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Old 12-05-2009, 07:11 PM
Graebarde Graebarde is offline
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Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b View Post
I don't know the answer to that one either; despite many attempts by many people over the years, no one has ever successfully managed to teach me to drive a manual transmission. That includes one sergeant in Korea who made me walk the five miles back to Camp Casey when he got so irritated at me for grinding gears...
You're not alone and I think that is but one, if not the primary, reason the military went to automatic transmissions in their vehicles. Do they even have a standard transmission anymore.. humm today the standard IS automatic.. perhaps I should have said mechanical gearbox.
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