So yeah, what car did you learn to drive manual?

I learned in my bro's 98 civic... nothing special, but sure handled well.

 

Rx-8

 

In a 19?? something WWII jeep the thing had patched up bullet holes in it and was the hardest thing to drive but the most fun ever.

 

1971 Volvo 142E

 

2006 Wb Rx-8...

 

1987 Plymouth Turismo like this only all silver. i did have the louvers over the back window.



I bought it used not knowing how to drive stick. my sister had learned a year or 2 earlier when buying the car. A guy we new at the dealership told the salesman- " if you want her to buy it teach her how to drive it" so he did and she bought it.

so i figured i could learn too. tough at first buy got a really good piece of advise one day from a friends dad and voila ! i could drive stick

that car got CRUSHED - literally nearly in half. it was parked next to my apartment in an alley in my normal space. drunk guy in an old nova came barreling thru the alley and hit my car driving it into this giant tree- seriously that tree was probably 200 years old with a trunk thicker than the car was long. between the steel in the nova and that mass of trunk the turismo had no chance.

totalled. the guy spent the next 2 years making payments to me.
great little car too. 2.2 liter pretty light and quick.

 

hm i may have grabbed a pick of a shelby charger. mine was a "duster" turismo

 

I LEARNED IN A 1973 fORD f-350

 

That

 

1994 Integra GS-R.

 

my sister's vw cabriolet convertable

 

1974 Triumph TR6

 

66 mustang coupe. k model.. it has all been down hill from that point in my life.

beers

 

rx-8

 

learned how to drive manual on the 8 when driving it back home from the dealer after the purchase. it was tough but pulled it off and safely got home with a few stalls

 

wait, i just realized. while i got the majority of my learning in the rx8...

my first lessons were in an 1986 bmw 325i. also a 2006 toyota corolla. both are incredibly easy to shift in compared to the rx8. they must have 30lb flywheels.

 

It was a beat-up Ford Ranger, at a place I worked at last decade. I'm pretty sure it was 1997. I had gotten in a little trouble before because some of the guys out in the field needed parts and that was the only truck available and I couldn't drive it. So, I took it upon myself to learn.

Ha, I'll never forget day one. I sat in the truck for 15 minutes trying to figure out how to start it! When I did, it was by accident. Then when I tried to move it, it stalled, and it took another 10 minutes to figure out what the hell I did to crank it the first time. By then it was time to go home.

Day two, I knew how to start the truck, now it was time to move it. I spent some of my free time driving it around the stockyard, getting the hang of gears and downshifting and stuff. Couple of days later I was confident enough to get on the road with it. Never looked back since then. Every vehicle I've ever paid money for has been a stick.

 

1996 Mitsubishi Eclipse

 

05 vr rx8

 

I learned to drive a manual in a few cars.

1979 RX-7 (step mom's car)
1986 RX-7 TII (dad's car)
1976 Scirocco (my car)

 

An 1950 (?) International Farmall Model C tractor. I started driving this tractor when I was 5 yrs old. I only used 1st gear. It was a couple of years later, when I started to do more serious farm work that I began using more gears.

 

1972 Datsun 510 station wagon, 4 on the floor with big mudgrip tires on the back.

 

2004 Subaru WRX.

 

1988 Ford Ranger P/U. It was a base model with manual everything. I bought it without knowing how to drive a 5-speed. That provided me with the motivation to learn fast.