[Healeys] [O/T] Manuals

[Simon Lachlan]

In the UK, if you take and pass(!) your test in an automatic you are only licenced to drive an automatic. If you pass in a stick shift, you are licenced for both. Is that the same all over?

Just curious….

Simon

 

From: Healeys <healeys-bounces at autox.team.net> On Behalf Of ahbn6--- via Healeys
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Subject: Re: [Healeys] [O/T] Manuals

 

I learned on  a stick. Then spent 30 years on a slush box (as we called automatic transmissions in my day) then bought my Healey. Started it up and cruised with no problems. Obviously knowledge of how to shift manually returned in an instant. Moral is, better to learn how to drive with a manual transmission. You never forget.

 

John Sims

 <http://www.healey6.com/> www.healey6.com

Matawan, NJ

 

From: Healeys <healeys-bounces at autox.team.net <mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net> > On Behalf Of Richard Mayor
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Subject: Re: [Healeys] [O/T] Manuals

 

Just watched another series (“The Tourist”) where the guy does not know how to drive a stick.  But the girl does. The bottom line is:  If you cannot drive a stick then you are not a real car guy. 

 

 

Richard Mayor
boyracer466 at gmail.com <mailto:boyracer466 at gmail.com> 

 

On Mar 6, 2024, at 4:01 PM, HealeyRick <healeyrik at gmail.com <mailto:healeyrik at gmail.com> > wrote:

 

Being able to drive a stick is a life-skill worth having, especially if you're a bank robber trying to hijack a getaway vehicle.  https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/malden-carjacking-victim-says-stick-shift-saved-her-baby/

 

Rick Neville aka HealeyRick

 

On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 8:18 AM Richard Collins via Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net <mailto:healeys at autox.team.net> > wrote:

A good one; of course in the UK, they don't have the quantity of car thieves we do in the States. So the advantage of the manual at least here in the States is that few thieves know how to drive a stick.  Maybe we stick owners should get an insurance discount ?

lol

 

Regards,
Richard C

BN7 440


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Subject: [Healeys] [O/T] Manuals 

 

I love Brit humor almost as much as I love their old cars.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/04/drivers-manual-gearboxes-dvla-automatic-cars
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