( How did you learn how to drive manual transmission )

[Slappy]

Similar to my story! Learned on a Ford Ranger. Then, my second time ever driving a stick I was in a toyota tercel where you actually had to give some gas while lifting the clutch.... so I get stuck at a stoplight on my first hill and you know the rest of the story....the tires were spinning as I screeeeched up the hill! hahaha

[XJimmySTiX]

the pops taught me at 15....lol was outback...pre easy though i kinda like better then AT bc you get better gas mpgs and its alot cheaper

[Goldeneagle]

For the most part, I taught myself.

[LeroyBrown]

pill popping animal. computer is acting wack to many drugs.....

[TK_Encore]

a school parkin lot in a little tiny 87 CRX, that was also my first time drivin ever so i was learnin everything all at once. wasnt smooth but i got it

[maj Andres]

I was stationed in Okinawa and i was taking over a billet that required me to drive a van, so a Marine took me out back where all the warehouses were kept and he taught me in one of those small japanese "pick up trucks" It felt preety cool learning stick shift while shifting with my left hand

[high flya]

By doing test drives when I first looked for a car back in high school.

[silvia_ks_69]

on the silvia lol. then it was very weird to try and get used to driving LHD's at work. i also learned how to drive stick before auto

[ze12o]

Was told what to do. Never really got to drive any of my cousins cars until a lot of convincing, some lying and a lot of cleaning in his house -_- to get him to let me drive his car. So my first stick was a evo 9 with a twin plate. That thing is a beast. Now I'm waiting to buy a 240 to prefect my stick.

[chaosli]

i learned from my firend's honda prelude with an stage 3 twin plate excidy clutch and now i cant feel the dirrerence i just know my clutch sucks

[opqosite]

Learned in my hatch while delivering pizzas.

[-RJ-]

my dad brought my s14 home while i was in school. when i got home i started driving it. took me about 2 hours to master it

[lovespeed]

I was 15 and my mom had a 91 accord 5 speed (which I could not drive at the time ) well I wanted to go to pick up my girl she lived about 15 minutes away in the middle of nowhere. Well my mom didn’t want to go put she said if I could get the car out of the drive way then I could take it. after about 10 minutes me and my friend are rolling down the drive way (or sputtering) when I got back I was pretty good at driving a stick I still slipped the clutch to much in first and had the rpms to high but I could drive it. Well my mom didn’t think I was funny and said she really didn’t think I would make it out of the drive way.

So that’s my story I guess you could say I taught myself then all my friends. all my friends learned on the same car including some girl friends . But after that I said I would never own an a/t ever agene and it’s been all m/t sense then.

[BOSs13]

i love how successful this thread became

im stilll learning how to drive stick, recently ive been drivin my dads outback so that adds to my previous one.

[ismyeal16]

i started to learn when i was 13, drove my dads ex police ford mondeo, boy did that thing have some power, then a toyota carina, then a nissan primera 01 and then a 91 nissan micra , from that i'm only 16 and have mastered all sorts of tricks, world look out here i come

[sr20det_s13]

Mmm I remember I learned how to drive, my brother had s13 sr20det stage 3 clutch I think dont remember, but yeah he was playing tennis i asked him if i could drive his car he said sure. So i was messing around i kept peeling out then my friend who was his first time too was like hm, maybe if we let go of the clutch till it starts to shake then gas and let go of clutch. So i tried that out and it works perfectly! But now if im ever lazy i gas it like twice and drop the clutch and works perfectly fine! Hah werid, then he sold that s13...

And now i have one! haha

[LeroyBrown]

FTW.

[giodachamp]

I know this would sound ridiculous but i learned how to drive manual transmission when i was in 4th grade. It was in a 1978 Toyota Corona. Then my dad finally gave me the freedom to drive without me sitting on his lap when i was in 5th grade. I love that Toyota Corona...man brings back memories

[BMAR240SX]

Do any of you guys blip/tap the gas when up shifting

ex. let of gas, clutch, shift, tap gas and let off the clutch?

[SR20DET.240]

I learned on a 1960 Willy's Jeep on my grandfathers farm. After mastering that he let me drive the tractor !!. I was 11.

Oh, and to answer BMAR240SX, yes, I still do this sometimes, it is an old habit from driving my dad's 69 GTO that had bad sycro's but I find it easier to downshift that way sometimes.

[edwards30]

the first time i learned was extremely hard because i was starting at the bottom of a driveway going up on to the road when i first turned 14..it took me about 20 minutes to make it onto the road but after i got out i have only killed a car about 5 times since that

[Silviastein]

Do any of you guys blip/tap the gas when up shifting

ex. let of gas, clutch, shift, tap gas and let off the clutch?

Sometimes if I know the revs are way below what they would be when I let the clutch go. but most of the time about 1 second delay makes it just right.

[Silviastein]

I learned in an old beat up f-150 with a bad clutch and around 400 on the engine

[Razi]

I hopped in the S13 and started to drive while my dad gave me pointers.I could start driving around town after 30 minutes.

[Klodust]

unfortunely i learned by some arcade game it was really rare and had that "intial D" style theme lol. anyway it had a clutch and a 6 speed transmission. a couple days later i tried my uncles '89 240 and it wasnt hard at all it felt the same.... (truthfully i wished i could have learned the usual way haha)

[nicc_dett]

i was 14. got the keys to my dad's accord. after about 2 days i could drive okay.it wasnt until recently that i could really say i drive pretty good

[S13Teddy]

I learned to drive stick when I first test drove my 510 before buying it. I went over there not knowing how. lol

[Ghostdrifter88]

when i was 12 i took my dads truck in the middle of the night for a couple weeks. thats how i learned.

[s13 iDRIFT]

when i was 14 in my 240!

ahh it took me like one day before i could drive places other than my neighborhood!

l0l...i didnt know where neutral was!!

(i was a noob)

[Dr.Fate]

I learned when I was 29 yaers old and I'm 30 now! LOL!! I did the manual swap before I knew how to drive it. The guy that swaped it for drove it over and I took him home in the wife's car. The next day, which was super bowl sunday, I learned from my wife's friend's boyfriend who taught me how to drive the car in 30 mins.. The way he explained the mt transmission to me, was It's like riding a 10 speed bike. The cain rasies up from the gear (clutch) and when it falls down you pedal (gas), then you go faster!! I taught three people this way!! funny huh!! at 30 learning how to drive a stick!