Dear Corey,
Of three daughters, I have one that is a gear head.
When she was in high school, my got a 1987 BMW 535is with a manual
transmission. We drove it back from San Diego to Oklahoma and it was
the first time that she had ever used a manual. There was the typical
learning curve. After she had driven it for about a month, we were in
the kitchen and were casually discussing cars, when she said, "You know,
automatics suck." A very bright girl, although a bit uninhibited.
Warmest regards, Chuck Engles
Ah.... the ol' memory bank was jogged.
Another automotive anecdote: Daughter number one was in
high school she was being courted by a lad with a new Nissan 350Z when
they first came out. To impress her, he went through the typical
impressive car stunts including doing 80 mph down a 40 mph street. He
commented to her that was what a sports car was about. Daughter number
one said, "You don't have a sports car." The boy racer replied, "THIS
is a sports car!".
Daughter number one pointed to the automatic
transmission shift lever and said, "Real sports cars don't have these.
Mini-vans do." She could be mean when she wanted to be.
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Corey Price wrote:
> The potential thieves won't know how to drive your Pantera.
> Apparently not one or two, but three thieves tried to steal a truck.
> A truck with a manual transmission, of course and since they didn't
> know how to drive it, they couldn't steal it...
>
>
> http://jalopnik.com/three-would-be-carjackers-thwarted-by-manual-transmissi-1502685486
>
> I read somewhere that only 1 in 10 Americans know how to drive a car
> with a manual transmission. I think that statistic is sad if true.
> My daily driver has a manual and I lament the idea that it's going to
> be hard to find a car with a manual to replace it. I'm teaching my 16
> yr-old daughter to drive the old truck, which is a manual. She hates
> it but is getting good at it.
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