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Who still uses a 'stick shift' in their modern vehicle ?
For many of us, driving our Model A's is the only time we get to 'relive those thrilling days of yesteryear', by driving our 'stick shift' Model A.
Beyond that Model A 'stick shift' experience - how many of you drive a 'stick shift' in your modern cars ? Today's modern world of driving is all about creature comfort and ease of operation. There are getting to be fewer and fewer vehicles (of course their are some 'sports cars') that provide a 'stick shift / clutch' experience. I was prompted to think about this question today as I drove my only 'modern' car, which does happen to be a stick shift - owned since new, my 1969 VW Beetle. So, as regards 'stick shift' in modern cars, who drives what ? Last edited by DougVieyra; 03-14-2016 at 11:54 AM. |
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Re: Who still uses a 'stick shift' in their modern vehicle ?
Our 1990 Chevrolet Corsica LTZ has a 5 speed manual transmission (yes I still drive it on occasion)
Our 2012 Chevrolet Sonic also has a 5-speed manual transmission Our two truck had automatics (1994 Chev 3/4 ton heavy duty long box Turbo Diesel tow vehicle) (2006 Chev Colorado extended cab) I also learned to drive in a 1965 Chevrolet 4-door Biscayne manual - "Three-speed on the tree" then into Volkwagen Bug and Corvair Corsa - 4 speed manual 140 hp. Then there was the 3-speed manual on the floor in my 1974 AMC Hornet X Hatchback Last edited by clo2jim; 03-13-2016 at 09:11 PM. |
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Just sold the 2002 mitsu lancer.
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2013 Ford Focus ST 6 speed stick 252 HP=fun!
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My other car is a '72 "1200" Standard VW Beetle, though it's 1600TP powered now. Our only other car, is a VW Touran, 2006. It's auto right now, but not for long. It's morphing: from 2.0 FSI Auto, to 3.2 VR6 (R32) and 6 speed, AWD :-) It's VERY rare for me to buy an auto, and keep it that way. Even the very new ones: they perform OK, but they still NEVER know what I'm thinking, and don't often get what I want to do next. They also can't see the road ahead, and I find they often do the opposite of what needs doing - I live halfway up an extincy volcano, on the opposite side from town. It's all corners and hills!
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Re: Who still uses a 'stick shift' in their modern vehicle ?
" ..how many of you drive a 'stick shift' in your modern cars ? ..." an awful lot of us ! 75% of all new cars in UK are manual ( aka stick shift) and I suspect about the same in all Europe
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A very small minority for sure. Wayne
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About 3 years ago I left the construction field and started working full time for an independent bus company. At the time they still had one stick shift bus and they were very happy that I wanted to take my test in that double clutch bus. I drove that bus for 9 months until the rear end went out and it was finally retired. Its sad to me that the company no longer has any stick shift buses.
My son and daughter still drive stick shift cars. When my son was in college he was a part time valet driver. He was the only driver who could drive and park the stick shift cars. Driving a stick shift is becoming a lost art in the USA. Last edited by Neil Mylar LakewoodCA; 03-13-2016 at 11:50 AM. |
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My Omnis, Caravans, and Diesel Rabbits have all been 5 speed sticks.
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03-13-2016, 04:51 AM | #11 |
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Carjacking Attempt Foiled By Stick Shift
and there are many others. Safest car is the not so standard, standard.
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Taught both my son and daughter to drive stick,
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Ditto teaching my children to drive. Later, they both have said that what they learned in that car has saved them. His life in my son's case. I think drivers of manual cars are safer but have no data to prove it. Any body got something on this??
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My MGTD, Sandrail(VW) and for everyday transportation during the summer the motorcycle. When I was looking for a new car I wanted a base model but in my area the dealers only stock higher trim cars, very sad. I ended up with a Sonic with an auto. At least I have the toys.
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2007 Corvette Z06.........six speed
2012 Ram 2500 with Cummins diesel.........6 speed 1950 Ford with 302 engine and Tremec Transmission..........5 speed 1928 Model A..........3 speed Just sold my toy, a 2000 Freightliner, Cummins power with 9 speed. Both my wife's cars are automatic as is my bus. I don't answer or talk on my cell phone, or put on makeup while I am driving so I have my hand free for shifting.
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Our only other car is a 2000 Jeep Wrangler 5 speed. My son learned to drive in the Jeep.
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I learned to drive on the farm, with a 1946 chevy 1-1/2 ton truck, then graduated to a 49 chevy sedan. When my father bought the town sedan in 1960, I could drive that just fine. Out of the 278 vehicles I have owned, many were manual transmission vehicles. When I worked in construction in the 70's I drove a
B61 Mack, with an 18 speed road ranger setup. My newest car is an automatic, for when I need to drive in the city, or get stuck in heavy traffic on the so called highway. The model A Fords are of course manual transmission and my MG's are manual. An interesting bit of info is that in this country manual transmissions are often referred to as "standard shift" by older people. This term did not come from differencianting from automatic transmissions, but it came from an earlier time, when some manual transmissions on cars had a shifting pattern different from the familiar pattern of the model A, which is the "standard shift pattern". Some had second gear where third is on the model A, and high gear where second is. |
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My Ford Focus, Mazda Miata and 2006 F-150 all have manual transmission. I taught both kids to drive stick and the both still do, although one lives in France, where everyone does.
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My daily driver, a 2011 Mustang GT 5.0 has a 6-speed manual transmission. It's great exercise for my left leg, and it keeps me focused on driving with both hands.
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Does the tractor, motorbike and Studebaker count ?
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We got our first automatic vehicle when I was in high school, a '66 Fairlane wagon. My '95 Jeep Wrangler was a 5 speed, sold after 200,000 trouble-free miles. My new '08 is an auto, 105,000 miles and I don't miss the stick at all.
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My wife's 2013 Ford Focus is "Stick". It had languished on the lot at Fred Beans Ford for about 6 months and no one was buying. With some hard negotiating and doing a "walkout", we got at a considerably lower price. My wife picked it out, loves the car, and has no problems with it being a standard shift. I also own a 95 SAAB 9000 that is a 5 spd.
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I travel to Europe about 5 to 6 times a year and always rent a standard transmission car. Brings back some of the joy of my early years driving. But that said, for my long trips around the US (1,000 plus miles in one drive) it sure is nice to have that Audi 6 speed automatic!
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My wife's 2010 Civic.....5 speed....she refuses to drive an automatic!
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Daily Drivers,2005 Miata Speed 6 speed, '82 jeep CJ7 3 speed, then there is the rest of the fleet that are stick shift, 3 Model As, 4 Mazda RX7s, '65 & 92 Mustang, 68 F250, 72 F100 etc etc........
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Our modern cars are all stick--- '70 VW van is a 4 speed stick and my wife's '68 Plymouth Roadrunner is a 4 speed stick. The six Model A's are all stock stick, and my motorcycle too.
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My other cars....'03 Acura CL type S, 6speed....'83 Chev. C-10 PU "3 on the tree"............. '63 Falcon Ranchero "4 on the floor"
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Only have the A with stick shift. Live in the mountains and have two automatics which I downshift going down the inclines which are 6% or greater here. Very few people know to down shift the auto when going down steep grades. On the Jeep Cheeroke which has a nine speed auto, shift down to 5th or 4th going down some of the grades which keeps the speed down.
Also taught both kids to drive a stick shift. When my daughter started driving my fully restored '64 Corvair Monza, made her show me how to change a tire, check the oil and recover from a sudden stop where the back end wanted to swing around. |
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My "modern" car is a 1972 Poesche 911 that I purchased in 1979. My work truck is an automatic, but I drive in a lot of heavy traffic.
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I don't know if they would be considered modern, but both my MGBs are 4sp stick shift. I tried to get a stick in my Toyota Tacoma...no dice. Almost un obtainable!
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My Dad used to call anything newer than 1949 a Modern car. My every day driver is a Miata
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I learned to drive on a Model T, then upgraded to a Model A, been driving standards ever since, now drive an '06 Dakota 6 speed. My wife has a modern w/a slushbox.
I'd buy a new 1/2 ton (Ford or GM) if I could get one w/a standard transmission.
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i started on stick shift - my dad offered to pay for my first vehicle as long as it was a 4 cyl and stick shift. Family friends were selling a 95 s10 with just that combo. Ive only had one automatic: 1992 gmc jimmy and within a year or two of owning it the trans started slipping and wouldn't shift out of 1st - everyone wanted 1900-2700 for a rebuild...not gonna happen on a $900 vehicle lol. I find automatics very boring to drive and hate towing with them. When we brought the remainder of my AA truck home we borrowed the family friends cummins powered 6 speed ram, towed like a dream and made maneuvering a breeze. still managed 22mpg to boot (only was going 50-55mph - AA wasnt liking the fact it was moving again haha)
anyways the list: 1960 VW Ghia 1980 Chevy Chevette - 1.6L 4 speed 1995 Chevy s10 - 2.2L 5 speed 2002 Chevy Blazer - 4.3L 5 speed Id love to have a 2008-2014 Challenger R/T 6 speed - test drove one and couldnt believe the scoot it had.(of course i drove the chevette there so increasing power ten fold makes it seem like your going to the moon) I would also love to have a 2014-2015 silverado if they came with amanual trans - chevys reason for not even offering one? - claims the american market doesnt want a manual trans truck....only things still stick shift in US are sports cars and economy cars and they are far and few between.
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Modern automatic transmissions use a rediculous amount of electronic sensors, not like the good old days when all you needed was one vacuum line to the modulator.
Now the transmission needs input speed sensors, output speed sensors, talks to the throttle position sensor, knock sensor, speedometer drive, even the coolant temperature sensor and god knows what else like an electric lockup converter. Sooner or later you will have problems with one or more of these sensors and your automatic will not be so automatic anymore. I don't mind repairing mechanical parts that have worn out and done their job, but electronic sensor failures really get my goat. They can build a $20 solar calculator that lasts for 20 years but these expensive automotive sensors sometimes only last a couple of years if you're lucky. My opinion is that we have the choice to eliminate about 50% of electronic related problems with modern cars just by choosing a transmission we shift ourself. I will do my best to stay away from another automatic in my future, besides the dual range transmission in my 62 Continental. 1996 Ram Cummins 5spd 2001 VW TDI 5spd 1991 VW TDI 5spd 1966 F250 4spd 1965 Falcon T5 manual 1964 Falcon 4spd |
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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.
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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. |
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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. |
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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!
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I feel im way more in control with a manual trans than an automatic.
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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......
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My daily driver is a 2012 cruz 6 speed stick. Also have 1974 VW Beetle along with a 1948 Ford 8N tractor.
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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.
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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.
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My Harley has foot shift
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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. |
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I have only 1 auto and that is the wifes car the rest are stick shift
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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2008 GMC pickup with a 5 speed and crank up windows and a non chip door key perfect for my George Washington bridge cross Bronx commute every day ---the wife's car is a 2014 ford fiesta roll up windows and a 5 speed had a hard time finding that one in the new York area
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"..........Out of the 278 vehicles I have owned, many were manual transmission vehicles. ............"
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I have only drove only manual transmission cars from the 16 to 47 years old... I hate my present auto transmisson in my 2012 liberty... I will likely get a 4 door 6 speed next...
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When I took my driving test in the UK, I had to take it in a standard as if I had used an automatic my license would have restricted me to automatics which were very rare in the UK back in those days.
I never owned an automatic until I bought a 1957 Chevrolet in 1967 after moving to North America (the current Bel Air has 3 on the tree) and have had at least one automatic N. American vehicle since 1988. But we have also had ten or more stick shift European cars over the years which my wife and I would fight over. Forgot to add that I taught my wife to drive in a 1969 Lotus Europa, my son in a 1979 Volvo, my daughter in a 1984 Porsche all with 4 speed manual transmissions. They all prefer manual transmissions (my wife's summer daily driver is the MGB). Last edited by ian Simpson; 03-16-2016 at 12:56 PM. Reason: Extra Information |
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or when i jump in the chevette with the 4 speed manual i sometimes search for that imaginary 5th gear.
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Both our moderns are manuals. 99 Ranger 5 speed, 14 Mazda 6 speed. My wife dislikes automatics. So does my son and daughter.
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I still shift gears in my 73 Beetle --- oh, but I guess it's not modern. But it is my daily driver.
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Consider yourself very lucky if you can purchase a new car with a manual transmission.
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Payton, post #67: "...'73 Beetle --- oh, but I guess it's not modern."
________________________________ Payton, if my '69 Beetle is my 'modern' car (and it is), then your '73 Beetle most certainly is a 'modern' car ! But even the Beetles in later years started fooling around with automatics, in their gesture to attract a modern driving public. Remember - the air-cooled VW began production around about 1938 or so. |
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89 Mustang LX 5 speed, 73 VW Thing, 78 VW Bus, 2009 VW TDI Golf 6 speed. Our entire family drives stick including the grandkids - keep the faith.
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There is an awful lot of us that have air cooled VW's....I need to fix a drivers rear axle seal leak on ours if someone who has done this before would like to PM me on how to do it...
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2004 VW R32 and 2000 VW Passsat wagon - all with manual transmissions.
We just ordered a 2016 Beetle convertible....that will eventually be my daughters to drive when she gets her license.....but wanted it with a manual transmission. The only way to get a new Beetle with a manual transmission here in the US is via special factory order and will take over 6 months to build! We figure that the manual shift new Beetle will also be a theft deterrent (reduced insurance rates) and my daughter's friends won't ask to borrow her car either Brad in Maryland |
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A friend of my Dads, way back in 1955, wanted to buy a new Olds, but wanted it with a stick shift. It had to be factory ordered and it took about 6 months to get it, but he did finally get it. According to the dealer at the time, that was the only 1955 Olds produced with a stick shift, even though the automatic was listed as an "extra cost option". GM's way of keeping the base sticker price down I suppose.
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I drive my Dodge Ram SRT-10 Pickup daily 6 Speed Manual Trans. 5th .70 and 6th is .50 Overdrive. At 75 MPH 1500 RPM on the Viper V10 engine.
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Still "rowing thru the gears" with my '70 VW Beetle and the "A".
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A friend offered his Dodge Viper to drive.
I couldn't get out of the habit of double-clutching.
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That's a really good point that I didn't even think of....
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Wow there ARE a lot of us with both Model A's and air cooled VWs. my 31 Model A is a stick of course and I have owned a lot of old VWs over the years and still do. The Cadillac CTS-V I owned previous to my Model A was a manual also (6 speed). My current fleet includes:
1931 Model A (manual) 1967 VW Beetle sunroof (Manual-BERG 5 speed with Quaife diff) 1970 VW Fastback (automatic) 2015 VW GTI (manual) I also have a 1973 VW that I am slowly building, manual also. As the owner of a plumbing service business, we also have two manual VW panel Buses (73, 78) as well as an automatic (74) in addition to our modern vehicles, which are automatic cause that is all that is offered (99 Chevy Astro, 04 Ford E series, 04 Dodge Sprinter, 2014 and 15 Ram Promasters, 14 Ram C/V) I used to shift for my parents who both owned manuals when I was a kid (68 and 73 Beetles, 74 Subaru, 80 Toyota, and a 51 MGTD and 69 Jag E Type my dad had back then and still owns). That was in the early-mid 80s. Now my 9 year old stepdaughter shifts for me, as she has since she was about 6. I think it is pretty neat that she knows the different shift patterns for these cars, and that on the Model A you have to take it a little slower as I double clutch. She is also pretty good at judging when to shift by the engine sound which is pretty different across each car. She started out in my 1990 Mexican made Bug which was my daily for many years-sold it last year. My A was my daily for 15 months so she got a lot of crashbox experience! |
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I learned to drive with my fathers 48 chevy woody wagon with vacuum shift. No speed shifting or you were under the hood adjusting the shift linkage. Now own a toy tacoma with standard 5 speed, and of course the Model A.
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We lived in the UK for two years (1985-87) and almost all cars there were stick shift. Automatics were the unusual ones. Might have changed a lot since then. Probably has.
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My tenuous love is a 1995 Saab 900, non-turbo, 5spd.
She let me down today on the way to work today, the first day since December that I've taken her to work... No Saab jokes. I don't find them funny. She is generally a very good car.
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Every woman I've ever dated drove a stick...
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I factory ordered a 1973 Cutlass S coupe with the 350 and 4 speed. Later that evening I got a call from the dealership owner and he asked this- "Are you sure you want that car?" I answered of course I wanted it, I had put a deposit down on it, didn't I? Apparently he didn't want to be stuck with it should I back out.
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Define modern....
Still have a 74 Chevrolet Wrecker with the 4 Speed, a 73 VW thing with the 4 speed, too. But the damnedest thing I ever drove was a dirt car with a Bert transmission...you put it in low and mash the clutch to take off, get the revs up right, let the clutch out and then yank it back in high (direct drive). That one blew my dress up for a while. |
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The first vehicle supplied by my employer was a 5 speed Ford Ranger, I had never driven a manual shift before. Burned out two clutches in 3 years but that was more to do with talking on my shoe-phone car phone which was still legal back in 1996 and just not paying attention to which gear I was in......ahhhhhh the olden days!!!
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