Was thinking about this when I was darting across the Bay Bridge early this morning on my way to work. My dad taught me how to drive stick when i was 16 and had my first car. I was pretty bad at doing it, but one night my friend Kev came over to my house and was like "dude, let's go somewhere". I was like "naw, I'll hella keep stalling." He flipped out on me like Cory Feldman did to Cory Haim in License to Drive (sorry for the old school reference). So in the end his "encouagement" helped me learn.



What's your story?

 

i taught myself
and haven't had to replace a clutch yet, and i have been driving stick for 10yrs.
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WENDIE 99

 

my mommy when i was 15!

 

An old buddy of mine, taught me when I was 23

 

father

 

My dad taught me, I wasn't allowed to take my DL test in an auto, and I have to say, I will do the same thing when I have kids. I feel bad for people that cant drive manual, they are missin' out!

 

I got a 5 min lesson from a friend.

 

My girlfriend at the time taught me.

 

I got a couple lessons from my sales guy when i bought my STI, then I learned the rest.

 

I learned on my own in like 5 minutes. It was that or I was walking home instead of driving home in my (at the time) new Nissan 200sx SE-R . LOL

 

i tuaght myself after buying a 98 prelude from stevens creek and had to somehow drive home to union city on the freeway in traffic, well i was sweating bullets the whole time and stalled about half the time, theres nothing better than an angry 80 yr old lady honking at you to make you learn how to switch gears fast!!

 

my self. took me about 15 mins. i have been watching how my dad drive since i was little. so got to it pretty quick.

 

Myself. Learned in an FD with a bad clutch while I worked at Menlo Mazda. Took about three hours

 

Learned myself. When I was 19 I bought a jeep that was stick of course. I couldn`t resist since I`ve always wanted one and the sale price was pretty sweet too. I bought it from a private seller who drove it to my house. It wasn`t difficult to learn really. It did take me a while to improve my shifting and fortunately I never ruined the clutch or transmission.

 

The same boyfriend that got me into cars taught me how to drive a stick when I was 17.