[Healeys] [O/T] Manuals

Thu Mar 7 18:23:03 MST 2024

The tricky one is moving from a LHD BN1 (with that reflected shift pattern)
in Canada to a 6 speed RHD VW in the UK. Ask Jean Caron 🤣🤣🤣

On Thu., Mar. 7, 2024, 8:12 p.m. Richard Collins via Healeys, <
healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:

> Love it !!!
>
> I've been driving manual all my life but still need to pay attention:
>
> My Healey is 4 speed with elect OD
> My 930 Porsche is 5 speed
> My GT2 Porsche is a 6 speed
>
> So, it takes a few minutes of adjustment to jump from one to the other;
>
>    lol
>
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Richard C440
> BN7 #
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> *From:* Healeys <healeys-bounces at autox.team.net> on behalf of Warren
> Dietz via Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net>
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 7, 2024 1:14 PM
> *To:* Michael MacLean <springer.mike51 at gmail.com>; HealeyRick <
> healeyrik at gmail.com>; Ahealey help <healeys at autox.team.net>
> *Subject:* Re: [Healeys] [O/T] Manuals
>
>
> Nice thread on manual trannys……………..my window sticker for the Healey.
>
>
>
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> Windows
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> *From: *Michael MacLean <springer.mike51 at gmail.com>
> *Sent: *Thursday, March 7, 2024 2:30 PM
> *To: *HealeyRick <healeyrik at gmail.com>; Ahealey help
> <healeys at autox.team.net>
> *Subject: *Re: [Healeys] [O/T] Manuals
>
>
>
> 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
> *To:* 'Richard Mayor' <boyracer466 at gmail.com>; 'HealeyRick' <
> healeyrik at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* 'Healeys' <healeys at autox.team.net>
> *Subject:* Re: [Healeys] [O/T] Manuals
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>
>
> *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 <http://www.healey6.com/>*
>
> *Matawan, NJ*
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>
>
> *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>
> *Cc:* Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net>
> *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
> *To:* Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net>
> *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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