learning to drive a stick...what car did you learn on.

Oh and John, some advice for your friend. I figured out a long time ago how to teach anybody to drive a stick in about 15 minutes.

Tell him to FIRST teach her how to ride the clutch. Find a small incline and teach her how to keep the car still using the clutch. Then when she's mastered that, tell her how it's not good for the clutch and to do it as little as possible.

Shifting is always the easy part. It's the starting off that kills everybody at first and if he teaches her to ride the clutch right off the bat, she's got that part licked.