Thread: How many of you drive stick?

Originally Posted by donv

I have to disagree with you. Everything I drove, even before I got a license in 77, had a clutch. Car, pickup, tractors, trucks, everything. Since around 95, everything's been automatic trans. I bought my daughter a car with a five speed manual, and drove it home from a HS football game a few weeks back. After the first stop sign, I didn't even think about it anymore. When we got home, I got in my rig to drive home, damn near stomped a hole in the floorboard looking for a clutch! Then on the first stop, almost did a face plant on the steering wheel stomping on the brake to downshift! Maybe I just drove too much with a stick?

lol could be. However, if you don't drive a stick for awhile, you do get rusty, at least that's the case with me. I didn't completely forget, but my coordination was off. My Chevy sat for a year or two without being driven, long enough that the rear passenger brake locked up. After getting it back in on the road my coordination was pretty bad. I could shift, but the timing wasn't quite there.

The reason it sat for so long is that Dad thought something was wrong, it would jump,cough and backfire through the carb, yet the mechanic couldn't find anything wrong. Turned out it sorted itself out when I filled up with regular no-lead, it was ethanol poisoning. Also, since I'm Dads caregiver, he wants to ride with me, and he has trouble getting into the pickup.

Originally Posted by earcutter

I don't know if i follow? You like manual better in traffic? Thats not something i have heard before.

That was a early morning 'didn't have coffee yet' typo. I meant Automatic. LOL

Originally Posted by Maximilian

That was a early morning 'didn't have coffee yet' typo. I meant Automatic. LOL

Drive a stick shift in San Francisco for a day. Sitting at a stoplight going uphill with some dumbass on your rear bumper. You learn the "heal and toe" real quick.

Originally Posted by donv

Drive a stick shift in San Francisco for a day. Sitting at a stoplight going uphill with some dumbass on your rear bumper. You learn the "heal and toe" real quick.

Uh yeah... no thanks lol!! Sounds like hell to me that does .

Finally found a pic that's identical to my car. 1968 AMX 390 CID 4-speed.
HOT_ROD_REVIEW :: MOPAR :: 1968_AMX_0522

Originally Posted by mapleleafalumnus

Finally found a pic that's identical to my car. 1968 AMX 390 CID 4-speed.
HOT_ROD_REVIEW :: MOPAR :: 1968_AMX_0522

Good looking car bro.

I bought a brand new six speed Chevy cruze last year. It's the first manual I've owned and I won't go back to an auto. Much more enjoyable to drive and better gas mileage.

I always drive a manual, but I did have a whopping big (for Australian standards) Holden Statesman automatic years ago. Currently I've got an old Toyota RAV 4, and at the light on a hill I never use the handbrake, I always keep it steady on the hill with the clutch (then again it's not like 'Frisco here). A few cars ago I had an old Holden FC similar to the one below with out the wheel guards. I put some nice wide wheels on it and had the head shaved (to increase compression) and a nice lumpy cam. That had a 'three on the tree' as we call them here, a column change three speed. That was on the original engine, which I think was only 134 CI. In hindsight I should have put a 202 or a 186 in it with a four speed, but I didn't want to muck around with it too much. I had to sell it almost 20 years ago to buy the house I live in now

Drive a semi with a full pattern 18 speed eaton fuller behind a c13 in a volvo lol so yea i drive the mother of all sticks lol

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

I always drive a manual, but I did have a whopping big (for Australian standards) Holden Statesman automatic years ago. Currently I've got an old Toyota RAV 4, and at the light on a hill I never use the handbrake, I always keep it steady on the hill with the clutch (then again it's not like 'Frisco here). A few cars ago I had an old Holden FC similar to the one below with out the wheel guards. I put some nice wide wheels on it and had the head shaved (to increase compression) and a nice lumpy cam. That had a 'three on the tree' as we call them here, a column change three speed. That was on the original engine, which I think was only 134 CI. In hindsight I should have put a 202 or a 186 in it with a four speed, but I didn't want to much around with it too much. I had to sell it almost 20 years ago to buy the house I live in now

Bitchin car!! Yeah, I know quite well what a three on the tree is, haven't come across one in years. Ya gotta admit, they did the job very well!