<VV> Slightly OT rant re pedals

[Ron]

What's wrong with the old handbrake method?  It has worked fine for many 
decades!
RonH
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Jacobi" <mvjacobi at comcast.net>
To: "Jeff Wilson" <jwilson at unctv.org>; "Bob Tarpenning" 
<bobtcars at wildblue.net>
Cc: "virtual Vairs" <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 7:59 AM
Subject: Re: <VV> Slightly OT rant re pedals


> Crash course (literally)  Try driving a 4 speed vair in San Francisco. 
> You
> do a lot of heel and toe..and take a lot of life out of your clutch too.
>
> Mike in (flat) Michigan
>
>
> On 4/10/12 10:26 AM, "Jeff Wilson" <jwilson at unctv.org> wrote:
>
>> Yes- daily....
>> I know that using the left foot for the clutch becomes second
>> nature fast, and trying to change-up in mid-stream would be
>> nigh-on to impossible.
>>
>> I'm just saying that if the pedals had been laid-out differently
>> from the get-go it might be safer.
>>
>> CJW
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Bob Tarpenning" <bobtcars at wildblue.net>
>> To: "Jeff Wilson" <jwilson at unctv.org>, virtualvairs at corvair.org
>> Sent: Friday, April 6, 2012 8:19:20 AM
>> Subject: RE: <VV> Slightly OT rant re pedals
>>
>> Have you ever driven a car with a clutch pedal?
>> Bob T
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org
>> [mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Wilson
>> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 3:24 PM
>> To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
>> Subject: <VV> Slightly OT rant re pedals
>>
>>
>> So an oddball question crossed my mind the other day:
>> why are the control pedals under our dasboards arranged the way they are?
>>
>> Wouldn't it make much more sense to have the CLUTCH pedal next to the gas
>> and the BRAKE to the far left?
>>
>> You have to lift your foot off the gas to release the clutch anyway....
>>
>> And if the brake were on the outside you wouldn't have the 'my car ran 
>> away
>> with me because I thought I was stomping the brake but I was really 
>> putting
>> the gas to the floor' problem.
>>
>> Who arranged the pedals thusly? Henry Ford?
>>
>> CJ Wilson
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