Watches and stick shifts

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Older picture. Need to post what it is now…

Yes, it has a clutch thank you very much! No it doesn’t have a clutch pedal….
 
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You inspired me to dig out John Cooper Works handle. Looks nice, but I prefer the large round ball.

 
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Older picture. Need to post what it is now…

Yes, it has a clutch thank you very much! No it doesn’t have a clutch pedal….
And it looks like this now.

 
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Here Dave. With your own logo. Oh, and in one photo you’ll see at least three things that you don’t typically have in modern cars.
 
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I’ll play. Porsche 997.1 Turbo. Rainy, miserable weekend in Maine keeps the dive watch rotation going. Separately, I find it rather curious about the number of folks today who cannot drive a MT car.

 
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Nice to see my question being answered ... and it's just as I suspected. A big Venn overlap indeed!
 
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That must be relatively new. When my wife and I relocated to Melbourne in 1995 there was no specific type of license depending on what kind of transmission you had. You just took the written and driving test and that was that. One thing I do remember is sitting waiting for the driving tester to call my name when the door opened and the DMV guy asked 'who is waiting for the Burmese interpreter?' So you didn't have to speak or read English to get licenced at that time.
No many many moons ago when I got my license, in the fair state of Victoria @ 1979, there were automatic and manual licenses then, only wimps got a auto license in those days.
As my test was in a small country town, it was the local copper doing the driving test, he was severely hungover from a big night before, he was looking pretty green around the gills!
He just got me to drive down the street to the chemist shop, he went in to get some pills to ease his sore head, and got me to drive straight back to the cop shop to fill out the paperwork!

I think when you went for yours, as you'd already held a license they just probably didn't worry about the difference and gave you a manual one anyway.
And you still don't have to speak English now, they will still have an interpreter for you if required
 
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No many many moons ago when I got my license, in the fair state of Victoria @ 1979, there were automatic and manual licenses then, only wimps got a auto license in those days.
As my test was in a small country town, it was the local copper doing the driving test, he was severely hungover from a big night before, he was looking pretty green around the gills!
He just got me to drive down the street to the chemist shop, he went in to get some pills to ease his sore head, and got me to drive straight back to the cop shop to fill out the paperwork!

I think when you went for yours, as you'd already held a license they just probably didn't worry about the difference and gave you a manual one anyway.
And you still don't have to speak English now, they will still have an interpreter for you if required
Its definitely getting more common these days, manual cars for most kids are either really cheap junk cars or really expensive cars they can't afford, even my generation getting licenses in the early 2000s the boys who went with a CA license were made fun of for it.
 
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merci! It s a "different" way of moving from A to B. Zero electronic, no air-condition
 
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Ok here it is…
I had a '23 R 20th Anniversary for a few months. I would have liked it more if it would have been a true manual, but by the time I ordered it they were done building manuals.