I've never had a shifter go limp on me in all these years, though I once had to sacrifice my speaker wires to temporarily bypass a broken accelerator cable in my '72 Beetle. That was an interesting experience. I tied it directly to the throttle linkage and ran it through the sunroof, pulling on it to make the car go
Thanks, those old VWs will train you to MacGyver. The tool I used the most on it was my 2lb maul. I called it my UVT (Universal Volkswagen Tool). I've never seen another car respond so well to being beaten into submission. I kinda miss it
I was in college at the time, so there ya go. It was the ideal car for bumping around rough New Orleans roads, save for the lack of air conditioning (but I had a sunroof and a fan under the dash, so, uh...it was still fucking hot in that car). It was a lot of fun to drive. I had tons of head room due to low seats from a Mazda or something like that. I bolted them in so far back that they touched the back seat.