[Re: Teaching someone to drive a stick in your car ]

[losinit@usa.net (Cathy Boyko)]

Gordon Forbess <gforbess@att.net> wrote:
That's an excellent tip.  I didn't realize dealers were still teaching
people to drive sticks.  =


Nor did I! (that would be great, abuse their cars)

Diesels are more forgiving too, not needing the accelerator applied much =
(if
at all) to get them rolling, and harder to stall. =


I think my daughter will learn on the gravel, likely this summer. Poor ki=
d has
no automatics in the house to learn on. The son's friends had lots of fie=
ld
cars to mess with, and he was a natural anyway.