OK, so what is the big deal here? What is the issue with parking in gear?
For the last 45 years I have driven (and flown) all makes & models of
planes, trucks, cars, motorcycles, and yes farm tractors.  The only thing I
didn't leave in gear was my Cessna!  Other than that we always left our
vehicles parked in gear with no known ill effects.  Generally speaking, if
you left a farm tractor sitting around NOT in gear it was possible that it
would roll off somewhere.  I always felt that the same was likely to happen
leaving a standard transmission vehicle out of gear (in neutral).  When you
get in (or on) the vehicle, push in the brake, then the clutch, take the
trans out of gear & start. A, B, C & D - as simple as that.  Just my 2 cents
worth, until someone enlightens me as to why.

Route 66 Rider!
Ramon Hill
Live Long and Be Free
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-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Donna Skarloken
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 5:49 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: women and standard gearbox

I was taught to leave my vehicles in gear, but after I married and began
driving farm tractors and motorcycles I always need to remember to park
those in neutral.  I always have to think about it - kinda funny, but the
older I get the more paranoid I am about forgetting things!

Donna, 87 Syncro, etc.

On 1/2/07, Anthony Egeln <regnsuzanne@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> The problem was personal.......cranking the starter with it still in
> gear.  We went through several starters in short order until we figured
out
> the problem.   Haven't needed a starter since.
> Anthony
>
>
> "Anderson,Chuck" <CAnderson@UA.COLOSTATE.EDU> wrote: That's
> interesting. I always purposely leave my vehicles in gear when parked.
> Chuck Anderson
> '86 GL
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On
> Behalf Of Anthony Egeln
> Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 9:27 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: women and standard gearbox
>
> When I married my wife she already knew how to drive a stick....so her
> transition to my then ride...... '73 911T Porsche Targa, and later the
> vangons, was not an issue.  I did have to break her of the habit of
> leaving it in gear when parked....went through several starters first.
> Anthony
> '89 Syncro GL (Hidalgo)
>
>
> chris jackson  wrote:
> It was a women who help get hooked on busses. A friends mother got me
> driving her 1958 green on green splittie no syncro for first come to a
> complete stop then go into 1st gear. This was back in 1967 she then
> pick up an 1968 westy with less than 20k. It still looked & smelled
> new; I loved that bus.
>
> Out of all my friends on all the long trips in the many busses I have
> owed the two best driver have been women.
>
> Chris
> 82 diesel westy
> sf bay
>
>
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