Thread: 1974 Mustang II Build

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When I was first married to my first wife, she had a Gremlin (a green one no less) with a manual transmission. She had been driving stick for quite awhile, but she had a bad habit of holding the car by slipping the clutch while stopped on a hill instead of using the brake. She said that was the way her daddy taught her to do it and she was afraid that she would stall the engine. I explained to her that her daddy wasn't the one that was going to have to pull the trans and fix the clutch when she wore it out. It took a little more prodding from me, but I eventually got her to quit slipping , learn how to catch the engine just right and use the brake.

New cars with an emergency brake handle between the seats make it easy. Just hold the car with the E brake and start off normally. I think that's how folks are taught to do it now. We didn't have it so easy when I was younger. Most E brakes on American cars weren't that user friendly back then. We had to learn to catch the torque of the engine.