shifting gears.

rustred · Nov 8, 2023

Janicholson · Nov 8, 2023

Stick shift cars/trucks/Motorcycles and tractors limit theft today. I often asked my machine tool learners which of them drove stick shifts. Today it is one in 15. Jim

Dave G9N · Nov 8, 2023

(quoted from post at 09:16:17 11/08/23) Stick shift cars/trucks/Motorcycles and tractors limit theft today. I often asked my machine tool learners which of them drove stick shifts. Today it is one in 15. Jim

y youngest daughter has a stick. She calls it her millennial anti-theft device.

Steve A W · Nov 8, 2023

My youngest daughter bought a Ford F100 pickup
with 3 on the tree. That was some fun teaching
her to drive that.
She always joked that when she turned 18 she
was going to get a tattoo of the shift pattern
on her arm.

Crazy Horse · Nov 8, 2023

I think standard trannys have pretty much disappeared from the North American sedan market, except maybe some of the 'sport' type models. I don't think too many vans or SUV's ever had standard transmissions anywhere. In Europe though, they are still commonplace and if you are renting a sedan there it is likely to be a standard tranny. Along with diesel engines, also very common in Europe for sedan type cars.

showcrop · Nov 8, 2023

A pro truck driver told me 40 years ago that union drivers would remove the plate that had the pattern and instructions from the trucks to make it hard for new guys. Many of the old transmissions had just the same black ball so you couldn't even ID what the transmission was. Had to just feel your way.

db4600 · Nov 8, 2023

If she was driving an Oliver shed have to show more leg.

Hemmjo · Nov 8, 2023

My daughter announced at dinner one night she was NOT going to learn to drive a stick. It is all we had. I told her she would have she buy her own car to learn then. Then after her first Drivers Ed classroom session she came home and told me her teacher said youhave to find an auto to take the driving test in a stick. I told her if that was true she would not be getting her license.

It only took her about 30 minutes to get the feel of driving the little Subaru that used to be her grandmas. After a few more trips, making her stop on every rail crossing grade, just so she had to start on a hill got got really good at it. Took her test in that got perfect score. First car she bought was a sporty little Subaru .... with a 6 speed.

It is fun when kids finally figure that you are not really just a grouchy old man.

Kansas4010 · Nov 8, 2023

My niece went after her cdl earlier this year. Out of 15 students only 4 could pass with a stick shift. They had to borrow an automatic semi from a different school so the rest could pass. My niece was one of the four.

caterpillar guy · Nov 8, 2023

Sorry to say she has the shift pattern wrong for any semi I have driven. Reverse should be where first is and then 1st where 2nd is and so on. This is true for all the 9,10,13,15,18 speeds I have driven. And the 15 has 2 different patterns if you have the RTLO or the RTXO or something like that. The RTLO is the lever in 5th is up against the dash as it is referred to and the X is a straight pattern like the 9,10,13,15,18 speed is. I've owned the 9,13,15,18 speed in trucks over the last 25 years. All Eaton road ranger transmissions. Stieger has has the same pattern in them as the trucks do. Spicer made some different things for trucks back when.

mdm1 · Nov 8, 2023

My daughter had to learn a standard if she wanted to drive th VW bug I had. She learned on have to say she could alot smoother than I could. She went to college, got a job in the mail room. Had to drive some little standard truck around campus. Her boss couldn't believe she could drive a standard.

sms · Nov 8, 2023

First car I bought for our kids was a stick shift. They wanted to drive they learned quick. That meant our daughter also.

Caryc · Nov 8, 2023

I still have a 1979 Carrola Deluxe. It has a five speed stick in it. Bought it new and it took me a while to get used to driving it. When you get to 4th gear, it seems like you are done.

Hard to remember that the 5th gear was still there. It was like an overdrive gear.

Bruce from Can. · Nov 8, 2023

It cost me $1,000.00 more

to get the 6 speed standard, but there not making them anymore. And I smile every time I drive it.
I have had light trucks with 3 on the tree, 4 and 5 on the floor, cars with 3 on the tree, heavy trucks with 5gear two speed axles. It really becomes second nature to drive a standard shift vehicle. I even have a Jeep with a 5 on the floor.

Huskergreen · Nov 8, 2023

When in high school, I had a car with 3 on the tree, I flipped the shift lever to the left side so I could shift with the left hand. My younger sister then drove the car to school and her boy friends could not figure out how to drive it.

stevieb49829 · Nov 8, 2023

I took me months to find a '15 Tacoma 6 speed V-6. 2016 was a changeover year, and not a good one. My son says they were 3% of Tacoma production in 2015. I had to drive 300 miles one way to go buy it. Still a really good truck until my BIL tries to slip the clutch pulling firewood up the hill. Probably my last truck, unless some other d**khead totals it. steve

CEP ACB · Nov 8, 2023

At work we had a couple youngins not be able to get a Jeep in reverse.
The shift knob was turned sideways.

DWF · Nov 8, 2023

I had an old International 5speed with the pattern on the leg. Not very common, but they were around.
DWF

old popper · Nov 8, 2023

The shift pattern is the same as my 2000 Ford Ranger.

old popper · Nov 8, 2023

All 4 of my children (3 girls 1 boy) learned to drive on my '74 Ford F-250 with 4 on the floor.

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