PAPPAGALLO'S DRIVING.

Post by **rockatansky4073** » Wed Apr 23, 2003 5:45 am

This can probably only mainly be seen in the WIDESCREEN version, but check out the shot of MAX taking off out of the compound, just after HUMUNGUS loads his magnum.

Now PAPAGALLO's driving the LONEWOLF MACHINE, which is an automatic, so how come he's sitting there, jolting away, waiting for the truck to go first, look real close at him, the cars like hopping as if hes attempting to hold it with his clutch and do a hill start, without using his break. Now i've driven an automatic and i know a hill start in an automatic is way easier than a manual. The car catches it in time when you take your foot off the brake, for you not to roll back at all.(In my manual, i hold it with the clutch, i don't use my brake its just easier), But whats up with PAPPA's start?

Post by **Thunderdome** » Wed Apr 23, 2003 4:28 pm

Wait a second...you mean some people watch Road Warrior in full screen?!?!!

Post by **Anklecranker** » Wed Apr 23, 2003 5:01 pm

Perhaps the front engine was mated to an automatic and the rear engine is mated to a manual.

My Dad built a 'Hoover' tractor 50 years ago that had both manual and automatic transmissions tied together. Pappagallo could have been "launching" from the engine that had the manual.

Post by **rockatansky4073** » Thu Apr 24, 2003 2:02 am

yeah, sometimes i do dig out my old EX RENTAL, just to hear those old cracks and pops, and the nighttime scenes that are so dark, you can barely see, what GYRO's doing with that can

Post by **rockatansky4073** » Sat Apr 26, 2003 3:18 am

oh nothing, i just had to make ONE THOUSAND.

Post by **rockatansky4073** » Sat May 24, 2003 12:03 pm

oh nothing, just had to make one thousand 2 hundred and 24

Post by **Bronze21** » Sat May 24, 2003 12:51 pm

Here's my go at it... was the camera and cameraman in the way of him driving past? Besides, there's only enough room for one vehicle to go throught the compound entrance at a time, and he was probably just anxious to make the run.

(Or he was doing his impression of the Chevy Monte Carlo commercial... Oh, O oh oh...)

Post by **camchain** » Sat May 24, 2003 12:52 pm

I've noticed that too. Maybe it's meant to be like that. Auto boxes are very complex pieces of kit. They have to be treated quite carefully and that one blatantly wasn't, as it was in some custom vehicle that hadn't been maintained too well. Maybe the torque converter was f**ked? Also, if the idle speed of the engine was set high, then the "creep" that you get from an auto would be quite conciderable and the brakes would need to be applied just to stop it racing off, giving a very jerky start. I've actually seen that happen as well. A two litre monteg with it's tickover ste to just under 1000RPM can go along at about 35mph just on the creep from it's auto box!!!

either that, or he's a terrible driver

Post by **rockatansky4073** » Sat May 24, 2003 1:58 pm

Yeah i go with BRONZE, i think he was just way too anxious, sh*t we all do the same thing at traffic lights, ya know slowly bob and creep up every inch or so.

Post by **glennwalsh** » Sat May 24, 2003 7:51 pm

I saw a VW Golf 4X4 conversion that had the same arrangement with a manual transmission for the front engine and an automatic in the rear. They were intending to put a manual in the rear, but using the auto simplified things. The guy said that the car tended to creep though...