[1928Mik]

My Dad put his car away and it sat for 30 yrs. I resurrected it and had to learn all over again how to shift. I ground some gears til I figured out the timing. Patrick L. is correct on the method. My Dad always had a truck with a manual transmission, and always shifted them the same way, just get up to 5-10 mph and then shift to 2nd. The engines would lug along at slow speed and practically stall, but since he had grown up in the Model A era, he just thought that's how you do it! He ruined an '89 Chevy dump truck motor doing that!