[Healeys] [O/T] Manuals

Thu Mar 7 14:42:15 MST 2024

 I was at a big gas station recently & I saw an 18 wheeler driver get out of his rig. "I ask how many gears does his trans have." He replied that all new "tractors" have automatic transmissions, much to my surprise!Gary H.    On Thursday, March 7, 2024 at 01:42:37 PM CST, Michael MacLean <springer.mike51 at gmail.com> wrote:  

 I bought a new car in 2023 about the middle of the year due to a rear end collision of my perfectly running 2012 Honda Accord Coupe.  I bought a Mazda 3 Hatchback Premium edition because it was one of the few cars you could buy with a manual 6 speed transmission.  Most of the cars on the market today are CVT transmissions (no soul) except for high end performance models and high priced sports cars.  My three British cars all, of course, are stick shift.  My late Accord was a 5 speed manual transmission.  The only vehicle I have owned in the last 40 years that was an automatic was a 2000 Ford F150 I bought new.  The only reason for that was you couldn't get a manual transmission in Fords trucks with V8 engines and gas powered.  Not sure about the diesel trucks.  Manual transmissions serve well as Millennal anti theft devices better than any expensive electronic unit.Mike MacLean

On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 10:15 AM HealeyRick <healeyrik at gmail.com> wrote:

I grew up in Massachusetts and when I was getting my driver's license in 1966 the law had just changed to allow drivers who got their license on an automatic to drive a manual. Before that unless you took your driver's test on a manual, you couldn't drive one. In 1967, I bought my cousin's bugeye (frogeye) and she gave me about a half-hour manual driving lesson. Fortunately, I lived in the country and lots of back roads amongst the cranberry bogs to practice my skills.
Rick Neville aka HealeyRick
On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 3:16 AM Simon Lachlan <simon.lachlan at alexarevel.plus.com> wrote:

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
Sent: Thursday, March 7, 2024 12:48 PM
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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

www.healey6.com

Matawan, NJ

From: Healeys <healeys-bounces at autox.team.net> On Behalf Of Richard Mayor
Sent: Wednesday, March 6, 2024 8:56 PM
To: HealeyRick <healeyrik at gmail.com>
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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

On Mar 6, 2024, at 4:01 PM, HealeyRick <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> 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

From: Healeys <healeys-bounces at autox.team.net> on behalf of Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net>
Sent: Monday, March 4, 2024 7:34 AM
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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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