 » Site Navigation | | | | » Recent Threads | | | |  |  |  | |  02-07-2009, 06:04 AM | #1 | | Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Austin Posts: 3,059 |  Drove a manual!
I drove a manual for the first time. I drove my friends ZHP. He was expecting that I would stall the first time. I did it all without instructions or anything. Shifted into second 2 without stalling. I have a little more to learn, but I think I did good for a first time  I feel good! __________________ Come get a ti-shirt
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They were "Keepin it Real" when they introduced the 318ti ClubSport in '95 and the 318ti Sports from '96 to '99.
After that... well nothing else really matters. ~Jess | |  |  | | 02-07-2009, 06:21 AM | #2 | | Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Long Beach area Posts: 1,189 |
ok.
I drove a manual today too. __________________ 97 Jet Black 318ti Sport. Not so stock anymore!.... 
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and
99 Titan Silver 323is Dinan S1+few more mods
Coming sometime in the future:...SCed 2.1...new (to me) car mod maybe?...all in one car | | | | | 02-07-2009, 06:23 AM | #3 | | Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Austin Posts: 3,059 |
You don't understand. I've drove a auto all my life. I was able to drive a manual without instructions on how to, and I pulled it off on the first try. Many people doubted that I could do it. __________________ Come get a ti-shirt
Quote: | From the e30 M3, evolved the e36.
They were "Keepin it Real" when they introduced the 318ti ClubSport in '95 and the 318ti Sports from '96 to '99.
After that... well nothing else really matters. ~Jess | | | | | | 02-07-2009, 07:07 AM | #4 | | Senior Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Seattle Posts: 181 |
Quote: Originally Posted by lkwd318ti  ok.
I drove a manual today too. | Hey me too  car and bike | | | | | 02-07-2009, 11:00 AM | #5 | | Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: çî†ÿ øf åNgëL§, CA Posts: 5,314 |
Quote: Originally Posted by lkwd318ti ok.
I drove a manual today too. | Ain't got to be an ass. LoL. He's excited! | | | | | 02-07-2009, 11:00 AM | #6 | | Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: çî†ÿ øf åNgëL§, CA Posts: 5,314 |
I didn't stall my first time driving a stick shift car either. Not in 1st or reverse. The car was a 1964 VW Karmann Ghia. I miss that car  | | | | | 02-07-2009, 04:26 PM | #7 | | Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Bethlehem, PA Posts: 1,106 |
hey now, i was going to come down and show you myself.. but i guess you dont need me now =[ ...
did you use the E-brake on a hill like you told us? haha..
its really not that hard as people fear it to be.. and after like 1 month, you dirve it without thinking.
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I learned on my sister's ugly Datsun. I had it hopping up and down quite a bit the first few tries.  __________________ ...
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Shifting is fun... Teaching your son... not as much. ________ 1/2 ton Lightweight
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I drive a manual car, motorcycle and bicycle..... Quote: Originally Posted by FMD Hey me too car and bike | __________________ 
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He didn't do an uphill start, I'm pretty sure he'd stall if he tried to.  He stalled a couple of times and still doesn't know how gears and revs work, but I was definitely surprised. Overall, very nice. Just like anything else, it takes practice and getting used to. | | | | | 02-07-2009, 08:16 PM | #12 | | Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Orange County, NY Posts: 1,067 |
Quote: Originally Posted by L84THSKY I drive a manual car, motorcycle and bicycle..... | LOL. Hey Mav, I just learned how to drive manual two years ago after using automatics all my life too. I'm never going back! __________________ 
McLaren F1 - BMW M Power S70/2 | | | | | 02-07-2009, 09:37 PM | #13 | | Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Sunbury PA 17801 (The 570) Posts: 104 |
*plays movie flashback music*
The first time I ever drove a manual transmission car, was when I was technically a "runaway" when I was 16 (i didnt go home for a week ... big deal, right?) . I stopped in at Mcdonalds to see if my friend (working there at the time) would let me borrow her Colt Vista wagon to go get some stuff from my house (ran out of clean clothes). After giving up on looking for reverse after nearly 5 minutes, I just put it in drive, and drove over a parking curb (coulda swore i had the clearance to make it). It got hung up on the curb and my other friend had to push the car because it was stuck.
After I got out of te crowded parking lot , I stopped at a place where I could safely figure out WTF I was doing. After that I was fine, and never wanted to drive automatic again.
Ahh, the good old days of being a terrible teenage thrillseeker __________________
WTB: 17 inch Milli Miglia MM-II's with proper fitment for a ti | | | | | 02-08-2009, 12:54 AM | #14 | | Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: asdfasdf Posts: 10,002 |
awesome now your left leg will feel completely useless everytime you drive your ti | | | | | 02-08-2009, 01:43 AM | #15 | | Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Pittburgh, PA Posts: 9 |
congrats.
My first car i bought for myself was a manual. Never drove a manual before that, just wanted to learn so i forced myself.
Gives a better feeling of the car and not to mention on pretty much any older vehicle almost always had one more gear than an automatic. | | | | | |
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