Who Here Can't Operate A Standard Shift Vehicle?

[striker55]

Learned to drive on the tree, took my road test with a 4 speed 427 Stingray Corvette. Owned a VW beetle for 10 years then a 5 speed Ford Escort for 8 years. Then I switched to automatic. Drove cars for Toyota, one requirement was you had to know how to drive a stick. Watched young guys learn to drive on the job, one guy got fired on the spot when the boss watched him try to drive a stick.

 

[Texasgordo]

This gets regular usage....

460cid. 4spd (1st being "granny")...

4:10 gear...

What is the MPG for that?

 

[reddog]

Also learned to drive 3 on the tree, and have owned many sticks, still have two and wouldn't mind buying another.

 

[ULEWZ]

Up until my last vette, all my daily drivers were stick. My 3 boys all drive a stickshift car, and my wife learned on a Honda civic.

 

[Grumps21]

My first car was a stick, and I’ve had three others since that time. Riding motorcycles since I was 11 or so. Driven an old three on the tree as well. Wife can drive a stick shift just as well as I can although we currently don’t have any in the livery except the motorcycles.

Most mainstream Appliances stopped being offered in standard shift over the past 10-15 years so I’d wager most of the folks born after the mid 80’s probably can’t drive one

 

[contender buff]

I cut my teeth on a standard , on the tree & the floor.

 

[kbaxter60]

Wife and I drove almost exclusively standards for years. Our last was a 6-speed Kia Forte and that has now been passed to our daughter, who learned to drive it pretty quickly (some of her sisters: not so much). We now have two automatics and I still, every once in a while, go for the clutch when slowing for a turn.

 

[innominate]

I have the bikes but haven't had a car with a stick in 10 years. Mainly because of the traffic around here. If my gf ever gets her MG out of storage and running we'll have a stick again

 

[msharley]

What is the MPG for that?

About 11mpg...just made a trip down to the Irwin, Pa area...

65miles each way (more or less)...used 12 gallons of gas for 130 miles...

I do strive to keep the "secondaries" closed...LOL!

 

[Wudidiz]

A full grown man who can't drive a standard transmission wasn't raised right.

 

[alternative]

Everyone in my family can drive stick shift except my grandson (17) and I would teach him if I had a stick shift vehicle. In heavy traffic areas like metroplex automatic is safer.

 

[Lonesome Dove]

My fun car 65 Ford is a standard when people look inside and see that they freak out and say did they really make those back then or did you put that in there somehow

 

[DaBull]

I have never owned an automatic.

 

[Txhighlander]

Daily for me, my Jeep is also a stick. Wife says she can, not proved though.

 

[CavCop]

Everyone in my family can drive a standard/manual, even motorcycles.
Most learned around 10 years old on the ranch/farm.

My niece at like 7 was driving a 3500 Dodge, but first gear was too easy to get going to shift with. It was funny to see her pull up and get out in front of guests/strangers.

 

[stuhoevel]

I learned to drive a stick at 17. Had a friend teach me on an old Toyota Trecell wagon after another friend's Eagle Scout ceremony. Know how to drove a stick came in handy a few times. I had '98 S10 with a 5-speed for a few years, and I currently have a '19 Challenger Scat Pack with a 6-speed. I had to search for it. Manuals are fun to drive, but suck hard-core in stop and crawl traffic. I like my automatic on my daily I-35 commute. I also ride motorcycles so I know the one down five up. Clutch still sucks in traffic.

 

[DaBull]

I learned to drive a stick at 17. Had a friend teach me on an old Toyota Trecell wagon after another friend's Eagle Scout ceremony. Know how to drove a stick came in handy a few times. I had '98 S10 with a 5-speed for a few years, and I currently have a '19 Challenger Scat Pack with a 6-speed. I had to search for it. Manuals are fun to drive, but suck hard-core in stop and crawl traffic. I like my automatic on my daily I-35 commute. I also ride motorcycles so I know the one down five up. Clutch still sucks in traffic.

Bought my first car used. It was a manual. It was delivered to me at a big university parking lot with a steep hill at one end. I learned how to drive a manual right there on that steep hill. No better way to learn a clutch.

 

[tedwitt]

Standard shift is one of the things that deters car theft in Houston, millennial thieves can't drive anything not automatic.
Heck, I lived my last 50 years around 18 speeds, 13 speeds, 5 and 4, heck, I can't remember all of them, 21 speed portaplexes.

 

[TipBledsoe]

Perhaps, if any man can not answer "yes I can drive a standard shift transmission", he must immediately give up his man card, do not pass go, but go directly to the sissy metro-man pink Ken-doll club house.

 

[DaBull]

If any man can not answer "yes I can drive a standard shift transmission", he must immediately give up his man card, do not pass go, but go directly to the sissy metro-man pink Ken-doll club house.

You'd be surprised at how many Millennials are fine with giving up their man cards. Between toxic masculinity as a byproduct of the patriarchy and the cool factor of being "somewhere" on the gender spectrum, I see effeminate males all over.