[GH85Carrera]

At my first job the boss threw me the keys to his Ford Bronco and told me to go pick up a package at the bus station in downtown Montgomery. I climbed in and saw the clutch pedal so I depressed it and twisted the key and reached for the stick shift. WFT? It was a three on the tree. It took a second but I surmised it was the same shift pattern, just done on the column. Off I drove.

My dad had a story of back in the mid 1950s one of his pilot buddies was injured in on duty. His car was parked at the hospital and he asked my dad to take the car to his house. It was an old 1950s VW bug. The owner bought it when he was stationed in Germany and no one else had even seen one. My dad was typical pilot type, and figured he could drive a 4 speed. He got in and fired it up and tried every possible position on the stick shift and looked at every lever trying to find reverse. After several minutes they gave up, and just pushed it backwards and then drove it home. They aske the owner why he would buy a car with no reverse and then he said, oh yea, I forgot to tell you, push DOWN on the stick for reverse.