Watching my dad and brothers drive. When they would switch gears and use the pedals, I would pretend to be doing the same thing. If you understand the concept, it makes it much easier to apply it. Trying to teach my sister on the other hand.... is a headache. She doesn't know how and why things work the way they do which makes things difficult.

It's true, most lot boys learn how to drive manual at work.

Bought a standard car, drove it home. Read a thing online the night before explaining the basics and went from there. Stalled a million times and almost destroyed the clutch on that ride home.

Good friend of mine in North Van owns a Trabant cool little shit boxes.


But I learned by buying a Renault Fuego and jumped in.
Took me about two days to have it down.

Sweet... so I'm not the only one. :lol

trabant exists in canada? :o

im still not very good at it.. but first learned with my dads old pick up truck
and then my friends car (he needed me to take his car home for him, i told him i could drive stick LOL) i stalled a few times

youtube then tried it myself and kinda epic failed...

dad's buddy lent him a G35 for the weekend, taught me with that.... o man it wasn't pretty lol

In my friend's Golf :lol

Dad had a manual E34 so I learned the concept by watching him drive. Then I drove it a few times around the block every once in a while. Man that clutch was stiff!

I mastered it after getting a 1997 GS-R and driving that to school daily for 5 or so years. Honda clutches are SO light - love 'em.

I've been driving automatic SUVs after that, and I miss sporty, manual cars...

Learned on a hill a very steep hill
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learned from watching other doods

and watching doods on youtoob teaching doods how to drive stick for noobs

bought an 87 Celica GT-S at 15 - my parents test drove it for me haha. then once I got my L, my dad took my to an empty parking lot and taught me how to drive stick.

I learned through trial and error. Mastered that clutch in two days :D

The hardest part was finding the friction point and getting used to the feel.
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friends Versa and DC5

a girl-friend's tercel...

girls who know how to drive stick are hot:D

Borrowed an ex-girlfriends car when my old car got torched.. found out when I got out to it that it was stick.. taught myself how to drive it in the parking lot, then drove home.

Automatics have their place... just not in my garage!

Taught myself from watching youtube videos ya'll

Learned from my best friend on his Jetta, then purchased a car from Bellevue and drove it up. More or less fine tuned it on the I-5... haha

:rofl: at everyone complainin about a stiff clutch.

MT2 AT ESPOT!

:rofl::rofl:
I learn on new corolla's and yaris's since toyota didn't make any sport cars anymore

there is no wax on wax off in driving a stick, you learn just by doing it.

Pretty sure thats talking about drifting my friend :p