Teaching kid stick shift

NorthPilot06

Botch said:

Gulfcoastguy said:

Starting on a hill is the hard part . Do that and you have it beat. 

We learned how to hold a vehicle in place with the hand-operated parking brake, simultaneously letting up on it while the clutch was just starting to grab and we just started adding the gas, no problem.
Now, my new car has an "electro-mechanical" parking brake, set with a damn toggle switch; wondering how that's gonna work.  

As far as I’m concerned, ain’t no problem with using the parking brake on an uphill slope. I don’t get the new tech..

DoubleEgger

Who remembers pushing a car and popping the clutch to start it? 

bgebrent

DoubleEgger said:

Who remembers pushing a car and popping the clutch to start it? 

I do.

WeberWho

Botch said:

Gulfcoastguy said:

Starting on a hill is the hard part . Do that and you have it beat. 

We learned how to hold a vehicle in place with the hand-operated parking brake, simultaneously letting up on it while the clutch was just starting to grab and we just started adding the gas, no problem.
Now, my new car has an "electro-mechanical" parking brake, set with a damn toggle switch; wondering how that's gonna work.  

My wife's car has an anti-roll safety feature with her manual transmission. You let the clutch out and it holds it for you for an additional second or two when on an incline. It's supposed to help you from rolling back. I hate it. I'm used to grabbing a gear and holding it on an incline if need be. I go to grab and hold the gear and it just sits there for an additional few seconds and throws me off when it does finally let up and move. Just one more lame safety feature 

Botch

Kcheves said:

I learned in my Dad's 1969 VW beetle.  Taught my daughter in my 911.

    

RRP

bgebrent said:

DoubleEgger said:

Who remembers pushing a car and popping the clutch to start it? 

I do.

Me too! My '56 MGA was a bit*h to start in the Winter. The parking lot in front of our fraternity house sat near a deep swell in the road. After a few times getting pledges out in the cold to push "Brother Pratt's" cold car to get it to running I was awarded a sign saying "RESERVED for Brother Pratt" at the top end of the lot so all I had to do was hop in and merely push in the clutch and that would be enough to get it rolling down the swell - pop the clutch and it fired up! 

Botch

RRP said:

bgebrent said:

DoubleEgger said:

Who remembers pushing a car and popping the clutch to start it? 

I do.

Me too! My '56 MGA was a bit*h to start in the Winter. The parking lot in front of our fraternity house sat near a deep swell in the road. After a few times getting pledges out in the cold to push "Brother Pratt's" cold car to get it to running I was awarded a sign saying "RESERVED for Brother Pratt" at the top end of the lot so all I had to do was hop in and merely push in the clutch and that would be enough to get it rolling down the swell - pop the clutch and it fired up! 

While stationed in Albuquerque I had a '77 VW Bus.  I actually had to push-start it twice, by myself!  Level parking lot both times, I took it out of gear and started pushing with one hand on the door frame, one on the steering wheel; once I got up to a run I hopped in, turned the key, put it into 1st and popped the clutch.  Bingo!  
When I PCS'd to Grand Forks ND I decided a real heater would be nice, and sold Her before I moved.  I miss that Bus!  

Ozzie_Isaac

96 Dodge Dakota, inline 4 with a stick.  I raced everyone everywhere .... nobody even noticed.  Loved that truck.

piney

I have tractor trailers and manual transmissions are not a problem, all my trucks are 13-speed but with todays drivers most companies have gone to automatic trans. because most new drivers can't drive a manual. Sad isn't it! It's kinda like having a degree in mathematics and not being able to make change without a cash register! 

berndcrisp

SmokeyPitt said:

Now his Jeep has an upgraded security system.

Manual trannies have stopped many car-jackings and thefts.

I learned in a '69 Toyota corolla. Never owned an automatic till I was 52. inherited from pops after he passed.

CPFC1905

bgebrent said:

DoubleEgger said:

Who remembers pushing a car and popping the clutch to start it? 

I do.

And watching your matches face plant on the rear window as you have selected 1st and not 2nd.  Hilarious. 

CPFC1905

NorthPilot06 said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

DoubleEgger said:

It’s a skill needed if you want to rent a car in Europe. Automatics are fairly rare and expensive to rent. 

Problem there is stick is on wrong side!

There’s nothing more fun than renting a car in Ireland and driving the back roads... 

Apart from renting a car in Wales or Scotland and finding they have decent roads.

lkapigian

bgebrent said:

DoubleEgger said:

Who remembers pushing a car and popping the clutch to start it? 

I do.

And bike

frazzdaddy

DoubleEgger said:

Who remembers pushing a car and popping the clutch to start it? 

Spent an entire year parking on hills and starting my '76 TA that way. 455/4spd with a zoom clutch. Compression was so high I kept trashing starters and couldn't afford the high torque model Moroso had. My dates were so impressed.

Brisket_Fanatic

bgebrent said:

DoubleEgger said:

Who remembers pushing a car and popping the clutch to start it? 

I do.

This is how we stuck out in the old Capri, coast it down the street and pop the clutch and away we go. 

Jeremiah

DoubleEgger said:

Who remembers pushing a car and popping the clutch to start it? 

When I was 16 we moved from N.C. to SC. My ugly as **** 1983 Datsun pickup had sheered the teeth off the flywheel from a stick starter just before moving. First day of school I was the first to arrive so that I could park at the top of the parking lot and coast it down (hopefully after everyone else had left that day) plan only half worked as half way down the parking lot it failed to start. Embarrassed as hell I went and found help. Funny how life goes as those two are my only remaining friends from high school. 

YukonRon

DoubleEgger said:

It’s a skill needed if you want to rent a car in Europe. Automatics are fairly rare and expensive to rent. 

Try right hand drive with a stick. Takes a little to get used to....We did it in Ireland, where mud covered single lanes were often confused for two lane freeways by the locals.

NorthPilot06

YukonRon said:

DoubleEgger said:

It’s a skill needed if you want to rent a car in Europe. Automatics are fairly rare and expensive to rent. 

Try right hand drive with a stick. Takes a little to get used to....We did it in Ireland, where mud covered single lanes were often confused for two lane freeways by the locals.

Agreed. That was one of my absolute favorite driving experiences 

NorthPilot06

NorthPilot06 said:

YukonRon said:

DoubleEgger said:

It’s a skill needed if you want to rent a car in Europe. Automatics are fairly rare and expensive to rent. 

Try right hand drive with a stick. Takes a little to get used to....We did it in Ireland, where mud covered single lanes were often confused for two lane freeways by the locals.

Agreed. That was one of my absolute favorite driving experiences 

And one of SWMBO’s least favorite

Botch

YukonRon said:
Try right hand drive with a stick. Takes a little to get used to....

When I sold my beloved Saab I was sitting in the passenger seat, showing the buyer the trick to unlatching the convertible top, and I had to use my left hand.  I couldn't do it!  
Muscle memory is an interesting thing.  

bucky925

YukonRon said:

DoubleEgger said:

It’s a skill needed if you want to rent a car in Europe. Automatics are fairly rare and expensive to rent. 

Try right hand drive with a stick. Takes a little to get used to....We did it in Ireland, where mud covered single lanes were often confused for two lane freeways by the locals.

Oh my, I grew up on a stick but have never thought about that.  I would say it would take a little more than "getting used to", but we are game. 

Botch

Heh.  This afternoon I needed to pick up a couple bags of lump, and started up the Tacoma after driving the automatic Audi for six weeks straight or so.  
 
Forgot to step in the clutch.  d'Oh!!!  

lousubcap

Wherever you are- given the car is configured for that country, always position the driver toward the center of the road.  And If a bicyclist-the brakes on those same countries are opposite of the USA-always designed to keep your hand on the rear wheel brake when signaling.  Way more than you need to know any time and for sure on a Friday,  FWIW-

Eoin

YukonRon said:

DoubleEgger said:

It’s a skill needed if you want to rent a car in Europe. Automatics are fairly rare and expensive to rent. 

Try right hand drive with a stick. Takes a little to get used to....We did it in Ireland, where mud covered single lanes were often confused for two lane freeways by the locals.

Once you chop and change a bit, the memory works well. I have a LHD stick camper, RHD stick car, standard auto car and DSG car. I've had bikes with the shifter on the Left and on the Right, first gear up and first gear down.

BobDanger

My ole 650 triumph shifted on the right