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Old 09-05-2007, 08:39 PM   #31
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I look at the stick in an auto sometimes but not all. But in a manual i don't see how you would need to because u know where every gear is. In an auto you could not feel or hear a click.
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Old 09-05-2007, 09:59 PM   #32
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Watched Glen Ridges car show on the weekend, Carpoint.com or something and they had some blonde bird flogging a Lambo around a race track.

Every time she changed gears she had to take her eyes off the road look for the shifter, put her hand on it and then watch it go into gear before looking up again, why do women do this?

You see it all the time in car parks, they back out then stop, look down at the gear selector, move from R through N to D and then go (slowly).
Can't they just click it 2 positions and know its in D just like the 5,765,294 times before that they've done it. Maybe they're just checking in case some tricky mechanic moved the D. "Where is that little sucker, I know its along here somewhere?"

Anyway getting back to the Lambo, I bet the guys who lent her the car and watched the show were schitting bricks, as she had her eyes of the road for about 2 seconds at about 140-160kays, the corner would come up pretty fast, oops I gotta brake now, oops too late, giggle giggle.

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See even this little guy can change gears without looking.
All women look at the gear stick?
Not this little black duck..............

I must admit watching that show last Sat I thought exactly the same thing - but remembered that Polyal is smack on the money about the gate - very easy to get wrong. Mind you, it still didn't make the rest of the female population that can change gears as they should look very good......

One of my cars is a 60's model and it's like stirring porridge - I still don't need to look......
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Old 09-05-2007, 10:16 PM   #33
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Her names Samantha Stevens and she can stare at my "shifter" any time she likes.....
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Old 09-05-2007, 10:24 PM   #34
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Ever since they brought Morley in, the show has improved out of sight. I love the Max the Meteor segment.

I had the pleasure of driving a manual Diablo some years back for a few precious minutes. A friend used to work in that rental place here in Melbourne that hires out the exotics and he let me take the Diablo out for a lap around the block and boy!!! That thing was amazing. And the thing just went into gear (almost telepathically). The only car that comes even close to shift feel quality (in the cars that I drive regularly and I drive quite a few) is a Z32 300ZX. As nice as a properly rebuilt T5 can feel, it is rubbish compared to the box in the 300.
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Old 10-05-2007, 12:09 PM   #35
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Maybe shes just picked up a bad habit or learnt that way from the start and can't shake it now. Heaps of people pick up habits. A local guy to me who has had the same car for around 2 years now always rides his clutch every gear without fail. His fart can doesn't hide this fact. I'm having a smoke every morning and he'll stop at the corner then take off...... whaaaaaaaaaWHA-----whaaaaaaaaaa. I pretty sure he doesn't know any better or else he'd change his style so it's pretty safe to assume he's being doing it from day one and it is now second nature. That would be my only advice to learners is to take your time, forget "race shifts" and wanting to be like Ronnie Sox and do everything by the book and learn by ear. It's easier to become faster and smoother than it is to reprogram yourself from a bad habit.

Myself? I only look at the shifter when putting it into reverse as I feel by looking at the shifter/boot I can engage it quicker without any hint of "guess" work or feel, in, out or around reverse I never look, maybe the odd occasion when I'm putting it into 1st and feel I may have slipped into 3rd, with the Herrod Sureshift and closer gears it can happen on the odd occasion. That's one of the things I like about manuals, human error.


I agree, she is very hot.
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Old 10-05-2007, 04:58 PM   #36
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I don't look at it when I'm changing gears. Although I did my licence test in a manual, it was 5 years before I bought the BA and I hadn't driven manual at all in that time, but by the time I had driven it home, I got used to it.

Even learning to drive our buses I could change without looking. That was the least of my worries!!
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Old 10-05-2007, 06:52 PM   #37
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Every time she changed gears she had to take her eyes off the road look for the shifter, put her hand on it and then watch it go into gear before looking up again, why do women do this?
I have to congratulate your powers of perception, I for one didn't notice she was looking at the stick!
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Old 10-05-2007, 07:24 PM   #38
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They look at in case the car magically became an auto while they werent looking!
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Old 10-05-2007, 08:53 PM   #39
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When I drove a Ferrari F355, 6-spd manual w/gated shifter... it wasn't hard to find gears at all.
Pretty cool you drove that and you only just turned 18......

Of course, some may say BS, but I'll give you the benefit of doubt. Obviously, some form of photographic evidence may also enhance your creditibility, and you'd also get a shot at owning me - if I doubted you, which as I said, Ill give you the benefit of doubt.

An additional benefit is that you would also be able to "owned" me.
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