I thought is was, "That's not the correct placement of the W36 stripe."

 

No joke. I had to retrieve my Jeep from valet parking because the kid didn't know how to drive a stick. How did he get that job?

 

now thats some funny sh*t!

 

I taught my kids to drive a stick. Its something that they need to know how to do like swimming and riding a bike.

 

Hi,

I always end up parking my vehicles at valet parking, just for that reason, somewhere there was a guy who gave his Jeep to a portor at a dealership or oil change place, dumb kid killed the tech doing the oil change because he didn't know how to drive a manual transmission and they prosecution charged the owner with something.over it.

Personally think they should force people to learn as makes one a much more aware driver imo.

Regards,
Jim

 

Maybe every state had this back then, but when I got my license in 1964 you could get a manual or an automatic license. No boy in that day and age would ever go for the "sissy" automatic license.

 

I love it!

 

I have a 2016 Corvette with manual transmission. When I take it in for service, they have to find the one driver who can drive a stick to take it back to the service bay.

 

If you think that's bad, the winner of C/S at the NHRA Nationals in 1966 could not figure out a 1970 vintage vertical gate four speed shifter in 2007. He burned the clutch down to the backing plate.

 

I'm not sure if I win or lose by this, but my clutch pedal bushings are dead and the clevis on the master cylinder is shot, so I either have to hook the pedal with my toe or pull a rope. I put a rope in.

To be clear, the car goes into gear and the clutch goes out, but the pedal chills at 2/3rds down, and I don't like leaving it there, even though everything is so crunchy I don't think the master cylinder is depressed there, ie, the clutch is out.

Now, it's getting harder to get it INTO gear. I need to get my backup daily on the road again and fix this guy.

This is on a 280k, 15 year old truck with original brakes, shocks, and clutch.

 

Are you still bitchin about that?

 

Man, talk about stripped! Every switch blank is blank! LOL

 

Don't forget that an automatic used to be a fairly expensive "option" when buying a car.

 

Yeah, but imagine how much more fun they would have with that five speed in your car...

 

you are killing me Joe !!!!

 

My mother told me part of her driver's ed exam was they had to drive a stick shift car, stop on a steep hill, and restart again without going backwards.

This is a '69 GTO ad:

 

This was in Michigan. Because of State law, the dealership and porter couldnt be held liable, so the family had to sue the cars owner(actually, his insurance company) , to make sure the mechanics family(wife and kids) was taken care of. The insurance company settled out of court.

 

I told both of my sons I would’nt sign off on their man card until they could drive a manual trans. Now thats all they want to drive.

 

And manual crank windows. I'm guessing manual adjusting seats as well.

 

Those switches, if anyone cares, would be for fog lights, rear diff lock, inverter power, power mirrors, traction control off, clutch start override, and roll deploy side curtain airbags off switch.

It has no fog lights, no locker in the back, no 4x4, no limited slip, no inverted, no traction control. Manual mirrors, windows, locks, seats, transmission. I added a factory receiver hitch and trailer harness, and cruise control, neither of which it had. It is not a base trim, it is an SR5, which is one level up. It has power brakes, power steering, AC, AM/FM/CD/Aux radio, though aux goes to nothing.

I've driven it 280k, with some paint failure, a questionable radio, one bearing failure, one heater bypass pipe failure, and one airbag spiral cable failure. Currently. clutch pedal is dying, so is cat converter, and the valve cover seal leaks. Toyota has paid me mileage for some 150k of it and so has paid me 4x cost of vehicle so far to operate it.

 

when i took dr ed, we had to learn to drive a std shift. we had 3 69 vista cruisers and a 4 dr cutlass 350 3 on the tree. really liked that 4dr

 

And now automatic transmission is "standard" and you have to special order a manual transmission. If it's even an available option.

 

Don't get me going on RPM hang.

 

If you're really lucky, you get a CVT turd. It might even have fake shifts programmed in.

 

When I was 19, I bought a 67 Goat 4 spd M-22, etc., had a friend of mine who said if you can drive a stick so can I. So, I put him to the test. I parked the car on a medium upgrade with the front wheels turned back in so if he screwed up the car would back into the curb. And HOPEFULLY stop. Well, he tried, but after over 10 attempts he did not move the car as much as one inch forward. Fair enough. We both remember this story to this day, and he must have been inspired and has since learned to drive a manual trans. He now owns a 1970 Chevelle SS LS-6. Not an Automatic. Well done.

A an aside, I never owned a car with an automatic transmission until I was 25. And my mother was one of the best manual transmission drivers I ever knew, she drove just as well as my dad who drove tractor trailers for 35 years.

 

My wife and i were staying at a hotel in St Louis, leaving early am they wouldn't let go to the underground parking. Night manager will bring the WRX around after 10 minutes he comes back hands me the keys.
Lord I miss that car.