Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Anti-theft Device

[John Ashburne (jashburne]

Oh, and I taught my girlfriend (now wife) how to drive a manual on my Triumph TR-250. 

I'll never forget one startup at a stop sign on an uphill road where the lurch as she let the clutch out was so violent it caused the exhaust pipe to slip off. That was fun and loud. 

Same car, another time. We were driving back to Boston from the USGP at Watkins Glen in either '73 or '74 and, as I rolled down the window at a tollbooth on the NYS Thruway, the glass just crashed down inside the door and shattered.  Being October in upstate NY, the temperature was about freezing and it was pretty effing cold for the remaining 150 miles or so. 

Fun times!

John

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On Feb 4, 2016, at 8:53 AM, Rick Moseley <ramosel [at] pacbell.net> wrote:

I don't remember which old geezer first made the statement about ill locating VW shifters but it was put to me they had all the precision fit of a baseball bat in a rain barrel. 

I guess since I grew up riding dirt bikes, I don't recall my first manual trans car being all that memorable... It was just a matter of swapping feet and hands.    I'm going to guess it was a Datsun pickup.

The first car I learned to drive....?  VW powered, hydrostatic transmission Zamboni.    After mastering that beast, driving a car on the street was a snap.   I could get spectacular 4 wheel drifts in my mom's VW square back station wagon.   

Rick

On Feb 3, 2016, at 2:49 PM, Erik Nielsen <judge4re [at] gmail.com> wrote:

Now I did self teach myself how to drive a stick under the pretense of showing a high school buddy how to drive the VW Type 3 wagon his parents bought him for his 16th birthday.

Funny story is that served me well when I had a VW Passat in South Africa with a manual gearbox (RHD). I remembered how vague the locations of the gears were in their design DNA.  First gear was somewhere between my knee and Kruger National Park.  Somewhere...

Erik

On Feb 3, 2016, at 4:23 PM, Stephen Sherman <stephensherman44 [at] gmail.com> wrote:

I learned to drive (self taught ) in a 1951 Ford when I my mom could not get our car up the hill to our house thru the snow. The next day she gave me the keys to the car so I could get my Cox .049 prop car out of the car.

With help from a neighbor (push start) I dove the car home, 11 at the time. It was 3 on a tree, that summer she took me out to the airport and officially taught me to drive, had to wait until I was 15 b4 I got a license.

Stephen  

On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Peter Rychel <dino308gt4 [at] hotmail.com> wrote:

I did. Young Drivers of Canada offered courses with either automatic or manual... I took the manual.

The car was a Toyota of some sorts (probably a Corolla) with dual controls.

Late last year I heard YD was terminating the manual courses. Not enough kids signing up for it.

Peter

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Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Anti-theft Device

 

How many of us first learned to drive on a stick?

I know we all know how to drive one, but did we all learn on one?

Helluva an experience. I think overall it's better than learning on an auto.

FG

ps - I also learned on non power steering, which is where the obsession must come from. :)

On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Stephen Sherman <stephensherman44 [at] gmail.com> wrote:

I have been telling my grandkids drive a stick and your car won't get stolen, like every thing I say they ignore, maybe they are ones who are deaf.

Stephen L Sherman

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On Feb 2, 2016, at 1:13 PM, Gary Reed <gary [at] garyreedsales.com> wrote:

Thought you guys might get a kick out this.

 

Gary

 

 

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