Thread: How many of you drive stick?

One of my pet peeves (aside from classic Ford trucks with Chevy motors under the hood) is boss sports cars with automatic transmissions. One of my neighbors has a really nice Nissan 300Z with an automatic transmission. IMHO, very unmanly and just not very cool, it's like a Lambo or a Porsche with an automatic transmission. There are vehicles that are just supposed to have a clutch and a stick shift (and no, that cheesy automatic slap stick abomination doesn't count.)

Originally Posted by mapleleafalumnus

David --
If it was Fred, it was a dinky l'il GS500!

Dude it WAS "Fred!!" And you know what... I would bet dollars to donuts that she could drive circles around the majority of us bike guys on that "dinky L'il GS500 LOL!!

Originally Posted by 1OldGI

One of my pet peeves (aside from classic Ford trucks with Chevy motors under the hood) is boss sports cars with automatic transmissions. One of my neighbors has a really nice Nissan 300Z with an automatic transmission. IMHO, very unmanly and just not very cool, it's like a Lambo or a Porsche with an automatic transmission. There are vehicles that are just supposed to have a clutch and a stick shift (and no, that cheesy automatic slap stick abomination doesn't count.)

Come ON!! Tell me it's not so... Lambo's and Porche's come in auto? Wow. I guess that shows you that they are a bit out of my price range as i would never have guessed.

Originally Posted by earcutter

Dude it WAS "Fred!!" And you know what... I would bet dollars to donuts that she could drive circles around the majority of us bike guys on that "dinky L'il GS500 LOL!!

I get my hands back and I'll take that bet any day of the week and 2x on Sunday!

This is my Rover Mini Tahiti Limited Edition 1.3. In my opinion no other car will beat this car - its not the fanciest looking car or the priciest but my god it goes like s!&$ of a shovel and sticks to the ground like s!$& to a towel.

Originally Posted by tbert33

This is my Rover Mini Tahiti Limited Edition 1.3. In my opinion no other car will beat this car - its not the fanciest looking car or the priciest but my god it goes like s!&$ of a shovel and sticks to the ground like s!$& to a towel.

I have fond memories of Mini's. We had a blast with one of these when I was in University. I still remember 6 of us driving across Saskatchewan in the middle of winter to watch a hockey game in Calgary. Good times.

Originally Posted by Scookum

I have fond memories of Mini's.

I have fond memories of mini tacos.


Just fyi...
Now back to the topic at hand.

And I'm off to the grocery store!

We have one of all three in this house. I only own one. The wife owns the other two. But I prefer my own with the second choice going to the Manual.

Mine.


Hers, but my preference of the two that she owns. We had trouble getting them to sell us this one in a Manual. Seems Auto's are more popular with city folk. Don't mind Auto's, but they have to have a fair bit of get up and go to them, otherwise they are as unexciting as waiting for dead grass to turn green.



Mick

I don't drive/use/operate one on a regular basis any more. After 3 MILLION miles of running junk with 4spds, 5spds ( with and w/o a "working 4th & 5th" you're quite welcome to try to figure that mess out on your own), 6spds, and on up through 18spds on a single stick, and virtually every combination of 2 stick transmissions ( the Brown-Lipe trannies in the old Macks are sweet shifting SOB's, but I was always fond of Dana-Spicer's 6X4 with double overdrives and double underdrives) known to man, I don't care if EVER have to shove a clutch in as long as I live.

FYI, 6x4=24 forward gears and 4 reverses.

GREAT sport in stop and go traffic. LOL

GIT SOME!

1 of my personal vehicles is a 5 speed, the other 2 are automatics. At work I drive some 18 speed semi's with Eaton Fuller transmissions, and some automatic large trucks. The apparatus at the fire department are push button transmissions, some with clutches. Ambulances are automatics. I also have a motorcycle licence. So to sum it up, I drive everything.