14 thoughts on “If you don’t know how to drive a shift, you ain’t shit…”
I can remember when I drove my first automatic and I was thinking what in the world is this voodoo …
Well, my first was a three on the tree in a ’64 Chebbie truck, but now? My SHO has a REAL shift pattern!
Try 18 speeds. It gets your blood pumping.
18 speeds with a 3 speed brownie behind that…
Yep. We drove all kinds in the Military. The split axles were the fun ones.
Now that you have mastered manual trans. in a car you can move on to things like double clutching, 18 speed road rangers, and clutch brakes.
I learned to drive a standard transmission on a 1952 International stake bed truck with a double clutch that the family business still owned in 1989 when I was learning to drive. By then, that truck was a rotted out piece of shit, but at least it taught me how to drive a stick.
I’ll admit that I’m lazy these days, and much prefer an automatic just for the convenience of it. I’m past the point of wanting to do performance driving, I just want my vehicle to be convenient and comfortable.
Three-on-the-tree in a car that, if you didn’t shift right and killed it, you were stuck until the engine cooled off and you could start it again. I do not miss that car one bit.
I learned to drive on a 1959 Triumph TR-3 and a 1965 VW Microbus. Not an automatic in either one. When I submitted to the state mandated 6 hours on the road it was in a beat up Rambler with an automatic. I was happy to find out not all automatics were so anemic.
What’s all this talk of 18 speed? I learned on a 5 and 4 w/ 2speed Eaton rear ends.
2 stick all the way
Ron
If you can drive an 18 speed, you can drive a shift…
Just remember to tell the little snot nosed shit to hit it into R when he needs to Race past someone.
PNDLR – on the Powerglides…
Learned on a stick. Taught my kids while they had permits to drive a stick. First car, 55 cheby 3 on the tree. Last loved car civic 5 speed cause I’m a cheap bastard, 38 mpg daily driver. 4×4 truck in the garage for the rest and current mode of transport.
I can remember when I drove my first automatic and I was thinking what in the world is this voodoo …
Well, my first was a three on the tree in a ’64 Chebbie truck, but now? My SHO has a REAL shift pattern!
Try 18 speeds. It gets your blood pumping.
18 speeds with a 3 speed brownie behind that…
Yep. We drove all kinds in the Military. The split axles were the fun ones.
Now that you have mastered manual trans. in a car you can move on to things like double clutching, 18 speed road rangers, and clutch brakes.
I learned to drive a standard transmission on a 1952 International stake bed truck with a double clutch that the family business still owned in 1989 when I was learning to drive. By then, that truck was a rotted out piece of shit, but at least it taught me how to drive a stick.
I’ll admit that I’m lazy these days, and much prefer an automatic just for the convenience of it. I’m past the point of wanting to do performance driving, I just want my vehicle to be convenient and comfortable.
Three-on-the-tree in a car that, if you didn’t shift right and killed it, you were stuck until the engine cooled off and you could start it again. I do not miss that car one bit.
I learned to drive on a 1959 Triumph TR-3 and a 1965 VW Microbus. Not an automatic in either one. When I submitted to the state mandated 6 hours on the road it was in a beat up Rambler with an automatic. I was happy to find out not all automatics were so anemic.
What’s all this talk of 18 speed? I learned on a 5 and 4 w/ 2speed Eaton rear ends.
2 stick all the way
Ron
If you can drive an 18 speed, you can drive a shift…
Just remember to tell the little snot nosed shit to hit it into R when he needs to Race past someone.
PNDLR – on the Powerglides…
Learned on a stick. Taught my kids while they had permits to drive a stick. First car, 55 cheby 3 on the tree. Last loved car civic 5 speed cause I’m a cheap bastard, 38 mpg daily driver. 4×4 truck in the garage for the rest and current mode of transport.