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12-08-2013, 11:53 PM | #676 |
Scooby Newbie
Member#: 316066
Join Date: Apr 2012
Chapter/Region:
SWIC
Location: Surprise, AZ
Vehicle:2002 WRX PSM |
1983 Toyota Supra
I was 13 or 14, my dads buddy gave us the car as a gift when he had to move. So my dad would take me out to the unfinished part of our housing development at night and teach me how to drive.
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12-09-2013, 12:04 AM | #677 |
Scooby Newbie
Member#: 291557
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Utah
Vehicle:2016 WRX Premium 6mt CWP |
1980 vw diesel pickup! she was a beut'! very forgiving
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12-09-2013, 12:37 AM | #678 |
Scooby Specialist
Member#: 64024
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: truckee, ca
Vehicle:03 996 TT, 964 C4 salt and pepper |
'72 convertible bug...........I know I'll get some crap but my 16 year old son just got his permit. On the way home, I pulled over and had him make his first shifts in the snow......stalled the first two times, got it the next several and all the way home. I think he's a natural.....STI is a pretty mellow clutch to learn on. Doughnuts 101, next weekend.
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12-09-2013, 07:54 AM | #679 |
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Member#: 362784
Join Date: Jul 2013
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Used Mx-5. Learned to drive it on the way home from the dealer who was about 75 miles from home. That was fun.
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12-09-2013, 09:24 AM | #680 |
Scooby Specialist
Member#: 211395
Join Date: May 2009
Chapter/Region:
South East
Location: Huntsville
Vehicle:0000 4wfp Flintstone Mobile made of stone+wood |
Not really a car but the mechanics were similar except with a hand actuated throttle, I first learned to drive stick on an 8 speed tractor when I was 10.
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12-09-2013, 09:28 AM | #681 |
Scooby Newbie
Member#: 334102
Join Date: Oct 2012
Chapter/Region:
MWSOC
Location: Illinois
Vehicle:2007 STi Limited Urban Grey Metallic |
The first car that I had ever driven that was a manual was a 1997 Honda Civic Ex lol. It was my first car i purchased myself and all I wanted in a car was a manual. That was when I was 16 and I am 20 now and still haven't owned a automatic yet lol. People always look at me like I am crazy when I tell them I want a manual.
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12-09-2013, 09:59 AM | #682 |
Scooby Newbie
Member#: 371435
Join Date: Oct 2013
Chapter/Region:
NESIC
Location: North Attleboro, MA
Vehicle:02 Subaru WRB |
I was 14 or 15.. at my aunts place of work (trucking yard) in a 96-97 jeep wrangler sahara on 33s ... cant believe that it was my first car to learn manual on!
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12-09-2013, 12:06 PM | #683 |
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I learned to drive in an old VW Jetta while on a cross country road trip. Basically the guy I was driving with got tired of being the only driver so I got a crash course.
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12-09-2013, 04:18 PM | #684 |
Scooby Newbie
Member#: 362494
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Detroit, Mi
Vehicle:2004 Wrx Wrb |
I first learned when I was 16 in my 03 focus svt, boring car but certainly handled like it was on rails. It was a great car for my first manual
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12-09-2013, 04:32 PM | #685 |
Scooby Newbie
Member#: 259548
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: OH
Vehicle:2011 STI OBP |
Best stick learning car
First car...Datsun 310GX back in 1986. Look it up and be prepared to be wowed. It was hit even then. Sick ride though. Very comparable to the STI...wheels, seats, motor, etc.
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12-09-2013, 04:38 PM | #686 |
Scooby Specialist
Member#: 53856
Join Date: Jan 2004
Chapter/Region:
NESIC
Location: NoVerm Brah......
Vehicle:2012 Speed3 Red Mica |
Mine was a 1992 Legacy. It was my Grandmother's car, which she sold to my father, who then sold it to me. That's the car I learned to drive stick on. I've only owned 3 cars in my life.
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12-09-2013, 05:46 PM | #687 |
Scooby Newbie
Member#: 375721
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Dekalb, IL
Vehicle:2004 Forester 2.5XT Black |
I learned on like a 1994 Ford Probe GT. I was like 14 years old. I have owned 31 vehicles since than and would say at least half or more were manual. I definitely prefer it most of the time. Now that I am getting a bit older and just want to cruise on family vacations auto is a bit nicer. And since I didn't really have a choice with my new to me Forester XT I went with what I got.
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12-09-2013, 06:58 PM | #688 |
Scooby Newbie
Member#: 375723
Join Date: Dec 2013
Chapter/Region:
NWIC
Location: Seattle, Wa
Vehicle:2006 WRX Wagon Black |
1989 Mazda B2200. I was 14 yrs old. I loved driving stick since day one. Old man taught me the ropes.
1996 VW Jetta GL Manual trans - 1 year (totaled) 1998 Honda Civic EX 4 Door (full GSR turbo swap) Manual trans - 2 years (stolen) 2004 Suzuki GSXR 750 track bike - currently own since 2009 2007 Nissan frontier SE 4x4 Auto Trans - 1 year (sold due to bored of auto trans) 2006 Subaru WRX Wagon Manual trans - currently own Yep, I made that manual to Auto back to Manual mistake before.....never again. |
12-09-2013, 07:03 PM | #689 |
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Member#: 375730
Join Date: Dec 2013
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91 Galant VR4. I learned on the early Sti enemy! lol
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12-09-2013, 07:06 PM | #690 |
Scooby Newbie
Member#: 218607
Join Date: Jul 2009
Chapter/Region:
SCIC
Location: EsconDooDoo
Vehicle:2013 WRX Ice Silver |
1988 VW Scirocco
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12-09-2013, 08:28 PM | #691 |
Scooby Newbie
Member#: 353566
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: SE WI
Vehicle:2015 Legacy Ltd 3.6R Dark Grey |
My brother's Dodge D50 pickup. It was 1981, I don't recall what year truck. I was 14 and had my permit in Arkansas! I drove it just enough to be able to drive it! Little did I know that I would be addicted to manuals later in my life.
When I was 16, I got a HELL of a deal on an S-15 GMC pickup. The owner got divorced and she sold the truck at a bargain price. Damned lucky Sunday classified find! I was OK with a manual, but hadn't driven one in traffic much. My strongest memory is driving it home with Dad and being on an entrance ramp to the interstate. I was trying to merge, watching traffic and revving the crap out of that little Isuzu engine. Dad turns to me and says "You gonna shift?" To this day, whenever I rev up the WRX for ****s, I hear him say "You gonna shift?" RIP Dad. |
12-09-2013, 10:05 PM | #692 |
Scooby Newbie
Member#: 287293
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: SF
Vehicle:2012 WRX Premium DGM |
I learned to drive stick on customer's cars in valet parking. That included various VWs, Hondas, BMWs that donated little pieces of their clutch life. Yup, feel free to entrust you cars to your friendly valet.
As for my own first car with a manual, it was an '89 Subaru RX which was a pos but after driving it for a year I never came back to automatic. |
12-09-2013, 10:10 PM | #693 |
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Member#: 375743
Join Date: Dec 2013
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'89 Ford escort... lol. with the automatic seatbelts... one thing that has always stuck with me.... it was a hatchback.
2012 WRX hatch now. |
12-09-2013, 10:24 PM | #694 | |
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Member#: 259527
Join Date: Oct 2010
Chapter/Region:
TXIC
Location: Wylie, TX
Vehicle:2016 STi Pure Red |
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12-09-2013, 11:35 PM | #695 |
Scooby Newbie
Member#: 375723
Join Date: Dec 2013
Chapter/Region:
NWIC
Location: Seattle, Wa
Vehicle:2006 WRX Wagon Black |
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12-10-2013, 03:37 AM | #696 |
Scooby Specialist
Member#: 375579
Join Date: Dec 2013
Chapter/Region:
SCIC
Vehicle:2007 WRX STi Obsidian Black Pearl |
I grasped the knowledge in a friends E36 and mastered it, per say, in my Honda Civic Now, I have a 2007 STi. It's ALOT different, but I'm slowly adjusting. I had trouble smoothly going into second lol
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12-10-2013, 04:11 AM | #697 |
Scooby Newbie
Member#: 360160
Join Date: Jun 2013
Chapter/Region:
NESIC
Vehicle:2005 92x + Black |
1978 Datsun 280 zx, yup, ZX it was a 2+2, in Japan, reaching across my body to the left to shift with my right hand, had to let go of the wheel, left humerus was snapped.(cars in Japan are right hand drive...just in case that needed a little clearing up). It was a blast!
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12-10-2013, 08:23 AM | #698 |
Scooby Newbie
Member#: 375169
Join Date: Dec 2013
Chapter/Region:
TXIC
Location: Murphy, TX
Vehicle:2014 STi Hatch SWP |
Excluding motorcycles (2005? Suzuki GS500F, 1986 Honda Magna VF700), my first manual was a 2007 Jeep Wrangler. I'll tell you, off-roading in a 4x4 helps you learn brake/clutch/gas/parking-brake work REAL fast. Sadly, those skills carry over very little into actual city driving... at least here in Dallas.
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12-10-2013, 09:51 AM | #699 |
Scooby Newbie
Member#: 375777
Join Date: Dec 2013
Chapter/Region:
South East
Location: Knoxville, TN
Vehicle:2014 WRX Ice Silver |
My first was a '96 Nissan 200SX. Drove it for all of 5 minutes. Then 6 years later I bought a 6-speed 350Z. I have rode dirt bikes and street bikes since I was 5, so the concept was embedded in my brain. I just had to get used to doing it in a car.
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12-10-2013, 10:10 AM | #700 |
Scooby Specialist
Member#: 328769
Join Date: Aug 2012
Chapter/Region:
NESIC
Location: Maine
Vehicle:2005 WRB WRX 2007 UGM 2.5i |
01 jetta lol
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