Grandchildren & Musclecars

[396 SS/RS]

Originally Posted by 1967 4K

My oldest grandson will get his license next summer. He’s ask me to teach him to drive a stick shift , the only stick shift I have is the 4K car. I’m going to teach him how to drive it!
Wish me luck.

My son is and always has been pro-stick. I've had both and still do, but nowadays I mostly prefer the automatic.

I bought my son a 5 speed manual '91 RS for his first car. At the time we lived at a lake and there was a boat landing a couple of streets up from us. The parking lot was a fairly good sized lot with a fairly decent gradual slope leading down to the boat ramps. First I had him start at the upper part of the lot headed downhill for him get the feel for the clutch and learn the engagement of it. It only took him several times as the downward slope worked in his favor. Then I had him starting on the lower part of the lot working on the uphill slope. It was almost natural for him as he had it mastered in probably less than 15 minutes. Doing it this way was much easier on the clutch and other components...