Webster...not weber

[psg]

It must be an Italian thing...What is meant when the term dizzy is used? The brits and americans talk about distributors, rotors or caps... psg

[mbouse]

dizzy is short for distributor. and, i honestly learned to use it from the LBC crowd.

[So Cal Mark]

the perfect nickname, since it's not only short for distributor, but since it spins in tight circles sometimes get disoriented and suffers spark scatter, this is described as a blonde dizzy, or used in a sentence; " my dizzy went all blonde on me"

[manoa matt]

OK. so who coined the term that's short for transmission?

[mdrburchette]

A lazy mechanic?

[mbouse]

OK. so who coined the term that's short for transmission?

which one? Gear Box or Tranny ??

again, give the Brits credit if you choose gear box

[So Cal Mark]

tranny.... hmmm. Could have been Hugh Grant. But more than likely the phrase was coined long ago. Another perfect nickname if you consider the shifter is artificially attached to the tranny

[racydave]

Yes, and thongs used to go on your feet. Now they go near the shifter...

[adrians]

So you Americans say Shift or Stick - where we say 'a manual'.

[mbouse]

we also say manual

and

we frequently say stick-shift