[abruzzi]

reminds me of my 1963 VW Bus. The throttle pedal pressed down on a 90 degree arm/bellcrank which pulled on the throttle cable that ran to the rear engine. Because the throttle cable was old it had more friction internally, and the undercarriage of the vehicle wasn't in the best of shape. So the flat piece of metal on the body that the bellcrank attached to started to rip, so when I pressed the pedal down, the assembly would deflect and very little motion would be transferred to the cable. I took a small needlenose nose vise grip and clamped it over the rip in the metal, and then continued to drive it like that for the next 5 years.

[lisper]

My 1970-somthing VW Dasher wagon wouldn't go into gear one day. Turned out that the metal lever that the clutch pedal was connected to had developed a fatigue fracture and broken and could no longer disengage the clutch to get it into gear. But it was easily replaced (it was, after all, just a hunk of metal with some holes in it).

Good times.