Last trip over to Ireland I was fortunate enough to drive Ron Corry's
bugeye/frogeye along some coast and hill roads. What fun! The Sprite
was truly meant for those roads, not our freeways or interstates.
Ron was very polite - never said any thing about my poor shifting. For
me it was a combination of wrong hand, and the shift angles never felt
'natural', especially second (down and out, instead of down and in
towards leg).
I will tell my wife Kathy about the "girl in the gutter". She always
calls the front passenger seat the "The seat of terror"; in that she is
only inches from the hedges - no shoulders between travel lane and hedge
in Ireland, and England too I suspect.
Jim Rogers
San Juan Capistrano, cA
David Lieb wrote:
> I always wondered about the shifting with the wrong hand bit...
> I saw a classic Mini with RHD on my way to work this morning, shoulda
> asked him ;-)
> One of the cars in my local MG club is an MGC with RHD; I got a good
> laugh out of watching the passenger looking out for oncoming traffic
> as the driver charged up a 2-lane highway.
>
> A friend of mine who goes to Ireland fairly regularly once told me
> that the key is to "Keep the girl in the gutter", ie remember that the
> passenger side of the vehicle should be by the edge of the road.
> David Lieb
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