Finally, a stick shift is mine!!
 

w00ty w00t w00t! After a year with my permit refusing to get my license cause I didn't want to drive an automatic, I finally got my car... and it's a stick shift!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Driving is finally fun. Of course, learning to drive it is scary. I was pulling it out of the garage. Of course, I've driven a stick for like 20 minutes before, but never in reverse. I wasn't good using the clutch, didn't realize you could move your car with just the clutch, and wasn't smooth shifting going that slow. Let's just say the car stalled at least 6 times before I was out of the driveway :D

Then again, first gear sucks. After that I was perfect, and that pissed me off. So after about half an hour of trying to start smoothly from a stop and failing, I finally figured out how to use the clutch, and an hour later I was doing pretty damn well.

Oh man, it's so much better than driving an automatic. I can see why most Americans drive automatics, yes, it isn't the easiest thing to learn how to drive a stick, and deal with traffic. But I'll never go back, autos just suck.

Ahh... the joy of driving :D

Congratulations Gekko. How old are you?

What kinda car you got?

16.98 years old. Aka, 16 for another 5 days.

1998 Honda Civic EX (<-- That's the model with all the feautres)

*Checks Gekko's profile*

Hmm, no birthday. Guess we will never know.

There, fixed it. I did have a b-day before the move. I remember I changed the template last year on my b-day, and everyone thought I setup some special thing cause it was my b-day :D

Civics are great cars, very reliable...

Honda are great cars in gereral. My brother had a Accord, till he totaled it :unsure:

Congratulations!
 

Well I have to congratulate you.

THe next thing (and last) you have to learn is to stay with the car on a hill upwords just with the clutch, withouth shaking or stalling and then start moving upwords smooth. Once you do that, you can the go at a stop light and take anyone, or just burn your tires, whatever you like :D

Anyways, have fun!

Well I'll be damned Quiet Mike made a return. Nothing too big for him I guess. Wonder how long this one will last.

And since I got to do this.

I'm still 8 days older than you Gekko. So in your face.

*Walks away*

Re: Congratulations!
 

I wish it was as easy as it sounds. I still can't stop rolling on a hill with the clutch. I did do the e-brake thing once, where you feel your car trying to go forward, and then drop the e-brake.

Wel it's eassy for me, but I learned to drive on a stick car, and dit it since 12 years old. All you have to do is feel the engine. Hold the bracke just for you not to roll back, then out the gear in first, and slowly let go of the clutch until you feel the car want's to move forwars. lightly press the cluch and let go of the brackes. A few tries and you'll succede. And the there will come a time when you just know where that position is and can do it in a fraction of a second.

What do you mean? Just because I haven't posted in a long while I'm a return with few chances of staying? Are you implying something here? You want me to make a statement of some sorts presenting my reasonings for not posting? J/K

I never left you guys. This is still one of the 2 forums I post in (planetgamecube is the other)! I never went somewhere else. It's just that I'm soo buissy with school that I didn't have the time to stay online as much. But whenever I was I came here and read. But you know I post only when I feel like there is something I have to say. And Gekko's stick car is one of them.

See you later ;)

So you saying my b-day thread wasn't important.

The thread had it all. Clowns, sumos, penguins, army of clones and a non-violent act by me (A rairty in this day and age).

Not to mention it featured everyone's favorite penguin turning 17.

Anyhow, hopefully you post a bit more at GT. You're presence is somewhat missed even though you were never the heaviest poster.

I kinda wish I had learned how to drive befo (my friend is about to get his full license thingy... well, if he pasts the test :p)... Like get a learner's permit when I could have... but I don't need to and I'm too lazy to... :p

Anyways... neato... I'd wanna use an Automatic though... Because... I like to take the easy way out... :(

Congrats Gekko... I think...

Yeah, just learned how to drive an automatic but, which was fine..since that's what noth of my folks drive...but now, one o fthe priests at my church is making me learn how to drive a manual...on the PRIEST'S CAR!!! Great, all I need in life, to crash a priest's cat.

Crash a priest's cat? God.. that'd be awful :D

Well, I found the car that I want to get in a few months:

2002 Toyota Celica - 6 speed manual :drool:

Keep wanting. The car starts at 22, and putting 22 into a car without any features is just stupid, so expect it to be more like 25, 26 when you are happy with it. Then insurance for you will probably be about $500 a month, likely higher. Then considering you're a new driver, and new drivers are generally stupid (confirmed in your case :lol:), you'll likely to get in an accident before you're out of high school.

You can want that car, but you probably ain't gonna get it :D

Next question, why a 6-spd in a Celica? It's 180hp, 4-banger, a 5-spd would do it more justice. It's not like it goes fast enough to make use of the 6 gears, so really you're only shifting more often, which just means more time off the gas when you're accelerating.

Next thought, why is a priest teaching you how to drive, Kitana?

Hmmmmmmmmm I've been driving for about 4 years I think and i can drive better than my mom ( or so I say) , well Gekko soon enough you'll be balancing the cluth and gas, then you'll move on and have your foot sideways pressing the gas and the brake at the same time ( i call it cross footing). Then you'll go to handbraking around corners.....and then you'll crash your first car as all teenagers do ( well except me of course. 4 yrs and no accidents :D...yeah for me)

Well ok maybe not crash your car but I can assure you that you will get the urge to handbrake the car atleast once....I don;t know knnow what it is but everyone of my friends who drives has hankbraked atleast once...I don't know maybe it's a guy thing.

But I hope you get your license, then after you get it, that's when you really have to learn to drive. yes and you'll also learn new cuss words.
Oh yeah I advise you to stick this on the back of your car


KEEP HORNING I'M RELOADING
or
MY HORN IS BROKEN WATCH FOR THE MIDDLE FINGER
:D

I know all that gekko, I just want that car :drool:

Cross footing? It's actually called heal-toeing, if you care. Don't see any reason to use it if you're not racing (like racing with turns, rally racing for example, not drag racing). Handbraking, 'round here we call it whipping ****ties. That's something i've actually done with a driver's instructer :) In reality, if there's a safe place and snow of the ground, it's something you should do. My sister hit a patch of ice before, and she kept spinning, did close to a 900. Now if you knew what you were doing, could've easily stopped it a few turns back. It's something worth practicing if there's no possible danger, and do it on snow so your tires don't stick to the pavement and cause a rollover, but the people doing it are doing it for the spin, so they never learn how to get out of it.

Maybe it's a guy thing, I'm sure it is. But it ain't worth it. We all have the urge to drift around corners and everything, do drag-race between stoplights, but it isn't safe, and honestly, I have no desire to do it. I've been in cars that were out of control, not going to purposely do it again. I've talked to people who were street racing and came about an inch away from nailing a parked car at 120mph. Trust me, "being a teenager" is not the way I plan to end my life. If I want to feel the rush of driving, I'll go to the track, where I'll at least live to feel it again.