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Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on December 30, 2006, 12:34:18 pm ---I don't think they are particularly different from 35 years ago (and I have been driving for 35 years!). It makes me feel like I am actually "driving" the car, as opposed to putting it in "D" and going forward.
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I guess it depends on your "approach" to driving. In the city, for me, it is all about "putting it in 'D' and going forward"--in other words, getting somewhere.
Get me out on an Interstate, however, and hold on to your Resistols! ;D
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Re: geared cars - I have never driven an automatic - and I fear that if I did my driving skills would all but dissapear - I'm not the best driver at the best of times but driving an automatic I thinkwould render me incapable of paying attention and I'd have some type of silly accident as I would lose concentration cos I would think I was in the dodgems or something!!!
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I suppose much also depends on just to what you are accustomed. I'd be afraid the need to concentrate on clutching and shifting would distract me from what was going on around me and lead to an accident.
David:
I love to drive. I learned to drive in my Dads 1977 Ford Maverick with an Automatic. I hated that car. LOL. I made sure my first car was huge! A 1974 Chrysler Newport!
My older brother did teach me to drive a standard shift in his 1974 Ford Mustang II. He taught me a few other things too. Oops! wrong forum.
The only stick shift car I have ever owned was a 1982 Cadillac Cimarron. It was fun for about 6 months. Then I decided it was a pain in the ass in city driving. The little Cimarron was replaced by a huge 1989 Ford Crown Victoria. No more standard shifts for me. And pretty much every car since has been a huge Detroit made behemoth.
MaineWriter:
I love to drive. And I have always loved driving.
Like I said, I learned to drive on a standard in my boyfriend's pinto and dad's Ford Pinto.
In college, I had my grandmother's old car.. a 1966 Ford Fairlane (yes, automatic) nicknamed the White Bulllet.
Tony had a car named Big Boy when I first met him (what a boat that was).
The first car we bought together was a Datsun B210, in a really ugly brown. We drove that thing into the ground.
Since then, we have gone through Subarus, minivans, and lately, Saabs.
Like I said, I only drive standards. That's my line in the transmission. LOL
L
Jeff Wrangler:
Jesus H.! My first car was a Ford Pinto, bought by my dad before my senior year in high school. Chicken-livered as I am, I didn't want a car as soon as I got my license (toward the end of my sophomore year--despite the distinction ;D). I didn't think I was ready for it. By senior year though, my mother deviled my father until he made up his mind and bought the Pinto, so I wouldn't have to ride the very smoke-filled city buses to and from school (smoked-filled buses: we're talking 1975 here).
Next up was an automatic Mustang II, again bought by my dad when I was in college. Had so damn much trouble with the ignition--doing 60 on an Interstate, the engine would just stop--stop!--I would never have a Ford again if they gave me one on a silver platter.
Then came a Chevrolet Chevette. Remember the Chevette? ;D Only brand-new vehicle I've ever had. Damn fine little car. Broke a fan belt once at high speed on an Interstate in Richmond, Virginia, but otherwise never gave us a bit of trouble. I would buy a Chevrolet again.
Hey, David, did you get yourself a police uniform to go with that Crown Vic? ;) ;D
Ellemeno:
Kelda, you think an automatic transmission would make you focus less on driving - try cruise control. You practically get the urge to crawl in the back seat and take a nap while the car drives itself.
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