Can you drive a car with

[brahamfireman]

2 hours ago, acem said:

A manual transmission?

Manual choke?

Three on the tree?

These skills are passing away like cursive writing.

 

Car,  I can drive a grain truck with manual choke and a 5x3 trans.

[midnightman]

All of the above. Have driven everything from 3 on the tree to 13spd. Started driving on my own on the farm when I was probably 9. My training was “I’m taking the tractor home. You can take the truck. Don’t wreck anything”

[vtfireman85]

Yes. 

[766 Man]

46 minutes ago, lotsaIHCs said:

Yup to all. Dad just asked me a few weeks ago where I was going to store the 64 Chevy C10 my grandpa bought in 68. Dad decided he probably isn't going to drive it anymore and it will be passed to me. It hasn't been driven for a couple of years now. I keep meaning to stop and take it for a drive some day but never remember to take the time. It has a strange combination of a 292 engine with a light duty 3 on the tree and highway gears. It'll run down the highway at 85 all day. It was restored in about 1990 and probably doesn't have 3,000 miles on it since then.

I learned to drive around the farm long before I was old enough for a license in a 1961 Rambler station wagon with a 3 on the tree.

  I hope with winter coming on that the C10 has a nice warm indoor space waiting for it.

[IHC_1470]

How about 5 on the tree? CO1600 International. Three pedal foot shift car (Model T Ford for those who do not know). The only thing on this place with an auto is a 1976 Dodge motorhome. There are only two with the dimmer on the steering column. The Model T probably the only thing with manual choke but I can also adjust the mixture on the dash plus set timing advance. 

[TRAVELETTE]

Done all that stuff, plus I know the "secret " to starting a Buick from the 40's and 50's. I also know how to properly operate a 3 speed with a overdrive. I often use the "Hill Holder" on my Studebaker Avanti. 

 

[1256pickett]

1 hour ago, brahamfireman said:

Car,  I can drive a grain truck with manual choke and a 5x3 trans.

There’s another one for the list. Two sticks. 

[1256pickett]

Honestly I sometimes fight with a manual choke. But the others I’m good.

Had a neighbor whose 2 kids were same age as my brother and I. He made them take their driving test with a standard transmission. He said they would never be stuck somewhere where that was the only option. 

[Wes806]

Yes to all the above. 

[1256pickett]

26 minutes ago, IHC_1470 said:

How about 5 on the tree? CO1600 International. Three pedal foot shift car (Model T Ford for those who do not know). The only thing on this place with an auto is a 1976 Dodge motorhome. There are only two with the dimmer on the steering column. The Model T probably the only thing with manual choke but I can also adjust the mixture on the dash plus set timing advance. 

One of my dad’s corn trucks when I was growing up was a 1965 co1800 with a 345, 5 on the tree and 2 speed rear. One of the gears (I think 5th?) had to slam it into the dash. And I think you had to wiggle it up and down a couple times forcefully to get reverse. 

[John Rowehl]

3 hours ago, acem said:

A manual transmission?

Manual choke?

Three on the tree?

These skills are passing away like cursive writing.

 

I can do the first three.

I can do cursive writing but it’s so poor hardly anyone can read it. I can dial a rotary phone, even if it were in a phone booth, if you could find one.

I can even do +,-,x and / without a calculator.🙂

 

[acem]

23 minutes ago, 1256pickett said:

There’s another one for the list. Two sticks. 

Before I met my wife, she had a dodge colt (or was it a Plymouth arrow?) With a two stick manual transmission.  

[yellowrosefarm]

3 hours ago, TroyDairy said:

 

 

Iirc a Citroen has 4 on the tree.  French...just have to be odd.

My first car was a 72  Citroen DS21 Pallas with that manual trans that I bought in 78.  After that also had a 76 F150 with a 3 on the tree.  Had manuals in IH light line, MG's, Mazda, Toyota, Isuzu. Currently have 88 Nissan pickup, 08 Chevy Aveo5, 89 Toyota Camry wagon and 88 S1600 IH with manual trans.  I just saw on GovDeals, a 2003 2500HD, 6.0, long bed extra cab, 4x4 with a 5 speed manual trans and 127K miles sell for $9000. So, I would say they are still popular.

[Gearclash]

1 hour ago, acem said:

Before I met my wife, she had a dodge colt (or was it a Plymouth arrow?) With a two stick manual transmission.  

High school gearhead classmate friend of mine had one of those for a time. 

[MacAR]

Yes, to all of the above, and I'm not 40 yet. I can also handle a split-axle bob truck; not that uncommon but not an everyday thing either these days. Learned to drive in Dad's 47 International 3/4 ton farm truck at the tender age of 11; by 14 I was in the Loadstar hauling hay and at 15 was following Dad's Pete with an F350 and gooseneck stock trailer to the sale barns in N. Arkansas and S. Missouri. 

[Sledgehammer]

Yes to all and I'm early 40's. Can also drive a 10spd, forge weld, and use a rotary phone. 
 

Haven't mastered this one quite yet....

[lotsaIHCs]

3 hours ago, 766 Man said:

  I hope with winter coming on that the C10 has a nice warm indoor space waiting for it.

It will be staying in my parent's garage for now. They have the room. It isn't always heated but well insulated so it never gets terribly cold in there. It is in the stall it's backed up to in the picture.

[jd560]

Wow - memories....

I remember all of the above and then some.  Guess I'll somewhat date myself.

In addition to the above, how about:

Starter button under the clutch pedal (May have been a Nash or Studebaker?)

Crank telephone and switchboard operators (I still have my Grandmothers Crank Phone.)

Party telephone lines

No indoor plumbing

Water supply was an outdoor cistern.  Water custom delivered by truck from town supply to cistern.  Hand pump in the basement to pump from said cistern.  Carried in a 3 gallon bucket upstairs for everyday uses.

No water heater.  Hot water was obtained by heating on the stove.

Propane refrigerator.

Icebox.  Cooling was accomplished with a big block of ice.

The Citroen shifter I remember was a push, pull, twist lever in the middle of the dash.

Drivers training in a 3 on the tree.  I taught both of our girls to drive in a floor shift 4 speed pick-up. I figured that if they could drive that, an automatic would be just that -- automatic.

I lived all of this...

[Chester5732]

8 hours ago, 1256pickett said:

There’s another one for the list. Two sticks. 

Yup. I learned to drive a semi in a Mack 5 speed with a 2 speed auxiliary.  The guy that owned it couldn’t even drive it.  

[Chester5732]

9 hours ago, lotsaIHCs said:

Yup to all. Dad just asked me a few weeks ago where I was going to store the 64 Chevy C10 my grandpa bought in 68. Dad decided he probably isn't going to drive it anymore and it will be passed to me. It hasn't been driven for a couple of years now. I keep meaning to stop and take it for a drive some day but never remember to take the time. It has a strange combination of a 292 engine with a light duty 3 on the tree and highway gears. It'll run down the highway at 85 all day. It was restored in about 1990 and probably doesn't have 3,000 miles on it since then.

I learned to drive around the farm long before I was old enough for a license in a 1961 Rambler station wagon with a 3 on the tree.

Before it’s too late, load your dad up in that thing and go for a ride.  Some day don’t say “I should have”. 

[Takn4aFool]

ever drive a old Toyota with drivers side on the right and have a 4 speed manual shift on the tree.....well i did one night when i was in the Air Force in Thailand, the taxi driver was taking a nap so i jumped in and took of with the taxi, he was a little upset but it was good

[int 504]

12 hours ago, whweldit said:

Had a high school friend that bought a foreign car of some make that had 4 on the tree.  Reverse was go to 1st and either push shifter in or pull out and you were in reverse.  

Saab

[New Englander]

Yes.

When I owned the Avionics Shop my partner found a nice International Harvester Metro Mite. It provided a nice canvas to have the Logo and name of our shop: Avionics Electronics, as well as the phone number. It never left the airport ramp and farthest it ever drove was to the MIT Lincoln Lab or Raytheon flight facilities - about two miles across the field.

The Mite had a British engine and four on the column. It was the small work van of the day. If you ever saw the movie West Side Story you can see a whole fleet of Metro vans in the garage scene. They're bigger, not Metro Mites but look the same.

I never drove anything with an automatic transmission until my father got a '56 Lincoln Capri which had a GM four speed Hydramatic. 

Yes party line rotary phone.

My C60 and C70 still have dimmer switch on the floor. 5+2 transmissions.

Mack Twin stick, nicer Road Ranger 8 and 13 speed. Various 5+2 shift patterns with strange backwards things 3 low to 4 low to 3 high to 4 high, etc.

'40 Chevy with floor mounted starter. My Two-Cylinder has a foot starter.

RH drive cars on the left side of the road all over the world. The most aggravating thing is unlike British cars Japanese RH drive directional signal switch is on the right, so I've run the wipers many times attempting to signal. 

Palmer Method cursive. It's now mostly anti-Millennial code.

Yes, Manual is Millennial anti -theft. My kids were both taught on stick, son said he could leave the keys in his Jeep at school with no worries. Daughter on a recent trip to Italy with her boyfriend had to drive the rental as he couldn't.

Edited Saturday at 12:34 PM by New Englander
West Side Story garage scene added

[39farmalla]

I have got a 86 Dodge D-150 Custom 

It is an auto, but floor dimmer switch(😃)  And it has a fuel make it happener 

It also has the triangle windows that unlock and flip around

Used to have a old Dodge plow truck, Cummins, 5 speed, 4 wheel drive 

For a 11 year old plowing snow for the first time, it felt like trying to conduct a circus 

Sam

[John Rowehl]

Our L-180 had a five speed main transmission and a three speed auxiliary.

Low speed on the auxiliary was reserved for the field but I did learn to shift between 2&3 on the road.