> > There was a show on just recently that told the story of a group of people
> > who lived in central northern Australia. They would travel around by finding
> > cars that people had dumped in the bush, satisfied that they would never
> > run again, and fixing them without tools of any kind.
> > In the show, they replaced the clutch of a car with one made of WOOD !

> did you actually SEE this wooden-clutched car? I can't think of any way that a
> car would go more than 5 feet on a wooden clutch. The wood would splinter
> and disintegrate under the load of the engine.

You mean a car with a wooden clutch wooden go very far? :o)

Maybe they just meant they replaced the clutch pedal.

Pa"maybe I should have watched the show when it was on"ul