Great topic Nash.

Back when I had my 68 Coupe
http://firstgenfirebird.org/show/closeup.mv?CarID=85
I lived in the SF Bay Area (lots of hills) and was on my way home from my girl friends house. I was heading down this long hill into a valley so to speak, when the car just goes to idle? Dead pedal... you got it... the throttle cable broke!

I could only "coast" about an 1/8 of the way up the next hill... this is on a back road type of area in a very exclusive type of neighborhood... but the homes were quite a ways off... anyway, I thought maybe... I could slowly idle up the hill... Nice try! Not!

So, I park, open the trunk and happened to always carry some aircraft wire (bailing wire) and rigged a length of wire to the throttle linkage through the back of the hood and to the window. A hand pull, throttle if you will... well, I couldn't close the hood all the way with this method It took a little while to get a good feel for the right throttle control, I did get up the hill and was on my way! Even though it's only a 25mph, area... with the hood not properly latched... again, you guessed it, the hood fly’s open and almost smacks the windshield! (Scarred the ****e out of me) and put a nice gouge in my fresh paint on top of the fender! (I was not happy!!)

I pulled it together... the hood, and the hinges were fine (somehow?) and I was able to continue, and made it home to my driveway where I could properly replace the cable... and never had another problem... with that!

I've been called McGiver (sp?) by more than one person over the years for being able to fix or at least temp fix just about anything... But I've learned to be a little more careful! Hey, I was only 17...

Brett - 67 Drop Top 455!