[Healeys] [O/T] Manuals
m.g.sharp at sympatico.ca
m.g.sharp at sympatico.ca
Thu Mar 7 20:41:33 MST 2024
My greatest “manual challenge”, was on bikes, going from my Honda VR1000R (now sold), with a “one down, 5 up” shift pattern with the shifter on the left and rear brake on the right, to my old Velocettes and BSAs, which were “one up, three down” pattern with shifter on the right and rear brake on the left. Many a time I braced myself for an up shift and ended up lurching forward as I hit the rear brake.
Cheers, Mirek
From: Healeys <healeys-bounces at autox.team.net> On Behalf Of Michael Salter
Sent: Thursday, March 7, 2024 8:23 PM
To: Richard Collins <gonnagitcha90 at hotmail.com>
Cc: Ahealey help <healeys at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] [O/T] Manuals
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 <mailto: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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To: Michael MacLean <springer.mike51 at gmail.com <mailto:springer.mike51 at gmail.com> >; HealeyRick <healeyrik at gmail.com <mailto:healeyrik at gmail.com> >; Ahealey help <healeys at autox.team.net <mailto: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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From: Michael MacLean <mailto:springer.mike51 at gmail.com>
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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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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
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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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