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i figured this would get a lot of attention. not what you think. you must have a dirty mind. i love my standard shift in my car and truck. i love shifting gears while i'm driving. i can do it wearing heels, shoes and sometimes barefoot. i have a 2 seater car that's low to the ground. that's my summer car and its a convertible. in the winter i use my truck, its got a 4" lift kit and big tires. i love shifting gears. most cars and trucks today are dummy proof. cameras, heated seat, computer everything, etc. people don't really have to know how to drive anymore. remember the 80's when life was simple. glad i lived through that time.

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(@carloscloset)
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@prettytoes I do confess to having a dirty mind.

 

Also, I love to drive a stick - my last one was a Mini Cooper - but they are so hard to find in the US.

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@prettytoes 

I learned to drive on an 81 Chevy truck with three on the tree. I've owned a Ford ranger with a 5 speed manual and a VW Jetta with a manual.  I loved both and would have continued with manual gearboxes but they became less and less available.  I've only driven automatics now for over 20 years with the exception of some business trips to Europe where I always get a manual at the rental agency. I had a lot of fun in Germany a few years ago with a BMW manual with a turbo diesel. Sadly, never had the opportunity to drive stick in heels. 😉

 

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@mkat3874 did a side job in an old ford pickup with 3 on the tree after replacing the clutch had to call my buddy’s dad down to show me how to drive it lol that is one unique system lol even worse the truck was built with no power steering made it even more fun to drive lol 

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@erinb 

The Chevy I learned on didn't have power anything.  It was just a farm truck but it made the others look so much easier. 

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@mkat3874 indeed after that moment a 90s 5 speed was something to be thankful 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I still remember the radio was am fm and A track 

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@erinb 

Oh yeah. I forgot about the 8 track player.

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@mkat3874 remember when the cassette tape came out with a cord to hook your portable CD player to lol 😂 

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@erinb 

 Oh,crap! I remember when the 4 and 8 tracks came out! Lol 🥰 

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@gafran I've just bought a home 8 track player 🙂 A brilliant format. Mine records, but I can't find any blank tapes, and I don't want to fill in the hole and tape over an existing tape.

Cerys

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@dazzler 

 Somewhere in the internet world. Somebody's got some. Or even an old one that's been demagnatized. (Erased). 🥰

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@dazzler oooo gosh I remember filling in the holes to copy over 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 also when the tape got eaten 

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@dazzler I just looked 9n Amazon and there are several places to buy blank 8-track tapes…

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@gafran wonder if you ask some today if they would know 🤔

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@erinb 

 It might strain some brains go back down memory lane. But some one should know. 🥰

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@gafran steams a rolling lol 

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@erinb 

 This must be Retro Tuesday! 🥰

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@gafran better then the frosted tundra wind chills tonight calling for -24 

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@erinb 

 27 here now 17 tonight. Snowing until midnight. Up 3 inches accumulation. 🥰

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@gafran wish I had an angry face to give ya can CDH add angry face lol 😂 i love the snow just wish we could get a break and be decent to go outside and enjoy it not turn to popsicles lol 

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@erinb 

 I'm a transplanted Yankee. So I've delt with Snow. It's just a rarity here. It really befuddles some and it's really hilarious to watch how panicky some get over a little Snow ❄️ 😂  🥰

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@gafran thats truly no lie born and raised in Ohio this is winter but today one little flack and boom full out panic mode 

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Today if you owned a stick shift you be lucky to get out of second gear lol 

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@erinb 

 Yep, more steering wheel holder than driver! 🥰

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@gafran not sure if they even hold the steering wheel anymore 🤔

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@erinb 

They likely use their knees. While talking on the phone. Eating a Cheeeeseburger and drinking a sody water! 🥰

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@gafran picking there nose only knows now a days but indeed 

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@erinb Angry Freezing -5 here

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@prettytoes we at -3 windchill -12 under a cold warning for -26 windchill 

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@erinb Down here in Oz a "mild" 14C this morning. But days of (in old money) over 100F are common at this time of theyears. As for all that white stuff.. keep it up there, we dont want it,

Caty.

 

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@ryanpaul I will try my best lol 😂 can’t promise tho lol 😂 

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@erinb 

Been there done that too😆

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@prettytoes 

 I've got a little truck with a 5 speed stick and a '87 Turbo Coupe T-Bird 5 speed stick. I haven't tried them with heels yet. Sometimes just getting under the steering wheel in heels is a unlady like challenge! 😆 

Fran 🥰 

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@prettytoes I agree and yes I do remmber the 80,s .I had a ford capri 3.0 stick shift with no driving aids just raw power you had to feel what the car was doing and react to it .

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@prettytoes hi Rachel, we do need more car girls here, I’m so happy to see a forum post.  I’ve got an old 89 car with a six speed, and a t-shirt that says “ save the standard” and has a shift pattern on it.  It’s funny though, now that I’m old enough and know how to drive a stick, I’ve been hearing that stick shift cars are a theft prevention device for younger kids. 

I don’t want to show my age, but I’ve heard of 4 on the floor, but I’m not sure you are old enough to remember 3 on the tree.  Thanks for posting.  

P. S. I haven’t driven my old car dressed yet, it does get some looks, that’s not what I want.

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@jennconn i'm that old. and they will probably be looking at the car and not you. put it on your bucket list. (cd driving a stick with heels on)

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@prettytoes I can’t wait Rachel, I’ve gotta do it!

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@jennconn I personally have experienced a 3 on the tree I had to call my buddy’s dad down to show me how to drive it lol that’s definitely must say my top manual I ever learned lol 

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@jennconn My car gets some attention as it's quite rare. I am ready with the story of lending it to my sister, if I get asked who was driving it.

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@annaredhead so cool Anna.  I’d love to do that too

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@prettytoes I’m a pretty big stick fan myself.  Sadly there is so much traffic that idling around and working out my left leg takes away the fun 

C💋

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@prettytoes Oh Rachel… my teen years were the 80s, first vehicle was a 68 Chevy pickup, 3 in the tree… until I blew that up and put in a 4 speed… four on the floor from three in the tree lol. We have only driven stick. My 4 kids all have learned to drive in standards… and believe it or not… it has actually gotten them jobs and allowed them advancement… because nobody else around them could drive that vehicle with standard transmission . We live in pickup country… nothing sounds better then the turbo spooling up, and the engine brake coming on in the pickup as I shift. But it feels even better when I’m in my cute panties and tight jeans lol

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@prettytoes 

I've owned several manual transmission cars.  I got rid of the last one 20 years ago.  Driving in bumper-to-bumper traffic on SoCal freeways made me a convert to automatics.  My current car is an automatic and it's automated.  It's a Toyota.  Best car I ever owned.

/LK

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@prettytoes I enjoy a stick but today I prefer the paddle shifters in my CTS V. Quicker and smoother than a stick. I suppose I just tired of the old school stuff I spent all my younger days fixing, modifying, building, etc.

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@prettytoes I loved mine too. I had one up until about 10 years ago. Seems no one wants them anymore and they are only in certain sports cars which we don't have. I've had them in a pony car, a van and an SUV. I always loved the control and feeling I was DRIVING, not just steering.

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@prettytoes 

It is very unusual to find stick shift in the US unlike Europe, most people don’t know how to drive them, it can be a lot of fun until you get in LA traffic during rush hour, after a while your leg can get pretty tired of using the clutch, but I am glad to have driven them for about 20 years.

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I agree, I prefer a manual transmission, though I don't drive it in high heels, but I have with the lower heels pf my boots. I also agree it is fun to drive my old  Triumph TR with the top down en femme.

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@jjandme YES I DRIVE MY PONTIAC SOLSTICE WITH THE TOP DOWN. NEED TO WEAR A HEAD BAND SO I DON'T LOSE MY WIG.

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@prettytoes know this is what I like to call Gone With the Wind 

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I have an old british two seater  with non synchro  first gear. It's so much fun to barefoot with the wind in your hair.  I'm  thinking of painting it pink to mimic a Barbie car.

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@melania YA HOT PINK WOULD BE COOL @

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@melania We to have a British 2 seater, a classic Triumph TR-6 1971. Recently replaced the original 4 speed with a conversion 5 speed from a 1986 Toyota Supra. Her name is Victoria. She is a fast Plum Burgundy beauty. Skirts and white tennies & V neck sweater for me. Kathi  Pride Heart

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I used to love driving manual. 

I learned how to drive in a work place s10, 4 speed.  The clutch and tranny was horrendous as many people used that truck to learn driving stick.

My second car was a 87 Horizon, 5 speed.  Loved it.  At 198 000 km, it still had the original clutch, and the transmission was still in top notch shape.

Sigh, as I am now old, and my joints are super creaky I can no longer drive stick.

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@wendyswift the first standard i drove was the work pick up. sat in the parking lot for about 5 or 10 minutes grinding gears. then the boss came out and told me how it was done. it was 3 on the collum. had to drive to mass to fix a customer's machine. i made it back alive.

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@wendyswift I taught my kids how to drive in an old Ford van with a 3 on the tree

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@kdmon Great Kathleen!  Same for me and my kids.  Most people don't even know what 3 on a tree means.  All my cars are stick.  If you aren't mean and playing Duke's of Hazzard they will last much longer than an automatic.  Currently driving a 21 Mitsubishi Mirage that gets 50mph.  And yes, I can drive in heels but usually use my flats to prevent scuffs.  Drive on!  Marg  

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@margprodue 

 I guess this changes the story of why  boys are faster than  girls. Ball bearings and a stick shift!  Lol 🥰

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@gafran don't knock girls. i know girls that can do more than most guys. pretty, smart and handy.

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@prettytoes 

 And I'm one of them. 🥰

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@gafran Ha Ha Fran,  But my wife tells me that I run like a girl (which apparently I do?).

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@margprodue 

 Nothing wrong with that girl. A little wiggle and jiggle are true signs of femininity! 🥰

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@gafran  I appears that it was standard equipment for my chassis.

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@margprodue 

 I'm a Big fan of the wiggle jiggle! 🥰

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@gafran   See you at the pool.  lol   Marg

 

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🥰🥰🥰

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Rachel, my first car, a 64 falcon was an auto. then I got a 72 SS El Camino followed by a 69 Chevy C20, then a 53 Chevy step van, all with a stick, but I have to admit it that I'm to lazy to drive a stick, especially in hilly towns with traffic like Seattle. I do however when traveling in Europe, always rent a car with stick and do get that race car driver feeling, but I get over it pretty quick.

Drive on,

Sherri

 

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Thankfully, I live in the UK where nearly all cars have proper gearboxes and three pedals. 
Sadly this will change as electric becomes more popular as EVs don't have gearboxes as such. They just have a single speed reduction drive. No changing gears. They drive like an auto, but without any gear shifting. I've been driving electric for over 8 years, but one of my cars, and our motorhome have proper gearboxes.

Cerys

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@dazzler its going to suck when there is not enough electricity to charge all those electric cars. your going to have to make a choice. make your coffee or power your car. and when your battery dies its going to cost a fortune to replace it. what happened to the carburetor that gets 200 miles a gallon. dig that back out and charge $10 a gallon for gas. i'd pay that for 200 miles.

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@prettytoes Many charge overnight, it won't be a problem. We hope to soon have solar with battery storage, so charging will virtually free, especially from spring to autumn. When the battery eventually dies, it will be recycled into solar storage or other similar devices. The cells can be replaced and the old ones recycled. We're looking at 100,000 miles before a battery needs replacing. We'll have changed cars long before we get to 100,000 miles. It's guaranteed to 80,000. Living in a country with plenty of renewable energy, where we won't rely on coal, we can power the cars on mainly renewable energy. 
Battery replacement is nowhere near the cost of what it used to be. I'm not mad enough to own a Tesla, I'll never own anything that funds Noel Skum (Anag.), so prices, built quality, and service are far better. 

I love the instant torque of electric. You get 100% of the available torque instantly. No waiting for engine revs to build. All of the power, all of the time. No jerky gear changes. Smooth and rapid acceleration. Very low centre of gravity makes handling superb. Far fewer moving parts makes servicing cheaper and easier. Brakes need replacing at much longer intervals thanks to regenerative braking, that not only slows the car, but puts fuel back into it. Does your dino juice car do that? The ability to heat or cool the car remotely, so it's at the right temperature when you get in it. No more defrosting the car on cold mornings. The car is clear, warm, and the seats are hot. 
Seriously, stop believing the nonsense that is all over the media, and will get worse over the next 4 years. EVs are far nicer to own and drive than dino juice cars.... I still have a dino juice car. It's my fun vehicle. Only 65 were made, and it only has three wheels. It will do 75MPH at over 60 MPG. I love it, but the EV, especially in winter, is so much nicer.

Take an EV for a test drive. You'll be impressed! (not a Tesla though) 🙂

Cerys

 

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@dazzler ya well i'm not a big fan of all the trees being cut down to make solar fields. where i am we lost lots of acres of woods to build solar fields. i've see more deers dead on the side of the road because they have no place to go.

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Posted by: @dazzler

.... I still have a dino juice car. It's my fun vehicle. Only 65 were made, and it only has three wheels. It will do 75MPH at over 60 MPG. I love it

Is that Del Boy?  Surely not. I'm trying to guess what your 3 wheeler make was. Aha ! The Reliant Robin 65 ! Kudos, Cerys !

I had two Reliant 3 wheelers in the distant past.  You could drive them on a motor bike licence. The first a blue Regal , the second a red Robin, that was the only cross dressing car I ever came across and went by the name of Wendy, as in 

(Music / groan on)

"Wendy red, red robin goes, bob, bob, bobbing along ... "

(Music / groan off)

In the good old days of hitch hikers, I used to stop for them, and some would take one look at a three wheeled oddity and refuse the lift

 

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@emmat Yes, it's a 65! A seriously fun car to drive. Raises smokes y everywhere it goes. People point. People take photos. People stop and talk about it. I love it! It's almost as much fun as my other three wheeled vehicle... My Sinclair C5!

Cerys

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As can be seen from the pictures in my profile, I have a Smart car; it is an automatic and I love it. It is such a pleasant change to just press and go, no clutch and no gearstick to speak of. Having said that, our other car is a manual, but I find it seamless to change from auto car to manual and back again. Over the years, as first, a computer engineer that had a new vehicle every two years, then subsequently as a truck driver with a myriad of different gearbox layouts, I have no trouble driving, well, anything. I also ride a motorbike.

I used to live in The Netherlands but used my own right-hand-drive UK car. On occasions, I had to get a local rental vehicle and they were manual gearboxes but left-hand-drive; the number of times I pressed on the clutch then attempted to open the window!

Becca

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@rebeccabaxter 

I’ve never been comfortable driving a left hand drive car. When we go abroad my wife does almost all of the driving.

A number of years ago I drove our own car from the UK to Austria to take part in a triathlon. I had no problem whatsoever with right hand drive driving on the right, but my wife couldn’t cope with it at all. 
We’re all so very different ! 

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    Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
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A really good gearchange is an art form, and a pleasure when I can make it all come together.  I like how you get to interact with your vehicle much more with a manual change, it becomes like an extension of your body.  On the other hand, a manual is a complete pain if you're in a lot of heavy traffic, constantly varying speed or worse, stop-start. 

I miss my Volvo convertible, which had a very smooth torque-convertor box, my first automatic.  I remember the first time I prepared for an overtake in that.  Luckily there was nothing behind me as I moved the lever over into manual mode, and unthinkingly went for the clutch and a slight blip on the throttle as I changed down a gear ... 😳.  I only ever made that mistake once!  After a while I could swap between driving the Volvo and my manual A2's without any conscious thought.

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Ive been driving manual tranny cars all my life.  My favorite was a Porsche 911 carrera.  Currently driving a Ford Focus ST.

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i've had 2 Pontiac Fiero with a 4 & a 6 cylinder motor, a chevy citation x11 with a trunk (never seen another one with a trunk, only hatchbacks, 2 gmc 2500 pick ups (1 was 80's and the one i have now is a 2006, 2500, 8' box, standard and loaded) i never see a standard truck like that loaded. so i had it all redone, painted, lift kit and big tires. its my baby. plus my Pontiac solstice.

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Lady
(@jillleanne)
Joined: 2 years ago

Prominent Member     Renfrew, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 605

@prettytoes Rachael, a stuffed a 3.8 supercharged into a 84 Fiero pace car replica. There is a conversion kit for it available for it. Bigger brakes and a modified gas tank and away you go. Ran low 11’s at the track.

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Baroness
(@annaredhead)
Famed Member     Cornwall, United Kingdom
Joined: 11 months ago

I have a truck with a manual gear change and a car which is automatic (there is no manual UK version of it). The only automatic I have ever driven is my current car which I do drive en-femme. I have never driven my truck en-femme.

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Baroness
(@ryanpaul)
Famed Member     Outer Eastern Suburbs Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Joined: 7 years ago

Lazy Australian this end, The last manual I drove was a 74 Mazda 8o8 "Savanna" .For work, I then went up to a 77 Ford Cortina auto, (An Asutralian version with a great lump of a 4.1l six up front. Had a bad rep here in Oz, but mine was OK.

Auto's ever since, tho my first car was a 55 Morris Minor manual . I "hotted it up" shortened and chromed the gear shift and had the grill chromed.LOL

A mate of mine and myself once drove it straight through from Sydney to Melbourne 14hrs of bbbuuuzzzz, the sound proofing was nil and I moved the front passenger seat up under the dash. AKA the Non driver sat in the back in "business class"

I sold it to the lovely young lady who had been my 21st birthday date. The dodgy 3rd gear in the "box" was stuffed, she never went out with me again..

IN CD terms, I kept a photo of Danny LaRue under the back seat!!

My "dream young mans car" Mazda 1500 with "3 on the tree" Just loved the style and drove everywhere in that until I got the 808

For a work Station wagon we had the famous mid 60's "EH Holden" with "3 on the Tree".

Ah the gold old days

 

Caty

 

 

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Baroness
(@ryanpaul)
Joined: 7 years ago

Famed Member     Outer Eastern Suburbs Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Posts: 2039

I forgot to add I also chromed the rocker cover... Vroom Vrooom... Top speed about 60mph. Oh and I connected up the accelerator linkage to a mower hand throttle

Cruise control, 30 years before it became common!!!....

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(@rachelle71)
Estimable Member     Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Joined: 7 years ago

I seem to alternate between manuals and automatics - at least for the summer car.

The previous summer car was an '10 Mustang with an manual, but then traded it for an '09 Jaguar with an auto. Though it does have the paddles that I'll use for autocross. Previous manuals have been a VW Golf, an RX-7, and a Mazda GLC.

Sadly, I don't think I'll take the Big Blue British Beast out this year, so it'll be a few more KMs on the current winter beater - a '16 Jeep Patriot - aka the Baby Jeep. 🙂

Love

Rachelle

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 Erin
Princess
(@erinb)
Noble Member     Ohio, United States of America
Joined: 5 months ago

Haven’t driven a stick until you hit all 18 gears at 110000 lbs 🤫 or a super 10 probably one of the hardest manuals to learn 3 on the tree was something different indeed yes indeed manuals where fun but new age are here unfortunately 

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Hostess
(@ab123)
Illustrious Member     Surrey, United Kingdom
Joined: 5 years ago

Being a Brit I have and love the 'Stick shift'. I have driven autos and an electric car that I was given as a courtesy car while mine was in for service, it was interesting.

I recall back in the day when my dad had a car with the change on the steering column. It was a Ford and was a mini copy of the American cars with bench seats. Before synchro mesh double de clutching was the way and I did some driving courses which still employed this even though the cars had synchro boxes. My best fun course was a four wheel drive course in the old  style Landy that was really put through its paces.

My first cars were very basic, no power steering, no gadgets easy to fix and you really had to drive using the gears and balance of the car, you had to drive. 

 

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