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

[Carl Prochilo]

Yeah.  I just found that website before I posted.  That was the actual
exterior color IIRC that we had with the camel interior.  Leave it to the
Germans to build a club around that car instead of the Italians.  Makes me
think that the Germans really understand better than anyone the value of
performance sedans.
-- 
Cheers,
Carl Prochilo
1992 Ultra Red Crimson

Paul L Fisher said:
> 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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