The Ford Barn

v bogart · 03-13-2016, 12:41 PM

2013 Ford Fusion special order 6 spd. my truck is my first auto, Ford don't make a manual truck till you get up to a 450. All my children drive stick. Cheep anti theft.

Jeff/Illinois · 03-13-2016, 12:51 PM

Bought a new Mustang GT a few years back of course you have to have a stick shift in a car like that or so I thought. When it came time a year or so ago to sell the car and get a new one, I was shocked at how tough that was to do, because the car had a stick shift.

Plenty of interest in the car especially in the 20-some year old crowd but not one single buyer could drive a stick and they were afraid to try to learn. Finally had to trade the car in at the local Ford dealership and at least they gave me a good deal for the car towards a new one. They had a Harley guy already lined up that wanted my car. He knew the car, stored in a heated garage, no winter driving, low mileage!

Next one I bought had an AT. Won't go standard tranny again learned my lesson.

jeep44 · 03-13-2016, 12:59 PM

When my son was young, he rode with me for the first time in my newly-restored WW2 jeep. He watched me shifting at all the lights for a while, and finally said "Do you have to do that ALL the time?"
When he went to Iraq as a member of a special Marine team that worked in isolated areas with the Iraqi Army, the Marines made sure each team member was able to drive a "stick", in case they found themselves in an emergency situation where they had to make their way alone back to US forces.

skinnyfjoe · 03-13-2016, 01:26 PM

1952 chevrolet 3600 with three on the tree

Greg Jones · 03-13-2016, 01:40 PM

My 14 year old daughter wanted me to teach her how to drive the Model A. So off we went to a large, empty church parking lot. Taught her how to double clutch. I have a Ford Focus with a stick shift, and when she started driving it she double clutched. A natural born Model A driver!

SeaSlugs · 03-13-2016, 01:46 PM

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I think its the biggest shame people find it a chore to drive stick, but in the big picture people cant seem to drive period haha. I'm all for self driving cars because some of the drivers out there just need to go in a box that takes them places WITHOUT any controls they can touch.

I feel im way more in control with a manual trans than an automatic.

Bigdave · 03-13-2016, 01:46 PM

My wife and I both drive the 1942 Plymouth Coupe and 2004 Cadillac CTS-V.

holdover · 03-13-2016, 02:14 PM

My 7 yr old at the time Grand son helped me restore both my '29 coupe and my '82 Jeep CJ7. He asked when he would be able to drive the jeep, I told him when he turned 8. Last August was his 8th birthday and first thing he asked was can he drive the jeep. He has been driving motorized things for a couple of years and has his own lawnmower without a mower deck and a 100cc 4 wheeler, plus he can drive my 55hp New Holland well(where he learned to use a clutch). Put him in the jeep with the seat up and a pillow behind him, put it in 4WD low and in about 5 minutes he mastered the clutch and can start/stop even on slight hills, switched to high and no problems. Been almost a year now and he has his eyes on the Model As, especially the coupe he helped restore, which he says he is going to drive to high school......

jmaotto · 03-13-2016, 02:19 PM

My daily driver is a 2012 cruz 6 speed stick. Also have 1974 VW Beetle along with a 1948 Ford 8N tractor.

Barry B./ Ma. · 03-13-2016, 02:36 PM

I have a 2001 PT Cruiser Limited with a 5 speed, bought it new, car came loaded except it had manual shift and many people passed on it because they couldn't drive it.

Y-Blockhead · 03-13-2016, 02:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Greg Jones

My 14 year old daughter wanted me to teach her how to drive the Model A. So off we went to a large, empty church parking lot. Taught her how to double clutch. I have a Ford Focus with a stick shift, and when she started driving it she double clutched. A natural born Model A driver!

Funny how you get 'Conditioned'. Seems like every time I go to back my wife's Ford FLEX into the driveway my hand is waving around in the air, feeling for the shifter.

My wife just rolls her eyes...

chuckstinn · 03-13-2016, 03:11 PM

My modern is a 1985 Porsche 911 and some times 1967 Porsche 912

Ted Duke · 03-13-2016, 03:28 PM

My wife and I drove stick for years. All of my kids learned to drive in an 81 Subaru stick and some of my grandchildren get checked out in a NH tractor, four on the floor and four on the pedestal and shifter for F-R.

Farrell In Vancouver · 03-13-2016, 05:45 PM

My Harley has foot shift

Juggler · 03-13-2016, 05:54 PM

I am now 50 years old and the only automatic car I have ever owned was a 1969 Series 1 XJ6, which I ran for one summer just before I went to college. Cool car for a 19 year old but the bottom rusted out of it.

Google says 25% of new cars sold in the UK are automatic. I'm surprised it's that high. Automatic transmissions generally only fitted to high end luxury cars here, but perhaps the new raft of flappy paddle/clutchless/semi autos are skewing the figures.

Most everybody I know drives stick.

colin1928 · 03-13-2016, 06:13 PM

I have only 1 auto and that is the wifes car the rest are stick shift
I work next to a caryard and they can not stick to any under 30 yrs
must be a change trend

AL in NY · 03-13-2016, 06:22 PM

I've never had an automatic as my personnel car, a VW in Germany, a 440 6-Pac Road Runner when I was younger(still have the RDRUNNER New York vanity plate), 2 S10 Blazer 4X4 with 5 speeds, and 87 Corvette with the 4+3 manual and my 1930 CCPU Model A. I only time I get to drive an automatic is when my wife lets me drive her car.

G Baese · 03-13-2016, 07:35 PM

Guess the closest to an automatic has been Steam cars, Single cylinder Cadillacs and Model T's! All the rest, modern drivers too, have been manual transmissions. Getting harder to find in late models, newest car is a '99.
Cheers,
gb

CarlG · 03-13-2016, 07:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Y-Blockhead

Funny how you get 'Conditioned'. Seems like every time I go to back my wife's Ford FLEX into the driveway my hand is waving around in the air, feeling for the shifter.

My wife just rolls her eyes...

I get that same feeling. Our "modern" cars are both automatics, mine has the shifter on the steering column, my wife's car has it on the console. I'm forever trying to shift both cars by waving my hands in the wrong place. It just depends on which car I drove last. They are both essentially the same vehicle: Ford Explorer (mine) and Lincoln Aviator (hers).

The Model A is the only stick shift car I have currently. Most of the vehicles I have owned in the last 60 years have been stick shift, about a 90% of them.

Pete · 03-13-2016, 07:50 PM

We are "stick folks" here. Always have been except for purpose built vehicles.
If you are into 4 wheeling and have a winch or 2 winches, an automatic is a whole lot easier to "feel" a rough situation through
while pulling with the winch.
No clutch feathering.
For people with bad legs or feet, automatics are the only way.

03-13-2016, 12:41 PM	#41
v bogart Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Forksville PA. Posts: 44	Re: Who still uses a 'stick shift' in their modern vehicle ? 2013 Ford Fusion special order 6 spd. my truck is my first auto, Ford don't make a manual truck till you get up to a 450. All my children drive stick. Cheep anti theft.

03-13-2016, 12:51 PM	#42
Jeff/Illinois Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 2,789	Re: Who still uses a 'stick shift' in their modern vehicle ? Bought a new Mustang GT a few years back of course you have to have a stick shift in a car like that or so I thought. When it came time a year or so ago to sell the car and get a new one, I was shocked at how tough that was to do, because the car had a stick shift. Plenty of interest in the car especially in the 20-some year old crowd but not one single buyer could drive a stick and they were afraid to try to learn. Finally had to trade the car in at the local Ford dealership and at least they gave me a good deal for the car towards a new one. They had a Harley guy already lined up that wanted my car. He knew the car, stored in a heated garage, no winter driving, low mileage! Next one I bought had an AT. Won't go standard tranny again learned my lesson.

03-13-2016, 12:59 PM	#43
jeep44 Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: canton,michigan Posts: 312	Re: Who still uses a 'stick shift' in their modern vehicle ? When my son was young, he rode with me for the first time in my newly-restored WW2 jeep. He watched me shifting at all the lights for a while, and finally said "Do you have to do that ALL the time?" When he went to Iraq as a member of a special Marine team that worked in isolated areas with the Iraqi Army, the Marines made sure each team member was able to drive a "stick", in case they found themselves in an emergency situation where they had to make their way alone back to US forces.

03-13-2016, 01:26 PM	#44
skinnyfjoe Junior Member Join Date: May 2012 Location: Salem, NH Posts: 13	Re: Who still uses a 'stick shift' in their modern vehicle ? 1952 chevrolet 3600 with three on the tree

03-13-2016, 01:40 PM	#45
Greg Jones Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Aiken, South Carolina Posts: 695	Re: Who still uses a 'stick shift' in their modern vehicle ? My 14 year old daughter wanted me to teach her how to drive the Model A. So off we went to a large, empty church parking lot. Taught her how to double clutch. I have a Ford Focus with a stick shift, and when she started driving it she double clutched. A natural born Model A driver!

03-13-2016, 01:46 PM	#46
SeaSlugs Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Central, IL Posts: 3,968	Re: Who still uses a 'stick shift' in their modern vehicle ? Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements) I think its the biggest shame people find it a chore to drive stick, but in the big picture people cant seem to drive period haha. I'm all for self driving cars because some of the drivers out there just need to go in a box that takes them places WITHOUT any controls they can touch. I feel im way more in control with a manual trans than an automatic. __________________ 1929 Model AA - Need long splash aprons!

03-13-2016, 01:46 PM	#47
Bigdave Member Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 30	Re: Who still uses a 'stick shift' in their modern vehicle ? My wife and I both drive the 1942 Plymouth Coupe and 2004 Cadillac CTS-V.

03-13-2016, 02:14 PM	#48
holdover Senior Member Join Date: May 2011 Location: SW Virginia near the Blue ridge Parkway Posts: 674	Re: Who still uses a 'stick shift' in their modern vehicle ? My 7 yr old at the time Grand son helped me restore both my '29 coupe and my '82 Jeep CJ7. He asked when he would be able to drive the jeep, I told him when he turned 8. Last August was his 8th birthday and first thing he asked was can he drive the jeep. He has been driving motorized things for a couple of years and has his own lawnmower without a mower deck and a 100cc 4 wheeler, plus he can drive my 55hp New Holland well(where he learned to use a clutch). Put him in the jeep with the seat up and a pillow behind him, put it in 4WD low and in about 5 minutes he mastered the clutch and can start/stop even on slight hills, switched to high and no problems. Been almost a year now and he has his eyes on the Model As, especially the coupe he helped restore, which he says he is going to drive to high school......

03-13-2016, 02:19 PM	#49
jmaotto Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 15	Re: Who still uses a 'stick shift' in their modern vehicle ? My daily driver is a 2012 cruz 6 speed stick. Also have 1974 VW Beetle along with a 1948 Ford 8N tractor.

03-13-2016, 02:36 PM	#50
Barry B./ Ma. Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Southbridge, Ma. Posts: 1,614	Re: Who still uses a 'stick shift' in their modern vehicle ? I have a 2001 PT Cruiser Limited with a 5 speed, bought it new, car came loaded except it had manual shift and many people passed on it because they couldn't drive it.

03-13-2016, 03:11 PM	#52
chuckstinn Member Join Date: May 2011 Location: California Posts: 43	Re: Who still uses a 'stick shift' in their modern vehicle ? My modern is a 1985 Porsche 911 and some times 1967 Porsche 912

03-13-2016, 03:28 PM	#53
Ted Duke Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Fairfield, Virginia Posts: 615	Re: Who still uses a 'stick shift' in their modern vehicle ? My wife and I drove stick for years. All of my kids learned to drive in an 81 Subaru stick and some of my grandchildren get checked out in a NH tractor, four on the floor and four on the pedestal and shifter for F-R.

03-13-2016, 05:45 PM	#54
Farrell In Vancouver Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Pitt Meadows BC Posts: 1,003	Re: Who still uses a 'stick shift' in their modern vehicle ? My Harley has foot shift

03-13-2016, 05:54 PM	#55
Juggler Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Phoenix AZ/Bath UK Posts: 481	Re: Who still uses a 'stick shift' in their modern vehicle ? I am now 50 years old and the only automatic car I have ever owned was a 1969 Series 1 XJ6, which I ran for one summer just before I went to college. Cool car for a 19 year old but the bottom rusted out of it. Google says 25% of new cars sold in the UK are automatic. I'm surprised it's that high. Automatic transmissions generally only fitted to high end luxury cars here, but perhaps the new raft of flappy paddle/clutchless/semi autos are skewing the figures. Most everybody I know drives stick.

03-13-2016, 06:13 PM	#56
colin1928 Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Australa Melbourne Posts: 878	Re: Who still uses a 'stick shift' in their modern vehicle ? I have only 1 auto and that is the wifes car the rest are stick shift I work next to a caryard and they can not stick to any under 30 yrs must be a change trend

03-13-2016, 06:22 PM	#57
AL in NY Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Southern Upstate New York Posts: 1,160	Re: Who still uses a 'stick shift' in their modern vehicle ? I've never had an automatic as my personnel car, a VW in Germany, a 440 6-Pac Road Runner when I was younger(still have the RDRUNNER New York vanity plate), 2 S10 Blazer 4X4 with 5 speeds, and 87 Corvette with the 4+3 manual and my 1930 CCPU Model A. I only time I get to drive an automatic is when my wife lets me drive her car. __________________ AL in NY

03-13-2016, 07:35 PM	#58
G Baese Member Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: Ft Collins, CO Posts: 80	Re: Who still uses a 'stick shift' in their modern vehicle ? Guess the closest to an automatic has been Steam cars, Single cylinder Cadillacs and Model T's! All the rest, modern drivers too, have been manual transmissions. Getting harder to find in late models, newest car is a '99. Cheers, gb

03-13-2016, 07:50 PM	#60
Pete Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Wa. Posts: 5,403	Re: Who still uses a 'stick shift' in their modern vehicle ? We are "stick folks" here. Always have been except for purpose built vehicles. If you are into 4 wheeling and have a winch or 2 winches, an automatic is a whole lot easier to "feel" a rough situation through while pulling with the winch. No clutch feathering. For people with bad legs or feet, automatics are the only way.

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