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I only remember the automatics on the column. I have only driven 4, 5, and 6 on the floor and in the middle mostly I drove the ones in the middle and not the floor. Only a VW bus and a Nissan truck on the floor.. I miss manual transmissions.
I learned to drive on a pickup truck with a floorboard gear shift c. 1952. I took my test on a car with the shift on the steering column. I have driven cars with 5 speed shifts and I'm a whiz at shifting the gears on my lawn tractor.
Learned how to drive on the beach in Monterey, CA when I was stationed
at Fort Ord, back in 1975...that was a 69 1/2 ford mustang, 4 on the floor. Vaguely remember driving a Chevy truck that was 3 on the column
while living in El Paso.
come to think of it, manual trannies were all I ever drove until 2008.
that's when I got a Saturn wagon that was an automatic.
Now automatic is all I can drive...
Learned how to drive at age 12 in Dad's Chevy flatbed truck with a 3 on the tree. 7' wide X 12' long bed with stake racks all around. He said if I could learn how to drive in that, nothing I got in would pose a problem later... he was right. I took my drivers test in his work truck with a 5 speed tranny and 2 speed rear-end pulling a motorcycle trailer with a Honda Goldwing on it, then got out of the truck and unloaded the bike to get my motorcycle endorsement at the same time. DMV tester said it was the first time he had ever seen that done. Said he would have passed me even if I had drove bad on the road just for being able to parallel park the truck/trailer combination downtown.
I learned to drive with a 1950 Chevy with three on the column. I took my test in a early model Ford Falcon. I learned to speed shift the Chevy and it's a good thing my dad never found out. In those days there were a lot of two headed drivers and I was one of them. There is a time not to speed shift. Some body parts don't like getting elbowed.
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