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    How to Drive a Stick Shift -Manual Car in 5 Easy Routines Including Pictures
    How to Drive a Stick Shift -Manual Car in 5 Easy Routines Including Pictures
    How to Drive a Stick Shift -Manual Car in 5 Easy Routines Including Pictures
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    How to Drive a Stick Shift -Manual Car in 5 Easy Routines Including Pictures

    By Russell Smith

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    How to Drive a Stick Shift -Manual Car in 5 Easy Routines Including Pictures, takes you from being an automatic car driver, to being able to drive a manual (stick shift) car.
    It shows you the comparisons between driving an automatic car, and driving a manual (stick shift) car.
    It has a straight forward step by step approach comparing automatic and manual, grouped into 5 easy routines with the aid of pictures and diagrams.
    The contents of the book are:
    Chapter 1 – Background Information – The Comparisons
    Chapter 2 - Background Information – The Clutch
    Chapter 3 - Background Information - The Gears
    Chapter 4 - This is Routine 1: Moving off
    Chapter 5 - This is Routine 2: Stopping
    Chapter 6 - This is Routine 3: Changing Up Gears
    Chapter 7 - This is Routine 4: Changing Down Gears
    Chapter 8 - This is Routine 5: Being Ready at Junctions and Hill Starts
    We look forward to helping you drive a manual car.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRussell Smith
    Release dateJul 18, 2012
    ISBN9781476004747
    How to Drive a Stick Shift -Manual Car in 5 Easy Routines Including Pictures
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    Russell Smith

    Russell Smith, born in South Africa and raised in Halifax, is a writer of wide acclaim. His debut novel, How Insensitive, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award. Both his short story collection, Young Men, and his novel Muriella Pent were shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award. He is also the author of Noise; The Princess and the Whiskheads (a fable); Diana: A Diary in the Second Person; and the style guide Men’s Style. Smith works regularly with the CBC and The Globe and Mail.

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      Good quick tutorial for basic manual transmission.
      Read it after my tutor, just for memory recall. ?

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