My jeep is a stick...wouldn’t have it any other way!
Hah.
I learned to drive on a John Deere "A". Automatic trans. was not an option.
Learned how to double clutch on it also.
I used to always get a manny tranny for economy and reliability, but the new auto tranny’s are so much improved I prefer them, especially in traffic jams. I would only go stick again in a sports or muscle car.
While lighting a cigarette and tuning the radio...
Just us elders.
I’ve owned 8 cars and only 1 was an automatic. I took my driver’s test in a manual. Recently I was shopping for a newer used car and tried a few of those ‘paddle-shifter’ transmissions and missed the control of a manual.
And I’m a relative young-un (42), and most of my gear-head friends drive manuals, but most others drive automatics.
If it doesn’t have three pedals, I don’t want it.
This must be a subversive liberal plot...
I can drive one, my husband taught me...marital no-man’s land. I like them except for hills with ice and snow covered roads.
It was required when I took driver’s training but was no big deal because I was already and experienced driver in a Ford F150 with 3 on the tree.
I prefer a stick to an automatic.
I remember trying to teach one of my kids to drive a stick about 16 years ago. This kid is brilliant, a double major in the sciences and instructional tempered as well. But the car I had was equiped with a grabby quick spring pressure hydro clutch and he couldn’t get the feel for it. It made him so mad I thought he would have a stroke.
When a lot of use older guys learned we had steering column mounted three speeds with low rpm higher torgue engines on old pick-up trucks and sedans to start learning on. It made it a lot easier to get started. Even if you slammed it and popped it, it would still muddle through without the stalls and giant jerks of the higher rpm engines of the 80s and 90s.
My current vehicle is the first on in almost 25 years that has automatic transmission. Before that every car but one had manual transmission. I think I can still drive a stick.
I married a shiftless woman; but that was remedied in the first year.
guilty...
Up to a 18 speed :)
have a stick.
It would seem that the government overlords would have mandated more standard transmissions because of the fuel economy involved.
Go figure
“How many here can drive a “Stick”?”
I have never purchased a new car with an auto trans. My wife and 2 kids all drive manuals and LIKE IT!
This is what I learned to drive a “Stick” on:
http://www.tractordata.com/farm-tractors/000/2/9/291-farmall-m.html
Learned to drive on a stick and loved smashing that pedal on highway 9, 17 and the 280.
Nothing feels so good as downshifting as go into a curve and slamming it up coming out of one.
Vrooom!
/johnny