[DeTomaso] Good news from the Swedish crash

Sean Korb spkorb at gmail.com
Wed Jul 4 12:27:33 EDT 2012


It happened on my Pantera, thankfully as it was in neutral and I was
showing off at a car show.  I had taken out the thermal divider on the
carburettor so the screen would fit and I had misrouted the throttle
cable when I put it back together.  It bound open at about half
throttle which revved the poor thing to 5000RPM.   It took me a
*really* long time to hop out of the car, take off the screen, remove
the air cleaner and fix it.  Yiikes!  I don't know why I didn't just
turn it off at the ignition first...

sean

On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Mike Dailey <panteraplace at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I had my throttle sick wide open on my 1960 Ford that I owned at age 19.  It
> was a 292 V8 and a three speed manual floor shifter.   I had the air cleaner
> off and when I put it back on it was turned so the throttle lever would
> stick open.  I pulled out of the service station and floored it in first
> gear.  I started to back off a bit in first gear and realized my throttle
> was stuck to the floor.  It all happens in absolute nano-seconds, and by
> instinct alone my left hand went for the key and my left foot for the
> clutch.  My left foot on the clutch beat my hand to the key and thank
> goodness the rpm was limited by valve float.   It sounded absolutely
> horrible.   The engine survived fine, but from then on I've always been very
> careful with free throttle movement.
>
> Anyone else have a throttle stick wide open?  I wonder if this type of WOT
> crash event could be related to a person that normally drives an automatic
> and the instinct is to go for the brake rather than the key and clutch.
>
> Mike
>
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