In a similar vein, back in the mid-70s I was commuting home to Virginia across Key Bridge from Georgetown Univ. at gridlock time of the afternoon.   The accelerator cable on my 66 VW squareback  disintegrated at the pedal, the little metal crank stamped onto the end of the cable came off.  So no control of engine speed.   Fortunately the engine lid is inside, and I was able to pull the cable back to the engine compartment, run it forward over top of the seats, and wrapping the cable end around a screwdriver now had a hand throttle control and was able to drive it home for the more conventional fix.  Shifting gears was interesting, but traffic was so congested and slow,  a brief no hands on the wheel for a shift was not too dangerous.

Ted

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On 2012-11-25, at 8:13 AM, ed donnen wrote:

> Someone mentioned during the "fell out" thread about wanting to hear about
> improbable fixes- so here goes.
> I once had a fuel filter split on the way home during rush hour.  I used
> the barrel from my clickable federal pen, shaved down the ends  to fit the
> line, tied up tight to the line with the pen spring at both ends.
> ed-91 DoKa- the VanPool motto was, "Many are cold, but few are frozen"