Can we please stop hotlinking pics?

Plus this, I am internally conflicted.

I learned on one like this:

at about age 12. I'd already been riding motorcycles for 4 years, so I had a good grasp of the mechanics of it.

Had a lot of fun with one like this, (just a bit more "character":

What really taught me to love driving a stick:

Learned stick in one of these. Same colors and Starski and Hutch stripe.

I learned to drive stick in one of these, in this shade of baby poo brown:

rustyvw wrote:

I LOVE THIS THING !!!!!!

trying to revive the "i learned to drive stick in one of these" sub-thread:

my dad's '64 greenbrier was not nearly this nice, but i learned how to drive a manual trans in that thing when i was about 11 years old, so 1978-ish.

Loving the learned to drive stick sub-thread.

I learned in this:

And this:

My father had a "thing" for cheap, crap cars. Growing up as a kid though, my dad had a 260Z and a Fiat 124 Spider as family cars(no back seats) by the time I could drive he had garbage cars that sucked.

914Driver wrote: I LOVE THIS THING !!!!!!

I have seen one of those in person in Hillsboro Oregon at an RV dealer I think it was.

I learned to drive stick in what would be my first car; '68 Sprite, same color:

wbjones wrote: the car I learned to drive on ... the first AT I drove was HS drivers ed ... had been driving the Simca for ~ a yr by then ( 4 sp on the column )

My Dad had one of those in the early '60's; an unbecoming two-tone green.

I liked it, but he drove it like it was an American tank and it rebelled; he didn't like it.

friedgreencorrado wrote:

wbjones wrote:

ransom wrote:

wbjones wrote: strange .... I can see them ( on this forum) just fine .... and it's not just seeing them right after I post them it's the next day and having rebooted the computer ... like I said ... strange

Apparently Google is associating access to those particular image URLs with your machine, specifically where you'ure logged in to view mail. The whole thing about the hotlink thread is that they're not hosted on this forum, and we don't have permission to view those images, no matter what page the link's embedded in. Lien chaude de rigeur:

interesting ... even though I'm not logged in on GMail it still lets ME see them but not you ... I deleted the original post ... more ... "learn something new everyday" ... guess I could go to all the trouble to download them and then repost ... awwwwww really not worth all that ... thanks for the explanation obligatory hotlink:

Cool hotlink, but is that the car on which you learned to drive a manual? Replacement for the TR-4:

nope, this one is ( 2nd or third from the top on page 1430

wbjones wrote: the car I learned to drive on ... the first AT I drove was HS drivers ed ... had been driving the Simca for ~ a yr by then ( 4 sp on the column )

914Driver wrote: I LOVE THIS THING !!!!!!

that's cool, I don't think i've seen one of them before "

learned in one of these

Learned in one of these.

I learned to drive a stick in one of these (same color):

I believe it had IPD swaybars and bilsteins, but it also had 230,000 miles on it and no power. It also had 185s on the front and 165s on the rear, which my young self had a fair amount of fun with.

Stick:
Learned on a first year Ford EXP owned by my sister's boyfriend (now husband)

The EXP had a unforgiving clutch. I got better at it on my sister's first year, no option TC3.

First manual I bought was an '83 Rabbit.

I learned (on the street) in one of these, our high school Driver Ed car.

Learned in one of these, it also became my first car.

I learned stick from my sister's now ex in one like this, same shade of green.

Also learned in one like this, became my first car.

Hasbro wrote: Learned in one of these.

My brother's was the exact same blue but had the steelies. The water pump was bigger than the engine. It kept popping head gaskets, he wouldn't spring for the $35 it would cost to resurface the head to keep that from happening. IIRC the HG's were $8 apiece.

It once popped a HG on the way to Myrtle Beach and blew a hose off the heater core. He had a pair of maracas, stuck one in each hose and tightened the clamps down, then drove it the rest of the way.

ditchdigger wrote:

I don't understand how anyone can feel any emotional engagement - positive or negative - about a font.