Originally posted by holycowSVTpaul:
I learned to drive on an old Ford ecoline van with three on the tree and also a chevy vega four speed and an old 5 speed dodge ram.
Good God, one of my friends learned to drive a manual on a '79 Chevy van, with a three speed column shifter like your Ford. After that thing died, he didn't drive a manual again until about four years ago, when his sister got a Nissan Stanza 5spd. Right after that he got a '92 Eclipse Turbo. F***ing SWEET, I thought, until I got in and saw watched him drive it: Accelerate to 15, put it in neutral. Massage the shifter, then second. 25 mph, neutral, massage it, third great. He never engaged the turbo once. I think he was afraid he was going to hurt it if he wound it out in the least...
--T.J., who has to try a column shifter one of these days...
