Easiest way to learn stick

93EXCivic wrote:

friedgreencorrado wrote:

93EXCivic wrote: I taught my girlfriend and two other friends in my old Civic. The two guys had way more problems. Make sure you have them disengage the parking brake first though and try to teach them on a car without a tach.

EXCiv,*without* a tach? Showing my girl the two different displays about speed vs. RPM is how I got her to understand there was a difference between them in the first place (she considered sound a distraction, not a help). Not disrespecting your idea, I'm just curious about it.

I think that with a tach people look at the tach too much when first learning stick rather then feeling it thru the pedals.

Oh, OK. I get it now!

I learned on an 8N Ford tractor. Getting in a real car with a non reversed shift pattern caused a little confusion at first.