Anybody here drive stick?

[Farid]

Farid -

I used to drive a little red Miata - we bought one of the first to come to this country back in 1989. I just *loved* that car.
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I still have my 5-sp Miata. I'm shopping for a 6-sp BMW Conv., then I'll get raid of my Infiniti I30.

I could keep the I30 and get another 2006 Miata, but I can not get myself to sell my 1990 Miata. So I'll continue to look around for a Bemmer.used.

You might be interested in this forum.... Miata.net
http://forum.miata.net/vb/forumdisplay.php?f=14

Here is some work I did last summer on my Miata (or as my Jessica calls it, Miniata):
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2331510

I thought you might be interested.

So, did you start driving? How is it handling a 5-sp after the Op?

 

[baradonai]

a few weeks if memory serves...

a few weeks if memory serves...

Seems like it was only a few weeks before I was back in the seat of my '96 miata.

Seems to be a lot of Miata folks here at vr.com

 

[Susan BAV]

I learned to drive on a stick shift. My dad brought a little Mustang II home to surprise me with it a couple of months before I turned 16. I was in the clouds for days. So happy. But I had no idea then about the concept of shifting to higher gears as you drove faster. My dad had me drive around and around on the race track of the local fair grounds for practice. With my mother in the back seat, it was a little traumatic... He'd yell, "Shift!" And I told him, "I did!" He'd yell, "Shift again!" Sometimes I went back to the earlier gear... My mother added her shrieks. I've since read that BOTH parents should NEVER be in the car with their learning child. I believe it...

Two weeks post-op, we had an awful wildfire near our home and had to evacuate all of the vehicles. There are a lot of them. When we returned (to our happily still standing home) I drove our automatic SUV and it was not pleasant.

My surgeon didn't want me to drive until eight weeks post-op and except that one instance, I obeyed his instructions. He was mostly worried about an airbag flying out and wrecking all of his hard work... I appreciate his concern. Even more now.