Living in the Hollywood Hills with a stick shift (how much, buyers)

[AlongTheI-5]

I'd rather burn up brakes than a clutch. Much easier to get to.

[Exitus Acta Probat]

Originally Posted by AlongTheI-5

I'd rather burn up brakes than a clutch. Much easier to get to.

I'd rather burn up both doing canyon runs in the Santa Monica and San Gabriel Mountains.

[LuvSouthOC]

Originally Posted by tommy64

Does anyone live in the HH with anything but an automatic transmission?

Do you burn up clutches and transmissions if you live in those steep-ass hills?

LOL my step brother had a Lancia (yuck) manual trans and that engine was loud (just the way he wanted it) in a lawnmowery kind of way up Mt. Olympus. Many years ago, I used to drive my manual mustang GT convertible up there and I remember that once you get up higher, it's easy as there are not too many stops all over. Down shift coming down, weeee.

[adr3naline]

Originally Posted by Lorielicious

Really? Is there some other city where everyone is an excellent driver? Would be interested in knowing, considering I've never come across such a thing.

We both know the answer to that question.

I can understand why LA folks would be some of the worst offenders, though. Manuals are losing popularity in general...especially in gridlocked city like LA.

[JustMike77]

I don't have problems in the Hills, but I do get a little tense when I get to the top of La Cienega at Sunset. Last week I was working in Echo Park where some of the streets go straight up and straight down (you have to see it to believe it) and I was glad I was in my automatic.

[Hapa1]

Stick shifts and hills are never a good match!

[adr3naline]

Originally Posted by JustMike77

I don't have problems in the Hills, but I do get a little tense when I get to the top of La Cienega at Sunset. Last week I was working in Echo Park where some of the streets go straight up and straight down (you have to see it to believe it) and I was glad I was in my automatic.

I avoid that intersection at all costs. Even my wife's automatic rolls back quite a bit!

[CaptainSlow]

All it takes is a little practice. When my Dad was in the Army in WW2 one of his jobs for a while was teaching soldiers, many of which had never driven anything before, how to handle heavy vehicles like a 2-1/2 ton truck. He had the technique down and taught all of us kids how to do it. I have a buddy who grew up in the UK and starting off on a hill with a manual gearbox was part of his driving test. Roll back too far and fail.

You want pucker factor? Try driving a heavy truck with a non-synchro gearbox on a long twisty downhill. If you can't get into that lower gear you will toast the brakes and then it gets real interesting.

[payutenyodagimas]

as long as you don't drive diesel trucks, you should be fine with cars with stick

[Exitus Acta Probat]

Originally Posted by adr3naline

I avoid that intersection at all costs. Even my wife's automatic rolls back quite a bit!

Does the tranny have a torque converter?