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Not learning how to drive a stick shift once you've been cast for TAR. Stupid stupid stupid. -- nm

Posted by Strongbad (aka Rambler14) Apr 4 '15, 15:37

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What's really fascinating is that this season's format laid the ground work for this to happen. Cause that was definitely a first. - Jovian Apr 4, 16:41
Yup. -- nm - David Apr 4, 15:54
Careful. I brought it up and got blasted. -- nm - Volnelk Apr 4, 15:39 22
- Nah, you're right. If you get cast on TAR and don't learn how to drive a stick, you're just naive. Or stupid. Or both. - Kim Pine Apr 4, 16:28 6
  - I started to learn to drive on a standard. My mother was so worried I'd strip the gears she paid for lessons. I haven't driven a standard since. - Covington Apr 4, 16:35 3
    - I learned in a '58 Holden (Australian Chevy) with a stick shift on the steering column. In the '70s I drove a manual Corvair. - Meg Apr 4, 16:42 2
      - I was in the market for a used car when I was 20 or so, found a good deal on a VW, bought it and then had my ex teach me how to drive it. - kelly Apr 4, 16:49 1
        
        I bet you *really* regret not keeping it. - Dignan Apr 4, 17:49
  - Mmhmm -- nm - kelly Apr 4, 16:34
  - ^5 -- nm - Volnelk Apr 4, 16:30
- You didn't get blasted, you asked the wrong question. And (spoiler) - tobor.2 Apr 4, 15:42 2
  - And... - tobor.2 Apr 4, 15:56 1
    - Ok. -- nm - Volnelk Apr 4, 15:59
- That's as bad as being cast on Survivor and not knowing how to swim. -- nm - Strongbad Apr 4, 15:40 11
  - or start a fire -- nm - Beaker Apr 4, 15:55
  - That's what I said! :-) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 4, 15:41 9
    - For something like AR, even if you knew how to drive manual, it would be well worth the effort to practice on a right hand steer vehicle - JD Apr 4, 15:45 8
      - Where are you going to do that? - tobor.2 Apr 4, 15:53 7
        
        places like the Vegas race track where you can rent cars there to drive on the track -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 4, 16:43 1
        
        or contact a vintage Jaguar or Rolls Royce club -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 4, 16:44
        
        Around here (So-Cal) there's more than a few grey market tuner cars - JD Apr 4, 15:58 4
        
        They don't usually make them drive in India. - tobor.2 Apr 4, 16:01 3
        
        And they drive on the other sidd of the street in those places, not just the other side of the car. - tobor.2 Apr 4, 16:04 1
        
        Well, yeah. That's the more fundamental change and thus the change in the steering wheel location -- nm - JD Apr 4, 16:11
        
        *nod*. Would be a special type of test to have them drive in India....or China -- nm - JD Apr 4, 16:04

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