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re: Who here knows how to drive a vehicle with standard shift on the steering column?
Posted on 1/7/21 at 1:16 pm to Bigfishchoupique
Posted on 1/7/21 at 1:16 pm to Bigfishchoupique
Learned by having the truck keys tossed to me and told to "get after it".
Very fond memory.
Very fond memory.
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Posted on 1/7/21 at 1:20 pm to Bigfishchoupique
I learned to shift a standard in a buddy's Javelin. And on the other side of the retro-coin, I owned a '62 Valiant, with the typewriter automatic.
Posted on 1/7/21 at 1:22 pm to Bigfishchoupique
I was driving a work van with three forward gears on the column when I was 14.
Posted on 1/7/21 at 1:24 pm to Oates Mustache
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I've driven one in an old F100. It was fun
Yep, only real encounter was on a '54 Ford F100. Was a blast to drive.
Learned on cub cadet and old ford tractor when I was about 10-12 or so.
Posted on 1/7/21 at 1:37 pm to Bigfishchoupique
Yep
Posted on 1/7/21 at 1:37 pm to Bigfishchoupique
I used to love driving my grandpa's three on the tree.
The funnest manual of all to drive.
Posted on 1/7/21 at 1:37 pm to Bigfishchoupique
Dad had one on an old Ford Falcon station wagon, never got to drive it though. That Ford straight 6 was bulletproof.
Posted on 1/7/21 at 1:41 pm to Bigfishchoupique
But can you shift gears without using the clutch?
Posted on 1/7/21 at 1:52 pm to CuyahogaTigerJr
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But can you shift gears without using the clutch?
I seem to remember doing that. Come off throttle real quick and then shift?
Forgot about having to pop the hood when the linkage hung up. I got grease on a lot of shirt sleeves because of that. I had to change the tube in the column a couple of times. Pure pain in the arse.
Posted on 1/7/21 at 1:54 pm to Bigfishchoupique
My first truck was my dads old Chevy Custom Deluxe. 3 on the column. No power steering or AC. Pull air vents on each side by the floorboard. I felt like I could drive anything after driving that monster.
Posted on 1/7/21 at 2:02 pm to Bigfishchoupique
My first truck was a 62 Chevy with a 3 speed on the column.
Posted on 1/7/21 at 2:07 pm to Bigfishchoupique
All us old timers could do that but I'm not sure I remember where reverse was. Pull and down for first. Up for second. Push and down for third. I guess reverse was pull and up?
Posted on 1/7/21 at 2:08 pm to Bigfishchoupique
quote:Me
Who here knows how to drive a vehicle with standard shift on the steering column?
Posted on 1/7/21 at 2:23 pm to Bigfishchoupique
Three on the tree is what I learned on. Still drive a MT daily
Posted on 1/7/21 at 2:23 pm to Bigfishchoupique
Yup
78 GMC Sierra classic red in 1979
Or
Cajun Cadillac
78 GMC Sierra classic red in 1979
Or
Cajun Cadillac
Posted on 1/7/21 at 2:24 pm to Bigfishchoupique
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I seem to remember doing that. Come off throttle real quick and then shift?
Yep that’s how my dad taught me enter the next gear at the same rpm and smooth shifting
Posted on 1/7/21 at 2:51 pm to Viper3428
Drove my buddy’s 1969 Saab 95, 4 on the tree, fun car!
Posted on 1/7/21 at 2:52 pm to Bigfishchoupique
1969 Ford Bronco handed down from paw paw. 
Posted on 1/7/21 at 3:35 pm to Bigfishchoupique
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learned how to drive on a 1967 Chevrolet pickup. I was fourteen and it was tough to press the pedals,shift and drive at the same time.
Standard shift on the column. H shift pattern.
So did I on a Chevy 67 C10 and it’s called 3 on a tree
Posted on 1/7/21 at 3:45 pm to Bigfishchoupique
quote:This news does not grind my gears.
I taught my 15 year old high school girlfriend how to drive it too. She got to be pretty smooth. She wouldn’t grind the gears.
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