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Can you drive a manual shift vehicle? If you don't know what it is, you can't.

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Posted - October 25, 2017

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  • 10449
    Yep.  I learned to drive using one (wore it out quickly too). 
      October 25, 2017 12:26 PM MDT
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  • 6988
    I have such a vehicle. In recent years, I've been thinking about maybe getting a new vehicle, but heard that they only have automatics anymore. I have since found out different. I hate automatics.
      October 25, 2017 12:31 PM MDT
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  • 44173
    My last car was a manual, but I could no longer shift it after wrist surgery. My pesent one has a button shifter.
      October 25, 2017 12:36 PM MDT
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  • 6988
    I had a button shifter once ----- a 1961 Plymouth Fury!
      October 25, 2017 1:26 PM MDT
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  • 2500
    Ah, the old Chrysler push-button drive.

    Did it also have that cool bar-graph speedometer like the 1960 Fury did, and the tail fins?  Don't think that the 1961 had a Park lever either, I know that the 1960 didn't have that feature. I don't think that the Park lever made it's appearance until the '63 of '64 model year. 
      October 25, 2017 2:00 PM MDT
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  • 44173
    My father in law had one in his Chrysler. The one I have is on the stick and you can use it as as no clutch manual.
      October 26, 2017 9:03 AM MDT
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  • 2500

    Ladies, remember, if your boyfriend can't drive a "stick" (not counting any physical handicaps) you really have a girlfriend . . . 

    So of course. My current vehicle has a stick. I even know how to "double clutch", not that anyone in a 4-wheeler needs to do that anymore what with modern synchronizer transmissions. (Even my farm tractor has a synchronized transmission). I even have a daughter that refuses to drive a vehicle that's not equipped with a manual transmission.
      October 25, 2017 1:01 PM MDT
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  • no but i can fit my whole fist in my mouth

    i think we all know which is more impressive This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at October 25, 2017 8:02 PM MDT
      October 25, 2017 1:21 PM MDT
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  • 44173
    Anyone can do that, but can you put your head up your a$$?
      October 25, 2017 1:40 PM MDT
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  • 6126
    Yes.  I prefer them.  The first brand new car I purchased was a completely stripped down Ford Escort.  Couldn't afford anything more.  I had a quick lesson on how to drive it by the salesman, then he promptly abandoned me in the parking lot. lol.  So, I had to learn pretty quickly how to drive it.
      October 25, 2017 1:34 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    I can drive anything ...,even people insane......lol
      October 25, 2017 2:01 PM MDT
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  • 394
    No
      October 25, 2017 3:56 PM MDT
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  • 22891
    no, i dont even have a driver's license
      October 25, 2017 4:29 PM MDT
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  • I can.
    I learned on an old grain truck when I was young.
    I had a manual shift car and I taught the girls in my class how to drive standard during our lunch breaks.
    I had a few trucks with standard transmissions, but I like to eat and dance sometimes while I drive so shifting is just a pain for me so I prefer automatics.
    I can drive an old truck with a 3 in the tree as well.
    Just from growing up on a farm.
      October 25, 2017 4:44 PM MDT
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  • 44173
    Ahh...I remember good times in that 52 ford with the three.
      October 26, 2017 9:05 AM MDT
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  • Awesome!
    The one I drove 3 on the tree was my grandpa's old ford.
    I think it was a 68?
    It looked kinda like this...



    The grain trucks I learned on were like these.
    I still have these trucks except for the 68 Ford.
    Good memories, I loved playing in those trucks when I was little. : )


      October 26, 2017 10:19 AM MDT
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  • 2500
    WOW!

    "Three on the tree . . . " My first car had that. And so did my grandfather's 1953 Studebaker pick-up truck. 

    Brings back some good memories . . .
      October 26, 2017 10:29 AM MDT
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  • No..... but I could if I wanted to. 
      October 25, 2017 4:57 PM MDT
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  • 17364
    That is all I've ever owned and driven except for a brief period when my husband bought me a granny Oldsmobile. I'm a straight shift kind of gal.
      October 25, 2017 5:36 PM MDT
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  • 1713
    I learned to drive using one since my mother's Beetle was manual and I didn't like driving the big ol' van that was automatic.
      October 25, 2017 8:01 PM MDT
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  • 604
    I sure can!! I took driver's ed in high school....waaaaay back in 1959!!!!

    it was fun but a little scary at first.....then my very first car, one no one's probably ever heard of!! a 1967 Opel Kadette...!!!  had stick....I loved it..........then all the cars I bought after that were automatic......but Im glad I learned; everyone should know how!!!

    :-D
      October 26, 2017 8:42 AM MDT
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  • 6098
    Do know what it is but never learned.  A boyfriend once tried to teach me in a parking lot but I could never get it going and everyone had left so he gave up.  Or I should say I gave up. 
      October 26, 2017 10:28 AM MDT
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  • 2217
    No problem. Had them for nearly 50 years. Went over to auto about 15 years ago but still drove minibus gearstick till I was 70. 
      October 26, 2017 10:44 AM MDT
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