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

[Paul L Fisher]

You mean one of these? http://www.fiat130.de/eng/galery/images/ulthm5.htm
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Quoting Carl Prochilo <gr8sho@prochilo.myserver.org>:

> Very good.  I have another one for you that's sort of the reverse (pardon
> the pun) story.  And I do remember this story because I was in the car when
> it happened.
> 
> In 1970 we were on a family trip in Italy.  At the time, the exchange rate
> was very favorable to americans, so my Dad was able to rent a Fiat 130. 
> (Now I want to know how many people even KNOW what that car is.)  This car
> was the top of the line Fiat of it's day, and had a 3L V6 motor when most
> cars in that country were running less than 2L four bangers.  The other
> technology the car had that was relatively new was disc brakes.  Well,
> tooling around the Italian countryside, and especially in Calabria where it
> is very mountanous, my father found himself without the benefit of brakes. 
> Fortunately he was eventually able to figure out how to slow the car using
> the e-brake and the lower transmission gears.  He apparently boiled the
> brake fluid, but prior to that he had never experienced this.  The car had
> two adults, 2 kids, and a trunk full of heavy luggage.  Anyway, had he used
> the transmission (low gears) to slow the car down, he would have been okay.
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Carl Prochilo
> 1992 Ultra Red Crimson
> 
> Donald Mallinson said:
> > 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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