congrats man! i just now realize that firestorm on the exterior matches the bolster seats on the interior. nice!
I think being new with driving manual can be an advantage, you don't have a "preferred" settings, like the grab distance of the clutch, how heavy the shift knob is, how smooth/rough the car up/down shift ...etc so whatever you learn on this car will be the standard and I have no problem with that
A rookie mistake that I tend to do though is to shift to 3rd from 4th instead of 5th. The engine seems to be happy on 3rd so it lets me do that way too easily.
Come back to TX more often man, lets go for meet