arminnie
<font color=blue>Tossed the butter kept the gin<br
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I learned to drive on a '49 Dodge - I don't think automatic had been invented yet.
Today's stick shifts are NOTHING compared to the old cars. That Dodge would stall if you didn't let the clutch out with total precision.
I probably went 25 years without driving a stick - and when did I have to do it? In a snow storm in PA. I had to get a Jeep that was on a hill sloped down into a building. I wasn't even sure where reverse was on this thing much less how I was going to back it up the snowy hill, but I did.
Then I'm driving down these tiny little back roads (full of snow) trying to remember when you are supposed to down shift to make a turn and where those gears are on this jeep. My old days of stick driving it was on the steerling wheel - the positions are totally different than stick on the floor.
And then there is the trip I made in LA where I drove 2 hours going back and forth between stopping and first gear - I think I made it to second gear once or twice.
My sister's car is stick (she waited 2 months for it to arrive). She likes to borrow our van. One day I moved her car as it was in the way in the drive. My sister is 12 years younger and thinks I know nothing. When she got back home she said "I didn't know you could drive a stick". Honestly almost anyone could move one six feet in a drive way.
Today's stick shifts are NOTHING compared to the old cars. That Dodge would stall if you didn't let the clutch out with total precision.
I probably went 25 years without driving a stick - and when did I have to do it? In a snow storm in PA. I had to get a Jeep that was on a hill sloped down into a building. I wasn't even sure where reverse was on this thing much less how I was going to back it up the snowy hill, but I did.
Then I'm driving down these tiny little back roads (full of snow) trying to remember when you are supposed to down shift to make a turn and where those gears are on this jeep. My old days of stick driving it was on the steerling wheel - the positions are totally different than stick on the floor.
And then there is the trip I made in LA where I drove 2 hours going back and forth between stopping and first gear - I think I made it to second gear once or twice.
My sister's car is stick (she waited 2 months for it to arrive). She likes to borrow our van. One day I moved her car as it was in the way in the drive. My sister is 12 years younger and thinks I know nothing. When she got back home she said "I didn't know you could drive a stick". Honestly almost anyone could move one six feet in a drive way.
