I have always driven old pickups, even when going back and forth to college making long trips. One day the throttle cable broke on my 82 Ford pickup (just like the 80 I have now but much more raggedy). I hooked a piece of telephone wire to the carburetor and ran it through the firewall. I then tied a loop around it so I could work it with a wrist motion. It had a column shifter so I'd rotate my wrist, rev it up, and shift. I drove it like that for a few days till the part came in. Another time I had a 74 Ford with an automatic and a 352 out of a 65 model. The pipe cleaner that held the shift rod let go one rainy night when I was picking up my now-wife at a private college in Raleigh and the neutral switch didn't work, so I crawled under it, pushed it to park, clicked it down to reverse, cranked it up and backed out. I cut it off, got back under it, clicked it down to drive, cranked it up and went on. Another time I had clutch linkage problems with the 82 Ford in the middle of Raleigh so I cranked it in gear at the bottom of an exit ramp and shifted it without the clutch till I got home and fixed it.
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