Even nobody cares about my posts, ROTFL, here goes anyway.
I learned to drive a stick on a 1972 Bug and it’s a good thing I did. I drove ‘72 Nova and a ‘71 Roadrunner at the local drag strip for a while after that. My next car was a ‘67 Chevy short bed step-side pickup with an unsynchronized 4 in the floor and a 411 rearend, no heat, no AC, no power steering, no nothing. When I first got it, I kept getting between gears. The solution for that was to put on the emergency brake, crawl under the truck, and manually take it out of gear. I still have the scar on my arm from getting against the exhaust. I learned to double-clutch and that got better. It taught me to drive a ton flatbed truck with a 454 and 4 in the floor that had to be double-clutched when pulling a horse trailer or a load of hay.
Good old days for sure! It all started with that old Beetle.
I care about your post.
I think it was a 72 bug that I first drove stick
well kinda
It was late (probably early actually) at a party and
I was blocked in the driveway by Rosner’s old bug
I found him but he just mumbled that the keys were in it.
I figured it out and put it in the street.
shifting gears... the rest is a very long story...
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You gave me a shiver mentioning that old non-synchro tranny. I drove school bus in my school years and the boss wanted me to handle a 1958 International. Five speed tranny with no synchro gears. Spur gears all the way and to keep it going you had to double clutch all the way up and all the way back down. The back of my shirt was wet by the time I got back to the yard every day. The boss loved me since I was the only one who could drive it with out grinding.
sounds like stick shift propelled you on to greater experiences in motor vehicles.
(No power steering on that 67 must have been a bear.)
I learned to drive on a stick shift in a 55 chevy. It propelled me to staying away from stick-shifts. my bug was a super beetle and had an auto-stick shift.