In 1989, I was a teenager dating a girl that worked with me at Montgomery Ward. I had a lowered Toyota mini-truck that was an automatic & she had a Fiat X1/9 that was a manual. Being that her car was nicer, we would use it when going out.
One Saturday, we were heading to party after the store closed. She said that the boy should be driving the girl, not the other way around, so she taught me to drive stick in the near empty parking lot & the rest is history.
I miss that car, because it was a blast to drive.
