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03-06-2019, 11:47am
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America has a new automobile anti-theft device...
It's called a stick shift (Listen to the first man interviewed: "They can't drive a stick shift? That's like...unmanly!"):
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03-06-2019, 11:52am
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03-06-2019, 12:02pm
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Props to the old gal still driving a standard.
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03-06-2019, 1:54pm
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No one else in family could drive my 04
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03-06-2019, 2:48pm
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A guy who is a bartender told me in all seriousness that his manual transmission has successfully thwarted would-be car thieves twice.
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03-06-2019, 4:13pm
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My wife can drive anything. In the 70s she was married to a minister and she used to drive the Jesus bus. No power steering, three pedals and a double stick.
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03-06-2019, 5:34pm
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I took my drivers test at 16 in my 63 SS 327 4 speed Impala. The first 4 cars I owned were manuals. My C6 was a manual but my C7 is a 8 speed automatic with paddle shift. Not the same as having a clutch.
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I rode motorcycles for years before I ever drove a car with a stick. Took me about 2 minutes to get it down, and I didn't own a car with a manual transmission until after I got married. Just knowing how to shift using a clutch (whether it be a hand clutch or foot operated clutch) and what the motor sounds like when you need to shift is key, the rest is just a little muscle memory.
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03-06-2019, 6:24pm
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I learned to drive a manual in a Vette! A Chevette 4 speed.
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I learned how to drive on a standard, that's all we had.
 Started out driving an 89 Nissan "Hardbody" Pickup and an 82 Toyota Celica. Both 5 speed manuals. Took the drivers exam in the Toyota, which incidentally was my first car. (Hand me down after mom got a new car). My current daily, a 2014 Toyota Tacoma, was the first Automatic Transmission vehicle I have ever bought. I did drive an Automatic Toyota Highlander for awhile, but that was a hand me down from the wife after she got a new car. Everything else have been manuals. My current fun car, the 5.0, is a six speed manual. I like stick shifts, but I'm getting a bit old to drive one daily in LA traffic.
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03-09-2019, 10:42am
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When I was 12, my BIL taught me to drive his 4 sp Ford Cortina on a field road in NH. A couple of false starts before I got the hang of it!
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03-09-2019, 4:58pm
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When my company stopped furnishing cars, I had to buy me something. Didn't have a lot of money at the time and I bought a Mazda B2000 pickup and opted for the 4 speed manual as it was cheaper.
I loved driving it and I would take rides every sunday morning in the country because I enjoyed it so much. Never did that after I went to f150's. I really miss that little ride! I put full moon hubcaps on it. |
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