Muncie handle memory imprint
03-06-2018, 07:19 PM
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Muncie handle memory imprint
This is not a deep subject thread but struck me as funny how your mind and memories can work. I bought a Muncie faux handle off a member here to install on my Hurst shifter. Last time I rowed a stock Muncie shifter and reverse lockout was sometime around 1984. I installed it and finally got it out for a drive over the weekend and I'll be damned if every time I tried to go to reverse, I pulled up on the reverse slider and tried to ease it over with normal effort into the reverse gate like a stock Muncie sifter - which doesn't work with a Hurst. Then it would occur to me - what am I doing - that reverse lockout doesn't do anything. I have to slam the shifter over to the left to get into reverse.
Funny how old memories and habits can resurface after many years.
Funny how old memories and habits can resurface after many years.
03-06-2018, 07:29 PM
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Team Owner
I totally get it. I had the same issue when I got my 63 with the Hurst shifter.
03-06-2018, 07:36 PM
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Race Director
Yup - I agree! I still pull up on the fake T bar on my Tremec shifter. 
03-06-2018, 08:10 PM
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Steve
03-06-2018, 08:15 PM
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I would embarrassingly grind gears for a while in the Hurst 63 as my 61 had a Tremec 5-speed. The 63s NON lock-out would let me push the lever sideways and up (reverse on a Muncie) seeking 1st gear on 5 speed Tremec. Took me a while to "un-progam" myself...
03-06-2018, 08:42 PM
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The older we get, the harder it is to learn and unlearn stuff.
I’m getting pretty close to being completely non-functional.
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I’m getting pretty close to being completely non-functional.
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03-06-2018, 08:46 PM
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I'm lucky if I leave the house each day with my pants on
03-06-2018, 09:20 PM
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Drifting
Haha...I've actually done it.....Just Kidding. Not a pretty visual
As far as things being ingrained..... I drove a 1969 Z28 not too long ago trying to decide between it and the 65. When I tried to shift to reverse it would not go...so what did I do? Left out on the clutch just a tad until it went in.
The sales guy sitting next to me made the comment it was good see someone that knew how to do that. Told him I was doing that when he was just a gleam in his dad's eye.
As far as things being ingrained..... I drove a 1969 Z28 not too long ago trying to decide between it and the 65. When I tried to shift to reverse it would not go...so what did I do? Left out on the clutch just a tad until it went in.
The sales guy sitting next to me made the comment it was good see someone that knew how to do that. Told him I was doing that when he was just a gleam in his dad's eye.
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03-07-2018, 05:51 AM
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The wife's 2016 Durango has the push button start...it looks a lot like the large radio control ****, gear shift **** and A/C fan ****. If I haven't driven it in a while and jump in I may go through pushing one, some or ALL of the wrong ones before I get the car started...
Stupid thing...
Stupid thing...
03-07-2018, 08:15 AM
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Ha ha - I still jog 3 days a week (turn 67 next week) - with heavy emphasis on jog. I went yesterday after work and got about a half block from the house and suddenly a thought flashed through my mine - I did put on jogging shorts didn't I. I had to glance down to check & confirm.
03-07-2018, 08:47 AM
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Ha ha - I still jog 3 days a week (turn 67 next week) - with heavy emphasis on jog. I went yesterday after work and got about a half block from the house and suddenly a thought flashed through my mine - I did put on jogging shorts didn't I. I had to glance down to check & confirm.
03-07-2018, 09:30 AM
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Had a '98 coupe with automatic. The windshield wiper switch was a stalk on the right side of the column. sort of high. Grabbed it a couple times an pulled it down thinking I was putting it in gear. Stupid.
03-07-2018, 10:20 AM
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03-07-2018, 03:16 PM
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03-07-2018, 10:45 PM
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This is not a deep subject thread but struck me as funny how your mind and memories can work. I bought a Muncie faux handle off a member here to install on my Hurst shifter. Last time I rowed a stock Muncie shifter and reverse lockout was sometime around 1984. I installed it and finally got it out for a drive over the weekend and I'll be damned if every time I tried to go to reverse, I pulled up on the reverse slider and tried to ease it over with normal effort into the reverse gate like a stock Muncie sifter - which doesn't work with a Hurst. Then it would occur to me - what am I doing - that reverse lockout doesn't do anything. I have to slam the shifter over to the left to get into reverse.
Funny how old memories and habits can resurface after many years.
Funny how old memories and habits can resurface after many years.
