Can you drive stick?

[jldriscoll]

Dh and I both love driving a manual. The last time I bought a car, they had my model in stock in automatic, even offered it to me at the manual price....I waited for them to bring up a manual form Ohio!!!

 

[Kitty 34]

My VW was a stick but that was years ago. My DH's truck is a stick but I never drive it. However, I think if I had to, I could......isn't it like learning how to ride a bike!

 

[abaldacci]

First car was a stick and i loved it but I drive a automatic now. I live in the city to much stopping and starting. unless I move I will stay with the automactic. I can also drive a schoolbus and a firetruck(tanker). stick. Long story don't ask

 

[EROS]

I've never purchased a car with an automatic transmission. I love downshifting , except in bumper-to-bumper traffic. I now drive a '94 Volvo with a stick; when I was shopping for it I found out that Volvo only imports 3% of their cars into the U.S. with manual shifts.......

 

[browneyes]

I've owned 5 vehicles.The one before the one I have now was the only automatic and I hated it. The one I drive now actually has 2 gear sticks (4x4). My kids will need to learn how to drive a stick. My truck, my SO's truck and my SO's car are all stick shifts. His motorcycle is a manual too.

 

[Blondie]

DH tried to teach me how to drive a manual with his 1972 Corvette! All you had to do was blow on the gas pedal and that thing flew.

That was back in 1983.

Haven't attempted a stick-shift since. No thank you!

Shame too because we have a 1999 Saturn Manaul (DH's car) in the drive-way that I'll probably never drive!

I have no desire to learn how to drive manual.

 

[poptartlette]

Yes, I can fly on my Stick rather well, Thank-You.

 

[Breezy_Carol]

I prefer stick shift. My 2 Toyotas both had stick. Then when I moved up to the Taurus station wagon I had to go automatic. DH had a Ranger pick up with manual transmission. We are trying to convince 16 yo DD, who is now learning to drive, that is it ok for a girl to drive stick. I thought it was cool when I was in high school.

 

[Dream]

I can drive a stick if it's a matter of life and death but I hate it! DH will ONLY own a car with a stick...I will ONLY own an automatic (another way we are oh so compatable ). My BIL attempted to teach me how to drive a stick when I first got my license....a yellow punch-buggy. To this day he says it is that experience that started turning him grey!!! DH finally succeeded in teaching me the process when we were first married and our only car was HIS car...a cute little green Mustang with a white top and a killer stick shift!!! He quickly found some leeway in our budget to get me a used AUTOMATIC....he loved his car too much to put it through that for too long!!!

 

[newmousecateer]

Nope. Never learned how.

 

[debster812]

Yup,

My first car was a Plymouth Scamp with a 3 on the tree (3 speed manual, with the shifter on the column instead of the floor). My dad found me the car and said if I could drive this, I could drive ANYTHING (the whole being able to drive if my driver could not, and all).

It was bizzare, but a lot of fun.

 

[Towncrier]

I love the manual transmission on my Saturn SC-2. It helps make up in part for the wimpy 1.9L engine. I have always preferred a manual transmission (except, as Eros said, in bumper-to-bumper traffic). When I met DW Sue, she was driving a Ford Escort with a manual transmission. It was love at first sight.

My favorite vehicle of all was my 1979 AMC Spirit. It had a 5.0L (304 cubic inch) V-8 engine and a manual transmission. That car could MOVE. Especially after I tricked it up with a 4-barrel carb, new intake manifold, and header exhausts. You could hear me coming a mile away. Ah, the good old days.

 

[skuttle]

Yes, I can.

DH (then boyfriend) tried to teach me in highschool, but I paniced, stalled a bunch , and started to cry, so we gave up.

A couple of years ago, before I got my new car, my old car died and I had to go to work so DH and I went into a big parking lot and I learned. It doesn't bother me anymore. Of course now, DH's new car is a standard so I don't have to worry about it!

 

[MerryPoppins]

No. I'm atomatic all the way!

I have a funny story to tell. When we went on our Disney cruise, one of the ports was St. Maarten. DH rented a car to drive us around the island. He chose a manual, since he was the only one intending to drive.

We went to the beach. DH wears glasses, so he wore his croakies to keep them on. DS wandered out a little too far for my taste, so DH went out to tell him to come in closer. A big wave washed over them and sucked his glasses off, croakies and all. He looked down and saw the croakies, picked them up, no glasses!

Now, DH is blind as a bat without his glasses. He can see colors and shapes, but that is about all. He had an extra pair on the ship, but that was on the other side of the island. And I couldn't drive the car! We finally headed back around the island. He drove with me as co-pilot. It was a hair-raising experience! Other than one speed bump incident it went pretty well. No accidents. We made it back in one piece. It's a fun story now, but at the time I was scared to death.

 

[tiggerlover]

I can, but DH can't. He had a hard time buying a 2nd car when we arrived in Italy because he couldn't, but luckily he found a stick that was converted to an automatic for an elderly person.

 

[mouseclick1]

No, but I wish I could drive a stick. DH has a jeep with a manual transmission, and I really wish I could drive it! He tried to teach me, but I really didn't like it. It's a pain because we can never trade cars for the day. Someday I might give it another try!

 

[mjenni27]

I learned to drive on a stick shift. A triumph spitfire that had a habit of vaporlocking. You would drive down the road and the engine would lock up so you pulled over, opened the bonnet, took a monkey wrench and turned the motor one rotation and it fired right up. I miss that car. There is a used car lot near here with a spitfire but I cannot get my wife convinced that we need it. OH WELL, I can still remember.

 

[DixieDreamer]

Yes I drive both. Many of my cars have been stick shift - although my current one is an automatic. I learned in my early twenties - DH taught me to in our then new Toyota truck. Our marriage survived the training... and the marriage lasted alot longer than that poor truck did.

 

[binny]

yep my dad gave me the keys and said " Hop to it come back when you figured it out" LOL
It was rough go around the neighbourhood but I learned.

 

[shep]

I can drive a tractor...does that count??..