Stick Shifts and Sports Cars

[oldwomanc6 60]

How many of you (especially youngsters) even know how? If you do, would you be willing to teach a potential hook-up? in your own car? or borrow one so as not to screw yours up? Or is your Prius your dream car?


This might will be fun to see what you all answer.

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[skydiver30960 0]

I've owned two stickshift vehicles: a 97 Jeep Wrangler and a 99 Jeep Wrangler. The number of people who have driven both vehicles, other than me, I can count on one hand.

I just can't handle sitting shotgun while somebody grinds the gears and clutch to dust. Part of me smiles because I bought the 99 when it was 11 years old with 140,000 miles on it: the clutch's maiden virtue was LONG gone by the time I got my hands on it. But it just doesn't matter: it's MY clutch, my transmission, and I can't stand somebody else hurting it.


Never mind a "potential hookup:" I'm trying to get my WIFE used to driving the thing and it's a jaw-clenching, white-knuckle, tongue-biting exercise in restraint.

... especially when she misses the 2nd-to-3rd shift and instead finds 5th.



Elvisio "it's the OTHER stick I like her hands on" Rodriguez

[eeneR 3]

I am willing to bet the ratio of women on here that can drive stick vs the regular community is higher.

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I am willing to bet the ratio of women on here that can drive stick vs the regular community is higher.

I know a few that can use the stick AND rudders!

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How many of you (especially youngsters) even know how? If you do, would you be willing to teach a potential hook-up? in your own car? or borrow one so as not to screw yours up? Or is your Prius your dream car?


This might will be fun to see what you all answer.

what about column shift, how many of you can drive a column

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[oldwomanc6 60]

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How many of you (especially youngsters) even know how? If you do, would you be willing to teach a potential hook-up? in your own car? or borrow one so as not to screw yours up? Or is your Prius your dream car?


This might will be fun to see what you all answer.

whart about column shift, how many of you can drive a column

Meee! Mee! Mee! Three in the tree, four on the floor! Hmmm, a new permutation. BTW, Edsels and Ramblers don't count as sports cars.

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How many of you (especially youngsters) even know how? If you do, would you be willing to teach a potential hook-up? in your own car? or borrow one so as not to screw yours up? Or is your Prius your dream car?


This might will be fun to see what you all answer.

whart about column shift, how many of you can drive a column

Groan. That was one of Detroits dumbest ideas ever.

I knew a guy who had a mid-60's Chevy Impala with a 427 4bbl, and a 3-speed column shift. Some old man had ordered it that way.

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[missbrz 0]

I drive a stick shift, and I will (and have) taught people on my car. So I answered yes & yes. but if I had a manual sports car.... maybe I'd be less than willing to teach on that. Though I have found not all guys like being taught how to drive by a girl even if I'm the only one willing to let them kill the clutch.

o and for your curiosity as to the young thing, I learned how to drive it when I was 19.

[pincheck 0]

This is so funny Most UK drivers get taught to drive as you guys call it stick shifts. Only ever know one person who had a automatic only license,which i found weird.

Its only been in the States where i ever hear of large groups of people driving Automatics, only ever had one as a hire car and well it was ok but would not swap for Manual.Stick to you guys is normal for most people here and my petrol head days where all sticks

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[CanuckInUSA 0]

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How many of you (especially youngsters) even know how?

All I have driven since 1990 is stick (3 different vehicles in that time).

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If you do, would you be willing to teach a potential hook-up?

Absolutely, someone needs to drive if I can't drive.

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in your own car?

Not a problem. Heck they would even have a choice as to which one to learn on. Either a five speed '99 Jeep Wrangler or a six speed '97 Porsche 911. Question is do they want to learn how to "Heal/Toe". I can't "Heal/Toe" in the Jeep even if my life depended on it (the pedals are too far away and the center console also gets in the way). But "Heal/Toe'ing" in the 911 is not hard ... heck it's made to "Heal/Toe".

Actually they should probably learn to drive both vehicles.

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Or is your Prius your dream car?

Please don't make me laugh. There is however one hybrid I would love to get my hands on, except that it is not available for the public buy and even if it was I could not afford it.

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[dks13827 3]

I learned driving at 12, my Grandad's pickup with column shift. Bought a stick shift Camaro as soon as I could. Got a Nissan Maxima 5 speed when I had to teach my daughters to drive. They like stick shifts and one bought a Vue with a stick.
My cousin's daughter learned in a Prius and he says she cant drive worth a damn, thinks she's in a state fair bumper car, go and stop,, thats all she can do. ( kind of scary, too )
I have a theory that if one goes to flight school and especially heli school, the manual shift experience is extremely valuable.

[wolfriverjoe 1,523]

I haven't owned an automatic since 1992.

Yes, I'd teach someone, but I'd teach them in my Blazer, not my Porsche.

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How many of you (especially youngsters) even know how? If you do, would you be willing to teach a potential hook-up? in your own car? or borrow one so as not to screw yours up? Or is your Prius your dream car?


This might will be fun to see what you all answer.

what about column shift, how many of you can drive a column

Back in the early 80's I had a '69 Camaro...with a bench seat & 3 on the tree!

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How many of you (especially youngsters) even know how? If you do, would you be willing to teach a potential hook-up? in your own car? or borrow one so as not to screw yours up? Or is your Prius your dream car?


This might will be fun to see what you all answer.

what about column shift, how many of you can drive a column

Back in the early 80's I had a '69 Camaro...with a bench seat & 3 on the tree!

I can beat that;
I had a 1967 Camaro with 327 2bbl, and a Powerglide.
TWO, count 'em TWO gears in that slushpump.

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How many of you (especially youngsters) even know how? If you do, would you be willing to teach a potential hook-up? in your own car? or borrow one so as not to screw yours up? Or is your Prius your dream car?


This might will be fun to see what you all answer.

what about column shift, how many of you can drive a column

Back in the early 80's I had a '69 Camaro...with a bench seat & 3 on the tree!

I can beat that;
I had a 1967 Camaro with 327 2bbl, and a Powerglide.
TWO, count 'em TWO gears in that slushpump.

Better yet, a friend in high school had a '67 with a straight 6 and a slushpump...50's on the back and 60's in the front. I think he had more $ in the Craiger SS wheels than the car was worth! The tired lil' 250 could barely pull the TIRES!

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[jakee 1,563]

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This is so funny Most UK drivers get taught to drive as you guys call it stick shifts. Only ever know one person who had a automatic only license,which i found weird.

And the other thing is, using a manual gearbox is not hard. At all. Full synchromesh has been standard in pretty much every car you can buy for several decades now, so how anyone could fail to grasp at least the basic technique of clutch goes in, stick moves, clutch goes out is beyond me...

Do you want to have an ideagasm?

[msf 0]

Well, I would teach anyone to drive my manual transmission vehicle... but it's not called the antichrist for nothing!

I know people who normally drive a manual who won't even think of trying to drive it...

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This is so funny Most UK drivers get taught to drive as you guys call it stick shifts. Only ever know one person who had a automatic only license,which i found weird.

And the other thing is, using a manual gearbox is not hard. At all. Full synchromesh has been standard in pretty much every car you can buy for several decades now, so how anyone could fail to grasp at least the basic technique of clutch goes in, stick moves, clutch goes out is beyond me...

yeh true only had 1 clutch fail on me after 20 years of driving as well and that was after 70,000 miles on it from new on a 4x4 very straight forward to drive Manuals

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How many of you (especially youngsters) even know how? If you do, would you be willing to teach a potential hook-up? in your own car? or borrow one so as not to screw yours up? Or is your Prius your dream car?


This might will be fun to see what you all answer.

whart about column shift, how many of you can drive a column

Meee! Mee! Mee! Three in the tree, four on the floor! Hmmm, a new permutation. BTW, Edsels and Ramblers don't count as sports cars.

My first car was a 74 Nova with 3 on the tree.

Learned how to drive a standard in that car, and was scared shitless of it (was a beast)

Learned an important lesson... buy the clutch and U-Joints with the lifetime warranty... I got REALLY good at changing those out! (even on the side of the road, no joke!)

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[missbrz 0]

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Well, I would teach anyone to drive my manual transmission vehicle... but it's not called the antichrist for nothing!

I know people who normally drive a manual who won't even think of trying to drive it...

omg! I love your car! I would SO drive it!

[npgraphicdesign 3]

My cars have always been manual, and the only time I drive auto is when I have to lease a car. Do ANY car rental places offer manual cars anymore?

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Well, I would teach anyone to drive my manual transmission vehicle... but it's not called the antichrist for nothing!

I know people who normally drive a manual who won't even think of trying to drive it...

That looks awesome!!

I had a 95 4Runner with a 2 inch lift and 33 inch tires...I bought about 2 minutes after I found it on eBay because it was a manual! Love that beast...it was nicknamed The Stomper, like those 1980s RC cars that made lots of noise w/ their tires. I miss it...

[theonlyski 8]

Careful, those LR Defenders are tricky sometimes.

But they're all kinds of fun to drive around with the doors off, cranking thru the gears!

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[PiLFy 3]

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How many of you (especially youngsters) even know how? If you do, would you be willing to teach a potential hook-up? in your own car? or borrow one so as not to screw yours up? Or is your Prius your dream car?


This might will be fun to see what you all answer.

Define Youngster, Lisa. Almost all of my cars have been sticks. I've also driven tractor trailers w/15 & 18 speed trannies. Once you're used to them. You don't even use the clutch unless you come to a complete stop. Hell, I even drove a dinosaur once w/two sticks (main & auxiliary). I won't teach someone on one of my vehicles. It's too abusive to the drive train.

I remember a news report about a year ago. Some ghetto bonehead carjacked a sports car. It was a stick. The turd didn't know how to drive it, & fled on foot.