Old enough to drive a stick shift
Photo credit: Handout | Eileen “Winky” Bruning with Fred and the stick shift: Driving an automatic just isn’t as engaging, he says.
A few years ago, I was in an accident that totaled the car — but, happily, not me. I replaced the old Honda with another — a 1990 Accord with just over 200,000 miles — and the intrepid crate, mottled paint and leaky trunk, served its purpose perfectly. That is, I got from one place to another as surely as if driving a BMW or Audi.
There was only one complaint I had about the Accord. It was...