Butt goes in the left hand, near the vent window. Steering is feather light so you only need two fingers to steer, leaving the others free to hold the butt.
Even more of a challenge if you were smoking a butt while driving this type of car
Submitted 1 day ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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skip0110@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
NochMehrG@feddit.org 23 hours ago
A trained chainsmoker can shift with the butt hand just fine!
Mickey7@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I remember and miss the small vent window
kalpol@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
I’ve still got one and it is as great as you remember
hansolo@lemmy.today 16 hours ago
This is the only true right answer.
jobbies@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
[deleted]surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Being a distracted driver isn’t a flex
THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Sure, but that 68 horsepower 3 cylinder won’t really get you in danger too quickly.
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I was with you until you said send a text, that shit kills people all the time
xylol@leminal.space 21 hours ago
Damn more gears on the column just seems like a bad design
hansolo@lemmy.today 16 hours ago
“Smoking a butt”? Mickey7, Cmon, bro.
Driving a manual car of any kind and smoking isn’t hard at all. Generations of people managed it just fine.
I did it for years. Shit, I once ate an entire cheeseburger while driving with my knees in a manual car. That was LHD, it was a shwarma driving manual RHD.
Fun Fact: Did you know you can hold a cigarette in between your lips for up to however long it takes to smoke the whole cigarette?
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I do not miss those.
spicytuna62@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Neither do I. I’m too young to have experienced three on the tree. But I do miss column shift automatic transmissions.
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
My Dad had an old Fargo truck with it and I had a van for a short stint with one. I swear those linkages must have been made out of rubber bands for how sloppy it was, but it got the job done I guess.
noxypaws@pawb.social 14 hours ago
I’ve driven countless manual cars, am adapted to driving manual from the tight seat, hell I drove a manual semi once
but I had no idea there used to be manual shifters in steering columns! that’s crazy and might actually throw me off
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I’d have to practice in a big parking lot or something, trying to ride a motorcycle with shifter on the right makes my brain short out
shalafi@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Stripped my clutch twice on that damned system. Then dad found a magazine article titled, “Why you shouldn’t buy your left-handed son a column shifting truck.” tl;dr: They’ll strip the clutch.
Tabooki2@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
3 on the tree
Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
PUT IT IN H!
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
So let me get this right, you’ve got one hand on your stick, the other on a pretty smoking butt
AbidingOhmsLaw@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
We used to call that 3-on-the-tree.
ptu@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
I always thought four-on-the-floor was an odd name for the music style, but maybe it was reused from this
DiploRaucous@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
4th note is the bass drum, which is on the floor.
AbidingOhmsLaw@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I’ve heard the term for late 60s early 70s music beats, about the same time as I know it was used for transmissions so who knows what came first.