PE> If you're travelling at 100km/hr in 4th gear, and then you stick the
PE> thing into 1st gear and take your foot off the clutch, what happens?

You get to buy a new car.

You usually cant put it into first, the synchros wont allow it.
If it hasnt got them in first, you get one fucking awful crunch
in the gearbox that may chip some teeth on the gears etc.

So the 'take your foot off the clutch' is all rather irrelevant.

PE> I'd try it out, it's just I'm not quite finished with my car yet.  :-)

Yeah, not a terrific thing to try in your
own car. You could try a work car tho |-)
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