Auto Lore was RE: [Shotimes] Re: Park vs. Forward (was Autolock and MTX)

[Donald Mallinson]

Never heard of that, I use the dash vents to warm my hands!

Don Mallinson

Bill Murray wrote:
> Speaking of auto lore, my girlfriend doesn't like to have the head on
> and the dash vents blowing. She only keeps it on the floor or the
> defrost vents, or the combination of the two.  She says that her father
> does the same thing and said that it's bad for the car to have the heat
> come out of the dash vents.  I've never heard of this and I can't think
> of any reason why this may be bad for the car.  Any truth behind this
> theory?
> 
> Bill Murray
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donald Mallinson [mailto:dmall@mwonline.net] 
> Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 1:24 PM
> To: Carl Prochilo
> Cc: shotimes@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Re: Park vs. Forward (was Autolock and MTX)
> 
> Carl,
> 
> The Turboglide was really not very well known, so few people 
> would have probably been reluctant to use low gear because 
> of the problems with that tranny.  Chances are your father 
> was one that was told another bit of auto lore:
> 
> Brakes are designed to slow down a car and motors to make it 
> go, let each do their own job and the car will last longer!
> 
> Of coures with drum brakes (and mechanical brakes before 
> them) lower gears had to be used in cars as well as trucks.
> 
> Funny how some habits happen though.  Here is another:
> 
> I had a good friend that would never use the heater all the 
> time in the winter.  He said the car would get better gas 
> mileage if he kept the heater off.  Well, I knew better than 
> that, even when I was 15 and 16 years old.  But a bit later, 
> I found out WHY my friend probably felt that way.
> 
> His father obviously grew up driving cars that had the very 
> good, but fairly rare optional heater system that used 
> gasoline in a heater inside the car!  So you had a FIRE 
> inside the car in a little space heater before good hot 
> water heaters were common.
> 
> Thus turning off THAT type of heater DID save fuel, 
> especially during the depression, my friends father probably 
> wanted ever drop of fuel saved, and comfort was secondary, 
> so he taught his son to do the same, even though hot water 
> heaters have zero (or near zero, the fan pulls some juice 
> and thus a tiny amount of drag via the generator/alternator 
> on the motor) effect on fuel mileage.
> 
> So as Paul Harvey would say: Now you know the rest of the story!
> 
> Don Mallinson
> 
> 
> Carl Prochilo wrote:
> 
> 
>>You made me remember things from a long time ago.  I don't remember
> 
> who I
> 
>>asked, probably my father, why he never used the lower gears, I was
> 
> told
> 
>>that they were only to slow the car down going down hill.  I never
> 
> really
> 
>>gave that much thought until I owned my own car.  I know that my
> 
> family
> 
>>never owned a car with a Turboglide transmission, but now it certainly
> 
> seems
> 
>>that a myth grew up around that issue that somehow got extrapolated to
> 
> all
> 
>>automatic transmissions of the 60s to the point that I'm sure none of
> 
> my
> 
>>family's older cars ever saw those gears get used.
> 
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