> > > 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

Maybe I should have watched more of the show when it was on too... I had to go somewhere and missed the second half.

It may have been a different car that they fixed without tools, or maybe they meant no "bought in a hardware store" tools... ?

The part about the wooden clutch I'm pretty sure is right, although I don't think it was pine they were talking about...

ladada(I need these guys to fix my video recorder)dada