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coupeZ600 on Aug 3, 2008

Howdy, Mssr. Culberson. I'm kinda' new here but feel I've found some folk that share the same fondness for cars, humor, and the occasional imbibery of spirits that many people don't quite understand(or care to). A few days(weeks maybe)ago, you posted a video of a guy shifting through a 5-and-4 tranny. I replied to you, but as I normally can only view Jalopnik in the early morning hours, the threads usually end about the time I get there. Where did you get that video? Did you notice that the guy never uses the clutch? I learned on a 5-and-4, and the old man that trained me taught me how to drive with your left-foot. He said,"the clutch was only for stop-signs(lights), the left foot was for the brake, and to push your ass into the seat off the firewall when stuff got weird. That's what the left foot does". I drive my car like that, and all my friends and passengers all think that I'm ruining the "clutch" by not using it. ???? A bad shift can snap an axle, strip or break a ring gear, snap a yoke or u-joint, drop the final-drive shaft or worse, but the clutch!WTF.. If you could forward me the video of that guy in the five-and-four, I would be most grateful. P.S. after all that shifting, he was probably doing close to twenty miles per hour, and at the next stop-sign he would do it all in reverse, and then begin again. I moved into a nine-speed real quick.



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