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I can drive a stick but my depth perception is so bad I would be 20 feet from the dock.
I learned to drive a manual transmission as a teen. I also taught my wife, sons, and half a dozen other people how. I used to tell folks they could get some nice deals on manual trans cars because so few people wanted to buy them. Now they're almost like dinosaurs.
It looks like the equivalent of Ape Hangers on a motorcycle.
I was gonna say, IF you can find one. I only have one son who learned to drive manual and actively seeks to own one. My wife and daughter damn near sent me into concussion protocol trying to teach them.
Later on I stumbled upon a really easy way to teach someone. When my youngest son was about 10yo I started letting him shift from the passenger seat with my hand on top of his in the beginning. I always had control of the steering wheel, as well as the clutch, so I could disengage it as necessary. Eventually, I let him do all the shifting with no assistance from me while I still controlled the steering, and clutch. He got real smooth with it, and did it most of the time he was the only passenger with me. When he turned 16 he had no problem using the clutch petal because he had been shifting and feeling me use it through the shifter for years. I taught my oldest son the same way, after my youngest, but it only took a week and a half. Their steering and braking is what almost killed me a couple hundred times.I was gonna say, IF you can find one. I only have one son who learned to drive manual and actively seeks to own one. My wife and daughter damn near sent me into concussion protocol trying to teach them.
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I learned how to drive a manual in HS, and outside of a few vehicles, just about everything in the Army was a manual. That being said, Atlanta traffic is so stop & go, I'd never buy one. Shit, riding a motorcycle in this city was bad enough.
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Why the shifter so long
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I learned to drive manual in the Army. My unit forced your hand. Either learn to drive Jeeps, Gamma Goats
, Deuce and a Half, and 5 Tons or you couldn't take a 3 Day Pass and other bullshit."Gotta grind them to find them" was what I expected on the first Mazda with a Rotary engine that I drove but it was like a hot knife through butter. I never looked back from that point on. I loved it. I still didn't get REALLY good until I went to Germany and used downshifting more than the brakes.
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The funny thing is, the larger vehicles were easier to drive than the jeeps! Btw, a kid in my unit had an RX7 with a rotary engine. Dawg....I learned to drive manual in the Army. My unit forced your hand. Either learn to drive Jeeps, Gamma Goats
"Gotta grind them to find" them was what I expected on the first Mazda with a Rotary engine but it was like a hot knife through butter. I never looked back from that point on. I loved it. I still didn't get REALLY good until I went to Germany and used downshifting more than the brakes.
My second car was a stick... my tall ass in a damn Honda CRX . Can't remember if they only offered them in manual or if I got the manual for the lower price, but in any case, that first 2 weeks had me hating driving. Then boom, starts getting easier and easier, although still a hassle. Got to the point where I could take sips of a drink and eat fries while shifting through bumper to bumper traffic. So, I'm glad I can do it, but now after not driving a stick for like the last 15 years, it would probably take a couple days to get back up to speed.
. Can't remember if they only offered them in manual or if I got the manual for the lower price, but in any case, that first 2 weeks had me hating driving. Then boom, starts getting easier and easier, although still a hassle. Got to the point where I could take sips of a drink and eat fries while shifting through bumper to bumper traffic. So, I'm glad I can do it, but now after not driving a stick for like the last 15 years, it would probably take a couple days to get back up to speed.
I'll bet every time you caught a red light on a hill, you were likeMy second car was a stick... my tall ass in a damn Honda CRX
He was Puerto Rican, wasn't he? Seemed to be a favorite car for them.
From Chicago!He was Puerto Rican, wasn't he? Seemed to be a favorite car for them.
I've rolled back into some cars like that, at a red light on an incline, in Frankfurt. Thankfully this was before road rage was a thing or I'd have been brawling with a few Conrads until the Polizei showed up.I'll bet every time you caught a red light on a hill, you were like
My pops taught me a trick when I was first learning. When you catch a red light on a hill, pull up the emergency brake, and when the light turns green, release the brake when you feel the gear start to catch. Saved me plenty of times!I've rolled back into some cars like that, at a red light on an incline, in Frankfurt. Thankfully this was before road rage was a thing or I'd have been brawling with a few Conrads until the Polizei showed up.
That's exactly how I fixed making that mistake.
I learned to drive manual cars when I was a youth in Jamaica. My Father used to go to foreign for weeks at a time, and left the keys to his cars. Mi usually teef dem ras, and drive them like mi own dem. When I moved to NY, I owned nothing but stick cars for the 1st 10 years for so.
....and a red light on a hill with somebody pulled up right behind me? 
I'll bet every time you caught a red light on a hill, you were like
Somebody had mentioned that to me... but I had a little office park near my apartment complex that was empty on the weekend, and there were some hilly areas back there. Spent a few hours one saturday figuring out how to get that clutch release, acceleration timing thing right.
That's exactly how I fixed making that mistake.
Funniest part of that whole story was that it was all duck tales
Never heard that "foreign" term used that way until recently... Jamaican chick I know was just telling me how she has some cousins back home asking her for money because she lives and works in foreign.
@Soul On Ice would do some James Bond shit and throw her out the seat at 75mph, all the while laughing like the Joker....
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