She's finally done it!

[link5186]

Well, folks, it's official. My wife has finally mastered the lost art of driving with a 5 speed. After much practice and a lot of broken traction, she's figured out how to smoothly operate a clutch. Now if I could keep her out of my driver's seat. Looks like I had better get another festy because she's falling in love with driving mine. For all you guys trying to teach another: she said it finally clicked when I had her start the thing going backwards with just the clutch, no throttle, without killing it.

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[shadetree]

Good news , and good reasoning to buy another . haha

[iceracerdude]

So this doesn't apply to her anymore...tell her congrats

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[91mcnasty]

Awesome, good job!!!! Brit is pretty good now too but only with the BP cars. She doesn't understand with less power you have to slip it a little more!!!

[lulu]

It's definitely time for my own festy now! Thanks guys!

[rockin86ranger]

thats how i learned to drive a stick, taught myself to drive my ranger (with less power than a festiva) without giving it any gas. I actually drove it one footed for a while just to see peoples reactions.

[FestYboy]

i guess the ras she got at the winter meet got her motivated, that and the promise of better mpg.

[Stivadiva]

Congrats! It will be nothing but fun from now on. It will become second nature to you in no time. I wouldn't own anything but a stick shift. Dale, she definitely needs her own Festy now!

[kartracer46]

congrats lulu, now you can use panther for an aspire swap on your new festiva!

[DriverOne]

Congrats to your wife, Link! She no longer has to look like this anymore: