One more reason to drive stick shift

Hotlinked right off of Jalopnik. I LOL'd

JohnRW1621 wrote:

Mr_Clutch42 wrote: In reply to turboswede: What other 80s or 90s car had a dog-leg box?

My 1983 VW Rabbit was a 3E trans. That is a 4 speed where 4th was labeled E. Reverse was upper left. Sample shift knob:

When I was a late teenager installing stereos ans alarms, a late 70s/ early 80s Scirocco came in to get some work done. The owner drove me back to his office and I was to drive the car back. It had VW knob with no shift pattern on it and no tack. Other than 1,2 and 3 were easy, I couldn't find 4th for the life of me where I thought it was and just drove it in 3rd screaming down the freeway.

In reply to Mr_Clutch42:

My 924 does (dogleg was available on the 79 924 and the 79-80 924 Turbo in the U.S.)

Kenny_McCormic wrote: In reply to Keith Tanner: A lot of pre 2005 cars could be opened from the inside, just grab the linkage from the lock cylinder to the latch.

Every car I've ever owned has had covers over the linkage. I mean, you could probably disassemble the car enough to manage it, but it's not a matter of seconds. This is from the perspective of a guy who just had the back panel off his CRX, it would require destruction to access the linkage. Even the 60's caddy doesn't have an exposed linkage, iirc.

ebonyandivory wrote: Nowadays you can just remove a tire. Most young guys I know can't even change one. And a few can't pump their own gas.

I had a friend in university who once attempted to avoid getting towed-on-sight by the university parking patrol by putting his car on jackstands, removing all four wheels and locking them inside the car.

According to him, it worked pretty well. Didn't avoid tickets, though.

In reply to Keith Tanner:

In my experience most crapcan sedans don't, I know my Prizm doesn't have any kind of cover there.

former520 wrote:

JohnRW1621 wrote:

Mr_Clutch42 wrote: In reply to turboswede: What other 80s or 90s car had a dog-leg box?

My 1983 VW Rabbit was a 3E trans. That is a 4 speed where 4th was labeled E. Reverse was upper left. Sample shift knob:

When I was a late teenager installing stereos ans alarms, a late 70s/ early 80s Scirocco came in to get some work done. The owner drove me back to his office and I was to drive the car back. It had VW knob with no shift pattern on it and no tack. Other than 1,2 and 3 were easy, I couldn't find 4th for the life of me where I thought it was and just drove it in 3rd screaming down the freeway.

I thought dogleg was like this:

That's why James May had a problem with it. He kept putting it in 2nd gear to start. None of those in the picture have a dogleg pattern.

This has happened before I think. Also do you remember the guy who tried to steal a Ferrari with a semi auto flappy paddle from a detail shop or garage. He couldn't figure it out so he blew his head off with a shotgun inside the car. Uck.

In reply to ssswitch: That's a funny solution.

In reply to turboswede: I'm surprised that it's never mentioned.