My first manual car was an Alfa Romeo Milano (aka 75). It was the first thing I bought after graduating from university. The guy that sold it to me had it in se

My first manual car was an Alfa Romeo Milano (aka 75). It was the first thing I bought after graduating from university. The guy that sold it to me had it in service for sale. He taught me to drive on his new Milano 3.0L in a town north of the city. The lesson ended with him teaching me how to balance the car on an uphill incline by slipping the clutch. I picked up my car a few days later and drove it home. I drove that car to its end, loved the high-compression V6 that would engine brake if you lifted the gas even a little. Sometime much later, I bought my first motorcycle after taking a weekend riding course. The thing that was so hard to learn was doing the mechanical things I had learned but then adding the turn signals and watching for all the traffic was a lot of cognitive load and I took hours to go straight along one road that should've been a half hour.