you know anybody that CANNOT drive a stickshift?

[boom]

i admit, i didnt learn off the bat. i had a buddy teach me with his 1970 chevy nova. it was the best day, when i conquered the big hill my buddy lived on.

i have a friend that had to turn down a nice car drive because he cant dive a manual tranny..(ferrari) hah!

any modern outdoors-person here clutch challenged? i promise i wont laugh. fess up.

 

[weaver]

Never tried it

 

[Travis Bertrand]

My wife and she refuses to learn even though there is a 68 camaro in the garage and my daily driver is a manual as well.

 

[velvetfvr]

I have practiced it on a old 4 speed Willys jeep. Like 1940's era. Gotta get a pic posted of it. I haven't tried anything modern that's manual. I drive an automatic now. But I could get by on a stick.

 

[larryschwartz]

Know how, not good at it, I would die of old age before I could get one to move on a hill.

 

[TheHardWay]

My parents MADE me learn on a manual, and I'm glad they did. When I bought my truck, it was a requirement that it was a manual. The dealer had to do some looking to track one down for me.

 

[HellsCanyon]

Have owned and wheeled/raced several... love my 5 spd but admit for some situations an auto would be nicer.

I only dated one girl who couldn't drive a manual and it didn't last long...

Mike

 

[Shrek]

What I want to know is who can drive an un synchronized manual transmission ? I drive one all day in my tractor and did it once in an old english car . I "speed shift " my tractor. I only use the clutch for starting and stopping.

 

[TheHardWay]

My '55 Willy's CJ-5 is an un-synchronized 3 speed. If you don't know what you are doing, going from 2 to 1 while moving can be tricky.

 

[Tag stew]

I learned on a stick first and have owned a few since. But whats crazy is I work on different car dealerships everyday pretty much and see very few sticks any more and surprisingly even a lot of the high end sportscars like some porche's are auto now.

 

[Aron Snyder]

I learned before I had a license.

Dad was an alcoholic, so I drove a lot.

Wife doesn't know how.....

 

[mtswampfox]

my 1973 vw thing has a smooth 4 speed oh yea and the harley has a 5...fun yes..would i want to city commute with them...not

 

[HellsCanyon]

What I want to know is who can drive an un synchronized manual transmission ? I drive one all day in my tractor and did it once in an old english car . I "speed shift " my tractor. I only use the clutch for starting and stopping.

Class A cdl here... kinda tricky is right but fun once you got it!

Mike

 

[Shrek]

I learned before I had a license.

Dad was an alcoholic, so I drove a lot.

Wife doesn't know how.....

I learned before I had a license also. I started stealing my parents car when I was 13. They had to put a clutch in the yota about a month after I started sneaking the car out .

 

[Shrek]

Mtswampfox , I love the old VW Things. My friend in high school had a convertible thing we painted desert tan. Tried to make it look like at wwll german staff car.

 

[HOT ROD]

I was taught on farm tractors. When I was young. Started driving a truck on the farm. When I was 14 or so. Class A cdl here to. Hazmat with doubles. Drive for one of the largest. Trucking outfits in the country....

 

[2rocky]

Last time I had to drive one was in the Summer of 1996. Ford Cattle truck, with a 5 speed with High and low range.

Might take me a while to get in the groove again.

 

[Buster]

Grew up on a farm, learning to drive the old farm trucks and tractors when I was 7 was great... until I realized my dad taught me so that he cold put me to work!

 

[sk1]

i get laughed at but i cant.

not because i am challenged as far as how to do it, but growing up no one in my family owned one and my friends didn't either, at least none that i rode with. i did it once on an old work truck last year, i was getting the hang of it and then it got canned for an automatic. ohwell...

 

[chorpie]

Funny story, i'd just gotten my license and the car my brother and I had to share was a stick. So on the way home, he parks on a hill, in front of a driveway where there's five or six guys playing basketball and tells me that I need to drive home. Fastest way to learn stick - when a bunch of people are staring at you while the car stutters and chugs on a big hill.