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6. I think you need a standard transmission for that stunt...

Tue Aug 12, 2014, 11:28 PM

Aug 2014

Even in neutral, if you put an auto transmission into drive in a moving vehicle, it starts in low gear. Kind of like locking up the brakes.

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Put it in neutral while you're still rolling backward kentauros Aug 2014 #1

Getting back into the truck can be difficult, too: kentauros Aug 2014 #4

I can't tell you how long that question has been weighing on my mind pinboy3niner Aug 2014 #3

He could get Ken Block to teach him: kentauros Aug 2014 #7

I say we give it a try mokawanis Aug 2014 #5

I think you need a standard transmission for that stunt... Wounded Bear Aug 2014 #6

I drive a standard! MADem Aug 2014 #8

If only Rockford were still around... Blue Owl Aug 2014 #9

The Mythbusters did an episode on this subject. A HERETIC I AM Aug 2014 #10

I didn't know that about the transmission remaining in drive kentauros Aug 2014 #11

if you stopped at a stoplight on a hill some day rurallib Aug 2014 #12

Yeah, there's one spot in Austin when I need to get on MoPac S kentauros Aug 2014 #13

This calls for a Mythbusters investigation. hifiguy Aug 2014 #15

Sort of reminds me of a Steven Wright joke benld74 Aug 2014 #16