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Driving Fun
Should have had my Practical Driving test today- it would have been my 3rd this year, failed the other 2 for silly things that I usually don't do grrr. Got a phonecall off my driving instructor whose car I was going to be using for the test saying that one of the wing mirrors was hanging off so I've had to cancel Next… -
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Thanks Tins Ooooh nice car Does Harl need to sit in the back in order to fit in without folding over himself? There's nowt difficult about a manual gearbox, just gotta love and caress the clutch.... plus you can't wheelspin in an automatic or anything else remotely mental.... no fun! Good luck Harl on getting your license… -
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An automatic transmissions shifts inefficiently. Manual, you are responding to the situation at hand. I drive a stick Volswagen, and my previous three cars had sticks, I leaned to drive a stick first before an automatic Scott -
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Manual transmissions are EASY to learn. Heck, I learned on a / my corvette, and those things have what most people consider the most punishing clutches / shifting of any car on the road (course, I think it shifts wonderfully... especially at speed ) -
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Luckily I haven't lost my fee this time around and there might just be a chance the test will be rescheduled for Friday. You mean, they take your money, cancel the test and keep the money? WTF? not to mention in real countries you can do your tests with manual only. Here in Germany you can get an automatic-only license if… -
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Damn Chunkey. The fates seem to conspiring against you. -
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Damn, they are just toying with you now -
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Good luck, Chunk! Harl's getting his next month. It would be this month but he's crunching so has no time to practise. We bought him a used car , it's so cutey... I was just completely unable to teach him how to drive my car (manual), so we had to get an automatic. -
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I didn't get my learner's permit 'til I was 17, then didn't bother with the license until damn near 19. I just didn't care, at all. I even failed the actual road test twice. Driving was always such a bore ... A year or so after I moved to NC, my boss found out I was driving on an expired license (from Wyoming; two jobs… -
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did mine in 96, no theory back then either. I got banned from my driving school and had to steal my stepdads car to learn. needless to say, I was an excelent motorist. These days I don't trust myself, too many computer games
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