Who doesn't know how to drive Manual transmission?

[drew peacock]

i refuse to by a manual..when i travel in luxery i want the car to the gear changes for me..

[rontammy0]

Originally Posted by xrivera91

Lmao would I sound older if I said I was a quarter of a century old?

Yes....you old geezer

[Norm Peterson]

Originally Posted by drew peacock

i refuse to by a manual..when i travel in luxery i want the car to the gear changes for me..

Travel in luxury? Why not hire a chauffeur and touch the gearshift lever even fewer times ?


Norm

[JLSuperfly]

Originally Posted by Norm Peterson

Travel in luxury? Why not hire a chauffeur and touch the gearshift lever even fewer times ?


Norm

Yep. To me, a luxury car is a limo that comes with a chauffer.

[dustin0284]

I've never driven a manual, my entire life. My dad likes to drive both, but got tired of manual's and went to strictly automatic. He figured it would be easier to just stick with automatic. Maybe one day I would try, but i doubt it at this point. I'm 32 years old.

[CamaroFred]

Originally Posted by cybergrey11

Who gives a crap about what is faster,there is always someone with a faster car. Its about driving and the feel of a car with a manual. Only inmature kids go on about whos car is faster. Enough said.

Originally Posted by rontammy0

Thats funny.....at 47 bud I don't need any lectures on what and how to drive......judging by your post I thought I would be addressing you as junior. If you think only immature kids care about who's car is faster your really out to lunch.....manual cars are great and you will find this debate has been going on here for a long time.But give your head a shake before you post and you will be fine.

Hey, rontammy, I'm starting to like this guy. He's got you all riled up.

[rontammy0]

Originally Posted by CamaroFred

Hey, rontammy, I'm starting to like this guy. He's got you all riled up.

Lol.......well I'm not really old...but I am lazy so he'shalf right.

[splashlog48]

Some Like them (I do) and some dont--Or dont want to learn
Thats That !!!!!!!

[CamaroFred]

Originally Posted by dustin0284

I've never driven a manual, my entire life. My dad likes to drive both, but got tired of manual's and went to strictly automatic. He figured it would be easier to just stick with automatic. Maybe one day I would try, but i doubt it at this point. I'm 32 years old.

I taught my wife and our three children to drive stick. The wife hates it and won't drive it, but she could if she had to. Well, she has her car, I have mine.

The kids all buy automatics, but when I let them drive the Camaro they get that s-e-grin!

How hard can it be? My mom learned to drive with a three-on-the-tree when she was 16. That's all they had then. Learn or walk. Nobody bitched, that was the way it was.

[CamaroFred]

Originally Posted by rontammy0

Lol.......well I'm not really old...but I am lazy so he'shalf right.

Everyone is different. I prefer the stick because I enjoy cornering.

My brother, he loves the strip. He's building a '71 440 Plymouth GTX like he had in the '70s. 747 TourqeFlight, 4:10 screw, 3500 stall, cam from hell, hi-rise intake with a Holley on top.
Only competition were the Hemis. We would emberass 396 Chevelles.
(AHEM, at the Great Lakes Dragaway, of course)
Those old Dodge and Plymouth had the straight line down with the rear leaf springs. Sucker just squatted for an instant, then BAM!
I can't wait for a ride when it's finished!

But it's not something he is ever to drive every day.

My Camaro is more fun to me because I just walk out, spark it up, hot or cold, rain or shine. Let the clutch out in neutral after a few to circulate the trans fluid. Do you do that with your automatic? Put it in neutral for a bit? I've read the pump is off when in park so when I drive an auto I always give it a few in N.

[rontammy0]

Originally Posted by CamaroFred

Everyone is different. I prefer the stick because I enjoy cornering.

My brother, he loves the strip. He's building a '71 440 Plymouth GTX like he had in the '70s. 747 TourqeFlight, 4:10 screw, 3500 stall, cam from hell, hi-rise intake with a Holley on top.
Only competition were the Hemis. We would emberass 396 Chevelles.
(AHEM, at the Great Lakes Dragaway, of course)
Those old Dodge and Plymouth had the straight line down with the rear leaf springs. Sucker just squatted for an instant, then BAM!
I can't wait for a ride when it's finished!

But it's not something he is ever to drive every day.

My Camaro is more fun to me because I just walk out, spark it up, hot or cold, rain or shine. Let the clutch out in neutral after a few to circulate the trans fluid. Do you do that with your automatic? Put it in neutral for a bit? I've read the pump is off when in park so when I drive an auto I always give it a few in N.

I've never done that....auctually I've never done that on any of my cars ...manual or auto...now I just don't jump in and go. ..I give it a bit to get everything moving. Your brothers car is right up my ally.....I love those old big blocks....just the sound with a lumpy car and glass packs. Not for the faint of heart for sure. I'm just not that interested in road racing and that stuff. I get the popularity but it's just not for me....my auto is set up now to be a fun drive....but now I have to wait till spring

[Norm Peterson]

Originally Posted by CamaroFred

My Camaro is more fun to me because I just walk out, spark it up, hot or cold, rain or shine. Let the clutch out in neutral after a few to circulate the trans fluid. Do you do that with your automatic? Put it in neutral for a bit? I've read the pump is off when in park so when I drive an auto I always give it a few in N.

I think I at least drop the transmission into the neutral gate on every car every time I start it up, at least for the length of time it takes to buckle up, or for the engine to at least start dropping off the fast idle in cooler weather. Might as well let the car start getting ready to go while I'm finishing up my part.

I don't think the pump in an AT can be "off" in park, else there wouldn't be any fluid pressure or flow to operate the friction elements or circulate through the torque converter. As far as I know, 'Park' is still 'Neutral' plus the activation of a mechanical sprag that locks the output shaft.

Chrysler Corp really did have their leaf spring technology down better than the competition. I think they used some kind of asymmetry in the way the leafs were assembled.

Everyone is different. I prefer the stick because I enjoy cornering.

Big part of it for me, too.

For rontammy's benefit, a day on a road course is kind of like a drive in the country. Only faster and with no worries of having to sit through roadside or station-house interviews with members of the law enforcement community.


Norm

[CamaroFred]

Originally Posted by rontammy0

I've never done that....auctually I've never done that on any of my cars ...manual or auto...now I just don't jump in and go. ..I give it a bit to get everything moving. Your brothers car is right up my ally.....I love those old big blocks....just the sound with a lumpy car and glass packs. Not for the faint of heart for sure. I'm just not that interested in road racing and that stuff. I get the popularity but it's just not for me....my auto is set up now to be a fun drive....but now I have to wait till spring

You should do some sort of driving instructor. Autocross is cheap and it's easy to find someone to ride along and point out here and there you go.
And you get to kill cones!

Road course, not cheap, but your instructor will be with you and when you put a wheel off the road he can teach you how not to be all knees and elbows. That's the big thing; No panic.

It will improve your street driving X10. Anticipation/reaction.

[rontammy0]

Originally Posted by CamaroFred

You should do some sort of driving instructor. Autocross is cheap and it's easy to find someone to ride along and point out here and there you go.
And you get to kill cones!

Road course, not cheap, but your instructor will be with you and when you put a wheel off the road he can teach you how not to be all knees and elbows. That's the big thing; No panic.

It will improve your street driving X10. Anticipation/reaction.

Ive beeen doing ok for 31 years...just like drag racing I dont have any autocross tracks of any kind close to me..the drag strip is around 2.5 hours away.