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myLot reputation of 98/100. snowcat46 (1103)   ranked 6 out of 6 in learned to drive11 months ago

Who among you knows how to drive a stick shift? it seems to be a dying art, or is it? Who taught you and how difficult was it for you to learn?

I was taught by the father of a friend. I can still remember sitting at the bottom of a hill, trying to get up that hill and constantly killing the engine. While this father tried to explain what I was doing wrong, showed me how to do it right, and sat and laughed every time I killed it. I was 19 at the time.

How about you? Was your learning noteworthy?

 
 
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tinkerick (1009) response was accepted on 1/22/2009.
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1. myLot reputation of 94/100. tinkerick (1009)   11 months ago

I think I was 17 or 18 when I learned how to drive stick shift. My brother gave me a crash course right before we left to go look at a car I was thinking of buying - which was stick shift. I drove it home - didn't kill it! Had that car for 2 or 3 years.


myLot reputation of 98/100. snowcat46 (1103)   ranked 6 out of 6 in learned to drive  11 months ago

No hills? They are fun once you get used to them, aren't they?

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2. myLot reputation of 93/100. ANTIQUELADY (11206)   11 months ago

i guess i can stick drive a stick, it's been alon time, i learnwedfro watching orthers, my mother had a lady who use to work forher & she had a car w/a stich & she;d let me drive it till my dad caught on. lol


myLot reputation of 98/100. snowcat46 (1103)   ranked 6 out of 6 in learned to drive  11 months ago

All vehicles are not created equal. Why didn't he want you driving it? Too young?


myLot reputation of 93/100. ANTIQUELADY (11206)  11 months ago

i didn't have a license, lol

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