ive been driving in my car.

MixedMyth · Post by **MixedMyth** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 1:57 pm

Hmm. 21 years old. I ought to go get a drivers license. Hmm.

Grabmygoblin · Post by **Grabmygoblin** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 2:40 pm

bah. hate driving. I'm moving down to nyc after I graduate.

Toxic · Post by **Toxic** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 4:09 pm

Congrats. You're years ahead of me. I'm going to be 18 in July and I've never even been behind the wheel of a car.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 4:40 pm

rkolter wrote:
YarpsDat wrote:I'm not even sure I've seen a car with automatic.
Are you serious? (and if you are, how the heck did that come to be?)

I've actually never seen an automatic. And I've seen only a couple of american cars at all. European cars are most popular here, japanese stand for being filthy rich, and american are hardly ever considered for bying.

If you ask me, euro shift is downright stupid, specially because every car has a different scheme of gears, so it's hard to change a car. On the other side, automatic has weaker performances (start, speeding up, all sustained because you can't controll gears). I suppose the best solution is that gearshift that just goes in line, front and back.

FYI I went to drive test twice five years ago. Failed, both times. No, I'm not anti-talent for driving, I have a good excuse, but it's a long story.

Christwriter · Post by **Christwriter** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 4:44 pm

Boy, I'm jelious.

I'm still struggling with driver's ed right now.

Well...Ok, not struggling. I've passed everything. I just have a few more hours of driving left...and my only two choices for practice are my mother's Standard (manual) and our automatic...van. The standard drives me up the wall and I can't get it out of the driveway. I CAN back up the van...but the dang thing is HUGE and due to broken blinds (don't ask...PLEASE) and no rear-view mirror, it's got a permanant blind spot the size of Nebraska.

I cannot wait until my car is legal.

CW

LAGtheNoggin · Post by **LAGtheNoggin** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 5:48 pm

The first things I learnt to do was drive at 3 mph and reverse park with a sticky clutch (I absoloutly hate sticky clutches with a long action, gimme' my easy sensitive motorbike clutch back ;___; ). Sadly those are the only two things I learnt to do as my mum totalled the car a week later. Joy!

At the moment I'm hedging my bets on a motorbike, true a learners' bike is more expensive than a learners' car these days but hey, they're far easier to get driving time on and I've got a 650cc Ural rusting in the garage begging for use. Mmmm, motorbikes.

K-Dawg · Post by **K-Dawg** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 6:17 pm

christwriter wrote:Boy, I'm jelious.

I'm still struggling with driver's ed right now.

Well...Ok, not struggling. I've passed everything. I just have a few more hours of driving left...and my only two choices for practice are my mother's Standard (manual) and our automatic...van. The standard drives me up the wall and I can't get it out of the driveway. I CAN back up the van...but the dang thing is HUGE and due to broken blinds (don't ask...PLEASE) and no rear-view mirror, it's got a permanant blind spot the size of Nebraska.

I cannot wait until my car is legal.

CW

Wow I hope you don't put that on the road. Back in the day (about 4 years ago) we used to have an 85 Honda Accord; it was the most ghetto piece of junk I've ever had the pleasure of driving. No right mirror, no A/C, huge crack across the windshield, a hole almost the size of my foot on the driver's side that we covered with cardboard, would never start in the rain, and anything past 100kmph the car would start to shake violently.

TheGoobla · Post by **TheGoobla** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 6:20 pm

Cars are major sources of pollution and only serve to nurture laziness. Biking would be a far healthier and better means of transportation.

* doesn't have a car *

Christwriter · Post by **Christwriter** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 6:39 pm

K-Dawg wrote:
christwriter wrote:Boy, I'm jelious.

I'm still struggling with driver's ed right now.

Well...Ok, not struggling. I've passed everything. I just have a few more hours of driving left...and my only two choices for practice are my mother's Standard (manual) and our automatic...van. The standard drives me up the wall and I can't get it out of the driveway. I CAN back up the van...but the dang thing is HUGE and due to broken blinds (don't ask...PLEASE) and no rear-view mirror, it's got a permanant blind spot the size of Nebraska.

I cannot wait until my car is legal.

CW
Wow I hope you don't put that on the road. Back in the day (about 4 years ago) we used to have an 85 Honda Accord; it was the most ghetto piece of junk I've ever had the pleasure of driving. No right mirror, no A/C, huge crack across the windshield, a hole almost the size of my foot on the driver's side that we covered with cardboard, would never start in the rain, and anything past 100kmph the car would start to shake violently.

My baby is a '72 International Scout, Automatic, cherry red with a CD player and no back seat. Nice, big, open "cargo space"

beach lounge

All that's keeping it off the road are the tags and its first check-up.

I made every male on the highway jelious...I had to keep the thing on the lot until the car was paid off and they kept asking about it...then got mad when they learned it was a graduation present for a teenage girl.

Edit: every time I get in the (explenative) van, I cringe. AND I can't understand how my father drives the thing.

Especially not with the dusting of garbage he "forgets" to clean out every time he uses it.

CW

Nyke · Post by **Nyke** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 6:57 pm

TheGoobla wrote:Cars are major sources of pollution and only serve to nurture laziness. Biking would be a far healthier and better means of transportation.

* doesn't have a car *

I know what you mean

*has a truck w/ a dead battery*

Brockway · Post by **Brockway** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 8:37 pm

LAGtheNoggin wrote:The first things I learnt to do was drive at 3 mph and reverse park with a sticky clutch (I absoloutly hate sticky clutches with a long action, gimme' my easy sensitive motorbike clutch back ;___; ). Sadly those are the only two things I learnt to do as my mum totalled the car a week later. Joy!

At the moment I'm hedging my bets on a motorbike, true a learners' bike is more expensive than a learners' car these days but hey, they're far easier to get driving time on and I've got a 650cc Ural rusting in the garage begging for use. Mmmm, motorbikes.

Yeah! Go motorcycles! I miss my gpz500...

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 9:38 pm

TheGoobla wrote:Cars are major sources of pollution and only serve to nurture laziness. Biking would be a far healthier and better means of transportation.

* doesn't have a car *

I live 28 miles from work. In Pennsylvania. Where it's winter.

*doesn't use his bike*

Superlance · Post by **Superlance** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 10:38 pm

mcDuffies wrote:
rkolter wrote:
YarpsDat wrote:I'm not even sure I've seen a car with automatic.
Are you serious? (and if you are, how the heck did that come to be?)
European cars are most popular here, japanese stand for being filthy rich, and american are hardly ever considered for bying.

What? Japanese cars are what you get when you don't have any money over here, because (with the exception of something like a Honda S2000) Japanese cars are very cheap.
We don't really have a lot of American cars here in the U.S.; we Americans drive SUV's.
SUV's and trucks rock.
What else could we fit all our sports equipment, groceries, pets, motocross, and paintball equipment in?
What else could you run a Honda Accord off the road with?
Though one of our SUV's is a English vehicle.
A Land Rover Discovery (Disco!

). Red. Two sunroofs. Leather. V8, and full-time 4 wheel drive.
Though it leaks oil everywhere (must be a British car thing, leaking), it is still the Best 4x4xFar!

Ah, the (modern) American dream.
Football, pizza and SUV's.