When you have to drive an automatic

[Vcode]

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[FL SAAC]

sedate but vicious at the same time

i will call it sibyl...

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[67 GT350]

At 15, I always wanted a 55 through 57 T-Bird. At 17, I bought one. It was a 55 Goldenrod Yellow 3 speed manual. I never drove a manual. I asked my friend how you drive one and he told me to learn to feel the grab of the clutch, he was 16. Before getting the money up for the car, I was "thinking" how a manual works, hmmmm, I thought if I think like a automatic, I think I can do this! But dealing with the clutch, hmmmm, and timing the same foot that is on that brake pedal.....wow, how do I do that?!?!?!? OK the day came my friend in his 66 Mustang convertible with an auto, yes the same kid who told me what to do....took me over to get the car! No, I did not think, hey, he's driving a auto! Anyway, we got there, I got behind the wheel of that 55 Bird, and drove it home with little issues. Took it out and "practiced" with it and NEVER looked back, for me it was just using common sense and thinking about it. Over the years many cars of mine were and are 4 speeds, 5 speeds, and 6 speeds! Love them! And yes some are autos, but that is just life, I guess....on the 24th of March I will be 60! WOW, when they say, "Time flies" I now know what they were saying! Gone is the T-Bird, but here are other cars! But one thing from the past is still with me, my love of cars! AND yes I still keep in touch with my friend who told me about that clutch thing!

[deathsled]

Manual Transmission= Millennial anti-theft device.

Try renting a car anywhere in Europe.

[557]

My "REAL" car has a 4spd.,my driver Toyota is an auto.works perfectly....

[Peter L.]

  +1

[shelbydoug]

If you haven't driven a car with a PK trans yet, you should. Once you do, you will realize exactly how obsolete a manual is.

[pchmotoho]

To each his own however a manual for me is part of the fun.  Autos may be faster than stick but it is not all about speed for me and I think the old gated shifters are the best looking things you will ever find in a car (supermodels not included). 

[557]

The wonderful thing about a clutch is that it lets YOU decide when to spin the tires.....

[Side-Oilers]

To each his own however a manual for me is part of the fun.  Autos may be faster than stick but it is not all about speed for me and I think the old gated shifters are the best looking things you will ever find in a car (supermodels not included).

+1  Making me wish even more that the 2020 GT500 had one.  (The part about the supermodel too.)

[98SVT - was 06GT]

Our daughter is now 45 and learned on a 4 speed. She traded her sailboat for a 67 VW when she was 15 and learned to drive it in the backyard - only cost me one gate. Her first 4 cars were stick. VW - 2 Merkur's and her first new car a Ford Escape. Her life lesson with the Escape was you can't launch & retrieve an 18' ski boat with a baby 4 cylinder and expect the clutch to last. She still has an early RHD Mini that her son will learn to drive a stick with.

[69mach351w]

If you haven't driven a car with a PK trans yet, you should. Once you do, you will realize exactly how obsolete a manual is.

PK?  Explain for us (Not so use to the lingo) persons

BTW Fran, cool story

[shelbydoug]

If you haven't driven a car with a PK trans yet, you should. Once you do, you will realize exactly how obsolete a manual is.

PK?  Explain for us (Not so use to the lingo) persons

BTW Fran, cool story

PDK. My keyboard sticks...just some of the keys. I didn't think anyone paid any attention to what I write?

https://autoweek.com/article/technology/what-pdk-autoweek-explains

It's a manual dual disk transmission without a clutch pedal and can shift itself via the CPU. The P just stuck but I caught it in time.

In the case of the Porsche if you need a new clutch I think you need to send the car back to Bavaria and have Hans fix it? It's all apparently done on a need to know basis. You need some sort of security clearance to get the shop manual for it?

The only problem other then that is what you do with your left foot.

I tried continuously to out think it but it always beat me to the punch. Also it made no mistakes. Me? Hum?

[69mach351w]

Good article.  Thanks SD

[69mach351w]

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Wow, LOL, what a beast!!