pain2bare

revsto9 took me out and I was bucking like a bronco! I'd drivin stick in my teens a bit but didn't really feel like i knew what i was doing. My current is auto, it's easier on me for the driving I do but i wouldn't mind a stick beater to mess around in.

Tego

My dad started teaching me at the age of 9.

civicnation

i knew the theory, i just jumped right into it. shifting was notching and the car jerked a bit, but i got the hang of it after a few mins

Revolution909

I leared when i was real little in a AMC something, i cant remember what it was called but it was like a station wagon on a jeep frame. It wasnt anything tho. And then when i was 13 my grandpa was drunk and took me out in his late early 80's civic(i dunno really) and i kinda learned. But i really learned when me and a couple buddies went along when my buddy dought his acura integra. None of us had any real clue how to drive stick and we were like 30min from home. We got a lesson from the guy selling it then drove ity to the closest parking lot and practiced.


I seem to have it down now tho

imported_DOHCTOR

someone should get a beater and start charging for lessons

Xscorpio

i still dont really know how to drive manual, i drove my friends teg few times and this girl at work her lude few times in the parking lot.........and both cars felt so diffrent, but they never told me what to do etc, i just drove around.
never owned a manula car but my next one is gonna be manual for sure.

Notorious

I bought my first car, and then learned on it haha. My uncle took me out, 20 minutes later I was ready to go.

imported_kruption

I used to race around on dirt bikes and 4 wheelers when I was younger so the switch over was difficult.

imported_gatherer

I bought the car Dad driove it home (I was at work at the time) and when I came home he showed me the process then I practiced he was really patient with me .. but in the end I learned by forcing myself to take the car places.

imported_xray

At university on my friend's 78 Civic. I'm not sure what gen it would be...1st gen? Anyway, I learned driving them drunks to the bars one night.

Adair

First learned to drive a standard from an old boyfriend in this borrowed piece-of-garbage pickup truck.

Then, after a few years of automatic, a good friend who was waiting for delivery on his new car, reviewed with me the basics of standard driving on his old honda. We drove for hours--it was very smooth, with only just a little practice.

imported_Turbo-D

Went on vacation to England and had my cousing teach me on a right hand drive Vauxhaul Cavalier. Friend bought a 95 Si coupe brand new, learned a little more on there then got my 91 Integra 5spd in 96 and the rest is history as they say.

LEITNER

being around racing my whole life it was just an "automatic" thing that i knew how to drive stick...now i drive an auto and i dont think i would ever switch back to stick, its so nice to not have to think about shifting in traffic or with a coffee in hand etc etc

BOND007

I learnt by driving my drunk friends home in their cars.....

imported_SilverSleeper

I got my initial taste in driving manual in 1st year university. My friend showed me how to work the clutch in his 89 Probe. A few weeks later I drove the same car from Stoney Creek to Mac. After that I didn't drive stick for 4 months but I retained enough to test drive a Protege and the Civic which I got. I wasn't perfect and I learned a lot by trial and error on this car but now its second nature and it feels weird driving automatic.

imported_xplizitremix

Waterloo honda
CIvic SIR Ep3

I feel sorry for whoever bought it after

Tego

haha

Roll_outz

I learned back home first my cousing jeep then my dad Bus. Start ugly but did well till now..

imported_hatsu

First time I was taught to drive manual was with my uncle in his old 91 si. This was when I was 14. He only taught me a few times.

Never touched another manual car for 6 years and I just remembered what I learned from before when I got my car.

GinoLicious

my mom actually taught me when i was 13 years old.