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This definitely works. My brother in law thought he would "learn" to drive stick before our trip to Europe a couple years ago. He thought he did in the one hour session with his friend's car. Obviously I drove the rental van out to the countryside from the airport to allow him to attempt to drive in a more relaxed pace setting. You should have seen how bad the vehicle was lurching and jerking along with his frustration over not understanding that every clutch is different. He couldn't understand why I had no problems but he was doing so poorly.
 
I learned on stick. 67 Ford 3 on the tree. I love that truck.
66, step side. Old Yellow DOT truck with a 390 in it. That truck would shit and git
 
Driving stick. It’s like riding a bike. Glad I knew how to. At one job, I used to car pool with a guy who drove a manual Toyota. His wife picked him up at work one day to go somewhere and he handed me the keys to his car. I was able to get home.

I taught my wife back when we were teenagers (before we were married). She stopped at the RR tracks and said, “I’m going to stall out on the tracks”. I’m like, no get started and just go, don't try to shift. Well, you guessed it. It also frustrated her to start on a hill. I could go, stop, let it roll back and go from the roll. She took a while to master that skill.
 
I learned on my buddy's 1968 Road Runner.
 
Even big trucks are going auto. I remember my first time driving a split shift up to WV. That was a real learning experience.
 
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I learned on a 93 Mustang GT 5.0
 
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When I was 10 years old, I drove all over Dillon county in a 1952 Ford pickup. Flathead V8 with overdrive. I was Top of the World I tell ya!
 
I forgot what I learned it on, but so glad that I did..

My wife's DD is 330i 6sp.
 
I learned in a '68 Vdub Beetle. Wouldn't mind having another one.
 
Learned to drive a stick, drive period, in a ford maverick on a dirt road in a sugarcane field in brazil. Top that shit.

Started in a 53 Chevy pickup around 10-12 yrs old on both sides of the SC/NC lines...…….no sugar cane fields but an area that let's say the 53 Chevy hauled quite a bit of the refined product from yo' sugar cane fields to some wooded areas in the Black Ankle swamps. Sugar, corn, water, Mason jars, working hands, and a little on-going fire allowed for production of a home remedy solution used around the region and made it to other parts far away to be used for any ailments or stress-related conditions known to man at that time in American history.

No Ford Maverick could have done that anywhere on the planet.

Topped. :D
 
When I was 10 years old, I drove all over Dillon county in a 1952 Ford pickup. Flathead V8 with overdrive. I was Top of the World I tell ya!

I well remember being 12-15 yrs old sitting in very long lines beside roadways leading into NC and SC tobacco warehouse with old floor shifter flatbed trucks loaded with sheets of the golden leaf. Stayed in those big trucks for 2 and 3 days and nights to keep pulling them up a little at a time to get the crop to the warehouse floor to be sold. I was able to stay up day and night with all of the grown men listening to the tales of old and their escapades. I was included at that early age as one of the guys and they would let me run up and down the lines of vehicles pulling them up as the line moved up. I was the man...….I was their little guy toting them short bottle Cokes, nabs, sandwiches, cigs, and anything they needed so I could stay connected to them as my heroes.

That was my Top of the World at that particular time in life.
 
I apologize @DesignMine for helping to derail your product thread good sir...……...but you're at least partly responsible for posting such an interesting sticker that stirred up many memories for so many CFF members.

:D:D
 
Even big trucks are going auto. I remember my first time driving a split shift up to WV. That was a real learning experience.
We had a 1200 gallon tanker at the fire dept with a split shift, an NO power steering:eek:

That truck sorted out the men from the boys real quick.
 
I learned on my Grandpa’s farm Willys (man if I still had it today) with an unsynchronized transmission ... I even got my first license at 14 yo, a farm license, I could drive a farm truck but not a regular car? My kid learned the idea of driving on a Farmall Cub w/ belly mower and then at 12 yo learned in a Dually with a 4 speed-granny transmission when he first started helping bring hay bales ... he’d drive the Dually pulling trailers back to the hay barn for unloading. Hell, even my wife can drive a manual except she hates how it wrecks her shoes.
 
I forgot what I learned it on, but so glad that I did..

My wife's DD is 330i 6sp.


Get rid the 'clutch lock' valve, the car will shift much easier. BMW calls it a lock valve, parts houses call it a delay valve. Delay is a better term because what it does is slow down the hydraulic fluid. That makes feathering the clutch hard because there is delay in clutch response. The replacement 'valve' is just a straight pass-through and is installed in place the BMW's lock valve.

https://www.pelicanparts.com/cgi-bi...cgi?command=DWsearch&description=clutch+delay
 
We had a 1200 gallon tanker at the fire dept with a split shift, an NO power steering:eek:

That truck sorted out the men from the boys real quick.
When I first joined the firehouse we had a manual, but nothing like that.
 
My wife and I cracked up at that sticker, excellent!!

My sons learned at 8-10 years old when we’d climb down from hunt stands. We had a ball. My eldest’s (27) first and current car are manuals.
 
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I read somewhere that manual transmission cars were popular with parents for their kids, in that they were too busy concentrating on shifting to get on their phone.
 
My '69 GMC is three on the tree. I had some problems with the fuel injection one night and had to call a rollback to come get me. The truck would drive but not over 5 mph. The tow truck driver said "great, I'll just drive it on" He got behind the wheel and had never seen 3 on the tree and didn't know where to start, I had do drive it on for him. I should have demanded he turn in his man card then and there (at least for a tow truck driver)
 
learned on a 69 American Rambler (3 on the tree) and then every car since was manual until this current one - the knees are going and it was hurting
 
Since were sharing “where I learned to drive stick” stories...

I bought a brand new WRX, no test drive, drove it off the lot and made it home without stalling or burning the clutch at all. It was nerve racking but I knew I could do it. WRX’s are also known to be difficult to learn on since they’re AWD and have a short engagement.

I drove my friend’s Pontiac coup (caveleir sp?) and it was so sloppy it didn’t need a clutch.
 
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I learned on a baby blue ‘72 Ford Pinto, and then to sex it up got a Toyota Camry a few years later followed by a Honda Accord, all manual. Somewhere in there was a Toyota station wagon with an in-line 6, the first motor that I tore down.

I’ve never driven a 3 on the tree.
 
Just taught my 28 yr old son about 2 months ago. I learned when I was about 10 -11 driving a late 60 Ford pick up for the guy I worked in tobacco with.
 
Learned in a 76 Chevette. I don’t drive them anymore due to nerve damage in my left leg.
 
Learned in a 73 super beetle, would burn a tank of gas ripping up and down my dads 3/4 mike drive way. Never drove on on the tree, and never drove a split shift truck but can handle everything else.
 
Learned in a 78 Mazda pickup truck. 3 speed with an OD. Later an 85 F150, also 3 speed with an OD.

First car I bought was a 94 nissan pickup. 5 speed. Miss that thing. Shockingly fast for what it was.

Second car was a chevy blazer. My first time ever driving an automatic. It look a long time to get used to that.

Since then, I've owned 2 mustangs, both 5 speed. (still own one of them!)

my pickup truck these days is a 2016 nissan frontier. They do make a v6 crew cab with a manual trans, but its difficult to find. I found one I liked at a good price, and it had an auto, so I bought it. (and so far, no complaints). Do wish it had the 6-speed though.
 
1960 VW beetle with no syncro first.

I guess my parents believed I'd be safe with only 36 HP. If only they knew!
 
I used to teach my daughter to drive at the Keenan center parking lot. Had a Mazda 323 with a manual. She was 14. Her youth leader at church was engaged to this guy with a BMW manual trans and he asked her to pick it up for him while he was on rotation. Poor girl could not get out of the parking lot. Lauren (my daughter) just hopped behind the wheel and scooted across town like a boss. My wife drives my pickup (nissan with a manual). Just something kind of glamorous about a woman who can drive a manual transmission in the USA.
 
My wife had a heck of a time getting a new Accord with a manual. Had to be brought in from another dealer as nobody stocked 4dr manuals (which she always drives)

Her new GTI 6 speed is a lot more fun than the honda :)_
 
I drove my friend’s Pontiac coup (caveleir sp?) and it was so sloppy it didn’t need a clutch.

Friend of mine had a clutch that would not engage... almost at all. We rolled it off, and then crashbox shifted it running around "the mountain" where I lived (Gadsden AL).
 
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