From Pine View Farm

Shiftless 2

I’ve said for years that shifting gears should be part of Drivers’ Ed (not that anyone listened–now that I’ve got a blog, even more persons get the opportunity not to listen to me).

Little did I know that it was excluded as an anti-crime measure:

Police in this Lehigh Valley town (Fountain Hill, Pa.–ed.) say two men tried to rob and carjack a pizza-delivery driver but were defeated by the vehicle’s standard transmission.

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2 comments

  1. Karen

    April 5, 2010 at 2:09 pm

    I had to learn to drive a stick when I was 22. It was not a fun time. It got worse when Chris tried to help. Then he got that pickup that had the “3 on the tree”. Gears hanging up, truck didn’t go anywhere, I was stranded. That sucked, big time.

    Now I can drive anything I want. It would have been easier to learn to drive the standards when I was 15, instead of starting out in an automatic.

     
  2. Frank

    April 5, 2010 at 6:36 pm

    Our drivers ed. car had been donated to the school.  I learned on a 1955 Chevrolet with three-on-the-tree.

    Of course, knowing how to shift from 3rd to 4th (“road” gear) on a 1953 Farmall Super C three-point with an unsynchronized transmission helped.