Who Here Can't Operate A Standard Shift Vehicle?

[Southpaw]

Can you operate a standard shift vehicle?

Seeing as the position of the shifter is always on the wrong side, I would have to answer no.

 

[Sam Colt]

Traction control spoils you. Dropped to 2nd and dumped the clutch in the AMX to merge today and broke the back end loose at 30. Kept on the gas and accidentally did a big graceful fishtail into my lane. Touched 65 and then threw it into 3rd; with a chirp I was headed to the horizon.

 

[Texasgordo]

Seeing as the position of the shifter is always on the wrong side, I would have to answer no.

Paddle shifter for you

 

[Southpaw]

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Paddle shifter for you

Like I said... wrong side!!!

 

[Texasgordo]

Like I said... wrong side!!!

Nah paddle shifter is on both sides

 

[Coyote9]

I was surprised to learn my Granddaughters can't.

Vehicle has to be an automatic drive or no go...

How about you and yours?

Can you operate a standard shift vehicle?

Can your wife or kids or Grand-kids?

PS, my wife could NOT catch on how to operate a standard shift no matter how much I yelled at her...no, I didn't, but gently letting out the clutch while simultaneously applying pressure to the accelerator was something she just couldn't do...

Also, wonder if car makers still make standard cars/pickups?

PS, it's OK, if you don't know how to drive a stick shift...maybe you never had the chance...?

My oldest Grand one got a standard shift Subaru because she knew that her friends could not drive/borrow it...not even her boy friend!

 

[Mowingmaniac 24/7]

C9,

Smart...very smart!

 

[Bigguy]

Me and my son. He prefers them. He had been riding motorcycles with us for years when he bought his first vehicle, so the concept of shifting gears was familiar to him.
Problem is, a standard vehicle is just about always a special order now.

 

[tedwitt]

I remember when and automatic was special order as well as a heater, a/c, radio, even power steering.
That makes me old.
Who remembers 2 cent stamps and .30 cent gas??

 

[Axxe55]

I remember when and automatic was special order as well as a heater, a/c, radio, even power steering.
That makes me old.
Who remembers 2 cent stamps and .30 cent gas??

and cars had vent widows!

 

[BigRed]

and cars had vent widows!

I like those

 

[tedwitt]

and cars had vent widows!

My 1980 Dodge Pickup has wing windows.
I call them 2-60 A/C,

 

[kbaxter60]

My 1980 Dodge Pickup has wing windows.
I call them 2-60 A/C,

We had 4-55 in dad's Plymouth Valiant station wagon.

 

[Axxe55]

We had 4-55 in dad's Plymouth Valiant station wagon.

i liked vent windows during fall and spring enough air flow to be comfortable

 

[Vaquero]

Till a swarm of bumblebees hits.
What a wonderful experience.

 

[Axxe55]

Till a swarm of bumblebees hits.
What a wonderful experience.

i have had them swarm me while brush hogging not fun in the least!most times i just got the tractor out of gear and bailed off the tractor and came back an hour or two later to get the tractor!

 

[jmohme]

Till a swarm of bumblebees hits.
What a wonderful experience.

You haven't experience the real joy of bumblebees until you have rear ended one at 70mph while on a motorcycle.

 

[Tnhawk]

and cars had vent widows!

They never failed like AC does!

 

[Txdweeb]

Just got back into a rig with a manual it’d been 15 years since I drove one felt nostalgic and liberating it’s fun again to drive.
Wife can’t drive one without major hassle but can ride a dirt bike with a clutch like a demon.

 

[striker55]

You haven't experience the real joy of bumblebees until you have rear ended one at 70mph while on a motorcycle.

A bee went down my buddies shirt while on a motorcycle at a traffic light.