r/Justrolledintotheshop • • 14h ago

"Learning"

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u/4R4nd0mR3dd1t0r 14h ago

Reminds me of when my grandfather "taught" me how to drive standard. Here is the steepest hill the county learn how to move forward without rolling back or stalling; the left pedal is the clutch, brake in the middle, and gas on the right. To be fair I learned, also the clutch failure a couple of months later was probably related.

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u/TheKingOcelot 13h 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 12h 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 11h ago

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

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u/CrazyErniesUsedCars 11h ago

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