The Secret Of Reverse

Something I've thought about a few times is how if you park a Saab 95 or 96 so that it's has to be backed out, it will be virtually impossible to steal, unless you are a Saab person. When I came back up to school for the semester, I borrowed my dads book Runnin' On Empty, The Best of Satch Carlson, by Satch Carlson. It's basically just a book full of reprints of his magazine columns. One of the columns I found found especially funny talks about how some cars are harder to steal than others:

"The 96 has a four-speed gearbox of delicate temper, with it's shifting linkage traveling along through various lengths of spaghetti until it arrives at a shifting lever on the column. No problem with the forward gears; it's just a standard H-pattern, with first where you would find reverse on a three-speed DeSoto or something."

"Finding reverse on a Saab 96, however, is something of an intricate art, (THIS SECTION CENSORED) along with several imprecations in Scandahoovian."

"...I remember thinking that if you parked a Saab so that it had to be backed up, only the most dedicated thief would ever steal it. Unless he was another Saab freak, and they all take a blood oath not to steal each others' cars or reveal to Outsiders the secret of reverse."