I actually owned one of those. I taught myself how to drive a manual transmission with that car in the early '80s.
That’s funny I had a friend who taught me to drive a stick in a blue B210 in the early 80’s. I managed to get it stuck in a ditch. His parents weren’t happy. My friend Chip passed away last year. I miss him.
A pet peeve of mine is that the manual on driving a manual xmission was wrong. It said to gradually let out the clutch pedal when it started biting. That's not what you actually do; you actually let out the clutch until it starts biting, then pause there while the car gets moving smoothly. After that pause you can gradually let the clutch out the rest of the way.Anyone who tries to continue letting out the clutch when it starts to bite finds himself bucking, probably stalling the engine - and certainly looking like a fool.
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