I  drove 400 miles home in a VW van that snapped the clutch cable. I had it down - smooth shifts up and down, and luckily no full stops until I got pulled over for a random breath test. The policeman looked at me strange when I turned of the engine. I waited until he wandered off to the next car, threw it in 2nd and hit the starter. A couple of bunny hops and away praying he didn't come after me.

And I'd like to thank my dad for teaching me double declutching and clutchless shifting when teaching me to drive in his 45 year old (at the time)1929 Plymouth.

Cheers

Rick

I've done clutchless shifting for years, but mostly with newer syncro-mesh transmissions. This summer I worked on my clutchless shifts in my B2C with a crash box 4 speed. I started getting better, but I find that since my truck has Fluid Drive, which essentially acts like a big, heavy flywheel, the timing is slightly different that I would normally expect. Once I figured out the timing I could shift just fine. And since I do have FD, all I had to do was get it down to 3rd or 2nd and stop with the brake. Then I could let off the brake and drive away and continue shifting without ever using the clutch. It was fun.

Merle

I used to to this all the time with a 10 wheeled GMC Astro tractor with a  10 speed road ranger / 318 Detroit, and a Brockway with a 13 spd rr and 318 dd.  It's easy to do with a non synchronized transmission.  If you do it correctly you can accellerate smoothly w/o so much as nicking a gear.  Do it incorrectly and you can eat ujoints and transmissions in a very short time.

My friend did that on his '86 Mazda 626 till about 200,000 miles. Some cars are easier than others to do this.

I learned how to do this in my dad's 48 Plymouth Business coupe.  I am at a point now I only use the clutch from a stop in anything I drive, wether its the Kenworth at work, my Wrangler, my Neon, or my Honda ATCs.

I rarely use the clutch (upshift or down) on any of my personal vehicles once I'm moving, unless I'm in a vehicle that I'm not familiar with I'll use the clutch until I get used to the shift points and the rpm drop between gears. I will use the clutch if I'm in a hurry though, like when I take the '46 down the dragstrip or a quick blast down a country road.

I learned how to shift sans the clutch pedal when I was about 12 years old. Have been doing it ever sence.

After driving a Rig for 40 years, had ten gears that I went though nothing to it for a pro.

I once lost had the clutch arm on a KW Tractor pulling doubles that's two trailers, we were at Goodland Ks and I drove back to KC without a clutch starting the truck in low, even going across the scale I simply rolled on the scale and when told to pull off again I just started it and drove on in to the terminal.

I have rode Motorcycles and didn't use the clutch only stating and stopping.

I learned how to shift without a clutch just for the fun of it. But, just like Ricky Luke, when my own VW bus clutch cable broke I was able to drive it home. What I felt was just a stupid boyish "trick" actually saved me some money and grief. I guess I only get to pull off the BIG SAVE once in a life time because I have not had a similar clutch failure on other cars.

I've been doing it since I learned to drive around 6 years old! Dad and GrandDad owned a truck repair shop and taught me how to drive in '54 Dodge pickup and moved up to an older White conventional before they let me try Dads' '57 Mack B57!  

I've found it pretty easy to go through the gears, up and down, on the old foot clutch Harleys without using the clutch.

ken

The Army taught me how to drive in a 4 tonner and as we still had vehicles in service that didn't have syncro in the lower gears I learnt to drive double de clutching. Unfortunately you can't drive a fluid drive like that... Not really tried clutch less except once when my Range Rover lost it's clutch whilst out looking at a classic Mercedes 450 SEL 6.9, that was an interesting drive home.