learning to drive a stick...what car did you learn on.

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65BCODA said:
'66 Chevy Fleetside pickup......3 speed w/rebar stick...... in 6th grade. An uncle had given the truck to my older brother for a summers worth of work, he never got it insured and tagged so it just sat out back. My younger brother and I would come home from school and drive that thing all thru the orange groves. My mother found out and pulled the coil wire, we snagged one off the neighbors junk car and was back in business.
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Bwa ha ha ha ha!

I learned on a 63 Chevy truck that had a 327 Vette engine and matching four speed. Still had the Vette shifter so when you went for the gear change you had to lean over so far to grab the shifter, you would lose sight of the road behind the dash.
 
minibikes, motorcycles, then carts

Transition to cars was easy.

I usually suggest that people learn on a manual trans 4 wheeler ATV. Get the feel of the clutch, gas and it's easier when in a car.
 
69 super bee with hurst ramrod...

Line lock on t-Handle....

Made it real easy on the hills....
 
Gonna sound a bit pathetic, but, it was a '75 Mustang II. POS 4cyl., 4 spd., rusty bucket that was only 4 years old.......
 
Learned on my brother's 1951 Dodge truck. My brother would sleep on the passenger side while I delivered the Sunday newspaper on my paper route. Oh ya, I was 13.
 
1958 Dodge step side with 3 on the tree. I was like 10 or 11 years old and a friend of my dad let me drive it around while he rode with me. My dad was not real happy as the guy had more than a few beers in him. You could get away with this in the mid 60 s.
 
My sister's Volvo 242 driving down old mine roads :) Perfected it on another sister's car..a chopped VW dune buggy with a Meyers Manx body. Good times :) ...then to a sister's '71 Mg b GT.

Grassy
 
SSVDP said:
When I was 10 I started driving my grandma's Internationl Harvester Farm-All Super C. Didn't really need to shift while moving but got the clutch thing down even on hills. Then when I was 11 they got a very used dump truck for the farm which is when I learned how to shift. After all that I don't recall what car I actually had to shift.

I think back about how dangerous that old farm equipment was and how young I was - it makes all of the other stuff I did seem safe.
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Yep, a Farmall M was my learning vehicle, However, when I was six, my granddad had me move a loaded grain truck from one end of the field to the other. I knelt in the seat and he got it moving in granny gear with the throttle pulled out, then he jumped out and got in another truck. When I got to the end of the field, I turned off the switch. It was a '48 Dodge 1-1/2 ton. Today, granddad would be arrested and put in prison for child endangermet, but it was a way of life. By the time I was 12, I was driving a loaded grain truck to the elevator in town twelve miles away, but I had to wait until I was 13 to get my license. Times sure are different...
 
79 Plymouth Horizon TC3 with 1.6L, carburetor, and 4 speed....
 
The vehicle that I really learned to drive on was a 1998 Ford Ranger 4cyl 5spd. I was working for ATC Distribution Group in Seattle as a delivery driver, and when I was hired I neglected to tell them that I wasn't that great at a stick shift. I learned quickly on the hills of Seattle and the southern suburbs. It was great! The bad part was, at the end of the day, I'd get back into my regular cab Ranger and immediately try to put my foot through the floor looking for the clutch!
 
I learned on a 59 Chevrolet Apache with a three on the tree shifter

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In the driveway: My dads 65 Falcon 170 3 speed on the tree.

On the road: My sisters 96 GEO Prizim. 5 speed.
 
82 Trans Am with a 350. My brother came and woke me up at 530 in the morning. He said "come on, you wanted to borrow my car for prom so your going to learn to drive it now". I made it thru Prom night and only killed it a couple times
 
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