Posted on 07/19/2019 12:03:52 PM PDT by C19fan
My Mom continued to buy stick shift cars until she retired. Said she had “more control” She went over to an auto because my Dad had pretty bad arthritis in his hands and might need to drive.
My wife learned how to drive in my ‘81 stick shift Toyota Tacoma pickup, manual steering and all. Both my boys were taught to drive a manual. I’ve had 9 vehicles with stick and only a few with auto.
I sold an old stick shift VW Dasher to an elderly lady. Her two boys wanted to learn. She hadn’t driven one in years, but I checked her out and she remembered very quickly. I had her stop on steep hills and restart without coasting back - console mounted parking brake helps a lot.
I learned to drive when I was a kid on a stick and have never driven any other kind.
We live on a cattle farm now in retirement and have two diesel tractors.
Neither one of use had to be taught to drive them when we bought them.
All three of my kids know how to drive sticks because we taught them.
It's inexplicable why so many folks don't know how to drive a standard transmission vehicle.
Less than 5% of Millenials can drive one.
Less than 5% of Millenials can drive one because less than 10% of cars have one these days.
I do have to wonder about how many Millenials can stop a car after the power brakes fail - not the brakes, the power brakes (or after snapping a power steering belt), probably not very many!
I asked you to explain it in English. I still don't know what you're saying.
I'm a cattle farmer. Try big red crayola. Thanks.
It sounds like she is in the “ahl bidness” as my dad would say. Cool!
"ahl" as in the oil in your car?
Thanks. I think I get it now. :-)
I have always purchased my vehicles with a manual transmission I just enjoy driving them!!! I purchased a Ford Escape had to order one with a manual transmission very difficult to get them now!!!
OK. Oil fields in west Texas (permian basin) and gas fields back home in western Pennsylvania (Marcellus shale). She has switched jobs now and is doing natural gas fueled electrical generation.
A buddy of mine had a Dodge work van three on the tree. I used to drive it from time to time and like yours second went out but it could be driven with 1st and 3rd only. We used to call it the bucking bronco.
I haven’t had many cars in my life maybe about 8 or 10 or so. I drive them til they die. I had one “mini van” for a short period of time and it was automatic. The 9 other cars were stick. I drive one now.
I know a guy that borrowed his brothers stick shift in the early 80’s he had to go up a small hill and at the top was a traffic light. He burnt the clutch out in like 10 minutes and swore he would never drive a stick again.
My Mother was kind of a terrible driver but for some strange reason my father purchased 3 different manual trannys for her. She actually did drive them although not very well but she kinda sorta got the hang of it. What was he thinking?
The biggest dog car in the history of manuals (and she had it) was a 1979 or 1980 4 cylinder Mustang, leather interior it was really nice but so under powered it was a horror show.
Well, that wasn’t that hard, now was it? Thanks. :-)
My crazy friend had a beat up old van with a 3-on-the-tree. One day, the shifter broke off. I have no idea how he managed to do that, but he was able to drive it by using a cow horn. It apparently already had the tip cut off, so there was a convenient hole that fit nicely over the shifter stub. It was sloppy, but it worked.
I have a car with three levers. One for a five speed transmission, another for a transfer case and a third for a difflock.
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