<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>I'm so glad there's a possible explanation!</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I really appreciate your expert suggestion and I'm sure Jerry will follow your lead.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I'm absolutely intent in finding the answer so others can be aware of this including myself for regardless of how rare this can be is certainly a remainder to all not to be so naive as I was to mess with a faulty transmission with the engine on outside of the cab. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I've driven buses, motorized cable cars, moving trucks and should have known better!</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Thanks again!<br><br>Alex Popovics <div>Publisher </div><div>SF Real Estate Times </div><div>(415)278-9500</div><div><a href="http://SFREtimes.com">SFREtimes.com</a></div><div><br></div></div><div><br>On Jan 24, 2018, at 3:49 PM, bugnut--- via Silly_little_cars <<a href="mailto:silly_little_cars@lists.sillylittlecars.com">silly_little_cars@lists.sillylittlecars.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div>Don’t know if this was the problem, but have seen it other vehicles.</div>
<div>IF one of the motor mounts and/or transmission mounts are broken, the motor
moves.</div>
<div>It torques away from the broke mount. This could explain why it wouldn’t
shift into park or reverse.</div>
<div>Once the engine was running the motor shift could cause the throttle cable
to be pulled wide open.</div>
<div>After that happened the torque (motor shift) would keep it open.</div>
<div>Again, this is just a theory.</div>
<div>Also glad nobody was hurt.</div>
<div>Later, </div>
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<div style="font-color: black"><b>From:</b> <a title="silly_little_cars@lists.sillylittlecars.com" href="mailto:silly_little_cars@lists.sillylittlecars.com">Dan Das Mann via
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<div><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 24, 2018 6:31 PM</div>
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<div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Silly Little Cars] One in a million GO 4 freak
accident with a hopefully for the 99 Interceptor a happy
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<div>I am so glad you are not injured. I must say with that being said... This
is kind of a hilarious story. I send you great luck with the repair gods</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 24, 2018 3:11 PM, "Alex Popovics via
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<div>Thanks Alec!</div>
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<div>There wasn't any object on the pedal for the centrifugal force was so
great that everything flew out and it still was stuck on maximum speed.</div>
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<div>I thought that maybe the oil change person that asked me to turn the
engine on might have manually pushed the throttle down and gotten it stuck,
but it actually got in the maximum acceleration the instant I put it in drive.
Jerry seems to have a theory of how the throttle was stuck.</div>
<div>All I know is I want to find out for its mind boggling how this could
have happened.</div>
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<div>Thanks again!<br><br>
<div>Alex Popovics
<div>Publisher </div>
<div>SF Real Estate Times </div>
<div><a href="tel:(415)%20278-9500" target="_blank" value="+14152789500">(415)278-9500</a></div>
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<div><br>On Jan 24, 2018, at 1:31 PM, Alec Bennett via Silly_little_cars
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<div>Crazy story. Nice to hear where that go4 went, I've been admiring it
for awhile when it was parked off 3rd street. Love that mod he did to move
the e brake and install the bench. </div>
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<div>I have no idea what could have pegged your throttle, but something
similar has happened to me in the past. I had a water bottle on the ledge
next to my seat and I stopped to let a pedestrian cross the street and the
bottle fell on my accelerator, making me lurch towards the pedestrian!
Sketchy. </div>
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<div><br>On Jan 24, 2018, at 1:22 PM, J W via Silly_little_cars <<a href="mailto:silly_little_cars@lists.sillylittlecars.com" target="_blank">silly_little_cars@lists.<wbr>sillylittlecars.com</a>>
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Silly_little_cars <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:silly_little_cars@lists.sillylittlecars.com" target="_blank">silly_little_cars@lists.<wbr>sillylittlecars.com</a>></span>
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but what about being at full throttle by itself?<br>That's what I
experienced.<br><br>Thanks<br><span class="m_-3709882626139725335im m_-3709882626139725335HOEnZb"><br>Alex
Popovics<br>Publisher<br>SF Real Estate Times<br><a href="tel:%28415%29278-9500" target="_blank" value="+14152789500">(415)278-9500</a><br><a href="http://SFREtimes.com" target="_blank">SFREtimes.com</a><br><br><br></span>
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<div class="m_-3709882626139725335h5">> On Jan 24, 2018, at 9:03 AM,
Lokisgodhi via Silly_little_cars <<a href="mailto:silly_little_cars@lists.sillylittlecars.com" target="_blank">silly_little_cars@lists.silly<wbr>littlecars.com</a>>
wrote:<br>><br>> Actually not a unusual occurrence. Videos of
unmanned vehicles driving in circles is a genre on places like Youtube.
Usually caused by the driver exiting the vehicle while it was running
and knocked into gear or they leave a pet in the car which knocks it
into gear. It usually ends with the vehicle smashing into something and
coming to stop, running out of fuel or a cop smashing and window, then
wrestling the car into
neutral.<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> Message:
1<br>> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 05:37:46 -0800<br>> From: Alex
Popovics <<a href="mailto:alex@realestatetimes.com" target="_blank">alex@realestatetimes.com</a>><br>> To: <a href="mailto:silly_little_cars@lists.sillylittlecars.com" target="_blank">silly_little_cars@lists.sillyl<wbr>ittlecars.com</a><br>>
Subject: [Silly Little Cars] One in a<br>> million GO 4 freak
accident with<br>> a hopefully for
the<br>> 99 Interceptor a happy ending<br>> Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:BE5B47E1-7DDF-4E40-B6E5-D2659EE1B5F0@realestatetimes.com" target="_blank">BE5B47E1-7DDF-4E40-B6E5-D2659<wbr>EE1B5F0@realestatetimes.com</a>><br>>
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charset=us-ascii<br>><br>> Hello all,<br>><br>> I just woke
up after a harrowing<br>> experience that only you as a group can
appreciate and<br>> possibly solve the mystery as to what
happened.<br>><br>> I own now a possibility seriously<br>>
disabled unique 99 GO 4.<br>><br>> I purchased it a few years ago
from the<br>> couple that owns the San Francisco Body & Paint
Shop.<br>> (The Interceptor still has their shop logo on the
front).<br>><br>> It was lovingly restored by them in a<br>>
beautiful yellow metallic paint with a modified bench seat<br>> for
two, thus having the transmission handle placed on the<br>> floor by
the left door. That door has been out of alignment<br>> so I have
kept it locked using the right door only.<br>><br>> Yesterday
afternoon I couldn't start<br>> the vehicle after using it all day.
At first I though the<br>> starter was failing due to overheating of
its coil.<br>> I did notice though that the<br>> transmission
shifter felt kind of loose as I shifted it<br>> thinking it wasn't
engaging on the park position to allow<br>> the vehicle to
start.<br>><br>> I did however eventually realized it<br>>
would start on the neutral position but to my surprise it<br>>
wouldn't get on reverse.<br>><br>> I happened to have to go to my
long<br>> time regular vehicles mechanic to pick up my van after
a<br>> tune up before he would close for the day, so I drove
there<br>> without any problems on drive.<br>><br>> When I got
there he assumed the<br>> transmission was shot since it lost the
reverse gear.<br>><br>> As he was closing his shop the
reverse<br>> gear started working but the park position still would
not<br>> engage, then as he entered his car to leave home the
park<br>> position engaged and the reverse was fine, so I ran to
the<br>> mechanic before he left and he was a bit puzzled,
thinking<br>> it might be the transmission safety pin that might
be<br>> faulty.<br>><br>> I drove to a coffee shop and when
I<br>> started it afterwards it once again didn't engage the<br>>
reverse or parking position.<br>><br>> I decided to go to a oil
change shop<br>> before they closed since I was due for a oil change
anyway<br>> and to at the same time check my transmission
fluid.<br>><br>> When I got there the new management<br>>
decided not to service my vehicle anymore due to liability<br>>
concerns since they engine pit is just wide enough for me to<br>>
back into it and since we had to push it back they didn't<br>> feel
it would be safe. Thank God for that!<br>><br>> I asked if they
could at least help me<br>> check the transmission fluid since it was
already dark. They<br>> did, and about three of their workers
gathered around the<br>> odd looking vehicle just outside their
building at their<br>> parking area.<br>><br>> Here's where the
weirdest possible set<br>> of circumstances created an experience
most likely no one<br>> ever experienced with a Go 4.<br>><br>>
Since I had a few boxes, helmets and<br>> coats I'm my trunk I placed
them mostly on the seat and roof<br>> to slide the luggage/engine
cover back. One of the oil<br>> changer personnel checking the
transmission dipstick asked<br>> me to turn the engine on.<br>> I
from the outside of the vehicle (in<br>> retrospect I now realized
that was the stupidest thing I<br>> could ever have done, to have
boxes on the seat instead of<br>> myself!!!), turned the key but
since was in the park<br>> position it wouldn't start.<br>> I went
to the other side of the vehicle<br>> from the outside to shift it to
neutral.<br>> I inadvertently left the key in the on<br>> position
and the second I changed the gear also<br>> inadvertently into drive
instead of neutral the accelerator<br>> throttle inexplicably got
stuck on maximum as if someone was<br>> flooring the accelerator
pedal!!!<br>> Because the front wheel was turned all<br>> the way
to the left the vehicle went in circles at maximum<br>> speed with me
on my knees on the inside of the circle (I<br>> only got my knees
scrapped by the ordeal), hanging from the<br>> locked door
instinctively trying to change the gear to<br>> neutral just as if I
was at a rodeo trying to rope a steer!<br>> As I shifted from drive
to neutral it<br>> got into reverse instead (now it worked!!!), and
the GO 4<br>> shot itself in reverse on a strait line into and over a
curb<br>> around a landscaped area by the parking lot, and
literally<br>> flew on top of a huge and soft bush where it came to a
full<br>> stop.<br>><br>> Everything inside and on top of
the<br>> vehicle flew out by the centrifugal force when it was
going<br>> in circles as the right door was opened, including
the<br>> luggage/engine cover our of its rail. My ski helmet
(for<br>> cold weather) got somehow mangled, the only damaged
item<br>> from inside the vehicle.<br>><br>> At first I thought
maybe one of the<br>> boxes I place on the seat had fallen on the
accelerator<br>> pedal somehow, but afterwards I realized that wasn't
the<br>> case, since after everything inside the vehicle flew out
as<br>> it was going in circles it still went at full speed
in<br>> reverse on a straight line on top of the accommodating
huge<br>> and soft bush.<br>><br>> Afterwards it would crank
but not<br>> start.<br>><br>> The differential probably hit the
curb<br>> since it's now leaking some fluid. It was dark and I'm
sure<br>> Jerry, our master mechanic in SF is going to find all
kinds<br>> of damage underneath with the suspension and more by
the<br>> sheer force of hitting that curb at full
speed.<br>><br>> I'm obviously thankful that neither I<br>> or
the fellows around me didn't get hurt nor the out of<br>> control
unmanned vehicle didn't careened into the nearby<br>> street into
moving traffic.<br>><br>> I am heart broken though for I know
my<br>> beloved 99 Interceptor have many parts that are very<br>>
difficult to find if seriously damaged, not to mention the<br>>
possible overwhelming cost to fix it, effectively possibly<br>>
totaling a vehicle without any body damage.<br>><br>> I hope you
as a group can help me to<br>> figure out how on earth the
accelerator throttle got stuck<br>> on maximum all by
itself.<br>><br>> Keep on driving...<br>><br>> Alex
Popovics<br>> Publisher<br>> SF Real Estate Times<br>> <a href="tel:%28415%29278-9500" target="_blank" value="+14152789500">(415)278-9500</a><br>> <a href="http://SFREtimes.com" target="_blank">SFREtimes.com</a><br>><br>><br>><br>>
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