Bassists Who Drive Manual Club! - Page 24

ThirtyOver · #**461** 02-03-2013, 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by bassist4dalord

Get this- The mindset here is that driving students should learn on automatic so that they "can focus on rules of the road and operating a vehicle". Apparently, to some, it's better to learn to drive in an automatic car because there's less to think about.

I wish I could convince Americans that manual forces you to pay more attention to the car. Sigh..

I wish all these jack wads with their heads up their "well you know" who think they are somehow entitled to spit on americans because of lame self deluded idiocies would shove a tailpipe in their blowhole and breathe. There are plenty of people who drive manuals in this country so your ranting is just stupid. Manual or automatic has nothing to do with paying attention. Anybody willing to pull their head out long enough to think about it knows that whatever you are driving the operation of it becomes second nature after awhile. So you are no more alert in a manual than an automatic unless you willingly make yourself alert. Dont like it here...leave, or dont visit. Who cares, your insane lack of info and self righteous ramblings are clogging up the internet.....and this forum isnt a place for your stupidity. Answer the thread or dont, take your bull!!!T elsewhere.

Mr. Sound · #**462** 02-03-2013, 03:42 PM

96 Ford festiva.....Several years ago, carried
2 x 115 JBL Boxes
1x 15 Alto Sub
powered mixer
4RU case with 1000W power amp
4Rucase with effects
Bass Amp
Bass
Stands 2xspeaker 2x mic
Leads, milk crate, trolly,
Just enough room for the driver!!

BassGen · #**463** 02-03-2013, 06:53 PM

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Originally Posted by ThirtyOver

I wish all these jack wads with their heads up their "well you know" who think they are somehow entitled to spit on americans because of lame self deluded idiocies would shove a tailpipe in their blowhole and breathe. There are plenty of people who drive manuals in this country so your ranting is just stupid. Manual or automatic has nothing to do with paying attention. Anybody willing to pull their head out long enough to think about it knows that whatever you are driving the operation of it becomes second nature after awhile. So you are no more alert in a manual than an automatic unless you willingly make yourself alert. Dont like it here...leave, or dont visit. Who cares, your insane lack of info and self righteous ramblings are clogging up the internet.....and this forum isnt a place for your stupidity. Answer the thread or dont, take your bull!!!T elsewhere.

Dude, I think you need to renew the Valium prescription. A bit over the top perhaps?

ThirtyOver · #**464** 02-03-2013, 07:58 PM

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Originally Posted by BassGen

Dude, I think you need to renew the Valium prescription. A bit over the top perhaps?

Sorry....kids were fighting. Clicked on to check the thread and seen a posting that struck me a bit wrong.

Then happened to look and see it was from awhile ago...so in all I was just swinging at a fence.

neuralsnafu · #**465** 02-03-2013, 08:21 PM

97 M3 5 speed here... not may daily, but i drive it when i can!

Mykk · #**466** 02-03-2013, 08:37 PM

I'm already #140 in this club for my 5spd manual Saab. I completely forgot my hot rod project has a manual valvebody trans in it, so I have to shift through the gears with my ratchet shifter

Driving/shifting my project:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z9NY8QvlkY

fdeck · #**467** 02-03-2013, 08:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Aasmund

I don't have my own car as I'm only 20, but when I'm home, i drive my familys Volvo V50 (2007).

Lazy americans.. In Norway everyone drive manual. I have in fact never tried driving a automatic car. And the fact that you guys learn to drive in the US is with automatic transmission sounds kinda dangerous to me.

It only gets worse. Some of us lazy Americans have cars with automatic choke, idle, spark advance, and electric starters.

And that's not even talking about our houses. My phone cranks itself, somehow, and works when it's not plugged in.

The Victrola has no crank at all, and the records never sound scratchy. The furnace has a thingy that turns it on and off automatically to keep the temperature constant.

Mykk · #**468** 02-03-2013, 09:13 PM

In Norway everyone drives a manual because they are cheaper

fdeck · #**469** 02-03-2013, 09:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Mykk

In Norway everyone drives a manual because they are cheaper

That's valid. And if there's no demand for automatic, then there would be no point in selling them there. My family has a minivan and a subcompact. Predictably, the minivan has an automatic and the subcompact has a stick. I prefer automatic, but chose manual for the subcompact because it was $600 cheaper. However, having owned both kinds of cars, my experience is that the stick doesn't make me a better driver. I'm a great driver.

BassGen · #**470** 02-03-2013, 10:33 PM

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Originally Posted by ThirtyOver

Sorry....kids were fighting. Clicked on to check the thread and seen a posting that struck me a bit wrong.

Then happened to look and see it was from awhile ago...so in all I was just swinging at a fence.

Fair enough. Thanks for owning up!

Pilgrim · #**471** 02-03-2013, 10:42 PM

My fun car is a 1983 280ZX Turbo, and of course it's a 5-speed. I can't imagine owning a car like that with an automatic. It's my fourth Datsun (not Nisan) Z-car, and I have owned it since 1990.

My wife prefers a stick, but just bought a lovely 2009 BMW 328iX coupe with an automatic which has a sport mode in Drive and has thumb-paddles on the steering wheel. It gives an excellent launch in sport mode and the paddles give instant access to gears. Not a stick, but the closest thing I've ever driven. (She would have preferred the manual, but this car was too good to pass up.)

zachoff · #**472** 02-03-2013, 10:53 PM

Rad! Love those old Datsun Zs... Almost as much as my '02s

. Old cars are fun, man. Especially when regular guys can work on them without much trouble.

Mykk · #**473** 02-03-2013, 11:14 PM

Sync those SU's. Been there a couple times.

eb3mike · #**474** 02-04-2013, 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Pilgrim

My fun car is a 1983 280ZX Turbo, and of course it's a 5-speed. I can't imagine owning a car like that with an automatic. It's my fourth Datsun (not Nisan) Z-car, and I have owned it since 1990.

My wife prefers a stick, but just bought a lovely 2009 BMW 328iX coupe with an automatic which has a sport mode in Drive and has thumb-paddles on the steering wheel. It gives an excellent launch in sport mode and the paddles give instant access to gears. Not a stick, but the closest thing I've ever driven. (She would have preferred the manual, but this car was too good to pass up.)

Nice. I had a 69 Roadster ( Fair Lady) for about 10 years I sold it to paint the SL.

**Stumbo** · #**475** 02-04-2013, 12:19 PM

6 speed 2004 Z06 Commemorative Edition

Mykk · #**476** 02-04-2013, 02:04 PM

Stumbo, Nice ride!

Have you done any performance upgrades?
I custom write/flash car computers with performance tuning if your interested.

http://custompcmtuning.wix.com/pcmtuning

Drunk Heffalump · #**477** 02-04-2013, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by BassGen

Well really what I want to know is what is the 0-60 MPH time and what is the 1/4 mile. DH is close enough we could hook up for a drag race. Unless he's got a really hot package in that 'Stang I think I can take him. He'll have to settle for being able to play circles around me as a bassist.

Have you been peeking? How'd you know about my hotpa.... Oh....Wait.... You mean the car. Right the car. Yes well for a second there I was flattered and just a little scared.
As for playing circles that's why I have a wireless, the only way I'd achieve circles is by physically walking them....

BassGen · #**478** 02-04-2013, 06:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Pilgrim

My wife prefers a stick, )

Sorry for your luck man!

thedudebrah · #**479** 02-05-2013, 05:54 PM

I'll throw my hat in the ring. Snapped this pic at work. On the left, the 89 Kenworth water truck I was driving that night. 10 speed Eaton-Fuller. My car in the middle, 05 BMW m3 6 speed that I detest. On the right, my usual work truck. 86 Mack with a 5 speed and a low range compound box (2 gear levers).

eli · #**480** 02-06-2013, 08:01 AM

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Originally Posted by thedudebrah

I'll throw my hat in the ring. Snapped this pic at work. On the left, the 89 Kenworth water truck I was driving that night. 10 speed Eaton-Fuller. My car in the middle, 05 BMW m3 6 speed that I detest. On the right, my usual work truck. 86 Mack with a 5 speed and a low range compound box (2 gear levers).

I've never driven one, though I have passengered a few times... but "detest" is not a word i usually hear in the same sentence with BMW! What's wrong with it?