What car did you learn to drive stick on?

[Lorizael]

It was daddy's old 504 xsd car (xsd = super luxe diesel).

Au contraire. xsd = XML schema definition, which spells out the structure of tags you must use for a particular XML document.

<item>
    <car>
        <transmission>manual</transmission>
        <model>504</model>
        <age>old</age>
        <owner>daddy</owner>
    </car>
</item>

God I hate my life.

[Dinner]

With the Car that was provided by the driving school (in germany you don't learn driving from some relative, but rather take driving lessons by certified driving teachers at a driving school)
IIRC it was a VW Golf II or III

You do both in California. So many hours from a licensed instructor and so many hours behind the wheel with a competent adult.

[Dinner]

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Driver's ed in high school disappeared pretty suddenly as I understand it. Like, I think my older brothers had it, but it was gone by the time I got there.

They had it when I was 15 but it was badly impacted with too many students who wanted in and not enough seats. I didn't get in so my mom paid for me to go to a class run by a private company which met on the weekends. The high school class went all quarter where as the private school was done in a month so we got our permits way before the folks in Driver's Ed.

[Dinner]

Au contraire. xsd = XML schema definition, which spells out the structure of tags you must use for a particular XML document.

<item>
<car>
<transmission>manual</transmission>
<model>504</model>
<age>old</age>
<owner>daddy</owner>
</car>
</item>

God I hate my life.

I can remember my grandparents had an early 1980's 504 diesel. My aunt (their daughter) convinced them to pay for the factory pick up option where they fly one person out to France to go to the Peugeot factory, get to drive the car around for a week or two in France, then they pack it up and ship it to your house in the US. I am not sure how she talked them into it but she basically got a free vacation in Europe out of the deal.

[Dauphin]

A Tomy Turnin' Turbo Dashboard.

[ricketyclik]

A something 280zx, lessons from a blonde friend I desperately wanted, college, 1988. -Never enough practice to achieve real competence. Never managed to hit that.

That'd be a Datsun, later known as Nissan, at least here in Australia.

Very cool car!

[ricketyclik]

When I was 12 my mother made the mistake of teaching me to drive her Renault 12 at my uncle's farm. From the age of 15 I was pushing it out on to the street and rolling it down the block at about 1 am, then driving around town with a flask of wine visiting my sleeping friends to see if they wanted to go driving with me. I'm not sure why none of them wanted to go out at 3 am with a drunk, under age driver.

When I was 14 I spent a couple of weeks carting a year's worth of hay that had to be fed to the livestock before the rats and mice ate all the grain in it during a rodent plague. That was using a 3 ton flatbed truck from the 50's I think. It was old, anyway, and required a double shuffle to shift.

Each of the bales of hay out of the couple of thousand I lifted had an average of four mice and one rat under it. There'd be an eastern brown snake under about one in every six.

[ricketyclik]

I can remember my grandparents had an early 1980's 504 diesel.

My Dad had a petrol one of those. Very nice car.

[Berzerker]

tow truck

edit, my intro to a stick may have been the sand and gravel semis I worked on while going to school. But I didn't drive them out on the road.

[Dinner]

That'd be a Datsun, later known as Nissan, at least here in Australia.

Very cool car!

Those cars were popular when I was in high school. They were reasonably fast and they were then old enough to just make it affordable for teenagers to buy one.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

It had decent lines to it, no doubt of that.

So did Julie....

[N35t0r]

Learn? VW quantum at the family farm, when I was 13/14. My father taught me.
the first car I actually drove unsupervised was a third gen diesel Ford fiesta.
Except my current car (Honda Fit/Jazz), al my cars have been manuals, and except for very heavy stop-and-go traffic, I highly prefer manuals as I miss the added control you have with them.

[Dinner]

Automakers are starting to bring manuals back due to customer demand but now they charge a premium for them where as before you had to pay extra to get an automatic.

[-Jrabbit]

PROGRESS!!

[Lancer]

Nobody has ever asked before, its a bit sudden. I guess I don't know if I'm ready.

[Elok]

Never did. I don't like driving, see no reason to make it even more onerous. Eventually electric cars will take over, and they don't even have gearshifts.