Just picked up my beetle! He is so adorable! The engine has been rebuilt and converted to a 12 volt system. Now I just need to figure out how to drive a stick.
First car!
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Yeah, we call a manual gear box a stick gear box. Or just "stick."Aircooledbenny wrote:WOW, nice bug! Love it the colour.
When you say stick, is that american terms for Gears?
Driving a Manual car is the one of the main joys of driving alone, I don't understand how people can drive automatics
And I love sticks too, but I bet if you drove in traffic for two hours a day, every day, you might understand those who drive autos.
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Yeah I am now actually doing really good with the manual driving! I really like it too especially how it when you go down hills, the car generally stays the same speed unlike an automatic which rolls (out of control careening off a cliff, but not really). I was able to drive it in traffic to the DMV today to get it registered. Its good fun.