Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire How many of you old farts still drive a standard ?

or a rotary phone...

I think I'm not so old at 68 but still drive a manual. Mostly had F 250's and would still if I could get one with a manual trans, now drive a 6 sp. Tacoma...

Am I old???

49 and the only vehicle I personally own is my 2014 Toyota Tacoma regular cab, 4x4, 4 cylinder, 5 speed. 182,000 trouble free miles. I bought it after totaling my 2003 Tacoma hitting a deer. By chance 2014 was the last year for regular cab tacos.
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I'm 61.

Still driving my 2001 F250SD with 5-Speed manual, and manual hubs, manual windows, manual door locks, rubber floor, AM/FM radio, and no AC. Just a basic pickup.

97 4runner, 5 speed. 30 years old. Don't know if I qualify for this thread but what the heck

59 and my daily driver is a 98 BMW M3 3.2 liter 6 with a 5 speed standard.
225K on it
Have had a standard shift car of some variety all of my life.
Truck is a 01 F250 7.3 auto

In my sixties and drive a VW GLI with a six speed. Teenage sons are driving it too on private property.

There's always neutral if the light is really long, or one is stopped at a RR crossing or road work.

I still have the '01 Tacoma and love driving it. Except when I have to go to a real city. Little piss ant cities around here aren't a big issue, as I'm usually not there for long. Recent trip in the Taco to SoCal was a real pain in the ass though. Stopping and starting all the way from Adelanto south. It sucked.

Took a trip to the Big Town up the road yesterday, granted it was in the newer car with the auto trans. Had it been in the truck though, it would have been no problemo. 2 miles from our driveway to the first stop sign, right turn. 2 miles to the next stop at the main county rd, left turn. 12 miles to the State highway, left turn. Next stop 88 miles or so unless I stop to pee or for a bagel at the little coffee hut in one little burg.

If I lived in a city again (shiver here) I'd likely get another daily driver with an auto and leave the truck for hunting and fishing trips.

Oh, I'm older by far than some here and younger than the REAL BOOMERS. You can tell because I even listen to that rap crap sometimes.

I started out driving on a standard shift 56 years ago. I’ve owned both standard and auto over the years and really don’t have a preference between one or the other. Drove a standard shift Jeep Monday for a few hours. It was a 6 speed. Other than 6 th gear being a little hard to get in to a couple of times I didn’t see it as a problem. I’m 71 and would buy a standard tomorrow if the vehicle I liked had one. A standard shift doesn’t slow my wife down one little bit either.

Yup. My dedicated H&F truck. I am the original owner. 2004 Tacoma Xtra Cab 4x4 TRD Offroad SR5. About 78 K on the odometer. Not even broke in yet. Also 1987 SR5 Four Runner& 1994 4x4 Taco.

Yes, numerous, including my everyday pickup.

5 vehicles...4 are manual, 1 auto (only because Tundra dropped manual). I'm 76 yrs old. I don't do manual trans for fun..50 yrs in the heavy equip repair I know starters, solenoids, relays and batteries fail all too frequently. I park and shut it off where I can roll start it, when I am really out in the ginsengs in Nevada or eastern Oregon where it's easily 50 or 60 miles to cell service and if you are lucky maybe a rancher will go by every third day.

1995 Jeep Wrangler 4.0 Straight 6, Just had the Engine Rebuilt and had a real transmission put in about 4 or 5 years ago
2015 Harley

Honda Quad do not remember the year
and 61

My 22 year old son just purchased a 2018 Ford Focus ST with a 6 speed manual....it's a beast!

I have no desire or need whatsoever for a manual shift transmission. There is a reason they are fading into obsolescence.

It’s been a long time.
Nowadays you can think about it as built anti-theft device.

92 Wrangler YJ with a 5 speed.

Got my tractor stuck a couple of weeks ago on the deer lease and called a younger member to bring my Jeep. A few minutes later he called back saying he didn’t know how to drive it.

Got one of the old pharts on the phone and he came and pulled me out. I guess I can start leaving the key in it now.

Pics?

Do your bicycles come with an auto shift system???

flintlocke mentioned a good reason, especially when one lives Out West.

My Tacoma has crank windows, and manual door locks for the same reasons. If it had come with a distributor with points in it, it would be about perfect.

I'm mid 50's, last stick I bought was a beater 05' Honda Accord 5 speed a few years ago. My Gen Z son owns and drives it now.

My little gay outback is a 5 speed , manual. It's a cool car, just don't want to get filmed driving it!