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by: FoFa Active Indicator LED Icon 17 OP 
~ 8 years ago   Apr 13, '15 6:11pm  
Well dang. Got in my car to go home, you would have thought I was new at a manual transmission. Exit parking lot, go down a little, turn right, but thought I was in 3rd, nope, in 2nd. Tires squacked, engine goes into hyper rpms, tried to shift to 3rd, missed the gear, grind, grind. Go another mile to get on the toll road, shift from 4th to 5th, hit 3rd, engine complaining once again. WTF is all I thought. One would never know I've been driving manuals for, ahem, 40+ years. So it's going to be like that huh. Missed 2 more shifts, but I was paying attention, and fixed it before clutch was released. Dang. 4951
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WskyTngoFxtrt Active Indicator LED Icon 10
~ 8 years ago   Apr 13, '15 7:18pm  
My Model A Ford was a 3-speed and didn't have a synchronized transmission. So you had to put in the clutch, shift to neutral, let the clutch out and back in again and then shift into gear. Took some getting used to for sure. 4951
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Safety44 Active Indicator LED Icon 5
~ 8 years ago   Apr 13, '15 7:49pm  
My Model A Ford was a 3-speed and didn't have a synchronized transmission. So you had to put in the clutch, shift to neutral, let the clutch out and back in again and then shift into gear. Took some getting used to for sure.
 
@WskyTngoFxtrt:
 
Brings back fond memories. We grew up having to "double clutch" those old cars and trucks.
 
I laugh when I think about how a youngster would handle that today. They struggle with an automatic.
 
Ha ha 4951
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Retired_Engineer Active Indicator LED Icon 13
~ 8 years ago   Apr 13, '15 8:02pm  
When I bought my first truck, I wanted a manual transmission.  Then I realized that my wife would need to periodically drive it and she never learned how to drive a manual.  So, it was either buy a truck with an automatic transmission or get divorced.  If I tried to teach her, she's doesn't take instructions well, and I tend to be impatient, so nothing good would have come from that!BTW, when it was time for our kids to learn to drive, I was the calm, patient one, and my wife was a nervous screamer. 4951
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Safety44 Active Indicator LED Icon 5
~ 8 years ago   Apr 13, '15 8:17pm  
Funny you should talk about your wife like that retired engineer.
My grandson has a permit and every morning we go for a drive. He does great.
 
A couple of times, grandma went with us. Within two or three blocks, my grandson says " hey grandpa, you want to drive?"
 
Another good one was when my mother learned to drive, I was the teacher. I was 10 and she was 28.
We didn't have automatics back then and my father told her "one more burned out clutch and you will spend the rest of your life WALKING!"
 
Me and my mother still laugh about that. 4951
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caroline7327 Active Indicator LED Icon 1
~ 8 years ago   Apr 13, '15 8:29pm  
My dad made sure that my first car was a Manual transmission. The first night of driving lessons, we went "cruising" main in our little one red light town. I learned VERY quickly how to get it going, after killing the car a few too many times at that light.... After I recovered from the embarrassment and pealed myself up from the floorboard. 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Apr 14, '15 12:14am  
You use the clutch? 4951
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caroline7327 Active Indicator LED Icon 1
~ 8 years ago   Apr 14, '15 12:23am  
... Not very well to start with... When I finally got my timing down, I was zipping around like a NASCAR driver within a few weeks.... 4951
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Francita Active Indicator LED Icon 17
~ 8 years ago   Apr 14, '15 7:00am  
My dad made sure that my first car was a Manual transmission. The first night of driving lessons, we went "cruising" main in our little one red light town. I learned VERY quickly how to get it going, after killing the car a few too many times at that light.... After I recovered from the embarrassment and pealed myself up from the floorboard.
 
@caroline7327:
 
Both my kids had manual transmissions for their first cars too. My youngest, who is 24, told me that he is one of the few that knows how to drive one out of all his friends. 4951
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WskyTngoFxtrt Active Indicator LED Icon 10
~ 8 years ago   Apr 14, '15 7:05am  

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>> My dad made sure that my first car was a Manual transmission. The first night of driving lessons, we went "cruising" main in our little one red light town. I learned VERY quickly how to get it going, after killing the car a few too many times at that light.... After I recovered from the embarrassment and pealed myself up from the floorboard.
@caroline7327: Both my kids had manual transmissions for their first cars too. My youngest, who is 24, told me that he is one of the few that knows how to drive one out of all his friends.
@Francita: Seriously? What a bunch of pansies. 4951
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FoFa Active Indicator LED Icon 17 OP 
~ 8 years ago   Apr 14, '15 2:33pm  
So you had to put in the clutch, shift to neutral, let the clutch out and back in again and then shift into gear
 
@WskyTngoFxtrt: Hence the term double clutching?
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~ 8 years ago   Apr 14, '15 3:10pm  

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>> My dad made sure that my first car was a Manual transmission. The first night of driving lessons, we went "cruising" main in our little one red light town. I learned VERY quickly how to get it going, after killing the car a few too many times at that light.... After I recovered from the embarrassment and pealed myself up from the floorboard.
 
@caroline7327:
 
Both my kids had manual transmissions for their first cars too. My youngest, who is 24, told me that he is one of the few that knows how to drive one out of all his friends.
 
@Francita: Both of my sons learned to drive on a manual, my daughter wasn't so lucky. I've owned a couple of MGB's and I couldn't imagine having anything other than a manual in those cars. There is no reason to have an automatic "sports car" at least for the purist  IMO.  
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~ 8 years ago   Apr 14, '15 3:26pm  
@caroline7327: Both my kids had manual transmissions for their first cars too. My youngest, who is 24, told me that he is one of the few that knows how to drive one out of all his friends.
 
@Francita:
 
Seriously? What a bunch of pansies.
 
@WskyTngoFxtrt: a bunch of pansies? geez that is a doublerude comment.....sexual orientation huh? so if you drive a big truck with a manual you are just all man....what crap..the facts are that most kids are taught to drive on their parents cars. not many of you drive manuals so they never learned to drive a manual. as a matter of fact, it is unusual to even find a car with a manual trans these days including trucks and 'sports cars'
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~ 8 years ago   Apr 14, '15 3:37pm  
as a matter of fact, it is unusual to even find a car with a manual trans these days including trucks and 'sports cars'
 
@ProblemAgain: Good point but I wish that option was still widely available, it would most likely reduce vehicle thefts being that fewer people can drive a manual.
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~ 8 years ago   Apr 14, '15 3:39pm  
I do think it's important to teach our kids to drive a manual.  Back in college, I once had to drive myself home in my drunk**** boyfriend's car.  Good thing I knew what to do, and I'll make sure all of our kids can do the same, if they ever have to.I know a 40-year-old who is getting ready to drop a whole lot of money on a pretty powerful sports car, and he's ordering it in automatic transmission, because he doesn't know how to drive a manual.  I'm not calling him a pansy, but he's definitely doing it wrong. 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Apr 14, '15 3:48pm  

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>> @caroline7327: Both my kids had manual transmissions for their first cars too. My youngest, who is 24, told me that he is one of the few that knows how to drive one out of all his friends. @Francita: Seriously? What a bunch of pansies.
@WskyTngoFxtrt: a bunch of pansies? geez that is a doublerude comment.....sexual orientation huh? so if you drive a big truck with a manual you are just all man....what crap..the facts are that most kids are taught to drive on their parents cars. not many of you drive manuals so they never learned to drive a manual. as a matter of fact, it is unusual to even find a car with a manual trans these days including trucks and 'sports cars'
@ProblemAgain: I repeat, if you're a 20-something male and don't have the first clue how to drive a stick, you're a pansy. I never said anything about a big truck....now who's stereotyping? 4951
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