My daughter driving a 4 speed

mikeyfrano · Jul 5, 2019

Trying to teach my daughter how to drive the GTX and she drove ok last year but apparantly if you dont drive a 4speed more often you forget. She was better the first time she drove it but it takes practice for someone that doesnt drive it much. She still had fun and loves the car

66383 · Jul 5, 2019

Practice for her, PATIENCE for you!

mopar 3 B · Jul 5, 2019

As long as you dont need to teach her clutch replacement. Have a good time at it.

64BEL · Jul 5, 2019

Very cool! Way to go, Dad! That's what it's all about! They're meant to be driven, and it's always great to get a young person behind the wheel - especially your own daughter.
Reminds me of when I taught our daughter how to drive a 4-speed in our Hemi Satellite. It's the only stick she's ever driven. She did really good, but she was frustrated because she wanted to be better at it faster. I haven't been able to get her to want to get behind the wheel lately. I tell her practice helps to get better. She lives in Chicago, so she doesn't even drive anything anymore. That may be part of her reluctance to drive it - since she's out of practice driving in general.

Lefty71 · Jul 5, 2019

Show her how to sidestep the clutch. That way it won't stall. Rock On! :thumbsup:

Under Pressure · Jul 5, 2019

Must have been Dad/Daughter day, mine actually wanted to re-install the rebuilt alternator last night
Sharing hobbies with the kids is the best

Budnicks · Jul 5, 2019

great they like the cars & even share some interests
always good to spend some quality time

it doesn't last for ever, take it when you can get it
eventually they grow up & you don't see them as much

Darter6 · Jul 5, 2019

Good for her and you ! Both of my girls learned to drive on sticks. Both had/have stick shift cars now.My wife took her drivers test in a VW Bus back in the 60's. Instructor asked why a stick instead of a automatic ? Her reply,"What's a automatic ?"

davek · Jul 5, 2019

PRICELESS

You are Blessed mikey

67belvedere/225 · Jul 5, 2019

great times , good for you my friends daughter is 21 and like to go to car shows and take pictures of cars and is keen on classic muscle cars
not too many of that age show interest in other than there I phone

demonram · Jul 6, 2019

My oldest always drove sticks. That’s what she wanted from the start. Her first was a Dodge shadow V6 with 70,000 miles on it. I tried to talk her out of it, only because I didn’t want to do a clutch down the road. I taught her in that car, she was a fast learner. 50,000 miles later her dumb *** cousin was driving with her boyfriend and blew a hole through the top of the bell housing. Of course they said it just happened. I said BS I know exactly what happened with them having that deer in the headlights look. I sold it and she got a focus. 226,000 miles later finally junked it, I think I taught her well. Never replaced the clutch, numerous other things but I told her do not let anyone drive your car.

Ron H · Jul 6, 2019

Part of the learning curve is the interest of the learn-ee...eons ago I tried to teach my girlfriend, now my wife, how to drive my '70 Cuda and it just didn't work as she got frustrated + feeling embarrassed. And I shoulda been more in tune with that back when - when she gave up the trial. About 2 years ago tried to teach my nephew how to drive a manual, my old Dodge plow truck that has a new clutch and works great. That didn't go so well as it seemed he just wasn't interested. I tried the technique of clutch feel to move along by slowly letting out the clutch with no throttle without stalling. I showed him that about 4 times and he never was successful; but again, got the distinct impression he wasn't interested and that ended the lessons. Ya know, when you're trying to teach someone and they either think they know it all already or look off into space as you're trying to make a connection with them lesson time is over. Today most people can't operate a manual; then we've had automatics for nearly 70 years. When I went to Costa Rica, their rentals were like 90% manuals and given their roads, see why. I encountered hills and such that coulda burned out the brakes or tranny if an auto.

bm02tj · Jul 6, 2019

Both my girl learned on a 81 3/4 ton club cab with a 4 speed
I made them change tires before they got a licence
The youngest tried to teach one of her boyfriend to drive a stick and he bailed in the middle of and intersection and ran

mopar 3 B · Jul 6, 2019

The wife was the hardest to teach. After continues kills I just reached over and mashed her foot to the floor when she let the clutch out. She had no problems after that. Five kids with two daughter caught on real fast. All can drive a manual.

Dibbons · Jul 6, 2019

Borrowed my sister's '74 Camaro (auto) one evening and left her my four-speed '65 Valiant street-legal bracket racer. Came home that night, and the Valiant was still parked in the same spot.

Took my step-daughter out on a dirt road on the ranch in my 5-speed Porsche 914 (VW engine). She was just getting the hang of it when we turned around to head back to the house. I was still coaching her (off the gas, push in the clutch, move the gear selector, etc.) When she said "the clutch is gone". I thought she was nuts until I found the clutch cable snapped and the override spring was holding the pedal to the floor! She was right, the clutch pedal was no longer there.

mopar 3 B · Jul 6, 2019

Dibbons said:
Borrowed my sister's '74 Camaro (auto) one evening and left her my four-speed '65 Valiant street-legal bracket racer. Came home that night, and the Valiant was still parked in the same spot.

Took my step-daughter out on a dirt road on the ranch in my 5-speed Porsche 914 (VW engine). She was just getting the hang of it when we turned around to head back to the house. I was still coaching her (off the gas, push in the clutch, move the gear selector, etc.) When she said "the clutch is gone". I thought she was nuts until I found the clutch cable snapped and the override spring was holding the pedal to the floor! She was right, the clutch pedal was no longer there.

Well who needs that thing any way.

HEMI-ITIS · Jul 6, 2019

When my step daughter was in her her young teens,I was still running a gas station with a AAA repair shop. Too many customers would beg me to "take the home" to make sure it was good. Welllll,when i would get home she would look out the window to see what I was driving and if she liked it she was out the door before I got close

.It was a Jeep Wrangler she came running out to,she jumped in and it was a stick :drama:

So I talked her into it and she got a hang real fast. She turned to be a great driver :thumbsup:

Lets Roll · Jul 6, 2019

I love manual cars, but have all automatic because the wife can't stand manual. She can drive one if she has to but prefers to act like she doesn't know how.

Joske2 · Jul 6, 2019

That sure is different here in Belgium, when you do your driver license test in an automatic, you are not allowed
to drive a stick.
The other way around is OK.
Only the upper class cars here are auto standard.
For the small ones its an option, if it is even available.

Dibbons · Jul 6, 2019

My spouse is comfortable with a standard transmission, she was born in '53 and learned to drive with one. I was driving tractors around the farm as a kid, so I learned early too (off-road).

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