Re: Beware of high tech running amok

In article <47c553aa$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, C. E. White wrote:
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> "Brent P" <tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Find me a woman under 35 years old that can drive three on the tree 
>> and
>> then I'll be concerned about it.
> 
> You have a car with three on the tree? I don't know when they stopped 
> offering that, but it had to be sometime in the 70's. I think our last 
> vehicle with three on the tree was a 1972 Ford F100. However, if you 
> can drive a stick ****ft, three on the tree is pretty easy. I am sure I 
> could teach anyone who regularly drives a manual how to handle three 
> on the three in just a few minutes.

My older car is three on the tree. it's a '73. And for emissions testing 
when they would send over the person who could drive an MT they were just 
baffled... explaining where R 1 2 3 wouldn't register.