View source for Students with automotive skills

Here are students who can do cool stuff with cars. Include good stories to illustrate.

===Drive Stick Shift===

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller] (maniacally)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dpr Daniel Rooney] (erotically)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06bwd Brendan Dougherty] (smooth as shit out of a duck's ass)

Joe Shoer '06 (that's what she said)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07kfm Katie Montgomery] (could drive anything from a '82 Toyota Tercel to a forklift, or so she believes)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung] (She learned in a week.)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08sjp Samantha Peterson] (automatics are for women)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jyl Janey Waney Lee] (She doesn't even need to say anything.)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06ljw Leah Joy Weintraub] (In her other life, she actually is a race car driver.) (So she has problems making right turns.)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06lc Lucy Cox-Chapman](Worse than her brother)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09jrc Jay Cox-Chapman](Better than his sister)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07hmh Helena Harnik] (I have two driving licenses, one for each side of the road. Yeah that's right- I can use either hand to shift. That makes me 2x more stick-savvy than everyone else)

[[Ronit Bhattacharyya '07]] (Only ever driven stick shift; now I just wish I could drive on the right side of the road)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08amr_2 Anne Royston '08] (can shift from both driver's and passenger's seat; working on backseat)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07mse Matthew Earle '07] (Double-clutch downshifts saves wear on synchros, but may have caused the expensive timing chain misalignment he just had fixed)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tfv Travis Vachon] (Including sketchy old truck clutches)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06chh Clara Hard] (West Coast style)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09nsc Nick Colella] (Has to watch out for moose)

===Drive Really Fast In Reverse===

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dsf Danny Fischler] once pulled a k-turn, maxing at around 20mph, across the width of a freeway entrance.  With [http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06rmb Becky frickin' Burditt] in the back seat.  Ca-raaaaaazy.

===Sweet Jumps===

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] likes to go as fast as he can when he sees speed bumps and likes to think he gets an inch or two of air in his 2-ton SUV every time.

===Change a Tire===

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez '06] has changed more than his fair share of tires and learned that salt+rust will effectively glue a wheel onto the axle. Solution? Wedge the flat edge of your hubcap-removal tool into the jammed area and whack the crap out of it with a hammer. Eventually, if you're lucky, that wheel will pop right off.

===Jumpstart a Car===

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez '06] has also had his fair share of car jumpstarts and knows not to connect the black plug to red and red plug to black. If you do, you will blow the battery fuse in your fusebox and burn out some expensive component in your car. Through his learning processes, he found just how costly it is to replace the stock amp that powers your stereo.

[[Jonathan Landsman]] (who's been zapped)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06ljw Leah Joy Weintraub] (but only if you ask nicely)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tfv Travis Vachon]

=== Parallel Park ===

[[Jonathan Landsman]], native New Yorker, has parked in spots so tight that getting in and out depended on using room provided by nudging cars parked in front and behind, counting on the flexibility of their shocks.  His record in Williamstown was set when moving into his [[Morgan#East|Morgan East]] room for the [[Summer 2004|Summer of 2004]], when he parked at the top of [[Spring Street]], leaving enough room on either end of the car to fit one finger, but not two.

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] is also a native New Yorker and often takes it upon himself to giggle at the non-city folk that have such a tough time parking in huge spots on Spring Street.

===Get Parking Tickets ===
[[Chris St.Cyr]]  (5 tickets and the infamous car boot to the front tire in first two months here as a freshman)

[[Evan Miller]] (6 in as many days)

[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] two in three days in Queens, NYC.  Both while at the vehicle, one while inside it.

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] accidentally left car parked illegally outside of Mission for days to find 4 tickets upon his return.

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06lc Lucy Cox-Chapman] forgot that her car was parked at the end of Spring St. for four days and found 3 tickets when she finally remembered.

===Get Speeding Tickets===

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] (2 tickets, 88 in a 55 in Virginia and 91 in a 65 in New Jersey--cut down to 84 by the nice state trooper--within a month)

[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07mse Matthew Earle] ($305 on I-87 south of Plattsburgh for 88, that they know about, in a 65)