Miata Mailing List: October 1999, Message #112

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On Oct 1, 1999 Bill Rockoff wrote:

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 > somewhere.  Think about it - could you jack up the back of your car and
 > rotate the rear wheels by hand?  Can you push your Miata along level ground?
 > Not very fast, sure, but I bet you could.

At 01:40 PM 10/1/99 -0400, Ian wrote:

Can you push it along level ground while it's in gear?  That's a lot
less likely. :)

--Ian

Ha! A friend's father had an old Chevy pickup that we were moving in the 
driveway as a practical joke one night. Two guys were pushing and I was 
steering. It was kind of hard to move but we were doing it. They asked if 
it was in gear or not to which I replied, "What are you kidding? We're 
pushing it backwards, if it was in gear we'd never be able to push it!". It 
was making kind of a sighing noise while we were pushing it. Turns out the 
compression was practically non-existant as the truck was in first gear the 
whole time we were pushing it backwards! So long answer to your 
question...yes, under the right circumstances 8-)

Dave Holmes
1995 Montego Blue PEP