![]() Welcome to the Hagerty Driving Experience, a unique event held on the West Coast for the first time in its three-year run. ![]() One other young gent is having a go in an Intermeccanica Kubelwagen, while another beaming youth steps out of a 1963 Austin Mini - a left-hand-drive to boot. This is her first time doing the three-pedal dance, and she's doing it in a Ferrari. How about getting your first taste of the manual transmission in a Ferrari - would that about do it? Judging from the grin plastered on the face of the young lady who's piloting this car - a low, wedgeshaped, black Dino GT4 - around the coned-off tarmac in Maple Ridge, that'd be a big fat "Yes." If people don't understand what it is about a stick shift that appeals, then someone's got to teach them. ![]() Standard? Don't make me laugh - these days, the base transmission is far more likely to be an automatic, and if you want a stick, you might have to order it and wait for a while. ![]() ![]() The manual transmission is a relic of the past, fading from the options lists of everything from the Porsche GT3 to the Audi A4. ![]()
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