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			| teacher | 03-10-2007 04:17 PM |  
 82 Pontiac Firebird
 
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					Originally Posted by jerryc09@webtv.net
					
				 I have been driving for over 50 years.I have owned approximately 50 cars and have never replaced a clutch. Like many of my peers, I have always shifted into neutral and released the clutch at stop lights. I believe that and not "speed shifting" is the reason for longer clutch life. 
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What a great car, my firebird was, paid $400 for it, it was great, sad to sell it (for $300) anyway, I had to replace the clutch at about 138,000 miles, even with neutral stopping, so who knows?  But, like the deceased Toyota MR2 Spyder, it wasn't a Porsche |