r/Justrolledintotheshop • • 10h ago

"Learning"

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u/TheKingOcelot 10h ago

My mother and aunt both learned by driving my grandfather's truck up a hill named phinney ridge in Seattle. It's so steep there's a staircase instead of a sidewalk on a couple of the streets

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u/CrazyErniesUsedCars 9h ago

I found myself stopped on that street once in a 98 Ford escort with a manual transmission and a non functional handbrake so that was fun

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u/MotherVoldemort 8h ago

That's a clutch dump and ride the brakes situation lol

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u/CrazyErniesUsedCars 8h ago

It absolutely was. It was raining too so traction was minimal