[Healeys] [O/T] Manuals

Fri Mar 8 10:07:00 MST 2024

In a UK based regiment so we had RHD vehicles, mostly ¾ ton landrovers and 4 ton Bedfords. The wartime role for which we trained was up on the West/East German border. So………when we went over to Germany, we took all our RHDs and picked up approx. the same number of our allocated “War Store” vehicles, all of which were LHD. I was in charge of our squadron’s vehicles. So……….after, say, a good lunch one went out and grabbed a vehicle. Whichever one it was, it always seemed to have the wheel in the wrong place. Certainly different from the one that one used in the morning. Confusing. Surprised that we didn’t have more accidents.

I was a guest once of a cavalry regt. In Germany. They were fresh out from England. Cut a long story short….at a t-junction there was an almighty cock-up with a Mercedes caught between 3 tanks. Front, rear and passenger’s side. All in slow motion on ice. Car was about 2ft shorter at each end and along the side. Driver was too shaken to make much of a fuss. Tanks completely undamaged!

Simon

From: HealeyRick <healeyrik at gmail.com> 
Sent: Thursday, March 7, 2024 5:59 PM
To: Simon Lachlan <simon.lachlan at alexarevel.plus.com>
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Subject: Re: [Healeys] [O/T] Manuals

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

From: Healeys <healeys-bounces at autox.team.net <mailto: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

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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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