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1. renting a car with a manual tranny (score: 1): Author: "Boris Elpiner" <boris@elpiner.net>; Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 15:31:42 -0700; I've seen this question asked before, but never have seen a helpful answer. Is there a place in the bay area that rents manual transmission cars? It doesn't have to be anything special, just a vehicl; /html/ba-autox/2001-08/msg00276.html (7,915 bytes)
2. Re: renting a car with a manual tranny (score: 1): Author: Larrybsp@aol.com; Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 20:01:38 EDT; Boris, You are a very brave man or you have lost your senses. Maintaining a relationship and teaching your girl friend to drive a stick shift car is a very risky proposition! As you bounce down the s; /html/ba-autox/2001-08/msg00281.html (8,808 bytes)
3. Re: renting a car with a manual tranny (score: 1): Author: James Creasy <black94pgt@pacbell.net>; Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:14:06 -0700; i agree. get someone else to teach her. this whay, she can learn on your car, and you dont have be there to hear the bad sounds (er, from the car i mean :)) -james lost the to answer. doesn't for off; /html/ba-autox/2001-08/msg00282.html (9,842 bytes)
4. RE: renting a car with a manual tranny (score: 1): Author: "Kelly, Katie" <kkelly@spss.com>; Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:03:30 -0700; Larry Stark writes... Boris, Larry is right. I've even tried teaching FRIENDS how to drive a stick shift. They are no longer my friends. I still hate them. In fact, why my parents still talk to me, I; /html/ba-autox/2001-08/msg00284.html (8,943 bytes)
5. RE: renting a car with a manual tranny (score: 1): Author: "Kelly, Katie" <kkelly@spss.com>; Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:17:23 -0700; Boris writes... doesn't for offer The key is to find a car that isn't too flashy. Something that blends in with the scenery. Like a Ford Pinto. Then, you must go to a place where there aren't too man; /html/ba-autox/2001-08/msg00287.html (9,909 bytes)
6. Re: renting a car with a manual tranny (score: 1): Author: "Kevin Lahey" <kml@patheticgeek.net>; Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:39:42 -0700; Wow, I agree completely, and I've got the smashed-up car to prove it! That poor tree wasn't hurtin' nobody... OTOH, maybe it was a mercy killing for the poor Ford Escort. I suppose I shouldn't compla; /html/ba-autox/2001-08/msg00288.html (9,328 bytes)
7. RE: renting a car with a manual tranny (score: 1): Author: "Kelly, Katie" <kkelly@spss.com>; Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:32:10 -0700; Kevin Lahey writes... Miatas do come with air bags, a good consideration, Boris. Wait. You'll be sitting OUTside of the car. Did I mention the cement barracades? Katie "I'm so glad it's not me!" Kell; /html/ba-autox/2001-08/msg00289.html (8,727 bytes)
8. RE: renting a car with a manual tranny (score: 1): Author: "Michael R. Clements" <mrclem@telocity.com>; Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:46:07 -0700; The biggest problem I had when learning, was I had this primal instinct to avoid letting the clutch slip. I felt it should be either all the way out or all the way in, but letting it slip made my eng; /html/ba-autox/2001-08/msg00291.html (11,573 bytes)
9. Re: renting a car with a manual tranny (score: 1): Author: Bryan Medway <creative@razorlab.com>; Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:46:31 -0700; is that the actual name of the place? I wouldn't mind trying out a miata for a day... more details please... 01 Neon ES; /html/ba-autox/2001-08/msg00292.html (9,167 bytes)
10. Re: renting a car with a manual tranny (score: 1): Author: "Pat Kelly" <lollipop487@home.com>; Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:40:58 -0700; I'd forgotten about the high school scene! :) --; /html/ba-autox/2001-08/msg00293.html (11,100 bytes)
11. Re: renting a car with a manual tranny (score: 1): Author: "Rob Weinstock" <weinstro@hotmail.com>; Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 00:50:45; Agreed. If you teach her to drive a stick, you will probably never marry her. :) Rob _________________________________________________________________; /html/ba-autox/2001-08/msg00295.html (8,588 bytes)
12. RE: renting a car with a manual tranny (score: 1): Author: "Thana, Peter {High~Palo Alto}" <PETER.THANA@ROCHE.COM>; Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 18:15:12 -0700; It doesn't end with stick shift instruction. Ever see loved ones trying to teach each other how to play golf? Bad scene. I agree you need someone who can be cold and emotionally detached to accomplis; /html/ba-autox/2001-08/msg00296.html (13,808 bytes)
13. Re: renting a car with a manual tranny (score: 1): Author: "Kevin Lahey" <kml@patheticgeek.net>; Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 18:24:02 -0700; Yup. I even looked 'em up in the online Yellow Pages to be sure. Rent A Heap Cheap... I can't believe that you'd suggest that someplace called "Rent a Heap Cheap" would have Miatas! My fellow Miata c; /html/ba-autox/2001-08/msg00297.html (10,054 bytes)
14. Re: renting a car with a manual tranny (score: 1): Author: Alexander Komlik <apkom@noir.crocodile.org>; Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 19:21:00 -0700; Morale: mary first, then exersize your powers ;-) I did not have much trouble teaching my wife and my son driving stick on my MR2.; /html/ba-autox/2001-08/msg00299.html (9,075 bytes)
15. Re: renting a car with a manual tranny (score: 1): Author: Smokerbros@aol.com; Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 23:04:51 EDT; I know that National on the corner of Mission and S. Van Ness has Miatae, S2000s, Boxsters, Audi TTs etc. Not sure what the stick situation is... CHD; /html/ba-autox/2001-08/msg00301.html (9,104 bytes)
16. Re: renting a car with a manual tranny (score: 1): Author: Lolita and Mike <lomike@earthlink.net>; Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 21:02:23 -0700; Boris, I'll be happy to teach her. Women , for the most part, are so much easier to teach about things mechanical. No preconceived notions of how "it ought to work" or ego to deal with. Try teaching; /html/ba-autox/2001-08/msg00302.html (11,672 bytes)
17. Re: renting a car with a manual tranny (score: 1): Author: James Creasy <black94pgt@pacbell.net>; Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 21:02:30 -0700; thats really cheap for the kind of use it would get at a track though. what if you bend it? -james c; /html/ba-autox/2001-08/msg00303.html (10,799 bytes)
18. Re: renting a car with a manual tranny (score: 1): Author: James Creasy <black94pgt@pacbell.net>; Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 21:10:20 -0700; for some reason i am reminded of a girlfriend on the first date, when i muttered something about the parallel parking spot being hard to get into, she immediately piped up "well if it's too hard for; /html/ba-autox/2001-08/msg00304.html (12,346 bytes)
19. Re: renting a car with a manual tranny (score: 1): Author: "Kevin Lahey" <kml@patheticgeek.net>; Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 21:19:23 -0700; Yah, I'd be a bit nervous about that myself. I suspect that the damage waver wouldn't apply with off-road use like that... :-) Kevin kml@patheticgeek.net; /html/ba-autox/2001-08/msg00305.html (9,345 bytes)
20. Re: renting a car with a manual tranny (score: 1): Author: "Allendorfer, Mike" <mwa96imp@regionofdoom.com>; Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 21:28:29 -0700; One suggestion I have heard is to teach the student to let the clutch out in a parking w/o touching the gas. When they can do that w/o killing the engine, they are ready to learn to add throttle. The; /html/ba-autox/2001-08/msg00306.html (10,799 bytes)

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