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07/10/09
The first stick shift I ever drove was a 1968 Camaro SS that belonged to my girlfriends brother. I was about 15 and had taken my motorcycle out to their house several times. He said he'd let me drive his car after he got it fixed if I let him ride my bike, yeah sure whatever.
My buddy called him out on it a few weeks later and he did actually let me drive it out on the country roads. First stick shift, 327 Camaro with a Hurst and a heavy duty clutch. I couldn't figure out what gear it was in, I stalled it, my starts (when I could get it moving) were all herky-jerky.
To the guy's credit, he never once cringed or griped or anything. He knew damn well I didn't have a license. He sat in the back seat poking around in the crevasses and eating the caramels he found. He must have been nuts, I wouldn't have let me drive that car. Damn, it was nice...
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@spuy767: I taught my daughter how to ride a dirt bike when she was about 5 and to drive my standard 1985 S-10 Blazer when she was about 16.
Nobody ever really "taught" me, it was pretty much trial and error. My dad rarely let me drive his car at all. Once I drove that Camaro, the others were much easier. A hot rod is not a very good car to learn on. Kind of squirrely.
I've got no practical experience with anything as nice as the G or S2000. I've got an ION Red Line and a 4WD S-10 with standards. Not exactly the benchmarks for fine shifting. But it works for me.
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07/10/09
That tweaker didn't forget how to drive-- he never learned in the first place.
Every so often in the news, you hear about a thief or carjacker who got caught because they couldn't figure out how to operate their victim's car, and it's never not funny.
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"Wow, uh, this seems familiar...but the gear shift, the thing won't stay in gear. Wow. It's not supposed to wiggle around like that...what? WTF? There's some kind of writin' on it. Numbers? And what's the big "H" there in the center stand for? Am I in a Honda? Wow, man. There's something really, really, really....what was I saying?"
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The shift knob has been turned 180° & it's a VW with the funky, to-the-left-and-up, while pushing down, reverse.
Or he's just an idiot. The picture is perfect, honestly.
07/09/09
I used to think he was joking.
07/10/09
It was rather embarrassing.
07/09/09
The internet has surely gone too far!
07/09/09
I mean, it's one thing when Jeremy Clarkson calls us fat, quite another to dedicate an entire TV show to the subject... even if they're right...
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