A Vehicle With A Clutch

1970 Gremlin. Drove car/trucks with clutch until relatively recently. Really helped in the snow and I like driving clutch.
Really was a pain in the patootees sitting at a light while on a steep hill and the car behind was 6 inches from my bumper.😦
 
Sunkist said:
I've never driven anything with a clutch, don't think I could figure it out.
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What you learn young does tend to be your modus operandi throughout life. A good example of that is:
Britain adopted the metric system in 1965. How well has it worked? In 2015, 60% of eighteen- to twenty-four-year-olds didn’t know their weight in kilos; 54% didn’t know their height in centiwhatsits.
 
retiredtraveler said:
Didn't you have a similar problem in the early 70's when you switched your money to decimal?
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Tell me about it! Metrification was always viewed as a way of duping motorists. Today's fuel price at the pump is around £1:40, but that's per litre.
Had we still had gallons, that price translates into £6:36, imagine the furore that would be? The government of the day pulled off a coup given that the word gallon is still used when describing a car's fuel consumption.
 
I learned on an automatic but quickly moved to a VW beetle when I was 20. Then another VW, then all automaic till a few years ago when I stopped driving. I am happy not driving and am saving tons of money on all stuff car. More Yarn!!
 
My dad taught me in an automatic. The first thing I did was back out the driveway, shoot across the road and over the curb into the neighbors' back yard. (I was certain that would be my first, and last, driving lesson.) Dad was surprisingly calm and said, "Okay. Now put it in D and *gently* drive back to the road...."

My older brother taught me to drive his '63 VW Bug (Manual). He didn't tell me I didn't have to start over in 1st Gear after making a turn(!). After he peeled his face off the windshield he exclaimed, "I didn't even know you could GET IT in 1st Gear at that speed!"
 
Learned to drive stick in my sister's boyfriend 49 merc. Anything to get me out of the apartment so they could neck. (wonder if people still neck). :unsure:
Still have 2 cars and 2 motorcycles with a clutch. All our race cars had stick shift.

Tell you what, If you want a challenge, try shifting an old 40 foot GMC bus equipped with a grummpy wet clutch spicer 4 speed non syncro transmission. Put thousands of miles on that bus pulling a trailer and still crunched gears occasionally. :)



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