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Never owned an automatic until I was 35.....and needed a kid hauler. The wife never learned.

First was a 56 bug.....non synchro 1st gear crash box. Learned the clutch slip. accelerator and ebrake on the hills in SmelLA. Never moved an inch.

On my driver's test, the DMV dude put me on a hill, some asshat sucked up behind me, not 1/4 inch slip back. Got 100%......
My oldest sister married & moved from ND to CA back in the 50's. She told me about this DMV test.
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