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Main Forums => The Outpost Cafe => Topic started by: Dave W on May 04, 2022, 05:05:56 PM
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Florida Ford GT Owner Crashes Because He's "Unfamiliar" With Manual Transmission (https://news.yahoo.com/florida-ford-gt-owner-crashes-180400871.html)
Not insured either! But it's probably only about 200K worth of damage.
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Only in a place like Florida could something like this happen--"head-on collision with a palm tree."
I prefer manual over automatic, but obviously the same couldn't be said for this guy.
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As Bugs Bunny said "Ahhhhhhh....what a maroon!"
And the car wasn't even registered or insured. Just bought it at a high end auction.
He isn't the first to stomp a gas pedal in a supercar he knew nothing about and immediately lose control due to the unexpected power.
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"unfamiliar with how to drive stick shift," police say ...
A rather common ailment in the North American hemisphere, is it not?
:popcorn:
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As a lifelong car guy from a blue collar family, I hate these kind of idiots. More money than brains. And they've priced guys like me out of the market with their little "trading cars at inflated prices" auctions. I don't have enough middle fingers for the driver and others like him.
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My Harley-Davidson is - very audibly ... CLANK ... - a manual, but once a Volvo has a certain amount of horsepower you don't even have a choice anymore, they only offer automatic.
If you do a lot of metropolitan driving, a stick can become tiresome quick. (rhymes!)
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As a lifelong car guy from a blue collar family, I hate these kind of idiots. More money than brains. And they've priced guys like me out of the market with their little "trading cars at inflated prices" auctions. I don't have enough middle fingers for the driver and others like him.
I hear you. I started working on cars at 18 and still do, but I tackle lighter jobs than I once did. It's the boomers from my generation with more money than sense that are pricing interesting cars out of sight.
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If you do a lot of metropolitan driving, a stick can become tiresome quick. (rhymes!)
Yup. I have an auto in my Mustang. The 10% of the time I wished it had a stick is outweighed by the 90% of the time that I'm happy to put it in gear and go. I've got it custom tuned, which includes tweaking the shift points. No complaints!
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As a lifelong car guy from a blue collar family, I hate these kind of idiots. More money than brains. And they've priced guys like me out of the market with their little "trading cars at inflated prices" auctions. I don't have enough middle fingers for the driver and others like him.
The same thing is happening to used guitars and basses. A good chunk of them are as competent musically as that guy was behind the wheel.