[DeTomaso] Don't worry (kinda NPC)

[Thomas Tornblom]

My daughter spent a year in San Luis Obispo, and she bought a Saturn 
with manual transmission from another Swedish student that was going 
home. She had no problems as all tests for drivers licenses has to be 
done in a manual shift car in Sweden. At one time an american friend of 
hers wanted to borrow the car and she had to take him to a parking lot 
and teach him to drive a stick shift car :)

Cheers,
Thomas

(Better watch the neighborhood for Swedes stealing your manual shift 
trucks and Panteras :)

2014-01-17 16:14, cengles at cox.net skrev:
> 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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