Here's how I taught my wife to drive a standard tranny. I sold her 1972
Buick Skylark (in 1976) and bought a 4-speed 1972 Boss 351 Mustang. I
already had a 1972 Mustang 4-speed coupe. She had no choice but to learn.
She
was/is a good student and car nut so she did pretty good. I came home from
work one day and she took me to show me how good she could drive. We went
to a burger joint and on the way home we were merging with traffic on I-44
when I got quite a ride. It was misting rain at the time and the car next
to us didn't want to move over to let us in so she floored it. When the
cam came on the car started to spin to the left then the right and back to
the left where she locked the brakes and we slid sideways down the
interstate in rush hour traffic. The only thing I said/yelled was "get your
foot
off the freeking brake!". I was looking into the oncoming traffic as we slid
to a stop. We couldn't go straight because of a big embankment and
couldn't back up because of the oncoming traffic zooming by us. A trucker
finally stopped and let us back up and we were on our way home. I never said
a
word all the way home. She took to the TR's like a duck to water. We are
still married today.
Sam Clark
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