That's easy Chris... The at's have the steel reinforced accererator
pedal to withstand the constant force of futile efforts to push the "go
faster" pedal. If it wasn;t reinforced, it would snap under the
pressure of being jammed into the floor.  Don't diesel's have it too??
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On Friday, May 13, 2005, at 02:06  PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

> Date:    Fri, 13 May 2005 12:05:55 EDT
> From:    JordanVw@AOL.COM
> Subject: Re: [vanagon] vanagon trivia..who can answer this???
>
> In a message dated 5/13/05 11:59:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> n6mod@milewski.org writes:
>
>
>>> why do automatic transmission vanagons  have a plastic accelerator
>>> pedal
>>> reinforced with metal, and manual transmission vanagons just have a
>> plastic
>>> accelerator pedal with no metal reinforcement on the pedal?
>>
>> Kickdown switch?
>>
>>
>
> no.. the automatic vanagons dont have a kickdown switch on the floor.
>  any
> other guesses?
>
> chris