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Lifer · 02-14-2010, 09:08

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Originally Posted by srodocker

....because of my inexperience with the lack of power steering and standard transmisson people just watched as dan smiled and directed me around some vehicles....

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....as im still getting used to figure out the rpms to shift on from a rolling stop and such i shifted into 5th instead of 2nd and bogged it down really bad...seeing as i was in the middle of the intersection and put it in second and droped the clutch. the deuce now looked liked it was apart of fast and the furious movie as the tailend swung around skipping all 8 wheels...

Wow! I'm sure glad I was nowhere nearby when all this was going on! With as little experience as you appear to have with driving vehicles with manual transmissions and steering, a "drive-away" recovery was perhaps not the best thing you could have done. A deuce is not the best vehicle in which to master those skills...especially not while on a public thoroughfare.

All that is "water under the bridge," now, though. I'm glad you got it home okay. It is a nice looking truck, I must admit.