David Gravereaux wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Known as the curviest street in the world, I took the newly fixed up 73
> Super on a trip. My wife, kid and I were passing through on our way to
> Ocean Beach, and thought we'd take a little detour for fun.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombard...(San_Francisco)
>
> Not shown in the picture of the famous part of the street is the block
> before it which is a rise of a near equal 27% grade but straight up. It
> was all stop-and-go due to the, as usual, site seer traffic.
>
> So smart me was doing some clutch hill holding 'till I started smelling
> some asbestos.. heheh.. Didn't burn it out, but guess I came close.
>
> Then I'm hill holding with the e-brake had to pull it way hard to hold
> still due to the grade, so hard I pulled the lever high enough to pop-in
> the thumb mechanism and got it stuck and couldn't release it.
>
> Did my adrenalin shoot for that moment! Some panic thumb bashing got it
> out.
>
> Then on the way back home, it's getting harder and harder for me to
> shift into first and the shifter is all wiggly. I guess the square set
> screw on front of the transaxle is coming loose.. whoops.
>
> Well, time to go fix it all, later...


I too have driven down that street, man it's a leap of faith to get
started... all you see from your windshield is the sky, until the nose
of the car dives down

Jan