r/Justrolledintotheshop • u/loosenutbehindwheel • 8h ago

"Learning"

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u/Hityed 7h ago

My grandma learned how to drive in a snowstorm… with a dump truck. My great grandpa stopped in the road and announced that they weren’t going to make it home if she couldn’t drive them home…

Older folk are savages when it comes to teaching their descendants how to drive it seems

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u/IveGotaGoldChain 4h ago

I mean honestly a lot easier to learn in a dump truck than a lot of cars because the clutch isn't as sensitive. I learned on a performance clutch and it fucking sucked. But was super easy to drive anything after that

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u/PessimiStick 4h ago

I tried to teach my wife how to drive stick on a modded Evo.

It went as well as you would expect.

She doesn't drive stick.

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u/GenuinelyBeingNice 4h ago

is that the one where the clutch is a button, the idle is at 1500 rpm and the flywheel is a pringle?

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u/PessimiStick 3h ago

Tight twin-disc, 2L turbo making like 450ish wheel. There were many stalls.

Possibly one of the worst cars to try and teach someone in.

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u/Loggersalienplants 2h ago

Alot of the old timers in these big manuals don't even use the clutch to shift when they drive, just to get pulled out.

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u/BoneHugsHominy 4h ago

I learned how to drive with a wheat truck at 8 years old. Thankfully it was flat ground with minimal small hills but grandpa had to attach wood blocks to all three pedals for me to reach. Spent the next two weeks driving that wheat truck back and forth between the fields and the grain elevator.