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26/06/2025 8:58 am
Both are real life facts. I have a decal on the windshield of my 61 Corvette showing the shift pattern of the manual transmission.
26/06/2025 9:21 am
... I've said it before. The LAST time I drove a manual - on the street - was when I (17) borrowed my best friend's Vega in 1980 to get a pack of cigarettes. If I had to drive one today - on the street - I'd be in real trouble! 😬 😬 My son (42) has never driven one. 🙄 🙄
26/06/2025 9:28 am
For sure!
John Bono
North Jersey
26/06/2025 4:49 pm
My son (42) has never driven one. 🙄 🙄
Interesting...my son (41) still drives one and has always owned one. Probably helps that he's a tech.
26/06/2025 6:12 pm
I taught my wife and both our kids how to drive one. I showed them how to change their own oil as well.
John Kuvakas
Warrenton, VA
26/06/2025 6:36 pm
My youngest son 37, learned to drive on a manual shift 1990 Vette and has owned his own manual 2016 WRX (2nd one) and occasionally drives my 7 speed 2016 Vette.
💪😎👍.
Frank Reed
Chesapeake, VA
26/06/2025 8:45 pm
"Interesting...my son (41) still drives one and has always owned one. Probably helps that he's a tech."
Yep, I'm sure that has something to do with it. My son's a doctor; he can barely write his name - I'm not kidding! 🙄 😶
26/06/2025 8:54 pm
"I taught my wife and both our kids how to drive one. I showed them how to change their own oil as well."
Wow! I have to beg my wife to go for a cruise or a car show - even when I'm in the show. I stopped changing oil when $19.99 oil changes became available - which was 25 years ago now! 😮 😮 I taught my son to drive at age 12 - when he could drive legally, I showed him how to change a flat, and brake jobs. I can't say I "taught" him; it was obvious he had zero interest in either. 😏 😫 😀
26/06/2025 8:59 pm
"...and occasionally drives my 7 speed 2016 Vette."
"7 speed?" Wow-wee.... it would take me either 10 minutes just to back that thing out of the garage - OR - I would blow up your Tremec unit. Take your pic.. 🙄 🙄
26/06/2025 10:22 pm
I changed the oil twice in my teens when I realized the few bucks saved was not worth the indignity of crawling beneath a car and putting my safety at risk."I taught my wife and both our kids how to drive one. I showed them how to change their own oil as well."
Wow! I have to beg my wife to go for a cruise or a car show - even when I'm in the show. I stopped changing oil when $19.99 oil changes became available - which was 25 years ago now! 😮 😮 I taught my son to drive at age 12 - when he could drive legally, I showed him how to change a flat, and brake jobs. I can't say I "taught" him; it was obvious he had zero interest in either. 😏 😫 😀
John Bono
North Jersey
26/06/2025 11:04 pm
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