My first car was a 1966 turquoise VW bug. It was a stick. The way I learned to drive it was that my stepdad turned me loose in the barn lot after he showed how the gears were laid out on the floor of the car. I drove it until someone t-boned me in it, then my nephew turned it into a dune buggy. I never did drive sticks well, especially when stopped on a hill.
What year, make and model did you learn on?t
A Vehicle With A Clutch
- Thread starter Jazzy1
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Me too!
Magna-Carta
Senior Member
- Location
- UK
I leaned to drive in a manual Mazda 323 in the early 80s. Ive only ever own cars with manual transmission. Never even considered owning an automatic.
ChiroDoc
Senior Member
- Location
- The Dixie Riviera
A few years ago we flew to Germany. I priced rental cars online, and was surprised to find that almost all the cars were manual transmissions. A car with automatic transmission was more expensive to rent.
I couldn't figure why that was, except that perhaps gasoline usage is less with a manual tranny. Turned out we didn't need to rent because we got transport to the music festival in Bad Doberan from a private driver.
Aunt Bea
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- Location
- Near Mount Pilot
I never drove a car with a standard transmission but I did drive an old John Deere B, similar to this one on my grandmother's farm.
I remember my father running along side shouting instructions sprinkled with some extremely colorful adjectives until I finally got the hang of it!
We used that old tractor, from the 40s, right uo through the 80s to plow the driveway at the farm.
After our father died it went to my oldest brother and he eventually sold it to a collector.
Old tractors always make me think of SFs long time member Ken N Tx.
I remember my father running along side shouting instructions sprinkled with some extremely colorful adjectives until I finally got the hang of it!
We used that old tractor, from the 40s, right uo through the 80s to plow the driveway at the farm.
After our father died it went to my oldest brother and he eventually sold it to a collector.
Old tractors always make me think of SFs long time member Ken N Tx.