LOL. Years ago a friend of my Dad’s had a beat up rusted out Plymouth Valiant, Slant 6 and 3 on the tree that he was planning on getting rid of. He parked it at the Green Acres Shopping Plaza on Long Island, at that time it was considered the car theft capital of the world. Sure enough someone tried to make off with it. It just so happened that one of Nassau County’s finest was patrolling the parking lot and noticed how the would-be thief kept stalling it out because he didn’t know how to drive a stick shift and got busted.
A manual transmission saved one girl’s life in a carjacking a few years ago.
The hoods couldn’t drive the car.
She coasted to a low speed and bailed out.