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Old Chevy movie on how gears work

 
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alloy
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 7:55 pm    Post subject: Old Chevy movie on how gears work Reply with quote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAWxZRuBXtw
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 10:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I like those old movies. So easy to understand! I kept watching videos and saw the one about differentials. It's a hell of lot easier than trying to think in terms of vectors and such. Maybe we're not dumber these days, just too confused. Wink
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 6:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
"So easy, even a girl can downshift!"

Way to go, old-timey Chevy announcer.

QwkTrip wrote:
Maybe we're not dumber these days, just too confused.


It's not a matter of intellect. The engineers who designed that transmission would not be able to make a telephone call today. The human mind is an extraordinarily adaptive chemical machine... which is to say that it is lazy.

Humans will know what they need to know to survive or they will die. They always have and they always will. Do you know how to kill a wooly mammoth? Are you too stupid to kill a wooly mammoth? Or is it that no one has known how to do that for a millennia because it is no longer valid?

Does anyone even make a car with a manual transmission in it anymore? It is becoming a useless skill to even know how to operate one, much less how one works.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 24, 2014 8:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
aaron_sK wrote:
Do you know how to kill a wooly mammoth?


Yeah, .458 Win Mag
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