What A ******* Day!
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I taught my sister how to drive stick, a little. She picked it up in like 10 minutes in an Isuzu Imark. This was last summer and she is now out of school and will have more time to actually get back into it. I'll let her try out my REPU (it's got the heavy flywheel so it should be very forgiving to a newbie).
I'm trying to compare that teaching experience to your story about the idiot who messed up the neon. I can't believe he got hired as a mechanic. Geez, the first stick I ever drove was an REPU and I never stalled it. Interesting stuff.
I'm trying to compare that teaching experience to your story about the idiot who messed up the neon. I can't believe he got hired as a mechanic. Geez, the first stick I ever drove was an REPU and I never stalled it. Interesting stuff.
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watching my buddy try pull my 7 into a bay for an oil change with the RB aluminum flywheel and hd street/strip clutch was funny as hell, and he drives stick every day. start, move inches, stall, repeat.
and I used to work at that shop so the mechanics and I were all hanging around, made for a good laugh
moral of story, aluminum flywheel on rotary == make fun of your friends when they want to drive.
and I used to work at that shop so the mechanics and I were all hanging around, made for a good laugh
moral of story, aluminum flywheel on rotary == make fun of your friends when they want to drive.
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From: London, Ontario
I'd hate to have to learn on a Neon or any low torque car.
I learned when I was 12, driving in the fields using a Ford dump truck from the 60's. 330? "big block" FE. Couldn't stall that thing if you tried, unless it was loaded with grain.
Growing up on a farm rules!
Those guys sound like most of the staff at the Mazda dealer by my old house. They seemed to have few guys about 40 that knew (kinda) what they were doing, and a bunch of kids that thought my vacuum hoses were nitrous lines.
I learned when I was 12, driving in the fields using a Ford dump truck from the 60's. 330? "big block"
Growing up on a farm rules!
Those guys sound like most of the staff at the Mazda dealer by my old house. They seemed to have few guys about 40 that knew (kinda) what they were doing, and a bunch of kids that thought my vacuum hoses were nitrous lines.
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From: Toledo, OH
That is nuts that they had that big of a problem learning how to shift. The only remotely difficult thing about driving a manual IMHO is proper heel toe downshifting. I always think it's funny when people assume they can just stand on the brakes and then shift from 3rd or 4th to 1st at a dead stop
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From: California
Originally Posted by pengaru' date='Jun 19 2003, 11:01 PM
watching my buddy try pull my 7 into a bay for an oil change with the RB aluminum flywheel and hd street/strip clutch was funny as hell, and he drives stick every day. start, move inches, stall, repeat.
and I used to work at that shop so the mechanics and I were all hanging around, made for a good laugh
moral of story, aluminum flywheel on rotary == make fun of your friends when they want to drive.
and I used to work at that shop so the mechanics and I were all hanging around, made for a good laugh
moral of story, aluminum flywheel on rotary == make fun of your friends when they want to drive.
mike
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