaaaay beyond
> me).......
> My mother had a 73(?) Super Bettle, it had a "semi-automatic" or something
> strange like that. It was (I think, many years, and brain cells ago) a 3
> speed, and to shift you just had to push down on the stick to disengage the
> clutch. Couldnt a mutation of that idea be .......... ok, you know where
> this is going..........= 5 speed?


An old girlfriend had one of those...the transmisison crunched and was really 
jerky.It had some sort of vacuum activated clutch that would disengage when 
you let off the gas. In Europe, they made A3 auto stick kinda things....they 
work in the same way, so I would look into that.

Mike
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