Permit at 15, license at day of 16. Driven stick with my own car ever since I was 17. None of the tests were difficult for me at all.
But yea, never owned an automatic. Not really preferenced to it, it's just what I get a hold of for cheap cars most times. Not to mention that it's better on gas most times anyways.
Daily, I'm usually driving about 30 miles at least. Had to go on-call for a side-job and drove about 40 this weekend...but that's about it usually. For what I do get out of driving I don't really put that many miles into my own vehicle. I've got an '89 Mitsubishi Montero V6 3.0L that I've been taking around since mid 2006 and I've only put about 19,000 miles on it since then (from 202,000 to about 221,000 miles on the engine). She's had a bit of work on her since I put 1300 down for the car itself. Radiator pull, brakes changed out, tranny was dropped for a rebuilt. Stuff like that.
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