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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
Back in the late 1950s my dad had a fellow Air Force officer in the hospital. Dad went to see the guy, and was asked to drive his car home since he was going to be in the hospital for a while. So dad said sure. He was handed the keys to a mid 1950s VW bug but dad grew up driving stick shift so was not worried.
He got to the car, and fired it up, and tried every possible position of the stick to find reverse. He finally had to push it backwards into the lot to get to go forward. He figured the POS just did not have reverse. Dad called the buddy and he laughed and said he had forgotten to mention you have to push DOWN on the sifter to get into reverse. Just something other cars don't do.
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At the experienced age of 15 with learners permit in hand, I used to take the younger brothers for a drive out when mom left for a few hours. Usually in the family Impala wagon. One day we used moms VW bug which was parked facing out of the garage. After tooling around a bit I got it home and couldn't figure out how to get it into reverse (same as above) to back her in. Pushed it...