foghat
Well-Known Member
This reminded me of an old thread where jimmytwotimes (bless him and where did he go?) talked about how he had no way to learn to drive a manual and his experiences trying to drive a manual.A lot of high schools and colleges still have manuals available to learn on. When I took my classes back in 2000 my instructor asked me what car I would eventually be driving as that would determine if I would be learning on an auto or manual.
Cracked me up. Jimmy on his options for learning how to drive a manual:
"The only option would be buying a manual car sight unseen and then trying to learn how to drive it then and there. My concern with that is that I wouldn't be able to get it out of the parking lot -- the one time I was ever in a car with a manual, when I was 17, I tried to get the car into gear for almost two hours, stalling over 100 times without ever being able to make the car move a foot."
On trying to get the hang of driving a manual:
"Well, that's easier said than done. I suppose that's the most difficult part, since you've got to give the car gas, taking your foot off the clutch pedal slowly enough to keep from stalling while stilling being fast enough to move your foot over two pedals to give it gas."
There was so much gold in so many of his posts, oh Jimmy, where have you gone?
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