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

[theonlyred16v@hotmail.com (Brian Haygood)]

Yeah, I only did it when we weren't very busy and the customer was having 
trouble coming up with the money.  Worked pretty well as a sales technique, 
I think.  Part of it was that the automatic cars sucked so badly that I 
hated to sell them, and we had very few.

Brian


>From: Cathy Boyko <losinit@usa.net>
>To: Gordon Forbess <gforbess@att.net>,  "Brian Haygood" 
><theonlyred16v@hotmail.com>
>CC: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Subject: Re: [Re: Teaching someone to drive a stick in your car ]
>Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 21:45:10 -0400
>
>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 kid 
>has
>no automatics in the house to learn on. The son's friends had lots of field
>cars to mess with, and he was a natural anyway.
>
>
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