Have you ever driven a 16 speed? Looks complicated in the video.

I had a pete with a 6x4 in it I used to ask if anyone knew how to drive this new fangled 10 speed LOL . The most fun was shifting it 3 times in reverse now that got some looks there !!!

I loved it on the road but it sucked in L.A. traffic it always seemed like I would get fourth and fourth and then we would stop and start all over again . I like the two stick better than the air shift and I will stop driving before i ever drive an automatic ! If I want an automatic I will drive my pickup .

I wouldn't let my kids get their drivers license until they learned to drive a stick first . I told them you don't have to own a stick but there is no reason not to know how to drive one . Its the same way with changing a flat tire . I amazed at how many people don't know how to change a tire nowadays !

 

thats whats wrong with trucking today they took two sticks of the trucks so just about anyone can drive one.

 

I grew up around an old Pete that had a V-8 cat with a 13speed and a four speed aux, drove several 5x4 and 6x4 although I never learned to hook my arm thru the wheel and shift them at same time I'm a one at a time guy. Uncle Bill's old Pete you just put the little stick in go he called it, both boxes were overdrive I never seen it but I heard rumors it would really cover the country. My Pete just a one sticker but its a double over 13 up against the dash I wouldn't have it any other way.

 

Drove a Mack triplex pioneering logging roads. Never did use all those gears. 24 speeder.

 

I chose the 6x4 set up for pulling the mountains out west you have a gear for every occasion . I had a B model cat putting about 500 horses to the ground but the torque wasn't as much on the old motors as we have on the new ones now .

Shifting is easy on a set of boxes you put the main box in hear first then you shift the auxiliary box . So it goes like this main box 2nd aux box 2nd then you shift aux 3rd 4th and then you put main in 3 and drop aux into 2nd and then you go 3rd 4th and then main goes to 4th and aux drops back to 2nd then 3rd 4th and so on until you have both sticks against the dash and she is humming along at about 90 plus just eating up that west Texas blacktop !!!

At least thats the way I remember it going some 25 or 6 years ago when I was in my wild west outlaw stage ...... now I am just creeping along enjoying life at a slower pace and wondering how in the world you new drivers do it nowadays with no waitresses to flirt with anymore LOL!!!

 

I wish i had an automatic since im a local driver in the bay area and deal with traffic everyday. I must be less of a man

 

It is like anything you do it didn't take long to get the hang of it when you do it every day.
I have never double clutched any truck I have driven .

You have 4 speeds in reverse because the aux box was a 4 speed so you could put the main box in reverse and then shift the aux if you wanted too .
If I remember right it would run about 25 mph in reverse if you took to 4th and gassed on it in reverse.

Glp shifting or not shifting has nothing to with being manly.